The long list of GD Star Rating features has just been expanded with advanced and long awaited multi ratings that will allow you to set post or pages rating that can have more then one rating set. You can create as many multi rating sets as you want and each one can have up to 10 rating elements with different names and weights. Each post can have more than one set at the same time.
In many aspects, multi ratings will work as the regular ratings: moderation, log, trends, vote rules and restrictions. All restriction and moderation settings set for posts will be used for multi ratings. To add multi ratings set to a post you can use shortcode (integrated in tinymce editor plugin, just like the standard ratings), or add php function call into the theme (again like the standard ratings).
Starting point is Multi Sets panel where you can add a multi rating set. You can have unlimited of different sets, and each of them can be added into any post or page. Even more you can have 2 or more different sets in one post in the same time. Each set can have up to 10 values, and each value can have different weight that will be used to calculate overall rating of the set. Each set can also have different number of stars. Once you create the set, you can’t change number of elements or the number of stars. You can rename them, change weights, but that’s it.
Example Of Multi Rating Block
On the picture on the right you can see one rating block with 4 elements. Yellow stars represent average rating for that element. Red stars represent your current rating choice before you submit it. Submit button is active only when you rate all 4 elements. Rating text shows average rating of that multi set for that post and is calculated with the use of weights you set with the set.
As for the customizations, you can customize almost anything. Rating text uses templates and with CSS you can control the look of the whole block. There are custom CSS classes that can be added to block, table, rating text and button.
This is just an intro into multi ratings this plugin supports, and many more interesting features are yet to come. So, if you are curious on how all this actually work, there are two multi rating block for you to test:
Example 1:
With this multi rating block you can rate this website. You have 5 rating elements with 10 stars each.
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Example 2:
This example block is about one of my favorite TV shows LOST. Here you have 6 elements with 7 stars each.
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Sweet,
I have been checking your website everyday for this. I’m going to give it a shot tonight and post back. Thanks for all the hard work and a great plugin so far. There are paid rating plugins that I have used that have less features than this.
Regards,
Daniel
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I notice that when I submitted ratings into the example blocks, the overall rating line incorrectly reports “(0 votes cast)”, whereas the single-line rating for the post correctly reports (2 votes cast).
BTW, so good to see multi Ratings arrive, I’m going to do so many things with this feature
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I have noticed this, only happens when the ajax returns response.
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Hello!
Thanks for your plugin but after I tried to use multi ranking all I get displayed on my site is
UA:F [1.0.9_379]
TEST
Performance STARS
Speed STARS
Reliability STARS
Support STARS
Do you maybe have any ideas what I did wrong?
Thanks!
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It’s obvious that you are using 1.0.9 and not 1.1.0. Multi ratings is introduced fully working yesterday with 1.1.0.
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Thank you Millan for your support and for your work. That’s very appreciated. I’m glad you finalized the multiratings function.
In your guide, it is said about the shortcode STARRATINGMULTI “This shortcode will insert multi rating set into the post. It has only one parameter (for now), and
this parameter is ID of the multi set you want to use. It can be added through tinymce plugin like all
the other shortcodes.”
Right, but where do i define a particular set that i’ll link with a particular shortcode ID ?
Thank you in advance
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You need to enable multi rating support on settings panel, and after that you will get new panel called Multi Sets.
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Hi Millan,
Thanks a lot for this fast answer.
Now i’ve got to face this message : Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/faguohon/www/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-render.php on line 305
The line 305 in “gd-star-render.php” is “foreach ($set->object as $el) {“. Do you have any idea ?
All my apologies to take your time.
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This happens when the set in use is not defined right. I will add some additional checks to discover if the set is good before rendering and using.
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Indeed Millan, you’re right.
Hope that will help other users. Thanks again.
I’ll click on your ads to help a little.
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hey awesome stuff. quick question. can i add multirating sets and begin colleting votes under the assumption that in a future release ill be able to show statistics for those votes. (e.g. using yours above — a list of Top Rated Performance , Top Rated Speed etc…)?
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All data is being saved so once I add widgets and other means to shows statistics, all will be there.
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awesome, when do you think that will be available?
another quick question. If i want to add a specific multirating set to all the posts in a given category, is there a quick way for me to do that –or will i have to add the multirating short code individually to each post within that category?
thanks for your help!
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Right now no. Standard rating is only one and it’s easy to add it automatically. But with multi ratings it can’t be done because you can have more then one set. For now you need to add it using shortcode.
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Thank you Milan! everything works now
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Milan,
Under the “GD Star Rating: Multi Sets” tab after I have created a set and use the delete function by clicking the box and selecting “Delete Selected Sets” they won’t delete.
Thanks
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This will be fixed with new version later tonight.
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Me Again,
Templates > Multis
When I insert the code for the “Rating Text” and click “Save Settings” it will not save.
Thanks,
Daniel
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Fixed. New version will be released in the next half hour.
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Both bugs fixed – awesome support Millan – thanks. If I come across any other bugs I will let you know.
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Great! Any more bug reports are welcome. Today was a good day, several bug reports and all are now fixed.
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Think I have another…
Templates > Multis
In the “Rating Text” field I have the standard “Rating: %RATING%/%MAX_RATING% (%VOTES% %WORD_VOTES% cast)”
I am using 5 stars and this is the output I get with one vote…
“Rating: 11.6/5 (1 vote cast)”
So the actual rating is higher than the maximum rating which I assume is incorrect.
Hope that makes sense,
Daniel
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This is partialy weight recalculation problem. Total weight is bigger than 1 (sum of weights devided with number of elements should be 1). I will make better auto recalculation soon. For now, keep weights around 1, when the problem gets solved you would be able to use whatever you want.
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Nice to meet you.
I am Japanese.
The portal site in the town is produced.
I love GD Star Rating.
“multi rating block” did not move.
“Save multi set” was not able to be preserved.
WP2.7
Version: 1.1.1
Status: Stable
Release Date: 2009.02.06.
PHP: 5.2.6
ySQL: 4.0.24-standard-log
thank you very much!
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Right now multi rating block doesn’t work with character sets beside standard english and similar. I am working on support for japanese, chinese and other languages.
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Thank you for the answer.
Japanese was a cause. (WordPress2.7jp)
“simple StarRater” moves normally.
The upgrade is expected.
Thank you for wonderful “plugin”.
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Hi Kuma,
I asked also for chinese characters (:
We’re two requesting this… good for us (:
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I have encoding for multi ratings, and more I have added encoding option on the settings panel. Default is UTF-8, but you can change it to whatever you need.
New version tonight.
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Ahahaha !
Amazing how fast you are !
UTF-8 is perfect for chinese characters.
Thanks again & see you tonight
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hi
i want to review movies/books etc. and thought i could use this feature. but i cant find a option to use the multi rating just for me. i dont want the users to vote, just to present my opinion in a simple way. is this possible?
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That’s called review rating, and will be availble soon. It will work similar to regular review rating via post edit page.
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thats great!
can you guess what time you have it done?
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Sorry, no. In the next two weeks most likely.
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How can i make a toplist of the results from multiratings?
eg.
Rating: 16.0/10 (3 votes cast)
Rating: 12.0/10 (4 votes cast)
Rating: 11.0/10 (1 votes cast)
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Right now there is nothing that can be used to do this, I am still working on that.
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Ok, thank you.
Anyway, awesome Plugin! Thanks a lot.
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Thank you for this amazing plugin !
I have just install it and it works great!
I have juste one problem : how can i change the “submit” button in multi ratings ?
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If you mean how to change Submit text into something else, that is not yet possible, but it will be soon. It will be even possible to remove it completely.
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Yes, it was the submit text
Thank you for your fast answer and thank again for your plugin
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Hey Millan,
I can’t figure out how to edit the html/design of the multirating box. If that’s not clear I want to change the font color, width and a few other things of the actual box/text.
I looked for a CSS file but I may be missing it.
Thanks,
Daniel
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You can’t edit CSS (you can, but is not easy and can ruin some things because that file is not static CSS, but is generated by PHP), but you can add your styles.
For each main element there is a field to add CSS classes from some your file loaded by the WordPress (style.css of theme). Check out how to article (you need to enable advanced settings to show CSS fields).
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