Introduction
This is the list of changes for each release of the plugin.
Change log
Version: 0.9.9.6 RC4 / october 28 2008
- new: now template elements for time restricted rating
- new: expiry date and countdown calculations
- edit: default time restriction templates updated
- fix: wordpress flash uploader disappearing
- fix: javascript related bugs
- fix: php4 preparing data for widget and shortcode
- fix: few more php4 related bugs
Version: 0.9.9.3 RC3 / october 24 2008
- new: expanded editor widget with additional post options
- new: default timer restriction options
- new: time restrictions data in articles table
- new: functions for getting php and mysql versions
- new: import from 'wp post rating' plugin data
- new: automatic rendering of stars on search results pages
- new: additional check to verify received vote
- edit: changes to admin pages names
- edit: various small changes
- fix: numerous visual bugs
- fix: trend rating calculation
- fix: mysql4 str_to_date sql function problems
Version: 0.9.9.2 RC2 / october 22 2008
- new: included jquery.ui.datepicker with translations
- edit: scandir function replaced with new one that works in php4/php5
- edit: removed user guide from the package
- edit: updated readme file
- fix: rating problem with first comment on page
- fix: limiting the length of post title for widget
- fix: rendering review stars
Version: 0.9.9 RC / october 21 2008
- new: redesigned starrating shortcode
- new: bayesian mean estimate rating calculation
- new: all icons sets with description files
- new: trends and stars sets classes and import
- new: darkness style stars
- new: export user voting data
- new: export data panel
- new: additional functions to use in themes
- new: import checks for available plugins
- new: additional location for stars and trends graphics sets
- new: expanded articles table for new expiry voting restrictions
- new: more template elements
- edit: trend images rendering
- edit: merged widget and starrater rendering code
- edit: few more wordpress 2.7 improvements
- edit: more widget improvements
- edit: updated translations
- edit: code updated to work with new graphics description format
- edit: added some missed strings for translation
- edit: changes to internal path and url variables
- edit: partialy removed uneeded code
- edit: improved translation and added new strings
- edit: improved tinymce3 plugin javascript code
- fix: tinymce plugin not working on some servers
- fix: rare widget rendering problems
- fix: minor widget calculation bug
- fix: invalid position for StarRater shortcode
- fix: xhtml valid problems
- fix: removed parts of unused and uneeded code
- fix: incorrect init of default templates settings
- fix: saving trend settings
- fix: invalid global constants
- fix: few typos
Version: 0.9.8 Beta #4 / october 13 2008
- new: trend icon sets
- new: import data from 'post star rating' plugin
- new: additional setup options
- edit: improved setup page
- fix: widget trend display
- fix: settings update problem
Version: 0.9.7 Beta #3 / october 12 2008
- new: famfamfam trend icons
- new: trend calculations
- new: widget trend display
- new: trend images preview
- edit: more widget redesign
- edit: partialy removed old and unused code
- edit: more changes to settings panel
- edit: old javascript replaced by jquery
- edit: rewriten ajax code and moved to document ready
- fix: missing overlay stars on ie browsers
- fix: unneeded loading of ajax code if ajax is disabled
- fix: few extra lines of debug code
- fix: various smaller bugs
Version: 0.9.6 Beta #2 / october 2 2008
- new: introducing templates
- new: ajax voting support
- new: templates for rating stars text
- new: widget supports grouping of votes
- new: updated styles to fit wp 2.7
- new: post review box for wp 2.7
- new: grouping options for widget
- new: enable/disable widgets options
- edit: small changes to rendering
- edit: changes to widget settings layout
- edit: main class numerous improvements
- edit: optimization of widget db code
- fix: various small bugs
- fix: multi byte langauge encoding problems
- fix: manual function for adding widget content
Version: 0.9.5 Beta #1 / september 15 2008
- new: fully redesigned widget
- new: advanced settings control
- new: function to render widget like output
- new: crystal hearts style stars
- new: pine hearts style stars
- edit: updated user guide
- edit: redesigned plugin menues
- edit: small code reorganization
- fix: rendering of rating header
- fix: stars border appearing is some rare cases
- fix: stars preview
- fix: vote rules combo
- fix: various database code errors
Version: 0.9.4.1 / september 6 2008
- new: rating text placement on left or right of the stars
- new: additional css custom classes for rating block and rating text
- new: control setting for the ie6 png fix
- new: using jQuery for javascript code
- new: reset and remove settings options
- new: recalculate functions (finally)
- new: tabed settings panel
- edit: all votes in database changed to decimal
- edit: improved ie6 png fix
- edit: css code cleanup
- edit: code cleanup in main class
- edit: more improvements to settings panel
- edit: various code improvements
- edit: updated POT translation file
- fix: database installation method
- fix: setup page problems
- fix: bunch of small bugs
Version: 0.9.2 / september 3 2008
- new: french translation
- new: ie6 png fix
- new: deleting comments ratings
- edit: improved comments page
- edit: code cleanup for translation optimization
- edit: removed all old db conversion code
- edit: improved serbian translation
- fix: article votes page navigation
- fix: unneeded debug code
- fix: error in deleting comments votes
Version: 0.9.1 / august 30 2008
- new: rewritten stars rendering
- new: spanish translation
- new: serbian translation
- edit: updated POT translation file
- fix: rating table invalid links
Version: 0.9.0 / august 28 2008
- new: separate display rating star for trackbacks comments (default is no)
- new: comments page in control panel
- new: moderation page in control panel
- new: review rating supports decimal value
- new: setting width for administration tables
- new: setting number of rows for administration tables
- new: counting number of views for posts and pages
- new: separate cookie settings for comments and articles
- new: preventing authors to vote for their posts and comments
- new: search on the article page
- new: POT translation file
- edit: expanded and modified database tables
- edit: cleanup of the database code
- edit: more improvements to control panel
- edit: saving comment methods
- edit: descending sorting by default
- fix: saving reviews rating through control panel articles page
- fix: potential problem with redirection after comment vote
- fix: displaying rating stars in admin mode
Version: 0.8.8 / august 22 2008
- new: soft style stars
- new: aeon style stars
- new: positioning of rating stars and text
- new: rating header text
- new: rating text for review rating
- new: database maintenance setup options
- edit: changes to control panel
- edit: updated user guide
Version: 0.8.6 / august 21 2008
- fix: small problems with extra debug code
- fix: small update problems
Version: 0.8.5 / august 21 2008
- new: fatty style stars
- new: voting for comments
- new: wait message after voting
- new: unified rendering stars code for both comments and articles
- new: comment rating shortcode
- new: optimization of loading post data for posts and comments
- edit: changes to control panel settings page
- edit: changes to voting rendering to avoid potential problems with some themes
- edit: updated rating block with separate styles for text for article and comment
- edit: database tables upgraded
- fix: invalid sql query for checking votes log
- fix: rendering article rating stars obsolete code
- fix: comment rendering bug
Version: 0.8.0 / august 15 2008
- new: ruby style stars
- new: milky style stars
- new: redesigned control panel
- new: rewritten large parts of the code
- new: review rating for posts and pages
- new: moderation of user and visitors votes
- new: vote and moderation rules
- new: first version of user guide
- new: calculation of voting trends
- new: upgrade from old database format
- edit: link to rating css file
- edit: cleanup of some parts of the code
- fix: detection error for user votes
- fix: few smaller bugs
Version: 0.7.0 / august 1 2008
- new: rating multi instance widget
- new: rendering stars in shortcode table
- new: different built in styles for shortcode table
- edit: rearanged vote calls to avoid potential cookie setting problems
- edit: aditional check for duplicated voting
- edit: updated trasnlation pot file
- fix: few smaller bugs
Version: 0.6.0 / july 29 2008
- new: starscape style stars
- new: starscape on white style stars in gif format
- new: tinymce3 editor button for adding shortcode
- new: shortcode 'starrating' for inserting voting data into posts
- new: stars images can be also gif or jpg
- edit: adding filters and actions moved to constructor
- fix: page refresh caused recording of duplicate votes
Version: 0.5.0 / july 25 2008
- new: nuvola style stars
- new: inspire style stars
- new: deleting votes data, deletes log votes also
- new: control panel log votes tab pages
- fix: not saving vote date
Version: 0.4.0 / july 23 2008
- new: aero style stars
- new: shiny style stars
- new: quiet style stars
- new: mini stars size
- new: multi background color stars preview
- new: different and better stars handling
- new: universal stars css file
- new: delete votes for a page or post
- new: translation support
- new: serbian translation
- edit: various improvements
Version: 0.3.0 / july 23 2008
- new: crystal style stars
- new: oxygen style stars
- new: post and page voting statistics
- edit: control panel open last active tab on save
- fix: small bugs
- fix: saving vote cookie problem
Version: 0.2.0 / july 22 2008
- new: using cookies to prevent duplicate votes
- new: spiderbot detection
- new: recalculate values if you change number of stars
- fix: vote url creating for different permalinks
Version: 0.1.0 / july 21 2008
- Initial Alpha Release