Last few days I made a lot of progress towards 1.2.0 version, and because of that I have decided to release it earlier than planned. So, GD Star Rating 1.2.0 will be released on Wednesday 22.April 2009.
Along with the new version, there will be few new posts on this website related to some of the new features, and you can expect very busy week.
New Features
- Plugin saves last voted date for posts and comments.
- Sidebar widget supports multi rating data.
- Sidebar widget support display of rating stars.
- Sidebar widget support display of custom post image from custom fields or post content.
- Sidebar widget has new filters: subcategories, limit posts based on the last voted data.
- Auto insert standard rating block on top or/and bottom of the post.
- Completed base for T2 templates system.
- T2 templates rendering for standard post and comments rating.
- Redesigned plugin front panel.
- Referrer protection of generated rating images from off-site leeching.
- User guide updated to 1.2.0 with list of online resources
Changes & Fixes
- Widget filtering by date range
- Some install/reinstall database problems
- More multi rating fixes
- More visual improvements for WP 2.7
Website Posts
- Second part about setting the widget with description of new features
- Featured post dedicated to T2 templates system
- Tutorial on creating templates for standard rating block
- Introduction to plugin premium support
Some of the posts will be published before the new plugin version as a preparation for it. Also, new road-map will be also available so you can see what you can expect in the future.
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April 18, 2009
at 6:39 PM
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Wow, impressively fast work, thank you!
I’m looking forward to those tutorials and posts.
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April 18, 2009
at 9:25 PM
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Will this release allow for inserting multi ratings into the comment section? This would allow a comment/verbal review to be paired with a star review. I dident see that mentioned but maybe that is part of T2 templates.
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April 18, 2009
at 11:29 PM
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It’s not going to be in 1.2.0. This will be inlcuded with 1.2.1 or latest 1.2.2.
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April 19, 2009
at 12:20 AM
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Sounds good, sorry to keep pestering, I am like a kid on xmas with this plugin. I am looking forward to using it to make a review site. However I have a lot of other mods to make so I will be busy while I wait.
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April 19, 2009
at 7:06 AM
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Any plans for auto inserting multi’s?
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April 20, 2009
at 1:10 AM
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Yes, this will be category based (per many requests) or for all posts similar to standard rating/ Category based insertion is almost done, and it wmight be included in 1.2.0.
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April 20, 2009
at 3:05 AM
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Ill keep my fingers crossed….
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April 19, 2009
at 4:20 PM
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This is fantastic Milan, I love this plugin its incredibale.
Any plans to have the ‘Top 10 rated comments’ from any individual post included in the futute 1.2… versions?
Or even having an extra option in the wp_gdsr_render_widget(); for selecting comments?
Best Regards
Tim
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April 19, 2009
at 10:53 PM
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This would be such a great implementation and added feature to your rating plugin… For eg, some youtube videos have hundreds of comments, id love to order them in terms of usefullness or feature best comments) etc.
Or for eg, reviewing books, if 1 post = a book and people left comments in the form of reviews, then people could rate how good or usefull the reviews were and then see the top 10 most useful reviews(comments) for that item.
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April 20, 2009
at 1:09 AM
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At this point, doing anything with comments it’s not that easy. Also, many changes introduced to WordPress makes that harder, and comments will still going to change. Problem is that I just can’t maintain different code for each WordPress version, and I need to work on features that I know I can complete. At some point there will be reordering of comments but I am not sure when that’s gonna happen.
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April 20, 2009
at 1:09 AM
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This will be in 1.2.x release cycle for sure.
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April 20, 2009
at 4:10 AM
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Ok fantastic. Keep up the great work. This is by far turning into one of the most popular and soon to be most powerful plugins available for wordpress! Brilliant!!
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April 20, 2009
at 4:26 PM
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Fantastic Milan,
I have put my development of http://golf-royalty.com on hold until 1.2.0 is released on wednesday.
I cannot thank you enough, and will be donating to you when http://golf-royalty.com is finished!!
thanks,
Lee.
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April 21, 2009
at 3:41 PM
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Sounds good, any plans for dealing with cross domain issues ?
Thanks,
Emilie
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April 21, 2009
at 4:07 PM
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If they add support for overriding the restrictions in jQuery I will use it, but I don’t plan to write anything for that. It’s too complicated and it’s not allowed for a reason.
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