In last two days I have been reviewing the plugin code and looking for few bugs reported in the last week or so. And I managed to find some more bugs and fix them. Also, I have also started working on the recently announced features.
But, mostly this is bug fixing maintenance release. More than 10 bugs are fixed including rare problem with invalid CSS file causing Firefox problems, few more widget problems, number of smaller rendering and t2 template bugs.
First of the new features from the announced roadmap is added, and number of supported stars sizes is expanded with two new sizes: 16×16px and 24×24px. All default sets are expanded with the new stars. All old sets will work fine as long as you don’t attempt using new sizes. I will try to update existing extra sets with new sets.
I have received few reports about problems with widgets and last voted date. I have changed many things in the widget code, so hopefully this will not happen again. But if it does, please tell me which version of mySQL you are using, and include debug file contents (you need to enable debug into file) with sql query generated for widget. There are few more bugs I know of in the rendering system, but that will be solved soon.
Next two features I will work on are to add multi/standard rating integration into comments, and support for multiple active rating stars sets on a page.
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May 11, 2009
at 1:10 PM
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Hi, thanks for the great plugin, but why did you removed the option to center te stars in the post? It was so simple to do, and now isn’t. I haven’t upgreaded since 1.9.1 just because of that.
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May 11, 2009
at 2:06 PM
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It’s not really removed. All the rendering is controled by templates now. So you need to make a template. Templates are combination of HTML, CSS and custom tags.
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May 11, 2009
at 1:11 PM
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Of course I mean 1.1.9.1
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May 12, 2009
at 5:48 AM
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I don’t know why, it keeps showing please wait.
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May 12, 2009
at 8:46 AM
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Read the post about excerpts.
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May 12, 2009
at 12:01 PM
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I installed your plugin today and it somehow broke my ajax random posts plugin that I was running: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ajax-random-posts/
The random posts plugin somehow gave out errors on line 1973 of gd-star-rating.php. I was able to get everything working by just deleting the foreach statement on line 1973 as I don’t need multi-ratings, but I would be interested to find out why it didn’t work.
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May 12, 2009
at 12:38 PM
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Thanx for the report. I will investigate this.
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May 12, 2009
at 12:52 PM
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No offence to the AJAX Random Posts plugin author, but this plugin is badly written and untested. It causes all sorts of problems on both blog and administration.
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May 13, 2009
at 10:49 AM
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Thanks for looking at it.
Is there a built-in way to change the rating text after someone voted?
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May 13, 2009
at 11:39 AM
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It will be in 1.3.2. I am adding new rating text element for this.
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May 13, 2009
at 2:40 PM
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When i click on stars vote display error “Premission denied”
Please help me with this problem: http://forum.gdragon.info/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=374
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May 13, 2009
at 8:57 PM
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Once again, cross-domain ajax calls.
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May 14, 2009
at 1:03 AM
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Is it possible to implement multi-ratings for comments instead of posts and pages? Thanks.
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May 14, 2009
at 1:18 AM
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No in the same way as current standard comments rating. But it will be possible to integrate posts multi ratings into the comments.
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May 14, 2009
at 1:42 AM
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How do you integrate posts multi ratings into the comments? Do you have a how-to or guide for that?
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May 14, 2009
at 2:29 AM
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It can’t be done yet. As I said it will be added in next version.
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May 14, 2009
at 1:56 AM
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hi Milan,
http://golf-royalty.com is almost finished now.
The only niggling problem is that I want to duplicate the results of Multi ratings elsewhere in the post. Is that possible. I assure you that I have tried everything to do this with no success. can you help me out?
Thanks again.
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May 14, 2009
at 2:35 AM
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I must say that the website is looking great. Please inform me when you finish it.
As for the multi result, there is a simple way to add it using shortcode, and adding read_only paramter set to 1 (plugin for editor has this option). Next 1.3.2 version will have expanded function that will do the same.
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May 18, 2009
at 4:59 PM
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Hi Milan,
http://golf-royalty.com is now 99.9% finsihed and has been officialy launche. you asked me to contact you upon its completion?
I hope to hear from you soon,
Lee Evans
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May 14, 2009
at 1:33 PM
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Hi,
I’m working on a site, and i used your star rating plugin here:
http://www.registryproblemsolver.com/
but there’s one one thing i was going to ask you, i’m using the
wp_gdsr_new_comment_review() on the comments form.. the thing is, how can i pass the value of the function wp_gdsr_new_comment_review to a variable..
e.g. i have a star rating of 5 and then i clicked the 4th star.. so the value of the wp_gdsr_new_comment_review is.. 4.. how do i get that?
like pass it to a variable.. like $starvalue or something?
I’m pretty new to php.. and still reading your codes.. can you help me out with this one?
Thanks
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May 14, 2009
at 7:31 PM
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It doesn’t work like that. If you tell me what you want, maybe I can help you, but I can’t go into details on how the php is working.
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May 14, 2009
at 8:23 PM
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hi again.. that’s ok.. i’m starting to learn php anways.. i just needed some directions.. i’m currently reading functions on php
well i’m doing it like.. on the comment form.. i need to make sure all the required fields are not ‘null’ or ‘0′.. so when someone makes a comment.. he/she is required to input or place a star rating for his comment.. so how do i test if wp_gdsr_new_comment_review has a value.. on the comment-post.php?
i was thinking like.. <input type=”hidden” name=”starvalue” value=”" /> so i can go in the post.php.. like if ($_post['starvalue'])==’0′ || ‘null’)
{echo ‘error’}
is that a good idea.. :/.. forgive me if i’m asking too much.. i’m trying my best though..
I get the idea.. on how i would edit the comment-post.php cause it’s the script that handles the comments.. but i’m having problems on how can i do it..
thanks for the quick reply
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May 14, 2009
at 9:44 PM
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If you examine rating block rendered by the function, there is already and input field rendered with rating value. Use Firebug to get exactly the name of the field, because it depends on the comment id.
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May 15, 2009
at 7:08 AM
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okay.. i’ll check it.. thanks millan..
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May 16, 2009
at 3:17 AM
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Hello. I installed your Star Rating plugin, because I found to be the most resourceful and smart concerning info gathering and feedback.
Now I have an issue, because the stars simply do not show up.
I labeled the rating text in portuguese as the site is to brazilians, like me, interested on games studies, workshops, articles and the like. And that label does show up, even the rating score. But not the rating stars.
I settled so that any visitor might rate the articles. Eventually I will implement the login system.
The site address is http://eutrapelia.com.br
Most of the options I chose the Crystal star for the ratings, and pumpkings for the MSIE 6.
Before that I already had got the issue.
I am just trying to say all what I did so that you may have a clue on how my settings are put.
What should I look for?
Or should I try and develop more on what I did?
Thank you and best regards
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May 16, 2009
at 11:44 AM
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As I said many times before, read the tutorials I wrote about solving problems. Your problem is invalid server settings, so the css file is not loaded and server returns error 500.
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May 16, 2009
at 8:14 PM
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aaaaaaah! Fine, fine!
I will look it up and back to you with the result.
Thank you for the help.
Congrats
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May 16, 2009
at 11:48 PM
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If you find exactly what settings were the problem, please make a new comment here, maybe someone will also find that useful.
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May 17, 2009
at 7:33 PM
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hi again millan,
Just wanted to ask if there’s an alternate way to display wp_gdsr_new_comment_review? cause through proxies, the wp_gdsr_new_comment_review are not getting rendered? and IE 6 too.. cause i guess they have the javascript turned off..
i mean.. can it be displayed like an option box or something? or something like a non javascript way..
Thanks.
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May 17, 2009
at 7:52 PM
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There will be no alternative method for this. At least not for now. I don’t plan to work on anything like that any time soon. I will try to use jQuery cross domain ajax calls to avoid the problem, but I am not sure when that will be done.
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May 17, 2009
at 7:38 PM
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multi rating or multi review blocks are amazing.this plugin will become better than any other.i just wonder…don’t you think think,that 1 rating is enough to rate movie or event for example? it’s plain and simple.on the other hand…when i look at 1 general rating i think “i like it or not”.when i have precise things to rate like:features,support,etc i start to think about it more deeply so i think it is better.people give more neutral scores.
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