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| Comment Rating 2.9.1 |
Author: Bob King
If youre tired of moderating readers comments on your blog, stop doing
that and let your readers decide which comment deserves to be shown.
If youre getting outrageous comments on your blog, dont get too
angry yet. Lets see how many readers feel the same. You can
do these tasks (and more) with the Comment Rating plugin
Installation:
After download the plug in, you can upload and install it from
Wordpress Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New. Alternatively, you can
unpack and upload the dir with files to the wp-content/plugins folder on your blog.
Activate the plugin.
You can configure the options under Setting -> Comment Rating.
The default options should be good enough. It works out of box. You
are done. Sit back and have a look at your blog.
If you want to tailor the display format further, you can turn
off auto-insertion into comments and add the following line to an
appropriate place in your theme "comments.php" file within the comment loop.
if(functionexists(ckratingdisplaykarma)) { ckratingdisplay_karma(); }
More about custom installation in the Comment Rating plugin FAQ.
faq:
Why are the voting image in gray?
If the thumbs are grey, its most likely working well. Comment
author cannot vote on his/her own comments. Thats why the voting
images are grayed out and dont respond to mouse-over. But if you
change to a different IP address, youll be able to see the
clickable images and mouse-over effects.
If all your computers go through the same ADSL/Cable router, they
all have the same external IP address. The thumb will stay gray,
until your IP address changes (e.g. rebooting the router).
To others, the thumbs should be in color.
Can I style the whole comment box of highly-rated/poorly-rated/hotly-debated comments
Yes. the comment styling uses the new commentclass filter
(introduced in WordPress 2.7). If your theme doesnt use
WordPress 2.7 wplistcomments(), youll only see the comment
text background being styled or highlighted. To fix the problem, you
need to add commentclass into your existing theme. For example
code, please see here.
My nested comment box highlighting is messed up!
When using nested comments, the styling of a highly or poorly-rated
comment is passed on to every comment below it. This means that
every comment nested below a low-rated comment becomes semi-opaque,
even if it is high-rated itself. The end result is huge blocks of
dim text that are difficult to read.
Also highly-rated comments pass on that style to everything below
it, resulting in huge blocks of styled text that obscure the rating
of comments that are not really highly rated.
The problem is caused by styling the whole comment box. To solve the problem, just turn off comment box styling.
How do I set the thresholds of highly-rated/poorly-rated/hotly-debated comments?
This is the tricky part. Setting the thresholds too low, every comment becomes highlighted or hidden. Setting them too high, nothing changes and you cannot draw readers attention.
Every blogs readers are different. Some have passionate and
active readers who vote on almost every comment. Some have
indifferent readers who dont want to click.
Theres no magic formula. Youll have to experiment. Hopefully, its fun to play with the numbers.
Can a comment be both highly-rated, and poorly-rated or hotly-debated?
Yes, if youre not careful with your thresholds. Wont there be messy formatting? No, there wont be. Rest assured. Comment Rating will use only one style based on the following descending priorities: highly-rated, poorly-rated, hotly-debated.
Can I style the whole comment box of highly-rated/poorly-rated/hotly-debated comments
Yes. the comment styling uses the new commentclass filter
(introduced in WordPress 2.7). If your theme doesnt use
WordPress 2.7 wplistcomments(), youll only see the comment
text background being styled or highlighted. To fix the problem, you
need to add commentclass into your existing theme. For example
code, please see here.
For other questions, please see Comment Rating plugin FAQ.
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| GD Star Rating 1.6.8 |
Author: Milan Petrovic
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings. Plugin supports use of cache plugins and dynamic loading of data using ajax
Installation:
Minimal Requirements
PHP: 4.4.x or 5.x.x
mySQL: 4.0, 4.1 or 5.x
WordPress: 2.6 or newer
Reccomended Requirements
PHP: 5.2.x or newer
mySQL: 5.x
WordPress: 2.8 or newer
Basic Installation
Plugin folder in the WordPress plugins folder must be gd-star-rating.
Upload gd-star-rating folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
Check all the plugin and plugin widgets settings before using the plugin.
Advanced Installation
if you dont change location of wp-content folder, then you dont need to make any more changes.
if your wp-content folder is moved out of default WordPress location, then you must edit plugins config.php file and set value with exact location of wp-load.php file for global constant STARRATING_WPLOAD in line 8. Without this most of the features, including saving votes, will not work.
WordPress MU
Minimal version supported: 2.8.1
Support for WPMU is only partial, not everything works as it should be.
Browser Notice
Multi review feature on administration Post Edit page will not work properly with IE6 browsers.
faq:
How to check if there is a sample and already explained solution to my problem?
Check the post in the following category: http://www.gdstarrating.com/category/tutorials/solving-problems/.
How to change visibiliy of plugin menus to different user levels?
This is controled by the constants defined in the config files. Detailed info on setting them is here: http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/08/12/using-config-files/.
How to insert rating blocks or results directly into the theme files?
All plugins functions for inserting wherever you want can be found in the info folder included with the plugin, or at this url: http://info.dev4press.com/gd-star-rating/.
How to change the elements displayed by the plugin in widget, rating blocks and other rendering elements?
All rendering is controled by the T2 templates system. To change the rendering output you need to make your own templates and change what they display.
Plugin is not showing rating stars or rating widgets after update, or all stars and thumbs have disappeared, and there is nothing in stars/thumbs selection lists.
Check all plugin settings and plugins widgets settings after update and save them. If graphics is gone, try rebuilding stars and thumbs sets: go to plugin Tools -> tab Graphics -> Rescan.
I have added one of the plugins widgets, and its not showing anything.
Check the widget settings. Most likely problem is with default widget setting to show only posts with 5 votes or more. If you have just set the plugin most likely you still dont have enough votes.
Instead of ratings, in posts on front and category pages plugin shows something like this: VN:F [1.6.7_924] Rating 0/10 (0 Votes).
This is not a bug, but a well known excerpt problem More details on that and the solutions are in this post: http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/02/13/the-excerpt-problems/.
Plugin is not working in some browsers.
Plugin is tested in Opera 9, Opera 9.5, Opera 10, Safari 3, Safari 4, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, MS Internet Explorer 6, MS Internet Explorer 7, MS Internet Explorer 8. But, still there is a possibility that plugin fails to work in some browsers because other plugins or theme can contain JavaScript code that can interfere with GD Star Rating. In that case you need to fix code causing the problems. I will not test how badly written plugins can cause problems.
After plugin is activated, I get an empty page or 500 Internal Server error.
In rare cases problem is with the plugin, and it is caused by old PHP version (older than 4.4.0). If this is the problem, you cant use plugin until you update the PHP. But, in most cases problem is caused by some incompatibiliy with theme or other plugin. If that is the case, than you need to find the error behind the problem.
Plugin CSS and JavaScript files used for rating are not loaded, and for them server returns internal error.
This is the problem in case when PHP on the server cant execute these files. Both main JS and CSS are not static files, but dynamic PHP files. The best way to avoid this is to set files and folders permissions properly. All folders should be set to 0755 and all files to 0644. If this doesnt help, contact hosting admin to check whats preventing PHP from accessing this files.
Stars and/or thumbs are not showing in the rating blocks.
There could be two causes for this:
* Plugins CSS and JavaScrip files are not loaded: Check the previous FAQ answer.
* There are no stars or thumbs set selected for the plugin to use. To check this, go to Graphics panel and you will see if there are any sets there, and if any of them is selected. If there are no sets displayed, you need to rescan for them: panel Tools, tab Graphics, button Rescan. Once the sets are back, you need to select on the Graphics panel sets and sizes you want to use in the active rating blocks: http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/05/20/settings-explained-part-5/.
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