Using GD Star Rating with cache plugins
GD Star Rating supports dynamic loading of ratings using AJAX calls from early 1.6.x versions, and from 1.7.0 this support is completed. With this you can use plugin on websites running some cache system or cache plugins like WP Super Cache.
Is GD Star Rating secure plugin?
WordPress is used on millions of websites, and with that a target to constant hacking attempts. And from time to time, various security problems can be found. Core team does a good job on fixing those problems as soon they are discovered.
GD Star Rating 1.6.7
As I have already announced, I am working on support for cache plugins, and this is the first version of plugin that has a partial support. Several reported bugs are fixed in this release and that includes some loading translations related problems.
GD Star Rating 1.6.6
Still lacking free time for new plugin features, but still enough time to improve existing features, plugin speed up and optimizations. This time changes are in installation, plugin loading, database tables collation and lower memory usage.
Using Config files
If you use plugin on standard WordPress installation, and you don’t need advanced access control for the plugin, you can safely skip this tutorial. If your wp-content is moved or you are user of WordPress MU I strongly recommend reading this.
T2: Explained #1
I realized that some users didn’t quite understand everything about templates, so I decided to go through all the T2 options and the way the plugin uses Templates. Before asking any T2 related questions you need to read this post first.
Optimization Guide #2
After you have set JavaScript and CSS settings according to my recommendations from the first optimization post, now is the time to look at some other settings. So, here are AJAX, cache, static image generation and few other settings.
The Road Behind
Exactly a year ago (give or take a week) I started working on a ’simple’ rating plugin for a friends blog. And now that the GD Star Rating 1.5.0 is a week away, here is the road from that simple idea to one of the most advanced plugins available.
GD Star Rating 1.4.6
GD Star Rating 1.4.6 is released. This release is mainly intended for bug fixing, but there are some new things also. This release is most likely last one in 1.4.x line. And GD Star Rating 1.5.0 will be released next week. Before that lets focus on this one.
Optimization Guide #1
I know, GD Star Rating has a lot (or maybe too many) settings. But that’s what it takes to make a plugin that can be customized to the extent this plugins does. But, all that will require some tweaking and optimizations for better performance.
