T2: Explained #2
There were some changes in T2 in the last few versions, and some of the changes are added to make using T2 easier. T2 panel now has 3 tabs. Also, few new options are added to template editor panel. That and more will be explained in this post.
WordPressMU & BuddyPress
For the past 3-4 days I have been testing GD Star Rating on WPMU with BuddyPress. So, this post will be about this testing and the things I have noticed so far. But let me tell from the start, latest 1.5.7 works just fine with MPMU & BuddyPress.
How to: Set voting rules
GD Star Rating allows you to set rules for voting that can be global, per category and per post. This way you can set very precise rules through out the blog and control the voting process. This post will explain how voting rules work and how to use it.
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.
GD Star Rating 1.5.2
Another minor revision after 1.5.1 is here. And again, I am proven to be bad in testing my own code, since I missed few errors. Also, there were many problems with importing data from other rating plugins, and that is also fixed in this release.
GD Star Rating 1.5.1
And now for something completely different. New version of GD Star Rating. I have finally completed very difficult task on optimizing the plugin and number of SQL queries executed. I wanted to include this in 1.5.0, but I needed few more days.
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.
Full Rating & Review System
After months of development, GD Star Rating now features full rating and review support that will allows you to integrate ratings into comments, rating and review aggregation and various means to display both rating and review data, and more.
Comments integration #2
After the rating is saved along with the comment into database, now it’s time to show that rating with the comment on the post page. This will also require modifying the theme files. And again, there is a couple of functions you will need to use.
T2: System Basics
This is first in series of tutorials about using T2 templates system. This post will focus on system basics. Second will be about standard ratings, third part will be about widgets and T2, and multi rating block and T2.
