[Plugin: GD Star Rating] Customization

Hi,

In user guide you can find info on using your own images. Plugin has 6-7 sets build in, but there are also more than 20 additional sets on my website .

Currently only one rating per post. But I am working on the multiple rating feature, and that should be available by the end of december. Each set will support up to 10 ratings.

You have 2 types of ratings: one is rating by the visitors or user who are looking the post (real rating), and the other is review rating, a single rating value set by the post author on the post edit form. This value can be changed by anyone who has editor privileges on the blog. It should be easy to change thus.

Regards,
Milan

Execellent. Thank you for your reply. I look forward to your next version. So that I can be ready for it, how are you implementing the multiple rating feature? will you be using custom fields and postmeta? If so, do you know what the meta_keys will be?

Thanks Again

~jenn
https://hitekhomeless.net

Plugin is not using custom fields and meta now and will never will. All data is stored in the separate tables. Right now plugin has some 6-7 tables withe detailed log, trends and many more info saved. Data retrieval is done by the functions and shortcodes added to the plugin. Check out the user guide for more info (on my blog download page).

For multiple ratings there will be 3 additional tables. One of them already exists and you can even create your own sets (up to 10 ratings per set). You need to activate multipl ratings from the general tab on settings panel. To get data you need there will be a bunch of functions and shortcodes.

Regards,
Milan

Hi Milan,
Thank you for your excellent plugin– we’re currently using it with much success, except in one aspect. Like you said,

the other is review rating, a single rating value set by the post author on the post edit form. This value can be changed by anyone who has editor privileges on the blog

On our site we use tdo miniforms for registered users to be able to author their own reviews for submission. Is there any variable we can define on the tdo miniform that automatically gets translated to the review rating, since they don’t have editor privileges? We’d love it if we didn’t have to manually set the review rating for them via the post edit form each time we have a new submission.
I hope I explained my problem well. Thank you so much!

Review rating is like the regular rating tied with posts, pages and comments. Since these user reviews are not neither they can’t be saved as review by the plugin.

But TDO Forms save posts as drafts, so you can have review for them when they are published. So, the only solution is to modify the TDO plugin to allow additional review rating value, and this is not going to be easy. Also, my plugin is made to work only with published posts because, not drafts, so only when the post is published it will be recognized by the rating plugin.

For this to work TDO Mini Forms need to be changed, and also small changes are required to GD Star Rating.

Milan

Hi Milan,

I am looking forward to the multiple rating function added to GD Rating. In think it is an excellent plugin.

We want to use it to create what is called a ‘Common Body of Definitions’ on e-invoicing at https://www.einvoicen.com.

we reviewed over 15 plugins on ratings. We bought the Review Site Plugin, but found out that it is not possible to differentiate between post categories. Nor does it show up a list of highest rated plugins per scoring category.

At the end we found a plugin called Source Bench Review Plugin that probably can perform these tasks.Yesterday the site was still available, but now it seems to be off line.

Friso.

I have added partial support for categories, but it’s not yet completed. Once I complete it you will be able to set voting rules base don categories.

I want to add as much features as I can to this plugin, but I work on it in my free time, I am not payed for it so I am not sure about the timeline on when each feature will be available.

As for the Source Bench Review Plugin, I never heard of it so I am not sure what can be done with it.

Regards,
Milan

Dear Milan,

Thank for your respons. I can fully imagine that this comprehensive it is taking a lot of your free time. A donation would seem fit.

I will sent the Source Bench Review Plugin zip file to your e-mail adress on the User Guide.

Friso.

Dear Milan,

I tried to send it. But your e-mail was bounced.

Friso.

Try this: [email protected]

Hello

Is there any way to attach the article image right next to the article link in the sidebar widget??

i’ve tried using this:

<li><?php //get article_image (custom field) ?> <?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'article_image', true); ?> <img src="<?php echo $image; ?><strong>%RATING%</strong> : <a href="%PERMALINK%">%TITLE% </a> (%BAYES_RATING% %WORD_VOTES% %COUNT% %ID%) </li>

but it isn’t working at all.. wp core just keep striping tags as usual .. only text works out..

Thanks in advance.

No right now. Template can’t handle php code. I will try to find some way to do add this or change the widget in a way that could support something like that.

sorry – got something wrong

hi, my english istn that good, but i need this task:

Is it possible to display more than one rating on a post?

the answer was :

Currently only one rating per post. But I am working on the multiple rating feature, and that should be available by the end of december. Each set will support up to 10 ratings.

is it finishd now? or not until december 2009?
i want to put some photos into one site, where every photo has his own rating? maybe that is possible also with an other method, pls tell me ??