Comments on: GD Star Rating 1.8.1

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:33:01 +0000

I am using the GD Star Rating widget. When I go to adjust the settings of the widget, the widget window does not extend enough to the left to allow me to see and adjust all of the settings.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:56:41 +0000

You need at least 2 votes by default. You can change the settings in the “Filter” of the widget to display with 1 vote.

By: John D | Business Review

John D | Business Review — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:01:00 +0000

This is absolutely fantastic. I just downloaded and installed plugin on my test website. Good stuff. I’ll be integrating it into our main business site this week.

Thanks.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:56:38 +0000

Cookies are also used to store votes.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:56:20 +0000

Next update (it will be 1.8.5) is planned for the end of february.

By: William

William — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:03:05 +0000

Sorry for posting my last comment in the wrong thread (look in the comment thread prior to this one). My wife just informed me that she is unable to recast her vote even though her initial vote and her comment was deleted. I am sure this is related. If I understand correctly, her vote is based on the IP address, right? So when I deleted the vote, it should have released the IP address so she could vote again. I just wanted to let you know in case it makes a difference. Thanks again.

By: William

William — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:55:56 +0000

Another issue, I just rated stars and thumbs as an anonymous visitor (without logging in). I was able to delete both ratings. When I went back to the blog post, the star rating had been adjusted correctly (though I still have the original error) but the thumb rating is still there. In other words, both the star and thumb ratings were deleted. While the stars rating was recalculated correctly, the additional thumb rating is still there. I like the plugin even though there seems to be a couple bugs. I don’t mean to bug you, but do you have any idea when you might have the update ready? Just curious if it would be a week, a month, a year…

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:42:37 +0000

I am not sure. It’s not happening with every WP version, and not always. I am rewriting most of the plugin towards 2.0 release, and I that will help to find the error and correct it in current branch.

By: William

William — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:36:16 +0000

Do you think it would have worked if I had deleted the ratings first, and then the comment?

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:34:25 +0000

There is a bug in a plugin and also in WordPress that causes ratings saved with comments to not be deleted properly. I am trying to solve it, and as soon it’s done it will be released.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:32:42 +0000

That post is obsolete (and not removed). Styling and design is done with T2 templates. Take a look at some of the showcase websites and you can see that almost anything can be done.

By: William

William — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:24:08 +0000

I am having an issue with the average rating for a post. My wife left a comment and rated a posted, but she did not realize she was logged in as me. So, I deleted her comment. The ratings however were still there. Next, I went to the “All Users” menu and deleted the rating. This caused some sort of problem. I don’t know what happened, and there was an error message I did not read (please forgive me for this), and then I could not get to my site. It seems like I had accidentally blocked my IP address. I went to a different computer and entered the IP menu, second tab, “Banned”. There was nothing there, but I selected the “select all” check box anyway and clicked “unban selected”. That fixed my initial problem, I am now able to get back in. However, the post rating is not averaged correctly. There are two 6 ratings (clearly indicated as such in the “all users” menu), yet when you look at the post average rating on the post, is says there are 2 ratings for an average of 9, when it should be 6. It also says there are 3 thumbs up ratings when there should only be two. Here is the URL http://www.wpbernsen.com/blog/2010/02/government-welfare-is-not-charity (I apologize for the political content). I played around with the tools menu trying to clean up are recalc (not sure if that was the intent of those tools) but the rating is still incorrect. It almost looks like the ratings are still being used, even though I have deleted them. Any suggestions?

By: Zev Mo Green

Zev Mo Green — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:41:31 +0000

I made the changes as per the documentation online, and the default multi box settings still show. I am trying to have the box look blue, like in your example, but it just won’t work.

I guess I am looking forward to 2.0

By: MillaN

MillaN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:20:54 +0000

This is helper file and not needed for plugin to work.

By: Zev Mo Green

Zev Mo Green — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:27:59 +0000

It seems as though rating.css is not being loaded. All of the settings are correct, I probably went over them 1000x. Is there something that I am missing for multireview modification of the standard CSS?

By: William

William — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:57 +0000

Thanks again for your help. The Plugin looks awesome. I can’t wait to get into it a little further. For what it is worth, I blogged about it at http://www.wpbernsen.com/blog/2010/02/changing-the-memory-limit-for-a-single-php-process. You should get pinged, but I am not sure if your site accepts them.

By: MillaN

MillaN — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:59:09 +0000

There should be no problems as far as I know.

By: William

William — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:55:15 +0000

Well, I just figured I would put the max. I was going to just make it 64M, but… Do you think there is a drawback to having more than is necessary?

By: MillaN

MillaN — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:37:10 +0000

Well, you don’t need that much. I use 48M on this website (also BlueHost).

By: William

William — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:24:07 +0000

Thanks for the response. “…and most involve your hosting.” is what I was looking for. I did not know where to go to change the setting. Now I know to call the hosting company (Bluehost).

They had me change the setting in the php.ini file.

memory_limit = 128M

I changed the 32M to a 128M, which is what Bluehost says is their maximum.

That solved the problem. Thanks again. I will rate the plugin after I have worked with it for a while. So far, looks pretty cool.