Rating Widget

Well, it took a while, but new widget for GD Star Rating is almost done. New version of plugin will be available in the next 3 or 4 days. For now, here is the screenshot of the current widget control panel.

As you can see filter is improved a lot and now you can filter by time range, month or last number of days. Also, rendering is now control by the template, and template elements are also on the widget panel. You can orginize it as table, list or anything else you want using html tags, css classes or styles. Also, you can cut titles to a length you want to fit the content in the space you want without line break.

Also, plugin will have few functions for getting the same content for integration in theme. I hope you like the widget. If you have some suggestions, please add comment or forum post.

Another minor release is here. I have added french translation (thanx goes to k|torz), and improved serbian translation. Important notice to translators: both spanish and french is updated by me to new POT file, so you can use included PO language files for future changes. As for the plugin, I was working on imporving control panel and backend DB code. Some small errors are also fixed.

I have included IE6 PNG Transparency Fix in this version. It will only affect users of IE6, for all the other browsers code will not even load, so no worries. Since page can have many, many images it can take few seconds for script to ‘fix’ all PNG images after page loads, but there is no other way.

I will be very busy with my real work for the next 2-3 weeks and will have very little time for this plugin, but you can expect 0.9.5 version in that period. This version will have improved widget and added voting trend for display in tables and widget. Also, I will finish voters log in control panel and will add better control of rating stars and text display.

Finally, new version is released. The list of changes and new features is very extensive, and you can read it on plugins changelog page. And again, important notice, this is still beta version, and bugs are to be expected. Some parts of the control panel are not fully tested, and there are some things still missing there.

Translation POT file is included. If you translate plugin to your language, please sent translation files (both DO and MO) to me, and I will include it with next version. Expect POT file to be updateded with every new version.

Some more important changes will follow. But I wanted to point out whatyou can expect to follow with next releases. I will improve on widget(s), control panel and most important, new rating stars rendering that should solve all the problems with different themes and browsers. And for the stable 1.0.0 release there will be ajax support and updated user guide, and I expect a lot bug fixes.

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Well, laste few days I have received a lot of emails and there was a discussion in the forum and on this blog about the features for GD Star Rating plugin. So, I have decided to slow down with new version, and instead I will do a rewrite on some parts of the plugin to add new things, and to make possible easier expansion for the future versions.

So, the planned 0.8.0 Beta will not be released befoe all these things are done. But, the most important thing is to make a list of the things that will be changed. If you are interested in these features, please continue reading.
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