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.
As usual fixing bugs will be a priority. And beside that many things will be changed, and few more new features will be added. There were some interesting ideas proposed for the 1.8 and I will try to implement some of those.
- Partially redesigned and improved most plugin panels for better usability and to show better organized data due to addition of thumbs ratings. Some of this is already done, and will be a part of 1.7.1.
- Category and articles based rules for thumbs ratings, similar to standard ratings. Multi ratings will also get own rating rules from the multi ratings panel.
- Support for Google Rich Snippets. Thanks for idea goes to Rene from WordPress Plugin Guide (www.wppg.me). Testing will be problem, but I will try to implement it according to specification, and fix problems later if any were found.
- Adding more WP Query parameters for sorting and filtering. Some suggestions were already on the drawing board and first improvements will be part of 1.7.2.
- Even more new filters and actions for rendering, processing of data and more. If you need some specific filters added, leave the suggestion.
In the next week or so I will also announce a new service  that will be part of redesigned Dev4Press website. Service will be a membership based premium support for GD Star Rating. It will include exclusive forum, email support and advanced use tutorials.
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Are you aware of StackExchange by Fog Creek Software and Jeff Atwood?
It is the hosted version of the engine that runs their extremely successful programming questions and answers community, http://StackOverflow.com.
I thought you might find it interesting because, although visually very plain, they have been very successful at using voting and the award of badges to stimulate a highly active community, working for free to answer almost any coding-related question imagineable.
StackOverflow gets over a million hits per day, they have launched a number of sister sites and now, with StackExchange, they are selling the opportunity to set independent communities using the same engine.
Their use of voting might give you a few ideas of possible future directions for GD Star Rating. Personally, I am very interested in the incentive provided by accumulating points and I have been imagining how explosive it could be if someone combined GD Star Rating with a distributed commenting system such as IntenseDebate, especially after its userbase gets merged with WordPress.com’s massive userbase later this year.
Just food for thought.
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Yes, I visit the site from time to time, many interesting answers to find. And I would like to implement some kind of points and awards system, there are few ideas already. As for IntenseDebate, it would be interesting to add support for it in GDSR, but at this moment that will require too much time, but it’s on the list and will get done.
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Hi, I couldn’t find a way to contact you by email, but i already use GD star rating on my site and think it’s great, but am now developing an iphone application based on my sites content, and would love to be able to display the rating for each post shown on my site also in the iphone app, is this permissible?, its basically the same as browsing the site in the iphone browser, but the rating would be shown in the app.
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There are functions that can be used to render all sorts of ratings, so you can use that to get the ratings and even render them.
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ok thanks, i will ask the developer also to credit your plugin if he manages to implement it!
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I am considering a filter for the Starrating Result shortcode to get the results from a specific page. Now its only possible to select Categories. Will this be part of the next version?
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I don’t understand. Can you explain better.
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Sorry, what I mean is: If you select the shortcode “Results: StarRating” and select Filter, you can only select a category.
Will it be part of the next version that you can also select a specific page instead of a category to get the result from?
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StarRating is table-like result shortcode (or function call), and it’s made to display list of ratings. If you limit this to one page, you will have one result and that’s pretty pointless, because you can use normal rating function for that. But, you can select pages only in filter and display only pages. But, there will be a filter field that will be used to exclude pages from results. Most likely in 1.7.2 or 1.7.3.
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Hi Milan,
first thanks for the credits
I also want to point you to Google’s new Rich Snippets Testing Tool they launched very recently : http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
This might be handy when you are testing this new feature
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Thanks. Google is expanding Webmaster Tools, and they also added a tool that shows GoogleBot results for any page and that makes much easier to see what exactly Google is seeing and parsing.
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And they have updated documentation and examples, so I am confident that this will be done (first version) for GDSR 1.7.2.
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Its possible rating category page ? i mean if can vote inside category.php page , the plugin is not active if put in categories .
sorry my bad english
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Plugin can’t rate categories directly. It can aggregate posts within category to get category rating.
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Could add this feature for 1.8.0 version ? i need it so much!!!
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As I said it will be in 1.7.2 or 1.7.3.
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For example in your web http://www.tvscape.net u cant vote to the actors directly , they get points from overall films rating, need vote directly in my opinion.
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i hope that u think add this feature
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Not any time soon, because GD Star Rating is post/page/comment based system.
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Hey Millan,
I have a feature request.
Sometimes posts will need to be deleted or merged with another, would it be possible to move a comment and its related data to another post?
I don’t know how feasible this is, but thought I’d throw it out there.
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Right now that is very complicated, since the WordPress doesn’t have anything similar in the core.
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There’s a plugin called Move Comments, which allows you to move a comment to another post.
I tried it and it works, but it obviously doesn’t move GDSR data over.
Maybe you can get some pointers from it.
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