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.
I have added new config file options for moving My Ratings under the Dashboard, and more details are in the last week post on the use of config files. There are few more changes on Settings panel so that I can add more options in the next release. As for the fixed bugs, they include sorting problem for the wp-query, broken data caching when integration functions were used, saving multi ratings from customized integration, bayesian calculation for multi ratings, invalid parameters fro multi review function and some minor problems with saving multi integration results.
Also, all development is now done with WP_DEBUG active, plugin is clean of all warnings and notices. I am testing all panels and features using very complex test blog, and I didn’t find any more problems. But, in case I have missed something, maybe something critical, please report it. And testing is done with both WP 2.8.5 and WP 2.9-nightly.
From now on, plugin will be released on monday on tuesday. If there is a some critical bug that needs fixing, that will be released when that is required. In the next week I am going to announce some very important changes in support for the plugin. Next version will feature complete support for Google Rich Snippets.
Quick fix for 1.7.3: If you need Setup panel, you need to change setup.php in plugins options folders, and replace line 3 with this:
require_once(STARRATING_PATH."gdragon/gd_db_install.php");
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Hi Millan, I get the following error message when I click on the Setup link:
Warning: require_once(/gdragon/gd_db_install.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/phenomfo/public_html/wordpress/mammoth/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/options/setup.php on line 3
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Additionally I get the following error when I try to Import T2 templates.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/phenomfo/public_html/wordpress/mammoth/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/adm/db.php on line 610
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/phenomfo/public_html/wordpress/mammoth/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/adm/db.php:610) in /home/phenomfo/public_html/wordpress/mammoth/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865
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Thanx for reporting setup panel problem. As with the second one with importing templates, this will be rewritten in the next version for better usability.
edit: I added fix info in the post.
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I also seem to be having a problem with the wp_gdsr_render_review fucntion. This worked fine in version 1.7.2 but it is now returning a value of 0 despite the posts being given review scores. The widget which returns the review scores works fine however.
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I just realized that I have exactly the same problem. Since the update, all my review ratings show an empty row of stars (so like Ghost Pool says above they show value of 0) even though it worked before and displayed correctly in the last cversion and the posts all have a set review rating.
Could sb resolve this already or find the cause? Seems like I am not the only one at least.
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Hi, thanks again for the great plugin.
It appears that 1.7.3 has broken our post reviews. Ratings display fine, but without any change to the shortcode the review stars are not displaying.
For example:
http://landingpadba.com/le-bar-bar/
Has the shortcode [starreview tpl=16]
We have set the Standard Post Review to 5/5 but as you can see we only see the greyed out stars.
Also when attempting to change the Standard Post Review value I got:
Fatal error: Class ‘GDSRRenderT2′ not found in /home7/landing1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/class.php on line 33
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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There is a bug on line 328, and this line should be: $post_data = wp_gdget_post($sett["post"]);
But this is not the same as the error you get, and that one I can’t reproduce and confirm.
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perfect, with this line it works as before!
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Editing class.php on line 328 did indeed fix the problem i mentioned above. thanks.
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Problem solved, ty!
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Hello Millan. Thank you for this great plugin. I want to stop microformats which automatically apear in my posts since version 1.7.1 Could you tell me how it’s possible to block these microformats ? Thank you !
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Millan, maybe I am not very clear with my question. When i publish a new page i found this in the page code. When i stop the plugin this code disappear.
TITLE OF POST HERE-1.012009-10-11 16:20:41admin
I read in other place that this is a microformat. I want to keep the plugin but i want to remove this piece of automatically code. Can you tell me what is this and how to remove this code ? Thanks a lot !
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I found the modality to remove these microformats: you must edit gd_google.php and remove this code:
$tpl.= ‘%TITLE%’;
$tpl.= ‘%RATING%%MAX_RATING%’;
$tpl.= ‘%REVIEW_DATE%’;
$tpl.= ‘%REVIEWER%’;
$tpl.= ‘%REVIEW_EXCERPT%’;
$tpl.= ”;
I hope this solution will be useful for another users.
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As I said, this is all solved, and fully working solution out tonight in 1.7.4.
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OK Millan. Thank You. I will update my old version.
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Millan, I’ve read your previous comments about the import of T2 templates being very complicated and limited at the moment, however is there still a way of doing it? I really need to import some templates before next week?
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1.7.4 will have new templates import/export. And it will be published on Monday.
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Hi Millan
Posted to the forum but maybe this is a better place.
The multi rating works for me in firefox but not IE7, I have found out it does work in IE8 and Opera. Any suggestion on how to get it to work in IE7 as im sure a lot of people still use this?
Thanks
James
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Most browser issues are caused by some other plugin or theme. I am testing with all IE browsers, Opera 9 and 10, Firefox 2, 3 and 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Chrome 2,3 and 4, using several themes. But I can’t account for the outside problems from badly written javascript other plugins might have.
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MillaN,
I get the following ‘error’ message when activating the plugin.
WordPress database error BLOB/TEXT column ‘description’ can’t have a default value for query ALTER TABLE `xwp_gdsr_multis` CHANGE `description` `description` text NOT NULL default ”
made by activate_plugin, include, GDStarRating->GDStarRating, GDStarRating->install_plugin, gdDBInstallGDSR->alter_tables
It doesn’t seem to cause a real problem as once I reload admin panel it seems fine.
Leon
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Thanx for reporting this.
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I have a prob with the function “wp_gdsr_get_users_votes”. If I try to call it I get this error:
Fatal error: Class ‘gdsrAdmDB’ not found in …/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/class.php on line 957
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Fix tonight in 1.7.4.
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I’m not able to moderate votes on articles. No error whatsoever, just a clean white screen when I try. The WP is there but nothing else.
I’m not sure if this happened on 1.7.2
WP vs 2.8.5
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Fixed in 1.7.4.
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I installed GD Star Ratings 1.7.4 on a brand new 2.8.5 wp located here http://www.supersellernetwork.com/uncategorized/hello-world
I see the rating but no stars to vote?
It was the second plugin I have installed.
any idea what may be wrong?
Thanks
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