Archive for October, 2009
Exceprt problem finally solved
Many users of run into the famous excerpt problem when setting plugin to work with some themes and when posts didn’t had excerpt pre-set. And solution was there, but it wasn’t very elegant. And now looks like that this problem will be gone for good.
GD Star Rating 1.7.3
Here is the GD Star Rating 1.7.3, another maintenance release that includes several bugs fixed including broken query expansions for using ratings to sort posts. Also, plugin is further optimized and uses another 10% less memory then 1.7.2.
Using Config files, part 2
Few months ago I have published the first part of the using config articles, and some things were changed in these latest version, with one more change coming in the 1.7.3 release. So, before reading this post, you need to read part one.
Using GD Star Rating with cache plugins
GD Star Rating supports dynamic loading of ratings using AJAX calls from early 1.6.x versions, and from 1.7.0 this support is completed. With this you can use plugin on websites running some cache system or cache plugins like WP Super Cache.
GD Star Rating 1.7.2
Unfortunately, 1.7.1 was released with several bugs, and two of them were major caused by some changes I added just before releasing the plugin. So, I spend most of the day testing and fixing bugs, and here is the new version with many fixes.
GD Star Rating 1.7.1
Previous version of GD Star Rating, 1.7.0 was released a week ago, and unfortunately there where few bugs in it. Most of the users were not affected, but if you were using multi reviews and partially ratings and multi caching, there were number of problems.
Is GD Star Rating secure plugin?
WordPress is used on millions of websites, and with that a target to constant hacking attempts. And from time to time, various security problems can be found. Core team does a good job on fixing those problems as soon they are discovered.
Plans for 1.8.0 milestone
Now that GD Press Tools 1.7.0 is released, I have started with new development cycle. So, I have compiled a list of things I plan to work for the next 1.8.0 milestone. But that is still at least month and several minor revisions away.
