Comments on: Road to GD Star Rating 2.0

By: wmweblog

wmweblog — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:16:35 +0000

“cant wait” for the user based reward system!

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:24:50 +0000

A BuddyPress user-reward system will be extremely useful… and at the same time, challenging to code!

Millan, you should check out DJPaul’s Achievements plugin for BuddyPress, which does something similar.

By: gofree

gofree — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:41:13 +0000

Thx a lot for reply. Hope to get gdstar to work with most themes. WP Review Site seems to have trouble integrating with some complex themes.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:16:20 +0000

Of course you can. GD Star Rating is the ultimate rating plugin for WordPress with most features and extreme flexibility.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:15:04 +0000

Since many things for GDSR 2.0 will be rewritten from scratch, I will try to find time and do the integration with WPMU/BP. I have already rewritten stars and thumbs rendering and CSS and made it much cleaner, and many more things will be changed.

By: gofree

gofree — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:46:43 +0000

To my impression, I’d love to know if we can config gdstar like ‘WP Review Site’ plugin where we can set categories to review? I am currently using this, but would like to give gdstar a shot as there seem more features to explore.

By: donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:11:37 +0000

I agree with Ray, the idea of a user-based reward system is intriguing – an extremely useful version of this would emulate StackOverflow.com, with individual comments voted up or down, and users accumulating points/reputation according to how helpful their comments/answers are.

Gaining reputation is clearly a strong motivation (a lot of the users on StackOverflow and similar sites seem to be heavily addicted) and I can imagine uses for this far beyond just Question and Answer sites.

Can you imagine such a feature implemented on a BuddyPress site? Users could gain points for comments made anywhere, within any group or blog in that installation of BuddyPress, and their current score could be proudly displayed beneath their gravatar. That would be insanely great, especially when you consider how well the 1.2 version of BuddyPress, due to be released in late January, is shaping up (demo here: http://testbp.org/).

I believe that a lot of BuddyPress site owners would be willing to buy that as a premium plugin because, although they are impressed with BuddyPress, they are all struggling with the problem of motivating users and kick-starting communities. In fact, I think that the existence of such a plugin would, in itself, become a major reason to use BuddyPress, it would draw a lot of people into the WordPress and BuddyPress world.

A social network is the perfect platform for a points system because users want to impress friends and to establish themselves within groups, I think this could be the ultimate incarnation of GDSR.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:04:45 +0000

User-based reward system is the most intriguing feature for 2.0.

Hope to learn more about it when alpha/beta versions of 2.0 start to emerge.