This will be most likely last release in the 1.5.x series. Mostly this is bug fixing and improving deletion of different types of votes, fixing Safari/Firefox problems with tabs on the admin panels and improving RSS integration for multis and thumbs.
To my surprise there are some incompatibilities in Safari 4 for MacOS and Windows, and many jQuery UI features like tabs and datepicker were not working properly on MacOS (I think that Firefox was also affected) under WordPress 2.8.x. Because of that I had to include another set of CSS and images for jQuery UI 1.7. Please, test it with MacOS and report if things are finally working right. This caused for plugin to cross line of 3MB in size (unpacked).
Thumbs support is added to widgets, TinyMCE3 plugin and Builder panel. Thumbs ratings are now new data source in the widget or builder plugin, and you can have them or starts rating, but now both, because this will again be mixing of unrelated data. So if you use tags for stars with thumbs source, than you will not get them displayed. RSS integration now allows use of thumbs and multis ratings, so you can check a post about it published coupe a days ago. Many panels are improved to allow deleting of multis and thumbs votes. Multi rating panels will require more work to show detailed log, and that will be done soon. Also, most of the fixes in the version are also administration related. No bugs were reported in the blog/voting engine in the past few days since 1.5.5.
Next week I will release either another 1.5.x or more likely it will be 1.6.0. It all depends on the bugs that will get discovered in the next few days. Current cycle of changes is almost completed now, and the things I wanted for 1.6.0 I’ve implemented now. And I am well ahead of the roadmap published recently, and that’s a good sign also. Next version will be available in the middle of the next week. If some important bugs are found, it will be earlier.
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Awesome! Thanks for all your work! I see you got the RSS feeds to follow the category settings.
You’ve probably seen me on the WordPress forum. I’m not sure if this issue is related to this newest update or not, but I’m noticing some discrepancies between what rating is shown on the blog and what is shown on the RSS feed.
Example:
http://www.hd-trailers.net/blog/tag/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus/
http://www.hd-trailers.net/blog/tag/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus/feed/
The blog shows 5-6 votes for each of them, but the RSS feed shows only 1 vote.
Most of my other blog posts are reflecting the current count/vote on the RSS feed.
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RSS Feeds are cached by the browsers, and it depends on the moment it’s loaded what will contain. Plugin uses the same data for RSS as for the website (same functions even) and there can’t be difference.
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So you’re saying you’re seeing 5 to 6 votes on those posts since I presume you never had an initial cache? I doubt it’s a browser caching issue since the output that the rss feed generator generates actually shows 1 vote.
I’m not viewing the feed in any rss tool. I’m loading it as a regular webpage, where I can do hard refreshes. Even trying on a separate browser on a separate computer (where I’ve never opened the feed before) doesn’t change how many votes it’s showing.
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Believe it or not, most browsers cache RSS. Opera doesn’t allow refreshing of feeds for until it detects changes, and the same goes for Firefox and IE. If feed is not changed, it will not be downloaded. Functions preparing votes are the same for posts and feeds, and votes can’t be different.
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I’m pretty sure that’s not true, but that’s besides the point I’m trying to make.
Even opening the RSS feed on a browser on a different computer which never had a chance to cached that feed, I’m still seeing the incorrect vote count as I mentioned in my previous reply.
I’m not sure if you got a chance to actually see the 2 links, but it’s pretty clear something funny is going on.
I mean I just tried to do a manual download of the rss feed with wget and I’m still seeing the incorrect vote count and wget definitely has no cache.
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RSS is cached by the WordPress also, but I am not sure how that works exactly. I have seen such feeds in the database. Trust me, that functions used for posts on blog and RSS are the same functions. And they return same results (obviously). Whenever the feed requests the plugin to render something it uses real, live data. When the request is made is not up to the plugin, but it’s controlled by browser and WordPress.
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To remove the possibility of feed caching by either WordPress or the browser, I applied the rss_filter to the ‘content’ and this is the result:
http://i27.tinypic.com/262mn80.jpg
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There is something strange in behavior of RSS filters and there will be some changes in this area as soon as I discover what’s best to be used.
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Yah, that’d be my guess too. A quick look at the code, there might be a difference in how render_article() and render_article_rss() calculates the the score.
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The tabs in the admin interface are still not working in Windows Firefox 3.5.1.
Here is a screen capture:
http://i30.tinypic.com/2q30v0j.jpg
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It works fine with all browser I use (more than 10 browsers/versions) including Firefox 3.5.1. This screenshot look like previous version of jQueryUI and not the new one included with 1.5.6. Try clearing browser cache.
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This is with a cleared cached (and all other persistent state items) screen caps below from Chrome, FF, and IE. Site is running WP 2.7.1:
Chrome 2.0.172.37:
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6615/gdinterfacechrome201723.jpg
FF 3.5.1:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8849/gdinterfaceff351.jpg
IE 8:
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7594/gdinterfaceie8.jpg
I noticed that this post mentions that GD Star Rating 1.5.6 included jQuery 1.7. However, as you can see from the screen caps below of the readme.txt file included with 1.5.6 and the jquery-ui.js included in the js subdirectory the version of jQuery included in the plugin is actually 1.6rc4.
readme.txt:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9744/gdreadme.jpg
head of jquery-ui.js:
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9123/gdjquery.jpg
The transition from GD Star Ratings 1.5.4 to 1.5.6 was carried out via the built-in WP plugin updater, there was no manual extract/copy performed.
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For WP 2.7.x (and older), plugin uses older version of jQueryUI that is compatible with jQuery included back then. With WP 2.8.x it loads jQueryUI that comes with WP and only loads datepicker plugin for jQueryUI 1.7. Basically loading of jQueryUI for older WP version is still the same as it was in any older version. Changes affect only WP 2.8.x. Also, 2.7.1 is still my primary development WP and 2.8 is used only for testing, and on my end works in all browsers I can test in, with all versions of WP supported. I can’t test beyond that. If you can tell me exactly why is not working on your end, and what errors are displayed, I can’t do anything because I can’t reproduce the problem you have.
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The FF 3.5.1 Error Console displays the single error
Error: C[L][K] is not a constructor
Source File: http://www.stuffonmywiener.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/js/jquery-ui.js
Line: 10
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Again, I can’t reproduce this in any browser. But it looks like the you have jQuery 1.3 on your blog not 1.2. 1.3 is added in WP 2.8, before that default was 1.2.
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I actually delete my thumb ratings using database tables reinstall just before I noticed 1.5.6 was released. Now that I have installed 1.5.6, I notice that it does not let me vote, probably because I have voted before. If votes are deleted, is voting history not deleted too?
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Cookies in the browser.
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hey millan,
great work on the release. the tabs now work in safari & firefox on mac
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Great to hear that. Thanks.
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Hi Milane
I noticed incompatibility with Wp Content Filter http://gwycon.com/wp-content-filter-wordpress-plugin/
Any idea what could be causing that?
-Goran
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No. I don’t have time to debug other plugins. GD Star Rating uses all filters and actions according to documentation, and if other plugins were to do the same things will be working fine.
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Also is export of thumbs up and thumbs down votes planned/available
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It will be in works soon, but it’s not going to be for another 2-3 versions.
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I would like to request a feature to be added in your future development. The thumbsup/down is a great option to the standard star rating. Going further down that line, I would love to see an option that allows just 1 button to like/vote/thumbup. Basically, for one of my blogs, I just want a quick button that users can click to vote up a comment and no vote down button.
I’m not sure if the existing plugin can be manipulated to just have a thumb up and no thumb down because that would work for me too.
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You can do that now. Make new template for thumbs, and don’t use %THUMB_DOWN% tag.
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An unrelated doubt:
I am using multi review comment integration through category in posts. Works fine.
But on one of the pages (not posts) I have enabled comment integration (don’t want it at all pages) How will it display multi-set here?
For me its showing the muti-set with id 1. What if i want some other multi set (say with id 3) to show (In comment i am passing 0 for automatic integration.)
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There is an info on this in the post about categories management.
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Milan.. not sure if you got me right..
I am talking about ‘pages’ not ‘posts’. Posts category management is fine… and in ‘cat management’ post of yours there is nothing specific wrt to pages..?? or am i missing something
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Basically for one of my page I want to use ‘multi 1′ and for other ‘multi 2′ but as wp doesn’t allow categorizing pages… is there a way tackle this…!!!
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Right now there is no solution of this kind for pages. And until I find a way to do it right, there is not going to be such solution. You must make a way in the page template to use different multi_id for different pages.
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Hi! I just can’t get the plugin to work. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. What happens when I vote is that the whole page is reloaded and the vote is not saved. I have tried debugging with Firebug but I don’t see anything wrong there.
I figured out though that if I vote using on of the thumbs and click several times on it it finally record the vote…?
Could you please take a look at my sight http://www.toastmasterkillen.se (it’s in swedish, sorry =)) Click on any of the headlines and try to vote. Any hint on what could be wrong?
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You have so much different JavaScritpts loaded that who knows what can be causing this. My guess is that something is modifying code, and rewriting code that controls the A tag.
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Thank you MillaN, that was just spot on.
When I was sittin on the sofa yesterday I did get a thought about all those javascripts. A minute ago I removed the most likly one to disturb the plugin and now the plugin works like a charm!
Thanks a lot for the quick help!
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Thank you for making such system.
Does it now work for WordPress MU?
Would it help if we pull together all the people who wants this support and co-sponsor the development effort?
Again, your GD Starrating is a god sent.
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For the most part, it works with WPMU. I will start working on polishing problems soon. I know that there are some collisions with BuddyPress.
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Right peeps I have a problem with this now, use to work fine but any changes I make to it in the admin pannel they dont work, help please….
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Hi there!
Would like to give some feedback:
The widgets don’t render properly on a small screen on firefox. The problems is with the boxes where we input numbers such as numbers of votes required etc… Half of the left side of the box is hidden so the numbers don’t show.
Also, what type of calculations do you use to calculate the rankings? If you go on my blog and look at the widget on the right, you will see that in the top 10, number 2 has better average votes than number 1. I’d like to know how you calculate this…
Thank you.
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If you mean on the widgets edit page in admin, it works fine in 1024×768 resolution. I am not going to adjust anything for lower than that. As I can see on your site, ratings are sorted right. You can use average or bayesian mean calculations.
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I didn’t explain myself properly. The ratings are sorted right, that is not the problem.
The problem is how the ratings are calculated. That seems to be flawed as some categories seems to have posts which are rated higher than other posts in other categories yet the latter ranks higher:
Example from my blog:
Category 1 (named Philip Lim):
Rating: 5.0/5 (7 votes cast)
Rating: 2.0/5 (2 votes cast)
Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast)
Rating: 3.0/5 (1 vote cast)
–> CATEGORY 1 AVERAGE: 3.5/5
Category 2 (names Casadei):
Rating: 4.8/5 (6 votes cast)
Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes cast)
–> CATEGORY 2 AVERAGE: 4.9/5
===> CATEGORY 2 AVERAGE > CATEGORY 1 AVERAGE
But on the widget, according to your formula, category 2 is below category 1.
How do you calculate it to get to this result?
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I will check it, but I haven’t noticed any problems so far.
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ok thanks. Keep us updated
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Hi, ive just installed 1.5.6 and everythings seems to be working, however id like to ask a question about the top rated section. There is a line break in between the stars and title, and so the title is actually closer to the stars below it, which doesnt look too good. Is there a way to fix this? thank you.
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For a millionth time, all rendering is controlled by templates. You don’t like how it looks, make your own template.
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i’m using multi ratings for the first time but cannot place votes on the visible stars. you have to hover to the left and then you suddenly notice red stars. also the box doesn’t look like the box you have displayed in your multi ratings post. i prefer your layout displayed in your article. how can i get my multi ratings to look like that? this is what i get: http://www.recommenda.nl/2009/07/deluca/
also i think you mention it above, but i can’t seem to get the label for the thumps up/down header to display in the post although you’re given the option to define a header in settings.
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Multi ratings on your website is working fine. Visual aspects are control by templates, you need to make your own template. As for the thumbs header problem, I will check that.
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I create multi-sets. On the “GD Star Rating: Multi Sets” where I can see my multi-sets, only 20 show. I have more than 20. There is no button to go to the next page. But the others are there. I have been keeping track of the ID Numbers by using Notepad.
Is there a way to resolve my problem? Please let me know. Thank you so much for your help!
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One set is limited to 20 elements. More than that causes significant slowdown with database queries.
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I understand the 20 elements.
I only have 4 elements for each set.
I meant each set AKA each “poll.”
I have over 20 “polls”, but only 20 are showing.
I have been keeping track of the ID Numbers for each one. But I can only see 20 on the admin page.
Is there a way to see the rest? I have 22 polls or so and will be making more very soon.
P.S. You’re plug-in has saved me a lot of time and made my website even better =) I truly appreciate your help!
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Ah, sorry. I understand now. That’s the bug with the multis page. Fix will be available in the next day or two.
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Seriously, this is top notch customer support here =) Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated! I will wait for the update.
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