Thumbs Up/Down Intro
As promised, I have began work on new type of ratings, called recommendations or thumbs up/down or like it/not like it. There are many names for it, but they all point to the same thing. But to make this even better I will need help from you.
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.
GD Star Rating 1.4.3
This is bug fixing maintenance release. There were few reported bugs last week, all fixed now. I have also discovered one problem with using active rating blocks integration functions and setting star sizes different from global settings.
Press Tools & Simple Widgets
In the last week I was very busy working on my 3 main plugins: GD Star Rating, GD Press Tools and the latest one GD Simple Widgets. Both Press and Widget plugins have seen a major release in the last two days. Here is a little more about them.
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.
Comments integration #1
Integrating both post’s standard and multi ratings into comment, so that the post reader can add comment about the topic and assign rating (or review) for that post along with the comment, is very easy. Read for more details.
GD Star Rating 1.3.4
And, another new version, this time, mainly a bug fixing release. Several reported bugs are fixed and I have managed to expand few more custom functions with new parameters. Next week you can expect all review features completed in 1.4.0 release.
Settings Explained Part 5.
Last few versions of the plugin have introduced many changes, and settings have changed as well. Most important are two fully new features used for setting spider bot’s and stars sizes and sets that will be added to main active rating CSS file.
GD Star Rating 1.3.1
In last two days I have been reviewing the plugin code and looking for few bugs reported in the last week or so. And I managed to find some more bugs and fix them. Also, I have also started working on the recently announced features.
Revised Roadmap
With just a day or two away from release of 1.3.0, I have decided to make public a list of features that will be in development after that. All the features here will span next 2 months. This list is not definitive and it might change over time.
