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GD Star Rating 1.3.3

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Another new version is here. This time, not many changes made from the previous version, but nevertheless this changes are very important at this point. You can expect 2-3 new posts in the following day to cover all the new changes.

Finally, this version allows you to customize the list of BOT spiders that will be filtered by the plugin.

Few bugs introduced (and reported) in 1.3.2 are fixed. I also started on refactoring parts of the code, renaming some of the files for better organization of the code. Plugin currently has more than 25.000 lines of code, and it’s not that easy to maintain all that, considering I am doing all the work alone. Some of these changes might broke something, but I tried to test it all, so it should be ok.

Most important new feature in this release is a way to select stars sizes and sets you want to include in CSS file for active rating blocks. With 10 default sets and 6 stars sizes, CSS is some 200Kb big. But since you will use 2-3 sizes at the most and 2-3 sets at the most, you don’t need such a big CSS, and it can be easily reduced to 50-60Kb. This affects only rating blocks with active rating, static blocks like the widgets or results can still use any set or size you want.

Info file with functions is updated, as well as some of these functions. So it’s best to check them to see if things are set right. Some functions now have additional settings for stars set and sizes. Also, check the functionalities you use after update to see if everything is in order. Report any problem you may encounter.

Next version will have all rendering functions expanded with style options, new functions for expanding integration and few more things. If I manage to do all that and with few more bug fixes and changes that version will be 1.4.0.

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GD Star Rating 1.3.3, 7.6 out of 10 based on 45 ratings

33 Responses to “GD Star Rating 1.3.3”

  1. Ronnie

    May 20, 2009
    at 5:37 AM

    since the update, i am unable to customize the star designs for the posts. no matter what star design i choose, or size of the star i indicate, it just stays the same. this didn’t happen before the update, but now it won’t let me customize it.

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    • MillaN

      May 20, 2009
      at 12:07 PM

      Do you use integration functions, or standard auto insert? I have tested all that, and it works fine. Maybe I am missing something, but you need to explain better what you are using to show ratings.

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      • Ronnie

        May 20, 2009
        at 5:09 PM

        i am using integration so that i can pick which articles i want to insert the rating bar.

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    • MillaN

      May 20, 2009
      at 3:10 PM

      I have tested on all my blogs, and on fresh WP installation and everything works fine.

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  2. Bobby

    May 20, 2009
    at 7:38 AM

    Still not able to use multi in my posts.

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    • MillaN

      May 20, 2009
      at 12:06 PM

      Explain. I don’t have any problems with multi ratings.

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  3. Adam

    May 20, 2009
    at 5:33 PM

    Hi, Millan.

    I have my GDStar Rating set to three rating stars. Nothing fancy, standard settings with just the rating stars showing and no rating text. I use the integration function to insert the stars in my post meta area.

    Since the update, I have five stars showing on IE6 browser. Only three of them are rateable (and only three have the hover/onmouseover effect), but an extra two stars appear to be showing anyway. I tried clearing my cache to no effect.

    Have you noticed this at all in your testing?

    Thanks.

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    • MillaN

      May 20, 2009
      at 6:42 PM

      It seams to be only IE6 problem. I have stoped testing in this browser, but I will check for all bugs found. Issue will be resolved in next version.

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    • MillaN

      May 20, 2009
      at 7:02 PM

      This is not a plugin bug. Problem is caused by something in your theme. I tested in IE6 with my blogs and several others and it works fine.

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      • Adam

        May 21, 2009
        at 1:24 AM

        Ok, thanks.

        I don’t personally use IE6 but I know some of my users do. I’ll see if I can find where the issue is in my theme.

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  4. louis

    May 20, 2009
    at 11:00 PM

    Is there a way to remove (Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)) so I only see the stars?

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    • MillaN

      May 21, 2009
      at 12:15 AM

      I said this many, many, many times. All rendering is controled by templates. Make a template with elements you need. There is a tutorial with more info on this.

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  5. Bobby

    May 21, 2009
    at 3:53 AM

    When creating a post, I try and use the mutli star rating I created. I can select the stars, but when I publish the post it clears the stars out and does not keep its rating.

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  6. 蝎子

    May 21, 2009
    at 12:08 PM

    how to upgrade manually ?
    if just upload all the new files and reactive the plugin ?

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    • MillaN

      May 21, 2009
      at 12:14 PM

      Yes, that’s about it. All settings will be preserved. If you want to remove settings, use plugins Setup panel.

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      • 蝎子

        May 21, 2009
        at 12:24 PM

        thank man, i tried the “upgrade automatically”, but always timeout. so…

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  7. 蝎子

    May 21, 2009
    at 12:26 PM

    your plugin is awesome by the way :)

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  8. 蝎子

    May 21, 2009
    at 12:43 PM

    another problem.
    i use the iepngfix (http://www.twinhelix.com/test/). it fix the png-24 transparent on IE6.
    but when mouseover the star its not working.
    demo: http://www.sc2fans.net/p/hello-world-0517/

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    • MillaN

      May 21, 2009
      at 1:28 PM

      None of IEPNG fixes are working properly, and I don’t intend to wast time on them. Plugin had one built in, but it was too much of a problem so I removed it. The only valid solution is to use alternative stars for IE6 that will be GIF’s. There is a sepparate option for that on settings panel.

      And BTW, your previous comment was the 1000th comment on this blog.

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  9. Dj PHANTOMZ

    May 22, 2009
    at 2:29 AM

    Hi GD Star Rating,
    At First Special thanks for all you do !! your website is great and your rating system too. but i’ve a problem since de last Update !! Anyone who visit my website (http://www.mediaz-empire.com) can’t rate my articles . that’s Normal.?
    I Just do Update in my wordpress dashboard no more !!
    AnyOne can explain me what’s a problem?
    thanks

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    • MillaN

      May 22, 2009
      at 3:01 AM

      The problem you are having has nothing to do with rating plugin and is caused by Fancybox jQuery script you blog is using. This scrip is broken.

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  10. Dj PHANTOMZ

    May 22, 2009
    at 8:47 AM

    ohh thanks that’s right fancybox causes this problem !! i’ve deactivated so i can’t use your plugin and Fancybox Jquery plugin at same time.?
    (Sorry for my bad english MillaN)

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    • MillaN

      May 22, 2009
      at 11:11 AM

      Not exactly. Problem has nothing to do with rating lugin. Fancybox is broken. Once you fix the problem with it, both will work fine together. Problem is that both plugin use jQuery. But jQuery will stop working when even one error is detected, and in your case that error is caused by Fancybox.

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  11. David

    May 22, 2009
    at 1:52 PM

    I’m currently working on setting up a multi-review for this site and I’m running into 2 problems. First, it just shows a white on white box when I insert the multi review. Second, multi sets will not delete. I have not been able to find any documentation on either of these problems.

    Thanks.

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    • MillaN

      May 22, 2009
      at 3:04 PM

      First problem I can’t reproduce. I need more info on how do you insert multi review. As for the other, it’s fixed now, and updated version will be available tonight.

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      • David

        May 22, 2009
        at 4:11 PM

        I insert it with the [starreviewmulti id=2 tpl=20] code created with the shortcut.

        It gives me the white on white no matter what I have the css class set to. I am using references to the included css file.

        Thanks!

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        • MillaN

          May 22, 2009
          at 4:39 PM

          Well, all this is caused by your theme. By default table background is white, and text is not set. I will fix this in the next version, but it’s best to create your own styles and use them.

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  12. AG

    May 22, 2009
    at 7:17 PM

    Hello, still have a small issue with the widget. It seems that it request a non existing (or empty) image just before the stars. There is a link on this image pointing to the article.

    here is the code:

    This is not a big issue but with Safari you get an empty frame that is not very nice.

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    • MillaN

      May 22, 2009
      at 7:47 PM

      Maybe you are using template made to display image from the post.

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  13. AG

    May 23, 2009
    at 9:38 AM

    Thanks That was the prob! by default there is the %IMAGE% tag that does not work nice with Safari if empty.

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  14. Udeste

    May 25, 2009
    at 11:13 AM

    Hi, very wonderful plugin.
    There is any way to remove the auto insertion in post? Because i have a mobile version of my blog and i want to render very light without any extra plugin.
    I’ve removed the insertion of css style of other plugin by writing a function that use “remove_action” function. But with GDStarRating doesn’t work. How can do this?
    Thanks

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    • MillaN

      May 25, 2009
      at 11:32 AM

      Removing actions of this plugin can cause things to break.

      As for the insertion I repeated this countless times, there is info in the user guide and settings related tutorials.

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