Now that GD Star Rating implements so many different types of ratings, it’s time to get some real review/rating oriented themes with GD Star Rating integrated and new stars and thumbs designed. And I have planned to try and make that happen.
So far, my Starscape theme is the only theme with GD Star Rating integrated. But this theme is not made specifically for review websites, and all integrations are mostly for example purposes on how to do integration for any theme. But, it would be great to see themes that are made for review purposes that will integrate different GD Star Rating features for adding ratings into comment form, prepare pages with rating results, add new T2 templates, CSS styles and  new stars and thumbs graphics set.
At this moment GD Star Rating is highly optimized plugin and highly customizable. It features both standard stars ratings, multi ratings and thumbs ratings that can be added to comments or posts, integrated into comments form. Due to the amount of data gathered by the plugin it can offer many ways to organize and display rating results.
My plan is to contact major theme developers with the proposal of making review specific theme or adjusting existing themes to support better GD Star Rating integration. Some steps are already been taken, and if you think that you can help also with this, you can also take initiative yourself. Also, if you are theme developers and you want to make such theme integration please let me know.
I will be available to offer help (depending on my free time) to theme developers in the process of modifying and integrating plugin, and for this they can contact me via email: milan at gdragon dot info. No matter if you design commercial GPL themes, or free GPL themes, important is to have as many review oriented themes for users to choose from.
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my problem is when user set rating he/she can also set reason for rating.
Example Suppose
he set 2 star then one text box show and he/she write the example
you product is not good
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I was planning to do, but at this point this is too complicated, and requires a lot of changes. It will be back in development most likely in 2.0 cycle.
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@nanhe
It is pretty dumb to say “you product is not good” simply because it does not do the exact thing you want it to do. GD Star Rating is an awesome plugin which Millan puts a ton of work into and which you receive for free – don’t be so rude.
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With the builder you made up in this great plugin, any theme can be easily modify to use gd star rating !
Sure already made up themes with gdstarrating would help making a new website, not having to modify an existing theme.
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GradeASites is a website rating system using GD Multi Star Rating as the vote tally system on how vistitors like(or dislike) someones website based on design, speed, user friendlinedd, and a few other factors… Great plugin
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I will surely include your website on the showcase page. We need more such websites with implemented multi ratings.
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You can add my website too if needed.
http://mesopinions.ca
It’s a rating website for everything (products/services) in French.
I’m using for the moment : Global rating (all users can vote), comments thumbs and author rating.
Will check for multi ratings !
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I would like to add a multi-review-block for posts to the comment form under each post. When I submit the comment, I also want to submit the rating. When I display the comments under the post, I want also to display them together with the comments’ author vote.
Is this possible?
I have spent the last 3 days on your website reading documentation and trying to find the answer to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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I have read the user guide and you say on page 8: ”
4. Comments Review Rating: This is single rating value added by the comment author and is not connected to any other rating value. With this author can rate the post. This type of rating needs to be integrated into the theme.”
This is exactly what I was looking for. How do I integrate it? Do you have an example?
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For anyone with the same problem as me, I have found the answer:
http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/05/27/comments-integration-1/
http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/05/28/comments-integration-2/
These two articles are about integrating reviews and rating blocks into comments.
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