Couple of queries

Hi Alex

(It’s Pat Lockley here, if not obvious)

Sadly, the post doesn’t check if a user has already voted – it doesn’t care if you’re logged in or so on.

If you add an extra column to the posts list they tend – from my experience – not to be sortable.

I’ve some time coming up where I could add these features in though if that helps – how are you using it?

Thanks

Pat

Hi Pat,
Good to hear from you, didn’t realise this was one of yours. Thanks for the reply!

We’re setting it up so that only logged in users can give a rating, and I assumed it would store the rating and userID in the post meta. Is this not the case? The ability to re-vote if logged in, mainly due to possibility of misclicks would be really useful.

To put it into context, we have a module blog and the academic wants students to be able to rate other blog posts, in what would be I suppose, a simple peer feedback mechanism. She could then pick the best blog posts I.e. Highest rated to show as exemplar submissions, or at least perceived examplars. Therefore the ability to show the highest rated posts would be useful, but not a deal breaker.
I’m happy to take a look at the column filtering, or maybe simpler I can just add a short code to show the top posts ordered by rating.

Could you confirm how the rating is stored? Is it an array of ratings in the post meta and the average rating is calculated dynamically, or is the average rating also keep in the post meta for quick lookups.

Thanks again,

Alex

Hello

It is a post meta array – no UserID stored, but you could do a user version without much effort.

Pat

fab thank you. I’ll probably fork your code if you’re fine with that?
from experience anonymous rating leads to abuse!
Also if you’re interested I released this recently:
https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/plugins/peer-feedback/

It’s a webPA type plugin – not much reporting tools in it yet, but they’ll be coming soon.
Thanks again for the rapid response.
Alex

You can fork away – it is on github. If you could wait a few days I am happy to build it in as an option

Hey
New version is on github – no change in version number, but some new code
Let me know if it works for you
Pat

Thanks Pat – I’ll take a look tomorrow…