First third party integrated theme
Today I was contacted by Kerrie Bracey from NetProfiteers with information about theme Conduit Christams that features full integration with GD Star Rating. This is the first third-party theme with such integration, and here is more info about it.
Benchmark #2: Blog
This second part will analyze GD Star Rating impact on blog pages. This post will focus on number of queries that GD Star Rating adds to a page. There are many factors that must be taken into account, but I will cover most interesting cases of use.
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.
How to reorder posts
Now that finally GD Star Rating from 1.5.0 supports reordering posts on any page using ratings and reviews data, from both standard and multis ratings, it’s time to explain for less experienced users how to do it. And as it turns out, it’s very simple.
GD Star Rating 1.5.0
Today is exactly a year since I started working on the code for the first alpha version of this plugin. And here we are, year later with another major release. This version includes several new features, along with changes and few bugs fixed.
Benchmark #1: Admin
GD Star Rating is one of the biggest plugin currently available for WordPress. And some users were concerned about impact of this plugin to website performance. So, I decided to benchmark GD Star Rating in last 3 major versions of WordPress.
GD Star Rating 1.4.8
Few more bugs were reported in the last couple of days, and I find some myself, so I decided to release another version before 1.5.0. Also, I did a major cleanup of the HTML and JavaScript code used on admin pages. And added few more things.
The Road Ahead
With GD Star Rating 1.5.0 week away, this post will outline the features this plugin will get in the future. Most of the things I wanted do do is already done, but still there are many things that you can expect. List of features is split into two parts.
Categories management
One of the new things in GD Star Rating 1.4.6 is functions Categories panel for categories based management of rules, restrictions and integration. Categories hierarchy is fully supported, and settings can be inherited from parent categories.
