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 1.4.4
I was working on a customization project recently, and few things were missing in the plugin for comment integration for better control. So, this release features few improvements for the integration. Also, T2 system is reorganized and updated.
WordPress 2.8 Released
As you have noticed today, your blog is offering to upgrade to new WordPress 2.8. I have been working with WP2.8 for some two months now, and I think it’s a great update. But upgrading to WP 2.8 at this point may prove to be a problem.
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.
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.
Dev4Press Reviews
I want to announce series of plugins and themes reviews I have started on my Dev4Press website. Yesterday I have published first post about HeadSpace2 plugin. And I use GD Star Rating multi review feature with custom template.
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.
Showcase your designs
The number of websites using GD Star Rating is growing everyday and not all of them are using default templates, or star sets or visual concepts. So, I would like to include some of the websites here, on the new Showcase page I have set.
New Website Design
So, after almost ten months with the old design that was using Woothemes Fresh News theme, here is the new look for GD Star Rating home. Now, I have modified the eNews theme from ElegantThemes. It still needs few tweaks, but nothing major.