eleanor

I have found that I have ‘user ratings’ working, but only within the display single post mode. That’s not where I expected it to be, but I can make it work. I can circumvent this with a link to the ?p=X, blending comments and rating. Before I give up, do you know if this code can be made to work so that each entry on the index.php can display this?

OK guys – so the Wiki is a great store , but it doesn’t allow for troubleshooting comments and whatnot.
I cannot get the user-ratings element of this plugin to work. And, what’s more – it doesn’t look like it’s working on the test page provided by the author at the end of the Complicated Install documentation:

The index.php and wp-layout.css on https://www.scottheavner.com/wordpress are configured to work as both author and reader.

I see no facility here in the code for readers to rate the posts and to trigger the submission of a rating. What is this code supposed to display on the page to allow rating? A clickable continuum or choices? Is there some problem with my choice of number display? Do you have to use the progressbars?
Help.
eleanor

I was playing with this today, and built Oriecat’s suggestions out into a plugin, adding a few modified functions of my own. Read about what I did, or download the plugin.

thanks laughinglizard – very nearly idiotproof!
here’s to hoping the upgrade is the same.

we had this same problem with our host. it turns out open_basedir errors are thrown from php security settings.
what worked for us was to run it as php-cgi. for this to work, we needed to add a line to .htaccess
AddType php-cgi .php
we’re already running a homegrown php content mgmt system that uploads images via php-cgi, so it was especially puzzling why it didn’t work right off the bat.
wordpress must do something that makes it explicitly require this directive.
it was that one little thing that finally got it working, which has really disillusioned my programmer mate. hope this will help someone else.