With this version I have started working on changes that will soon introduce many new things for multi ratings. Also, few important bugs are fixed, I made some more visual changes and added new star set. Also, big thank you goes to Marcin Zdyb for providing polish translation.
One of the major changes in this version is the way javascript needed for voting is loaded. I fixed validation problem that javascript was causing, but also I have added option to load all javascript through external file instead of inserting javascript into each page. There was a small bug with some version of MySQL causing problems when new multi rating votes is saved, and that is now fixed. Incorrect plural and singular use of word vote is fixed now.
I have changed many things on settings panel, improved front page so now the WP 2.7 and pre WP 2.7 versions are looking mostly the same. All icons are updated also. A new stars set is added, and I will be using this set on this website from now on, and few stares set are using better optimization and smaller size. Few new stars sets will be uploaded to this site tomorrow.
You can now customize text on submit button for multi sets, and even more you can remove this button completely! You can disable this button, and vote will be send when user sets ratings for all multi set elements. Multi rating shortcode has one additional parameter that will render set as a read only and will prevent voting in that case. Few more shortcode settings are coming soon.Many people wanted to know how to customize the look of the rating block.Plugin supports such customizations, but it wasn’t maybe clear to all how to do it. Now, plugin is able to load additional CSS with your custom styles. But more on that tomorrow in detailed tutorial on the subject.
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February 17, 2009
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Milan,
You’re still doing an awesome job! I didn’t think that this great plugin could get even better, but with each version you amaze me more and more!
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February 17, 2009
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Thank you MillaN, please keep up the good work!
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February 17, 2009
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Thanx! More new features are coming with every new version. As always.
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February 17, 2009
at 9:50 AM
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Hello there =).
Very good work. I’m trying to use this plugin to show raters, but i need to close a div before the rating code to stylish it. I have tried editing $rater in gd-star-render.php, but it doesn’t allow me to write ” in the begining, it doesn’t write it.
I have tried with ”, ”, but i cannot put a closing tag before an opening tag.
Any ideas?
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February 17, 2009
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First of all, don’t change php code that generates rating block! Same code is used for different things, and changing that will most likley brake something.
Styling of the rating block can be done without any change to existing code. Not to go into much details here, but later tonight I will post a tutorial describing the process of CSS customization.
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February 17, 2009
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Styling with CSS is much harder than using the div closing (much much harder…) but i’ll try.
PHP modifications are lite, only texts and stuff
Thanks.
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February 17, 2009
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I can get blog outside comment_text()? This is my problem.
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February 17, 2009
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Sorry, i’m sleepy. GD code is within comment_text(), so i need to style a lot. Can i call rating block outside comment_text()?
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February 17, 2009
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Check out the article tonight, and you will see that it’s very easy to style it using CSS. After all, this is the best way to do it. If you change plugin code, what will you do when next version is released, and rating block is changed?
Rating code can be outside comment_text(), you need to add manual call for it. As always, check the user guide for this functions.
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February 17, 2009
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Thanks
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It’s for a two-month proyect, so y have no problem with changing code.
Found the user guide.
Thanks again.
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February 17, 2009
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i need a top listfor multirating.
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February 17, 2009
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Not yet implemented, working on it.
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February 17, 2009
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Hello! Thanks a lot for this great plug-in.
I just actualized to version 1.1.4 and I have PHP: 4.4.8 plus mySQL: 4.0.25-standard.
I want to know the names of the cache folder (to create then manually) because I get 4 of this: “Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect.”
And 2 of this: “Warning: copy() [function.copy]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect.”
Thanks again.
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February 17, 2009
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Strange. Code added in 1.1.3 should be able to detect safe mode. Maybe there is some problem with PHP4. Anyway, in wp-content create gd-star-rating, and in it create cache folder.
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February 18, 2009
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Thanks! Problem solved.
The gd-star-rating folder did exist but whit Apache owner. I reset the owner and created the cache folder, and there is no more errors.
I think the same of you, it has to be a problem whit PHP4.
Thanks again.
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February 18, 2009
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I’ve updated automatically via wordpress. It really fixed singular/plural use of word vote. But the new star set didn’t appeared. Anyway, thanks a lot for the new version.
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February 18, 2009
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You need to rescan from Tools panel so the plugin can find new sets.
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February 21, 2009
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Hi MillaN, I’ve been using your star rating plugin for a long time. It’s really a great plugin, thanks! But just recently, a few days after upgraded to ver. 1.1.4, I found the star sets stopped to show up, only the rating text is there. I used automatic insert and tried manual insert both didn’t work. Even tried reintalling the plugin but no luck. Would appreciate it if you could help me take a look into this. You can access my site by clicking on my name. Thanks a lot!
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February 21, 2009
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This is not directly a plugin problem. Main plugin’s CSS file is returning 404 error because of the invalid settings with your hosting. This is not a regular CSS, but a PHP file that needs to be executed to generate CSS. You must have changed something with the hosting settings or access rights to cause this.
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February 22, 2009
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Dont work in IE8
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February 22, 2009
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Until the final IE8 is released I don’t intend to waste my time solving another collection of bugs and quirks from Microsoft.
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