bobking

You’ll need to understand your theme well. The Pro version comes with more helper functions.

Oh dear! This is a harsh criticism. It’s hard to please everyone. Comment rating is meant to be install-and-play. If you need flexibility, get the Pro version.

morarz, you page has html errors, e.g. non matching html tags. The js script cannot find the comment rating tags to update the image and votes.

I guess this only happened to “one of our users”. Can you find out the browser version and I’ll have a look

yohay, Is the path to the Comment Rating correct? If it’s not, the settings in your WordPress Settings->General “Blog Address (URL)” could be wrong

If your theme is properly coded, it works 100% of time.

If you need help, you’d better explain what had gone wrong in details.

This problem happens if your theme is non-standard. A proper theme should call <?php wp_footer(); ?> then the enqueue js scripts will be inserted automatically.

Choose you theme wisely.

It’s a bug in Thesis 1.7.

You’ll have to modify /lib/classes/comments.php in Thesis 1.7

Around line 276 you’ll see:
if ($output) echo $output;

Change it to:
if ($output) echo apply_filters(‘comment_text’,$output);

The Comment author’s IP is added to the IP table automatically.

This is because your theme is broken, didn’t call wp-footer(). So Comment-Rating plug-in java-script is not loaded.

Thanks so much for your fast response.

Hi there,

I’m the author of Comment Rating https://wealthynetizen.com/wordpress-plugin-comment-rating/. dbasulto got me into investigating the issue.

I believe this is a problem in WP-super-cache, that you should look into. Comment Rating uses light-weight AJAX to track voting and change the image after voting. I have a php script ck-processKarma.php to accept vots, update DB and return results. It has a simple way to return those data in ‘|’ separated form. Here’s the code.

echo(“done|$k_id|$rating|$k_path|$direction|$total|$k_imgIndex”);

Of course the output is not a valid html.

When WP-Super-cache’s rewriting rule sees this, it inserted additional declarations to the end of the output of ck-processkarma.php.

%3C!–%20Page%20not%20cached%20by%20WP%20Super%20Cache.%20No%20closing%20HTML%20tag.%20Check%20your%20theme.%20–%3E

This confused the comment rating javascript like hell.

My solution is to pretend there’s another field:

echo(“done|$k_id|$rating|$k_path|$direction|$total|$k_imgIndex|dummy”);

And the javascript ignores everything after the ‘|’ before dummy.

I’m sure many other people use similar light-weight protocol on top of http and WP-super-cache will mess theme up too.

The purpose of the added content, I guess, is for debugging. But why should wp-super-cache care whether it’s a valid HTML. It’s be faster if you don’t check whether it’s a valid html.

Having an option to turn off the Wp-super-cache debugging will avoid the potential problem.

bradstinyworld, You’re the first not getting it working. Can you let me know what’s the posting task setting you put in?
BTW, by default, new posts are in draft state, not published. You can also check if any article matches your criteria.

You can also post your questions to the plugin home page at: https://wealthynetizen.com/wordpress-plugin-guest-blogger/