Finally I had enough time to continue working on the star rating plugin, and here is the first, still alpha version you might wanna try. Currently plugin allows you to set up voting system. All votes are saved into database, so when you update plugin in the following days, all votes will be saved.

Plugin has protection against search spiders. Also, votes are saved based on user id if user is logged in, or visitors ip and cookie if not. You can set if you would like to allow non users to vote or not.

There are still a lot of things missing. I am planning to add sidebar widget, voting control and statistics and new stars styles. So, you can see how the plugin looks like on this blog, and I hope you like it. And, all suggestions and comments are welcome.

Since I have started developing my ‘GD Pages Navigator’ widget plugin, I wanted to upgrade it so it can support more then one instance on a page. Unfortunatly there are limited resources available for that task, and almost no info about it in the official documentation. There are plugins that use different methods of achiving this, but best method is the one used by plugins build into Wordpress.

So, my starting point was ‘widget.php’ file where this default widgets are located. They also provided a short example of multi instance widget at the end of this file. This example in is good, but it has few errors (copy-paste errors mostly). This function is in the sample code class

I have decided to walk you throught the process of creating a widget that will support more then one instance. This example will show you how to work with different types of settings and it will provide you with some practicle code snippets you can use in your own plugins. Tutorial will be based on my ‘GD Pages Navigator’ plugin. This widget supports multiple instances from the version 3.0.0.
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New major update for GD Pages Navigator is uploaded. This one improves widget control interface, fixing Internet Explorer visual problems. And the most important improvement is support for multiple instances of the widget. Now you can have different set pages navigation in one or more sidebars.

User Guide for the plugin is also updated to include all changes made from previous versions.

If you have any problems with the widget, or you have suggestions for new features, feel free to contact me, or leave the comment.

New version of this widget is ready for download, and has a lot new features. Now you can set custom css classes for pages, level up items or children pages. New render method is also added, for selecting custom parent page. There are some interface changes due to large number of options.

Full list of changes is available at plugin home page. Also, I have created user guide with full explanation of all widget options. You can downoad this user guide also on the plugin home page.

There are two more features I plan to add. The most important one is support for multiple instances of widget, and also colapsable hierarchy of pages. So, you can expect this new version (should be 3.0.0) in next week or so.