This latest version introduces review feature that uses multi ratings. It also features a number of bugs fixed mostly related to multi ratings, and few more important changes.
Multi rating review is added as sepparate panel on post edit page. If you have more than one multi set, you must set which one of them will be used for review. Only one set at the time can be used (at least for now)! Multi set editor has new checkbox that can be used to activate set for review feature. You need to select a set for this before you will be able to use reviews. Also, reviews feature must be activated from settings panel.
To display review, use new shortcode: STARREVIEWMULTI. This shortocode is added to TinyMCE plugin for the rich editor. Currently, rendering will be done with the same settings as for the rating, but you can expect a lot more options for this soon.
Review with multi ratings is still under a lot of developement and it will take few more releases for me to complete the circle of changes started in this release. Some of this changes are also connected to upcoming advanced templates system, so, please be patient until all that is completed. This multi review rating is still experimental feature.
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All multi ratings bugs found so far should now be fixed. This version brings a lot of improvements of the code, and some changes that are needed for next versions.
Also, I notices yesterday that GD Star Rating now has more than 30.000 downloads from wordpress.org plugins repository. Here is the image from last night just when the 30K mark was reached.
Next 1.1.6 version will expand on all current review features and will have first preview of the new advanced templates system. Also, this version will have updated translations and user guide.
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I’ve been following this plugin for awhile now and am amazed by your consistent updates!
Can’t wait for the upcoming release with the new review features.
Will v1.16 include average comment rating?
Or is that planned for a later release?
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Yes, I can confirm that 1.1.6 will have average comments rating. Time limited IP check is a good idea.
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I suggest some features,or better some optimzations,because according to me the system has two bugs:
Take a look at the check_vote function:
1)If a user is not logged and rate,the he can rates again if he logs in,because the IP is not checked again.
i suggest doing something like
$sql.= “where id=’ID’……ip=’IP’”;
if(USER_ID > 0)
{
$sql .= “or where id=’ID’…… and user_id = ‘USER_ID’”;//not checking the IP now
}
In this case you should avoid not logged and then logged guys to rate again.
2-) What if people are working in an office…you are banning the IP right?…so if a user rate you would avoid others from rating.
The IPs are also dynamic.So i suggest using a period in days/hours
into which a user from the same IP cannot rate,not blocking that IP for the rest of the life.
These are only suggestions what do you think?
Eng. Marco Renzi
http://www.mind-projects.it
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This will be modified in 1.1.6, I will try to add more options to control this.
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Thanks for working on this top-notch plugin! Every update it became more and more feature packed. Great job!
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Hello, loved your plugin! Thank you!
I was wondering if there’s a way to add some text above the stars so that I could ask people to vote.
Thanks
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Yes, it’s called rating header.
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MillaN is it possible to make the pentagram a part of the future updates? Every time i upgrade I have to upload the pentagrams again. Just wondered. Thanks mate!
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http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/01/21/installing-additional-sets/
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Hi Milan,
Good to see the Multi Review feature! I know it’s still a work in progress, but will it be possible in the future to use multiple multi sets for different categories?
Thanks!
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I am not sure that I understand this, what do you mean for different categories?
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I meant for different WordPress categories. Let’s say I have a blog about Computers, which has 2 categories, “Video Cards” and “PC Games”. Obviously, one multiset can’t be used for both categories.
Of course, the ultimate solution would be to be able to use multireviews like multiratings, for example [starreviewmulti id=3].
I hope it’s clear now.
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I plan to allow free selection of multi sets for each post, but all that is too complicated to achive right now, so it’s not going to happen soon. Maybe for 1.3 or some version like that, but thats few months away at least.
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Hi
I would like to translate GD Star Rating to Persian.
please let me know if interested.
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I replied to your email. Thanx.
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On my posts page I want to put a widget which displays all the top rated posts. How do I do that ? I have added GD Star Rating widget to the page (not sure if that’s the right thing to do), but this widget is always blank. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Widget has a lot of settings, and maybe some of them is not set right for what you need. I will post detailed tutorial on using the widget next week.
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What option should I set to get highest rated posts ? After playing around with these options I am able to get number of posts for a given rating. But most of the time people will be interested in looking at highest rated posts. Please advice.
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Hi, very nice script but does it work with Syndicated sites from feedwordpress plugin?
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Feedwordpress has a bug that is not been fixed still, and I have informed the author about it and he didn’t send any response to me, even that I have send that 2 months ago. Feedwordpress overrides WordPress content rendering and prevents any other plugin to insert something in the post. So, GD Star Rating can’t add rating block automatically. You can use manual functions in the theme to fix the problem, but until the Feedwordpress is fixed, there is no auto insert.
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Your website instability over the last day or so is effecting mine. It is obvious that my site is communicating with yours for the plugin gd star rating and when yours goes down, my site is terribly slow. something should be done about this because I like the plugin, but cannot have your site effect mine.
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My website hasn’t gone down for the past week or so, I have that tracked pretty good. And even if it goes down, it has nothing to do with GD Star Rating, because all rating data are in the database on your site.
Plugin doesn’t communicate with outside world at all, only checks for RSS feed using WordPress RSS engine (even that can be turned off, and only is load on the front panel).
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Great plugin. However, I have had some difficulty with it. One I created a multiset and checked Use this set for post/page review… and that seemed to break the voting mechanism (unable to vote). I am playing with the plugin on a localhost installation. I have the voting restrictions turned off. When I do the above, I can click on the stars and submit, but it will not register anymore votes. If I don’t select Use this set for post/page review… I can refresh and vote as often as I want. I ended up uninstalling and reactivating to fix this problem. Any insight?
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If you try to use review feature for voting, you are using it wrong. Review feature is for a single rating value set by the author of the post on the post edit page. Checking the review checkbox has nothing to do with the rating if the rating is set right. I am not sure exactly what functions or shortcodes you used to set the rating for posts, but something looks like is not set right.
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