Comments on: GD Star Rating 1.7.5

By: superstoker.com

superstoker.com — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:59:23 +0000

Hey MillaN, sorry to bother just wondered if there was any update here, I’m still seeing this issue and can replicate it on the default wordpress theme. Should I open a support ticket?

Thanks a lot for your help, love the plugin. Really appreciated!

By: MillaN

MillaN — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:19:58 +0000

No changes were made to anything related to rendering, voting and nothing is broken from previous version. I personally updated (believe it or not) 47 blog today and all 47 were fine. Try reading FAQ, there are some things related to such mysterious behaviors, and usually are solved by reviewing and saving all plugin settings.

By: Conference Coordinator

Conference Coordinator — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:33:04 +0000

Where can I download older versions? Th eold 1.7.5 works great for me but the new 1.7.7 does not display stars , ways to vote etc.,

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:54:46 +0000

Hi Millan,
thanks for this.
I sorted the problem out.
It was an issue with the DOCTYPE and a conflict with a javascript running on my website.
Now it is perfect!
Thank you so much and congrats for GD Star Rating!
Best,
Marco.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:18:02 +0000

I have no problem with ratings in Chrome. But, simply have no time to test with every possible setup, and I can’t guarantee that it will work with every theme. Current rating code will not change for now because it works with all relevant browsers in most situations.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:50:41 +0000

Hi Millan,

congrats very good job!
I just installed your plugin on my website, but I noticed that the rating system (onmouseover) doenst work properly in Chrome (for me).
The starts don’t change colour.
The main problem is in my DOCTYPE.
I had to change the DOCTYPE in this way

This in order to let the “add me” horizontal sliding div working properly in Chrome and Firefox.

If I change the DOCTYPE then GD STAR RATING works, but then my horizontal sliding div doesnt work anymore neither in Chrome neither in Firefox.

Do you have any solutions for this?
Any hack that I can use with the DOCTYPE and GD STAR RATING for Chrome?
Many thanks and congrats again!
Marco

By: janz123

janz123 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:04:26 +0000

Thanks, that’s great!

Can you please inform me when this will be? I realy like GDstar, and I also realy need a way to reward my users for their contribution……

And when this will be, do I need WP MU for that?
If you like a test-and showcase website for this, you can use mine.
It’s online but not for search engines etc. (not operational) If you wish to, give me a sign, we can continue via e-mail?

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:56:51 +0000

There is no function for this still, but it will be added soon.

By: janz123

janz123 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:48 +0000

Hi MillaN,

A few months ago a GDstar user asked you on a forum for a way to see the total rating (thumbs up/down) for each user (by the comments or articles they’ve posted) on the blog/website.

I’ve uploaded GDstar 3 weeks ago, but can’t find a way to see the score of each user, only the score for each article.

For I want to give users with a high rating, the ranking of ‘Author’ for they can post articles, but when theire articles get bad ratings, they will degrade back down to commentator…

For you’re information, I don’t have a MU WP, just WP, and I use the Puremagazine theme by Bizzartic.

Can you please inform me on this? Thanks a lot!

By: Fab

Fab — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:22:18 +0000

Many thanks! It works!

By: MillaN

MillaN — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:32:31 +0000

Use graphics rescan option on the Graphics panel to do it.

By: Fab

Fab — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:24:34 +0000

This week is changed my absolute path (/home/…), gd rating seems work, but i’ve seen in the options table there is an option name called “gd-star-rating-gfx” where there is the old path.

I should manually change it ? Thanks

By: superstoker.com

superstoker.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:09:24 +0000

Hey MillaN
I’ve done some fairly extensive testing and am pretty sure this is not a theme issue.

I took a default fresh theme, plugin is set to not show stars by default, only added this to single.php:

And it only shows 5 stars in IE until mouse-over or selection. Here is a screenshot:
http://thegoengine.com/test.gif

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:58:38 +0000

Hi MillaN

I’ve been investingating how to implement your plugin in the subheading plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subheading/. It would make a great company to a game’s review site.

The stars are dipslayed at the post properly http://gry-rekreacyjne.pl/recenzje/zrecznosciowe/a-ball-recenzja/

but in the subheading they aren’t. I’v contacted the author of subheading plugin and I was told to put the follwing code:

in the single.php and index.php, where do_shortcode should be some code that will make the stars appear in the subheading.

Could you point me to the code which I should paste there? I’ve reviewed gdstarrrating documentation and tried different things but I am unable to make it right.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Tom

By: MillaN

MillaN — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:28:55 +0000

Most likely upgrade failed. This file is 101% included and essential to the plugin. Best to upgrade plugin manually and be sure that all files are copied.

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:48:22 +0000

Milan,

I’ve had your plugin for awhile. Almost since the conception of my site. I’ve never had a problem with your automatic upgrades till now.

This last one kicked it out. And when I tried to reactivate it, I get this error:

Warning: require_once(/hermes/web08/b1138/moo.rscape1/thetvbuff.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/defaults.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/web08/b1138/moo.rscape1/thetvbuff.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gd-star-rating.php on line 33

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/hermes/web08/b1138/moo.rscape1/thetvbuff.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/code/defaults.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php-5.2.1/lib/php’) in /hermes/web08/b1138/moo.rscape1/thetvbuff.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gd-star-rating.php on line 33

I am not a techie. I probably need to hire you to make the fix. Please contact me through my email if need be. Thanks.

By: Ngoc Tri

Ngoc Tri — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:22:58 +0000

How can many users come from the same computer vote for a article?
I tried but I couldn’t.
help me. Thank you.

By: Richard Wing

Richard Wing — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:21:00 +0000

Thats the thing. I have a very good host. I will try this on my own server enviroment on a blog I no longer use. I have everything enabled but its not php5 it runs php4. I will see if its actually a server issue or its your plugin.

I can have anything enabled within a few seconds on my new host that offers php5. So configuration is not an issue. plus a great deal can be enabled through htaccess if we need.

Why not go in to my blog admin and at least see that I have done things right to make sure its not user error?

Richard Wing

By: MillaN

MillaN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:13:00 +0000

I have gone through many hosting companies to know that some of them are running very limited versions of server software and that includes apache, mysql and php with some very, very restrictive settings that they will not allow you to change. Long before I made GD Star Rating I tried 3 hosting companies that couldn’t even run basic WordPress.

And online debugging is very slow, and maybe even impossible depending on the server. I don’t feel comfortable taking a job and taking your money when I am not sure that I can help you at all. But, if your hosting companies is not ready to help you with problem of setting server properly, I think that you should change hosting.

By: Richard Wing

Richard Wing — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:58:30 +0000

Well. I am confused then. If your settings are default server settings and there is nothing special needed to operate your plugin then why presume that its a server issue. How else would you debug an issue?

I am at a loss. If it were your server what would you do to look in the code to see why things are not working as they should.

How about I give you access to my admin and you operate the plugin as you normally would and see what happens?

What do you have to loose if you are being paid?

Richard wing