Another major release of GD Star Rating is now ready. I have implemented several new features: taxonomy support, new filters expanded T2 rendering and basics for user level access restrictions. Also, all bugs reported so far are fixed.
Plugin now supports custom taxonomies (added in WordPress 2.8) for widgets and results grouping. This works similar like with categories grouping. My upcoming TVScape.NET website relies heavily on custom taxonomies, so I needed that to work with GD Star Rating also. There will be more taxonomy related improvements in the future versions.
T2 templates are expanded with few more tags, rendering is improved in some areas and I have added bunch of new filters to modify the rendering. You can change data before the rendering, you can modify SQL queries used to get data for rendering and many more things. Also, plugin now allows you to add any tag you want and to use filters to render both your custom tags or default standard tags. There will be tutorial on the subject soon. TVScape.NET also uses this to modify rendering for some types of results rendering.
Also, I have began working on using WordPress user levels to control access to plugins panel and features. This will be used for few upcoming features including improved WPMU support and user based reporting. More details on this will follow very soon.
Full power of plugins customization capabilities will be part of the already mentioned TVScape website (http://www.tvscape.net/). This website will go live in the next 2 weeks, and from the middle of the next week will be opened for beta testing. If you interested in testing this webesite, send me your email so I can create an account for you.
Very important: This is last version that will work with WordPress 2.5.x. Next plugin release 1.6.1 will require minimum WordPress 2.6. It’s very hard to maintain support for some very different versions of WP, and that’s the reason WP2.5 support has to go.
So, next version will be out in the next few days with few more taxonomy related functions, updated use of config file and cleaned parts of the code related to different WordPress versions. Leave all bugs and suggestions in the comments.
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Hello,
Thanks for the new release. Will the “comments Rating” plugin work in this release?
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something wrong with admin page
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5862/10349423.jpg
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Admin page is fine for me : WP 2.8.3
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This is the new access level feature. Open config.php in plugins folder, and you will find 3 STARRATING_ACCESS_LEVEL variables. Two of them are set to 10. Most likely your account is not admin with level 10. So, change level from 10 to some lower level. Next 1.6.1 will have this set to 9 by default.
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I’m an administrator on a blog.
I’ve solved that problem by granting administrator rights to my user again in user administrating panel.
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I have this as well on WP 2.8.4
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It will be fixed with 1.6.2 in the next few days.
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hi MillaN
Thanks for the great plugin .
I have question : how can I change the comments rating style from “stars rating” to “Up and Down rating” ?
another one , Are the plugin has the ability to order the comments from the highest rate to the lowest rate ?
Thanks again
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MillaN, does setting the access level to 10, actually hide the GD Star panels from the admin of the blogs in WPMU? By admin I mean a user who has created a blog on my website. I was hoping the panels would be hidden from absolutely everyone except myself, the site owner. WordPress does distinguish between the site owner admin and just an admin of one blog, so it is possible. Currently I use the tag “if ( is_site_admin() ) { }” in gd-star-rating.php to hide the panels from admins.
Secondly, is there a way to create T2 templates that are site-wide? I’ve been searching for the default T2 template codes in the core files and spotted it in gdsr_templates_main.txt. However editing this even prior to installing the plugin, causes problems for me.
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Yes, only user accounts with specified level or higher will be able to see panels. I will add much more control for WPMU in the coming versions. But, from next version this level will be 9 by default because of the standard WP and many users with 9 as default level. Bu,t when you install new version, you can set it back to 10.
Templates are stored in database, and for now will not be sitewide, but I am thinking of a way to do it along with many other things. DON’T edit install files, because it will not work.
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I try to add an image to an SRR were I’m currently defining the template. I try the 2 proposed way, from content or through a customer field (the value of the field is http://path_to_the_image.jpg), but I always get the same result “Array” when I display the result (the rest is working fine). Is there a problem with my custom field? I tried to look for this in the doc but there is nothing about this in the guide.
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Yeah, sorry about that. That’s the bug. It’s fixed now, and it will be in 1.6.1. You can get latest development version from SVN (check the readme file) with fix.
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Thanks, I applied your correction in the render.php file. However now I just get the content of the custom field and cannot get it formated as an image. I don’t have time to go through the code but I suppose there is something missing.
By the way, I have a doubt about your modification of line 137 of this file: intval($widget["image_resize_y"] > 0)) ; this is strange for a if condition shouldn’t it be intval($widget["image_resize_y"]) > 0) ?
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Yes, this is a bug also. Thanx for reporting it.
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I deleted it, and installed the 1.5.7 version, but neither works properly. What can I do? Did you have an email contact?
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You need to describe better what’s not working. Telling me that ‘neither works properly’ is not really helpful.
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is it possible to create a question and thumb up and down for its poll…
one more thing i m getting some error, i have posted it at two places see this.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/299132?replies=1
http://forum.gdragon.info/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=523
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This is not poll plugin, so no. As for the database problem, this is not a bug at all. Your server is set to report even the things that normally should be reported, and all this is standard upgrade procedure trying to upgrade older versions of the database. So, you can ignore all of this.
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Can anybody see my question ?
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>> I have question : how can I change the comments rating style from “stars rating†to “Up and Down rating†?
Do you want to use the Thumbs Up/Down ratings instead of star ratings? If so, you need to go to Settings and uncheck the automatic insertion of the star ratings under the Posts And Page and Comment tabs. Then go to the Thumbs tab and check auto insert.
>> another one , Are the plugin has the ability to order the comments from the highest rate to the lowest rate ?
Use the widget called GD Star Rating widget and change the settings to count the thumb ratings.
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Dan,
The “GD Star Rating” widget is for Posts/Pages – not comments.
The “GD Comments Rating” widget is for comments.
However this doesn’t seem to be working…
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I misread his question, you are correct. You’ll have to direct your own problem to MillaN. I’m just a user of the plugin like you.
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Yes I know about Comment widget. It will be fixed in 1.6.1. Sorry.
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MillaN, I notice you cannot view all the options of the GD Star rating widget properly in the admin panel, as some are cut off.
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I have no problem with that. Can you post the screenshot, and tell me what browser you use?
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I am having the same error as Azzie. The only tabs that are accessible are Front Page and Builder. Please advise on fixing.
Thanks!
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And I have answered him with the solution.
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>> I have no problem with that. Can you post the screenshot, and tell me what browser you use?
I’m using FireFox. It’s when you click on the Filter link within the widget:
http://www.wrestleblogs.com/gdstar.png
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Some other plugin is adding CSS that’s causing this. I can’t help you more than that, but there are a looooot of plugins that insert CSS styles that can cause problem to other plugins.
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You do not see the stars, and I can not rate. You can view the problem http://stupidmedia.net
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I get the following error message when attempting to activate the plugin after reinstall.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /[DB-URI]/content/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/db/main.php on line 667
My server tech tells me there is plenty of memory available. Do you have any idea what could be causing this problem?
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Very simple: your tech is wrong. WP 2.8 with more than 10 plugins active uses at least 32MB (15 plugins and it can go up to 40MB and more), and that’s exactly how much server tries to allocate in your case. Check the benchmarks on Dev4Press I did on different versions of WordPress.
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Hi Milan, I came to congratulate you for the great plugin. I have shown it to many friends that have started or alrady had a blog. I will donate to help you with the great work.
Thank you very much and we see you work hard to keep it running the best possible way.
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Wow! Thanks Millan for tuning me into this. I wish you weren’t right but you are. Going to have to reconfigure servers.
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After more tests, I can confirm that Comments widget is working fine. Problem is with invalid use. At this point this widget shows results ONLY on the posts pages that have comments with ratings. It can’t show ratings on front page or anywhere where there are no rated comments. There will be improvements soon with it, but for now this is it.
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My reply didnt go under the relevant comment. I meant to say I have the same as
“something wrong with admin page
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5862/10349423.jpg”
I have WP 2.8.4 Just upgraded from an old version, 1.2 i think
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Sorry. Upgrading from such old version is not recommended. Few months ago I have published a warning about potential problem of upgrading from pre 1.3 versions once 1.4 is released. Most likely you need to manually upgrade database tables. Check the readme file for link to database layout table.
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Also, missing menu items is a rare problem and will be fixed with 1.6.2.
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