Plugin has reached yet another major release in the short period. Last week was used mostly for testing but there are some new features added after the beta release. I will try to cover all changes from last official release and few more things.
After months of development, GD Star Rating now features full rating and review support that will allows you to integrate ratings into comments, rating and review aggregation and various means to display both rating and review data, and more.
After the rating is saved along with the comment into database, now it’s time to show that rating with the comment on the post page. This will also require modifying the theme files. And again, there is a couple of functions you will need to use.
Integrating both post’s standard and multi ratings into comment, so that the post reader can add comment about the topic and assign rating (or review) for that post along with the comment, is very easy. Read for more details.
Since we are now very close to 1.4.0 version of the plugin, I decided to release current development version as a Beta. At this point plugin is 100% ready for complete comment integration for implementing review system.
The number of templates needed for rendering has grown, and at this point all the needed templates are completed. So, I have decided to display interconnection of all the templates and they use. So, this post contains a map of all T2 templates.
And, another new version, this time, mainly a bug fixing release. Several reported bugs are fixed and I have managed to expand few more custom functions with new parameters. Next week you can expect all review features completed in 1.4.0 release.
Last few versions of the plugin have introduced many changes, and settings have changed as well. Most important are two fully new features used for setting spider bot’s and stars sizes and sets that will be added to main active rating CSS file.
Comments integration #2
After the rating is saved along with the comment into database, now it’s time to show that rating with the comment on the post page. This will also require modifying the theme files. And again, there is a couple of functions you will need to use.