martinperreault

Hi Opajaap,
Yes, I agree with you that the current system is very precise mathematically. I didn’t express myself correctly.

What I meant to say, is that in terms of perception from the user’s perspective, round numbers are often the number people remember. The difference between two ratings with lots of fractions is often less clear perceptually than two different whole digits. For instance, the following two examples:
4/5 and 4.5/5
VS
8/10 and 9/10

The difference in perception is even more apparent when the ratings have a lot of fractions.

But there is also one more factor in the reason why I proposed a 10 digit rating instead of 5. That’s in the case where webmasters run a website where users tend to not want to rate below 50%. For instance, I run a FAN SITE for a model. The Fans obviously are present on the website because they like the model. When it is time for them to rate the photos of the model, they will never rate under 3/5 because for them, they like the model so much they would never disrespect her by rating the photos under 50% rating. This leaves them with only 4 & 5 out of 5 to rate the images, which then yields results that all appear to be very similar with a lot of fractions.

If on the other hand those users had a 10 digit rating system, then they have between 5/10 to 10/10 “available” to them, which yields clearer results perceptually. This is the part where I meant it would be “more precise”.

I still hope you will consider including this feature in the plugin. Perhaps webmasters could have a toggle in the settings to choose between 5 or 10 stars rating. I know it would be very useful to sites like the one I operate, and perhaps it would be very useful to others as well. Of course, the 10 star rating system could also have fraction (perhaps limitted to 2 fractions instead of 4, for something like: ie: 7.14/10).

Best wishes, and thank you again for your great plugin.

Martin Perreault

Thank you Mr. Opajaap for your reply.
May we talk over email? I would be interested in making a payment contribution in order to get those two features added in a release before the end of the current month, as I would need them for December 1st in an upcoming gallery post. I understand your time is precious, and so perhaps we can come to an arrangement?
I can be contacted at martinphoto AT martinperreault.com

Best regards, and thank you for your consideration.

WOW! Thank you so much Mr. Opajaap! You don’ tknow how much I appreciate this! Thank you again!

May I ask your input on two more questions?

A) Is there any way we can have the Next Photo load automatically when the user taps on a RATING? At the moment, user has to click on Rating to rate the photo, then click on NEXT to go to the next photo. You see, I use PHOTO ALBUMS to create Photo Rating Contests, and users have 100 photos to rate. In ideal scenario, user would enter his RATING, and the page would load automatically to next photo.

B) Is there a way to HIDE the Average Rating when the photo is displayed? At the moment, I can only see an option to Hide Average Rating with Thumbnails, but not with the fullsize slideshow photo…

Thank you so much for your kindness.

Best regards,

Martin Perreault

I can confirm same problem here with 3.1
Simple Tags plugin breaks categories browsing (always returns to index).
Deactivating Simple Tags plugin restores category navigation.

You, SIR, are a Godsent!
It worked.
I will keep this code as a reference.

Thanks so much!

You rock Ikki24! Works like a charm. The bad youtube codes are gone. Thanks so much!

No worries about my previous suggestion. I had a feeling it might be complicated to implement…

That said, any idea how I could implement what you did in your plugin into “the_excerpt_rereloaded” plugin (which is what I am using on the front page for the excerpt of older posts)? The excerpt are behaving similarly, and the youtube codes do appear on the excerpt texts… So far no answer from the author of that plugin. I figured since you just tackled this subject, perhaps you`d have a quick fix for that plugin too?

Thanks a bunch!

Thanks so much Ikki24!!!
If I may make a suggesiton: it would be nice if there was a field in WP for the plugin where we could add codes manually that we wish to exclude from appearing. I have no idea how complicated it is to implement, so bare in mind this is only a suggestion. ?? Thanks again very much for looking into this!!

Same problem here. The youtube videos don’t show up anymore, which is weird because they used to. The same videos that showed up don’t anymore. I wish I knew why.

I am also interested in knowing how to fix the stretching of the posts’ thumbnails viewed on the iphone with this plugin. In fact, it would be nice if there was a way in the plugin settings to actually choose the following options:

– thumbnail size
– thumbnail stretched, or cropped
– thumbnail corners: rounded or square
– thumbnail mirror shadow: yes or no
– thumbnail position: left, right, center

confirmed: dead in 3.0
I wish this plugin was supported (or an alternative would come out).
Cheers!

just thought I would add the following info myself that some may have overlooked:
in the Popular Posts Widget (under Theme menu in WP admin), when you check its settings, make sure the following is ticked:
X – Display post thumbnail
X – Generate all thumbnails for me

(Personally, I had only ticked Display post thumbnail, but forgot to tick the Generate all thumbnails for me… )

Well, I found out how to solve it, thanks to this post.

This part solved it for me:

– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress

But just to make sure, before I proceeded to do the above, I manually made sure all plugins were disabled as follow:
– connecting FTP to the wordpress folder
– renaming plugins folder to plugins.hold
– creating a new empty folder named “plugins”

Once I re-uploaded the wp-admin and wp-includes folder, I logged in WordPress and went to the visual editor, which now worked fine. I then proceeded to delete the empty plugins folder, and renamed the plugins.hold folder back to plugins.

I hope the above can help someone else in the future.

Cheers!

I get the same error and I wish this would go away…
But at the moment, I still can use the plugin. I only get the error message in the upload and manager window of the plugin.
I’m using Wp2.7

Thanks!
I wasn’t aware this was possible.

I really need help on this one. Anyone?