Here is the first march release, and in the same time first release since I started working as a freelancer full time, hence the plugin edition name. I strongly recommend updating to this version because of very important changes introduced. I fixed few mysql4 problems with multi rating tables. There were some problems with comment review stars and that’s also fixed. Edit post page and multi reviews were not working proper in IE7. I have updated readme.txt file with system requirements for the plugin to work. Review on the post edit page will not work as it should in IE6, and I don’t intend to waste time fixing that, so if you need that functionality use some decent browser.
I finally managed to create post based comment aggregation. For now it can be added with only few options, but that will be expanded soon, once the new template system is completed.
But, most important new feature is alpha version of new templates system called T2. This system will allow you to have more than one template for each type of rendering, so you will be able to set different rendering for posts or rating results tables. Shortcodes and function calls will feature template ID to use. T2 right now is able to manage 4 types of templates, but plugin is not using any of them. Next versions up to 1.2.0 will build on this. As I said this is still in alpha stage and there are no default templates included.
This version also features new plain stars set, tool for editing rating.css file and auto cleanup of cache. There were more changes to plugin folder structure, tinymce3 plugin is expanded and aggregated comments shortcode is added. Static stars generator handler is expanded and now it can be used to display stars for reviews and aggregated comments rating. This will be used more later.
That’s all for now, and next version will be released in the next few days. I couldn’t find time to update the user guide, so that’s on the list for next version also.
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March 2, 2009
at 11:50 PM
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Sweeet! Thanks for the hard work, cant wait to test.
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March 3, 2009
at 1:34 AM
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I have wordpress 2.7. In my plugin admin panel, I don’t see the “upgrade to newer version” option that I normally see when you release a newer version. Is it something wrong on my end, or have you not put it up yet on wordpress.org?
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March 3, 2009
at 10:30 AM
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WordPress checks for updated version every few hours, so it can take some time to see the new version of plugin. Every version goes to WordPress.org.
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March 3, 2009
at 1:36 AM
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Good luck with the freelancing!
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March 3, 2009
at 10:33 AM
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Thanx!
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March 3, 2009
at 1:54 AM
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Cool!!!
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March 3, 2009
at 5:33 AM
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Got this message while Upgrading automatically (which has always worked flawlessly before):
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/v04techs/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 111
Anything I should be concerned about?
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March 3, 2009
at 10:33 AM
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No, everything is fine. This is a cleanup function, and the warning means that tehre was nothing to clean. I will fix this with next version.
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March 3, 2009
at 12:09 PM
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Congratz with your new job as a freelancer!
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March 3, 2009
at 2:04 PM
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Tried to upgrade and upgrade failed and it was completely removed from my plugins list. Now when I try to install it I get the following error: “Folder already exists.: gd-star-rating – Installation Failed” Any ideas on how to get it back??
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March 3, 2009
at 2:24 PM
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Delete folder manually and install it again. You will not loose any data. There are still some bugs in WordPress upgrade procedure, so some times upgrade fails.
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March 3, 2009
at 2:24 PM
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I got it fixed. Since I’m here, I’d just like to say you have a great thing going here!
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March 4, 2009
at 3:42 AM
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I just installed your plugin, and I can’t get it to work; it doesn’t show the stars. I checked that I have wp_head() and wp_foot() called, checked all my settings, database tables, etc. Although I want a multi-set rating, neither multi-set nor regular works.
With multi-set, I just see labels, no stars; with single, I just see what you see.
Please advise.
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March 4, 2009
at 10:00 AM
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You still have a problem you didn’t check for. Plugins CSS file is not loading and reurn 404 file not found error.
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March 5, 2009
at 12:54 AM
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How do I fix this? What could be causing the issue–another plugin? The theme itself? Something else (.htaccess)?
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March 5, 2009
at 1:25 AM
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This has nothing to do with plugin directly, access rights to the files and folders are set wrong, you need to change them. I already answered this questions few times in the comments here and in the posts also, check it out.
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March 5, 2009
at 8:40 PM
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I’ve searched your website and documentation, and Google; and there’s nothing there. All the usual 755/644 permissions doesn’t change anything. I guess I’ll have to use another plugin.
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March 5, 2009
at 8:49 PM
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Only few people had this problem so far, and in all the cases problem was with permissions. I am not sure what else could it be.
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March 5, 2009
at 11:04 PM
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what kind of permissions could cause these problems? I was really happy when i found your plugin but now, i can’t use it…
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March 5, 2009
at 11:26 PM
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however, i have uninstalled it completely and removed all files (once again). After reinstalling it seems to work now… confused
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March 6, 2009
at 12:23 AM
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Very strange. I am not sure why something like this is happending, but when I get the time I will try to investigate. Good think is that you made it work.
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March 7, 2009
at 12:58 AM
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Me again
I will ask here, because your forum doesn’t work. It’s more a general question.
how do i use the php-function wp_gdsr_render_multi ? i have added it to my template within php-tags: wp_gdsr_render_multi(1,true);
1 is the id of the set, i would like to use.
But it shows a already filled ratingblock from an other article ( i expected an empty block like when using the shortcode).
What did i wrong here
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March 7, 2009
at 2:10 AM
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First, forum works. I been working on it during the day, bu for the past few hours is up. What kind of problem you have with the forum, maybe I missed something.
As for the function, you are using it wrong. This function has 3 parameters, and the last two are not required:
wp_gdsr_render_multi(1) : multi set 1 will be used for the current post in the loop.
Second paramter is post_id, so you can override the loop, third one controls the echo, and already defaults to true.
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March 7, 2009
at 10:43 AM
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i have clicked on the wrong reply button, sorry – see my answer to your last post here
http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/03/02/gd-star-rating-116/comment-page-1/#comment-578
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March 8, 2009
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Hi MillaN!
Thanks again for your great plugin!
I have one question. When the results of my multiset are shown, there is a ‘:’ behind every option. How can I disable the ‘:’? The ‘:’ is not necessary, because I use questions to describe each option, not just simple words.
Thanks!
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March 8, 2009
at 5:00 PM
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It will be possible once the new templates system is available.
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March 4, 2009
at 7:23 AM
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awesome thanks
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March 4, 2009
at 7:38 AM
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How do we incorporate one of the T2 templates into the manual code? I want this template to display alone, as text. [%RATING%/%MAX_RATING%]
Thanks again
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March 4, 2009
at 9:58 AM
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Right now it can’t be done. As I said T2 is alpha release, and only editor is working right now.
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March 4, 2009
at 8:13 PM
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awesome stuff.
question. do you have an estimate as to when we’ll be able to put up “top rated” post lists for posts that have multi ratings on them?
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March 4, 2009
at 8:22 PM
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It will be released before or in 1.2.0.
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March 5, 2009
at 4:31 PM
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Mhh, since i have updated, the multi rating feature does not work. It shows the block with all stars, i can select the rating and everything seems to be right. The ajax-call is running and finishing. But: The Number of votes is still 0 and if i press f5, it looks like if there wasn’t a rating. All other ratings like comment rating are working perfect.
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March 5, 2009
at 4:49 PM
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I didn’t noticed any problems. Can you give me the url with example?
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March 5, 2009
at 4:55 PM
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http://www.insidephp.de/?p=1
the second box
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March 5, 2009
at 4:59 PM
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mhh, one more interesting thing on the same page:
the first rating (is a starrater tag) changes, when i rate a comment. When pressing f5, the old rating value is displayed again. Could there be a problem with mixup different rating type in one and the same page?
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March 7, 2009
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When i click on the forum link on the top of this page it opens the forum on http://forum.gdragon.info/ and there is shown an error message:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘AND t.template_id = s.template_id AND c.theme_id = s.theme_id AND i.imag’ at line 4 [1064]
Now to the other problem
Thank you – Now its clear, the “true” results in loading the rating of the post with the id 1.
But perhaps you should change this in the documenentation because there only the two parameters are described. It’s was not clear that i have to use it this way
Thank you
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March 7, 2009
at 12:03 PM
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Forum is now fixed. Thanx for reporting this.
As for the documentation, I will try to find the time for in next week.
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March 9, 2009
at 12:37 PM
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Hey!, contratulation’s for good job, but i have a problem with mkdir() and copy(), i don’t know in what place need’s plugin create a dir to create manually, you can helpme?
sorry form my english im speak spanish, greetings
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March 9, 2009
at 12:40 PM
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sorry the problem is
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10321 is not allowed to access /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/gd-star-rating owned by uid 33 in /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 78
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10321 is not allowed to access /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/gd-star-rating owned by uid 33 in /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 79
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10321 is not allowed to access /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/gd-star-rating owned by uid 33 in /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 80
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10321 is not allowed to access /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/gd-star-rating owned by uid 33 in /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 81
Warning: copy() [function.copy]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10321 is not allowed to access /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/gd-star-rating owned by uid 33 in /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 83
Warning: copy(/var/www/web66/web/wp-content/gd-star-rating/css/rating.css) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/web66/web/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/gd-star-functions.php on line 83
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March 9, 2009
at 12:48 PM
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Sorry, sorry, i fix the problem
the directory need create in /wp-content/ and need 775 permissions…
grettings XD
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March 9, 2009
at 2:30 PM
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Yes, that should be always with 755 permissions since WordPress also needs that for uploads and upgrade.
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March 10, 2009
at 7:40 PM
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I have this version (well, 1.1.6, which I assume is this version) installed and can’t delete any multi sets from the “Multi Sets” setup, or choose which multi set I want to use when creating a post. Help! (Great plug-in, by the way. Thanks for creating it!)
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March 10, 2009
at 8:16 PM
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No go. Changed permissions to:
First, set permission to 775 for gd-star-rating (755 for wp-content)
Then, tried 775 for wp-content (755 for gd-star-rating)
What should I try next?
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March 10, 2009
at 11:42 PM
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This has nothing to do with permissions. All data is in the database. Something must be wrong there. Check out the post about Database problems.
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