Well, few more loose ends needed to be tied up, so one more version before 1.7.0 is released. This version adds few more minor new features for widgets and results filters, upgrades the database installation and fixes several bugs and PHP warnings.
Database upgrade procedure is now upgraded, and there will be no more SQL errors when the plugin is upgraded. These errors were not actually important and can be ignored, but it’s good to remove all errors. Plugin now checks before executing alter or drop for columns or tables. Number of warnings are now fixed, and this goes also for all noticed PHP 5.3 deprecated warnings. If you find some more, please report them.
I have also added several new filters, this time to modify the output returned to browser after saving the votes for stars related rating. Widget and results are expanded with new setting for minimal number of posts used for results if the grouping results feature is used.
And again: I have updated FAQ on the website and in the readme.txt. Check it before reporting bugs.
That’s it for now. Report bugs or upgrade problems before 1.7 is released. And that will most likely happen in the next 3-4 days.
This is the last plugin version that will work in WordPress 2.6.x. GD Star Rating 1.7.0 will require at least WordPress 2.7.
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Thanks for you awesome tool! I’m new to plugins and I just wanted to know if there is a way to use the rating for images?
thanks,
Art
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No right now.
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Post edited, and this is added:
This is the last plugin version that will work in WordPress 2.6.x. GD Star Rating 1.7.0 will require at least WordPress 2.7.
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Hi, i’ve checked everything but dont know why rating only shows but not usable. Everything works fine in 1.6.2 but after upgrade its broke, and even downgrade didnt help.
http://vgorode.kz/category/places/culture/galerei
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full unistall helps…
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hey milan,
the gdstarrating is one of the few plugin which are a pain to update.
why does it delete the custom starsets if update automaticly.
everything else is fine.
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Well, you got it wrong. This is in fact the only plugin out there that will allow customization and than not loose it after update. You just using it wrong. If you bothered to read tutorials on this website, very first tutorial is about adding custom stars sets to the plugin and avoid them being deleted after auto-update.
When WP upgrades the plugin, it deletes the plugin entirely from plugins folder. And anything you might added there will be gone. And this is pretty much common knowledge. So GD Star Rating has something else implemented to prevent this, and here is the tutorial: http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/01/21/installing-additional-sets/
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I want to report bug (I think):
I’ve installed your plugin then played a bit with it and I’ve created 3 multitemplates reviews and then deleted them because I wanted to create another one.
Each of them was assigned different ID and it was fine but then it happened: I can’t instert new mutli reviews in the editor
I’ve made two screenshots:
http://img402.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=mwsnap013.jpg
How to solve this problem?
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I can’t reproduce this problem. Maybe database table is not created properly.
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I’ve uninstalled the plugin and deleted it completely. Then I’ve manually removed all the tables correspoding to this plugin using phpAdmin. Then I’ve installed plugin again and… I was able to add new templates however this time no templates appear in dropdown menu in the tiny editor, when I want to insert it into the post. It seems like some kind of link between multireviews templates and this editor is broken. So I had to unistall plugin, manually clean up the tables and I think I have to say goodbay to this nice plugin, as it is not usable anymore.
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Sorry to hear that. But there is no way to predict how different plugins will influence other plugins and what problems can occur, and I can’t guarantee that GD Star Rating will work on every WordPress setup. In 99.9% of all blogs plugin is working fine. My stats point that there are 25000 blogs using this plugin, and so far on only 20-30 blogs plugin has failed to work.
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Has the forum gone? Can’t see a link
Has anyone ever had a problem with 503 errors on the ajax.php voting request? On my main PC i don’t get a vote response in Firefox but the vote is registered so i can see the stars when i refresh
It all works fine in the other browsers, in Firefox on another PC and on Mac so something strange on my browser i guess. Have upgraded to the latest version but doesnt seem to help and tried disabling Firebug
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Forum is still at: forum.gdragon.info
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any plan for multi criteria ratings?
example, for a song we can rate the lyrics, the music, the singer, etc…
tia
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I don’t understand what should multi criteria be. Can you explain it in comparison to multi ratings already in the plugin.
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I want to get a result from a specific page (not post). (missing feature?)
say I have page A, B, C
now I want to display on page A the rating result from page B (but not C).
But how can I get it? I tried it with the shortcode “Results: StarRating” and the filter. but the problem is that you only can filter categories and not pages. I even tried to use the “category pages plugin” to asign a page to a category but I did not help.
I have also looked through your forum and tutorials but could not find any information on this.
Is this a missing feature or am I just too stupid for this?
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There will be some changes to the this soon.
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so I assume displaying results from individual pages does not work at this time?
Can you approximately say when this feature will be available?
thank you!
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It works, but only with functions, shortcodes don’t support that yet.
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would be great if you could tell me when you plan to release the shortcode for this.
thank you!
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Hi,
I’ve installed your plugin with just one problem.
The graphics i.e. stars & thumbs up take a while to load.
Is this a database issue ?.
Any help would be appreciated.
I’m sure I’ve seen an answer somewhere, but can’t find it again.
Thankyou for an excellent plug-in.
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This is not really helpful. Can you explain better what exactly you set, and what exactly is happening.
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The graphics are slow to load on the page.
They are always the last thing to load on the page.
The plugin is set to way it was installed. I have’nt changed anything.
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I can confirm this. It’s actually on this side as well. After the page has fully loaded I get everywhere you have a rating a “GD Star Rating Loading…” After the page is loaded it takes about 1-4 seconds before I see the ratings.
I am using Firefox.
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People, is it so hard to read announcements? Few version back I have added cache plugin support (WP Super Cache and others), and an option to control loading of ratings. With this option ON, plugin is not adding rating blocks into the page, but is loading ratings using ajax from server to keep them actual. And while is loading, there is a small loading message. If you don’t use cache plugins or you don’t care about this feature: DISABLE IT. It’s a first checkbox on the settings page, and has a long explanations. Question is why did you enabled it in the first place?
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Hey Millan,
I have tried for days to get my WP post rating data to import into my newly installed GD Star plugin. Can you please advise me further, I have looked all over this site and cant find a solution. I tried to use the Import feature and it says “data imported” but that is just not the case.
Thanks!
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Yes, there is some problem with this again. I will try to fix it for 1.7.0.
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Sounds good, thanks. Also, I am having some trouble using only the thumb feature. I can only seem to display the star rating. I want to change that to the simple thumb feature…what am I missing?
Thanks
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How can I disable the thumbs up and thumbs down? I only want to use the stars rating feature. I feel having both makes my pages look too busy.
I read the FAQ and didn’t find an answer.
Thanks for the great plugin!
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This is really very basic stuff, and there are tutorials on using plugins settings panel (5 tutorials if I remember correctly). Any way, I added this into FAQ, under number 4.
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I figured it out. Thank you. I believe there was a previous version where it was more difficult to figure out and I assumed I’d have the same problem with this current version.
It’s working great on my new Service Industry site, iGotStiffed.com
Thanks!
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Hi Millan,
I upgraded from 1.6.3 to 1.6.9 and got following error:
[Mon Oct 05 16:20:04 2009] [error] [client 10.9.12.25] WordPress database error Multiple primary key defined for query ALTER TABLE wp_gdsr_multis ADD PRIMARY KEY (`multi_id`)\r\n made by activate_plugin, include, GDStarRating->GDStarRating, GDStarRating->install_plugin, gdDBInstallGDSR->alter_index, referer: http://nocdev/innovation/wp-admin/update.php?action=upgrade-plugin&plugin=gd-star-rating%2Fgd-star-rating.php&_wpnonce=2449f0d718
After this, I am not able to submit any thumb up/down ratings. By the way, it is a great plug-in.
Thanks.
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To follow up on my prevous post, I cannot post thumb up/down ratings for the existing posts (posts that were created before the upgrade)
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Maybe you already voted for them.
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no, I have checked DB tables and my votings are not there for few posts.
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This has nothing to do with thumb ratings, and can be ignored because it’s a one time thing and has no effect. MySQL us usually set to ignore such errors, but yours isn’t. Plugin tries to add primary key, and because it’s already there, nothing happens to the database, and MySQL returned an error. And this happened with multis table, and that, again has nothing to do with thumbs.
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Listen I’m really sorry I’m completely clueless and using your rating system in a very basic way, and have searched and can’t find an answer to a simple question:
For the thumb rating buttons, how do I edit the label saying “Rating: +2″? I want to change it to something else like, “Blogometer:”
Thank you so much,
Daniel
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For a millionth time: all rendering is control by templates.
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OK….you are busy and I understand that…perhaps another user could send me the steps or a simple link (perhaps in FAQs) that could be used to edit the thumb rating template. I simply have no idea.
Thank you,
Daniel
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Hello Brother, i’ve installed gd star rating on my site, i can not go through with it
My target is to show rating(multi rating) result in a page of the article of a category. I want to show result in a table….
I have putted those code to a new page:
Title
Votes
Rating
%RANK_ID%%TITLE%%VOTES%%STARS%
And putted this style on rating.css :
.tplresults { width: 100%; border: 1px solid gray; }
.tplresults img { padding: 0; background: none; margin: 0; border: none; }
.tplresults thead td { background-color: gray; color: white; font-weight: bold; padding: 2px 5px; }
.tplresults .rank { text-align: center; width: 20px; }
.tplresults .votes { text-align: center; }
It’s showing a table and i can’t go through more then.
Can you help me by writing step by step process
Regards
R Zaman
rzrokon@gmail.com
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That’s because you are using it wrong (from what I can see). You can’t add plugin specific %TAGS% into post, they are for templates system built in plugin. Check the FAQ and tutorials.
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