GD Rating System
Changelog
Version: 4.7 / february 18 2023
- new fully tested and compatible with WordPress 6.0 and 6.1
- new plugin is tested with the PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2
- new many code enhancements for newer PHP versions
- new cleanup of the PHP core code classes and functions
- new shortcodes have improved auto-detection of the current rating item
- new rich snippets: shared code better covered by the additional methods
- new rich snippets: optimization of the individual snippets building
- new rich snippets: added missing microdata code for Software Application
- new posts: notice added about the Full Site Editing themes
- new comments: notice added about the Full Site Editing themes
- edit various updates and tweaks to the styling
- edit client detection: device detector updated to 6.0.6
- edit rich snippets: some minor optimization in the snippets code
- edit rich snippets: several methods deprecated due to confusing names
- edit d4pLib 2.8.15
- del removed outdated and no longer used TTF and SVG font files
- fix rules filter: problem with the display of terms in the rules list
- fix rules filter: merging terms elements fails with PHP 8.x
- fix rich snippets: minor issue with the snippet engine loading
- fix engine: problem with the return value being NULL in some cases
- fix several issues related to compatibility with PHP 8.x
Version: 4.6.2 / march 25 2022
- fix fails to properly detect presence of BuddyPress 10 or newer
Version: 4.6.1 / january 25 2022
- fix stars rating: in some cases distribution data not saved
- fix query: in some cases returns NULL and not empty array
- fix cache: database query fails if there are no log ids to load
Version: 4.6 / january 19 2022
- new fully tested and compatible with WordPress 5.9
- new minimum system requirements: WordPress 5.3
- new minimum system requirements: PHP 7.2
- new many code enhancements for newer PHP versions
- new signatures and return types for functions and methods
- new first steps in converting plugin to namespace model
- new some addons rewritten using namespace model
- edit improved organization of the rating method settings
- edit rating slider library 3.0
- edit flatpickr 4.6.9
- deprecated many functions have been moved to class based methods
- del feeds addon: removed direct support for Apple News Format
- fix editor addon: stars rating editing old value issue
- fix editor addon: thumbs rating editing old value issue
- fix editor addon: redirect after editing not completed
- fix feeds addon: minor issue with the RSS feed detection
Version: 4.5.4 / august 9 2021
- new posts addon: new special trigger action for initialization
- new posts addon: experimental initialization method
Version: 4.5.3 / july 23 2021
- new tested with WordPress 5.8
- edit d4pLib 2.8.14
- fix few issues with the invalid data processing
Version: 4.5.2 / march 11 2021
- editevery transfer method now detects missing items
- fixtransfer from gd star rating can fail when items are missing
- fixproblem with the admin database grid listing
- fixmore than 50 instances of typos and grammar errors
Version: 4.5.1 / january 30 2021
- removedfew more unused/obsolete functions or methods
- fixslider rating: issue with getting the rating option values
- fixissue with the function used to get quick items stats
- fixminor issue in the dashboard votes widget listing
Version: 4.5 – Astraeus: 5th Anniversary / december 25 2020
- newfont icons: special new font ‘Boxed’ with new rating icons
- newshortcodes builder: option to change the displayed rating value
- newrating items panel: drill down ratings by the rating method
- newrating items panel: basic layout for most rating methods
- newrating items panel: flexible layout for multi item rating methods
- newadditional class to handle admin grids loading
- newall shortcodes expanded with the ‘rating’ attribute
- newall widgets expanded with the ‘rating’ attribute
- newfilter for Fontawesome 4.7 font URL
- newmostly rewritten static methods for getting rating values and order
- editthumbs rating: improved rendering of rating value
- editbayesian addon: improvements related to changes in the core plugin
- editimprovements to the rating items clearing functionalities
- editslightly updated names for all font icons sets
- editmore code refactoring and code style changes
- editvarious minor improvements to the widgets interface
- removedaddon with support for Shortcake UI plugin
- fixemote this: minor issue with single rating data preparation
- fixfew minor problems with the core settings for some rating methods
- fixitems per page not saving for the admin grids
Version: 4.4.3 / december 5 2020
- editwidgets interface change to allow for addons widgets
- editmore code refactoring and code style changes
Version: 4.4.2 / december 1 2020
- newaggregate ratings: posts_by_type method
- newaggregate ratings: get series items votes for emote this method
- newaggregate ratings: get series items rating for multi methods
- editaggregate ratings: improved results formatting and rounding
- editcomments integration: support for user reviews comments
- editthumbs rating rendering thumbs with few extra classes
- editdon’t set cookie if the headers have been sent already
- fixthumbs rating displaying double + sign in some cases
Version: 4.4.1 / november 23 2020
- newfont icons class has conversion of the char formats
- newcall to action rendering added to many default templates
- fixin some cases single rating block max value not valid
- fixdistribution not properly initialized for new items
- fixdistribution division by zero when item has no votes
- fixdistribution for stars rating not properly saved
- fixquick database query for counts calculation issue
- fixstars badge rendering fails for the default font icons
Version: 4.4 – Clymene / november 17 2020
- newrebuilt the default font icons with the woff2 support
- newgenerate the embedded version of the default font
- newdefault font now has font-display property set to auto
- newfull code refactoring for the WordPress coding style
- newall methods include item type based args/calc filters
- editimprovements to some of the admin side interface elements
- editaddon settings split to internal and external groups
- editd4pLib 2.8.13
- fixrich snippets: minor issue with the application based snippets
- fixmaintenance: problem with saving stars rating distribution
Version: 4.3 – Crius / august 19 2020
- newfully tested and compatible with WordPress 5.5
- newclass for handling of preloading for rating data
- newhuge performance improvements for plugin dashboard
- newhuge performance improvements with loop based rating integrations
- newpreload: support for comments loop
- newpreload: preload posts from the supplied or global WP_Query
- newpreload: preload posts from the list of post ids
- newpreload: preload items from the list of item ids
- newpreload: preload items for item types and real ids
- newcomments addon: option to control preload
- newbbpress addon: option to control preload for replies
- newrest api: routes now include ‘permission_callback’
- editplugin dashboard: optimized loading of the votes widget
- editadmin enhancer: optimized loading of the votes widget
- editrewritten several of the database class methods
- editfew minor changes to the database tables schema
- editvarious small quality of code improvements
- editd4pLib 2.8.12
- fixrest api: doing it wrong with WordPress 5.5 over route format
- fixrating items retrieval doesn’t check if rating method is loaded
- fixtransfer panel script was not loading due to bad URL used
Version: 4.2.2 / july 20 2020
- editd4pLib 2.8.10
- fixthumbs rating: item initialization run when votes for item are 0
- fixrich snippets: product offer not saved properly if price is 0
- fixrich snippets: product offer with price 0 not properly displayed
- fixadmin display grids: problems with public/protected methods
- fixgetting series label when rating method is not available
Version: 4.2.1 / june 12 2020
- editRating Slider Library 2.1
- editd4pLib 2.8.10
- fixslider rating and review: issue with the slider drag getting stuck
- fixproblem with using cookie validation values for anonymous visitors
- fixpreparing the rating item not checking if found methods are loaded
Version: 4.2 – Metis / june 1 2020
- newshortcodes builder
- newrich snippets: custom snippet type (JSON-LD format)
- newrich snippets: expanded default settings for post types
- newrich snippets: option to use GMT based dates if available
- newrich snippets: tools to remove and reset default settings for posts
- newposts: rewritten detection method for use of the_content filter
- newposts: includes excerpt detection logic to avoid excerpt related issues
- newdashboard widget: show item title and link if available
- newfunction to properly handle mysql date conversion with or without GMT
- editrich snippets: product snippet not rendered if rating is missing
- editrich snippets: updated context help and removed some outdated information
- editshortcodes: improvements to the attributes values cleanup
- editfew minor changes to the frontend styling and rendering
- editvarious small styling improvements and changes
- editd4pLib 2.8.9
- fixrich snippets: rendering empty snippet in some cases
- fixposts: in some cases output rendered inside the head area
- fixposts: conflicts related to some SEO plugins
- fixstars rating: display of rating blocks with RTL orientation
- fixshortcodes: few issues with conditional shortcodes
- fixsmall issues with cleaning up the shortcode object attributes
- fixin some cases results for comments based queries can be empty
- fixvarious small styling issues with the rating lists results
- fixlike this balloon theme styling in the results list
- fiximport tool not showing proper failed import message
- fixbroken tool for exporting plugin settings
- fixfew potential PHP warnings related to some of the tools
- fixfew instances of using wrong method call signature
Version: 4.1.4 / may 22 2020
- editdb columns for method, series, item and ip set to 64 characters
- editdb columns for action and status set to 32 characters
- editdb columns for module set to 16 characters
Version: 4.1.3 / may 18 2020
- editunique key added to the basic items database table
- fixrecalculate processing in some cases inverts data when saving
- fixbulk recalculation takes into account items without ratings
- fixrecalculation panel shows invalid message about the maintenance
- fixcron recalculation preparation ignores multi methods
Version: 4.1.2 / may 8 2020
- editfew changes to the default plugin settings for new installs
- editd4pLib 2.8.8
- fixcritical regression issue related to query ignoring votes_min argument
- delremoved obsolete value Type from the Reviewed Item metabox tab
Version: 4.1.1 / may 4 2020
- fixcritical regression issue with saving review methods
- fixmissing action for the admin side enqueue widgets panel
Version: 4.1 – Dione / april 19 2020
- editimprovements to the handling of the addon settings and rules
- editvarious changes in the way the plugin handles settings updates
- editd4pLib 2.8.7
- fixsettings: critical issue with some addons settings handling
- fixsettings: critical issue with update remove some addons settings
- fixsettings: some addons settings can be lost due to the format issue
- fixsettings: minor problem with the processing of addon settings
- fixsettings: minor issue when saving new settings rule
- fixrich snippets: meta interface not loaded for mobile application
- fixrich snippets: meta interface not loaded for web application
- fixplugin dashboard log: invalid process getting log data
- fixplugin dashboard log: broken display of multi rating data
- fixadmin enhancer addon: invalid process getting log data
- fixadmin enhancer addon: broken display of multi rating data
- fixbayesian addon: various issues with the pre-processing method
- fixemote this: problem setting arguments for the list display
Version: 4.0.2 / april 1 2020
- fixfew problems with some of the settings panels
- fixincorect label getting for method/series pair in some cases
- fixfew minor styling inconsistnecies and issues
Version: 4.0.1 / march 26 2020
- fixfont with icons: files loading order and version number
- fixthumbs rating: problem with marking the own vote icon
- fixtools: few loading issues with the recalculation panel
Version: 4.0 – Prometheus / february 24 2020
- newdatabase table: for storing item basic rating data
- newdatabase table: for storing item multi rating data
- newdatabase table: for storing log multi rating data
- newdatabase queries: largely rewritten for the new database schema
- newperformance: improvements due to the new database schema
- newperformance: improvements related to the logs query operations
- newperformance: more in memory temporary cache for various operations
- newperformance: optimized and minimized number of run queries
- newrating item object: mostly rewriten and expanded
- newrating methods: additional registration features arguments
- newquery: various improvements for more query control and use cases
- newquery: method to get the total count of the results set
- newquery: period query closer matching results of normal query
- newrating templates: show only own rating for stars rating
- newrating templates: show only own rating for slider rating
- newjs and css files: enqueue expanded with the registration of files
- newjs and css files: additional improvements to registration and queue use
- newjs and css files: big improvements in the way files are loaded on request
- newvote limits: completely rewriten vote validation handling
- newvote limits: universal object to handle vote limits
- newvote limits: period based validation: day, week, month, year
- newvote limits: rewritten user vote rendering for single blocks
- newposts addon: auto integration of the review methods
- newposts addon: auto integration metabox of the review methods
- newrich snippets addon: software application
- newrich snippets addon: mobile application
- newrich snippets addon: web application
- newwp rest api addon: expand posts endpoints with the ratings
- newwp rest api addon: expand terms endpoints with the ratings
- neweditor addon: support for the slider rating method
- newmaintenance: calculate statistics for the like this method
- newmaintenance: ondemand recalculations for stars or slider range changes
- newmaintenance: multi stars and slider changes recalculations
- newdashboard: block showing the current important plugin status info
- newmany new helper functions and methods for use in addons and core
- newadditional admin side enqueue actions for pages/panels
- editrating methods: improvements related to the method core features
- editquery: additional calls to prime wordpress objects cache
- editperiod query: imporved to share more with the main query object
- editaggregate ratings object: each call can control use of cache
- editrich snippets addon: various abstraction improvements
- editwp rest api addon: various endpoints improvements
- editposts addon: expanded addon settings into 3 settings panels
- editposts addon: auto sorting now can be done with review methods
- editdatabase table: main log table expanded with extra columns
- editdatabase object: various improvements to the query building
- editdatabase installation: improvements related to install process
- editexpanded list of the plugin addons for display on addons panel
- editmany improvements and strucutre changes to all JS files
- editclear the cache after vote is saved, before the response is rendered
- editflatpickr 4.6.3
- editd4pLib 2.8.5
- removedall methods and function deprecated before 3.5 version
- removedall unused and empty functions files for every method
- fixcache: wrong data returned with the quick revote option
- fixquery: broken SQL query when using posts publish range
- fixquery: potential ordering issue when max stars changed
- fixquery: potential ordering issue when max slider range changed
- fixquery: few minor query building issues that can result in broken query
- fixthumbs rating: minor issue displaying own rating in the classic template
- fixall list widgets: published date not correctly processed
- fixdynamic load: on demand JavaScript/CSS loading not always working
- fixcomments sort: few issues with the ordering of results
- fixsync meta addon: tools panel is missing
- fixshortcodes: few issues with the shortcodes to get specific value
- fixmaintenance: various issues related to the rules system
- fixseveral issues with the deletion of the logged votes
- fixfew minor issues with the review methods vote validations
- fixminor issues with wrong remove action function calls
- fixfew cases of wrongly named plugins actions and filters
- fixin memory cache issue when running on WordPress Multisite
- fixaddons context help not showing properly where needed
- fixin shortcodes flag not set correctly
- fixseveral typos in various parts of the plugin
Version: 3.8 – Coeus / september 24 2019
- newvoting security: throttle voting requests protection method
- newajax request handler: check for proper request method
- newajax request handler: unified error processing method
- newajax request handler: return status code along with the response
- newshortcodes: has_voted to show wrapped content if user has voted
- newshortcodes: has_voted_auto to show wrapped content if user has voted
- newshortcodes: has_not_voted to show wrapped content if user has not voted
- newshortcodes: has_not_voted_auto to show wrapped content if user has not voted
- newshortcake addon: support for has_voted/has_not_voted shortcodes
- newrich snippets addon: tool to mass update some snippets settings
- newrich snippets addon: tool to remove legacy snippets data
- newclient detection addon: check for BOT when processing AJAX request
- newexpanded and normalized all the JS actions and filters related to rating methods
- newtranslation: es_ES – Spanish
- newtranslation: fr_CA – French Canada
- newtranslation: pl_PL – Polish
- newtranslation: pt_BR – Portuguese Brazil
- newtranslation: pt_PT – Portuguese
- editrich snippets addon: modified method for getting the current post
- editrich snippets addon: main loading point works on the admin side also
- editrich snippets addon: disabled ratings inclusion by default for some snippet types
- editrich snippets addon: improvements to the settings organization
- editjavascript core: improved error handling and display
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.12.0
- editd4pLib 2.7.8
- removedrich snippets: legacy support
- fixrich snippets addon: potential problem with current post identification
- fixwp rest api addon: few issues with loading for rating methods
- fixemote shortcodes: missing the series attribute
Version: 3.7.5 / september 1 2019
- fixfew issues with the JavaScript code used to make blocks responsive
Version: 3.7.4 / august 30 2019
- newjavascript method to run the init process on request for AJAX loading
- editimproved processing of custom static elements to avoid duplication
- editvarious small improvements the plugin JavaScript core library
- editvarious improvements to the Tooltip addon JavaScript loading code
- edittooltip jBox 1.0.5
- fixsome minor issues remain when using the full JavaScript loading method
Version: 3.7.3 / august 19 2019
- fixinvalid list of object taxonomies generated by plugin core method
- fixslider rating: extra class from settings not applied
- fixslider review: extra class from settings not applied
Version: 3.7.2 / july 25 2019
- editseveral small updates in the JavaScript core
- editlog error in browser console if the JavaScript is not initialized properly
- editd4pLib 2.7.5
- fixproblem with transfering Thumbs ratings from GD Star Rating plugin
Version: 3.7.1 / june 23 2019
- editremoved some obsolte core code related to AJAX calls
- editd4pLib 2.7.3
- fixminor issue with the widget cleanup of date parameters
- fixfew issues with the shortcodes cleanup of date parameters
- fixlist shortcodes failed to render in some cases
Version: 3.7 – Iapetus / june 7 2019
- newquery objects: filter posts/comments using publication period
- newquery objects: filter posts/comments using publication datetime
- newsettings rules: rewritten rules handling to allow for additional filters
- newsettings rules: transfer rules from old format to new one on update
- newrecalculate: major changes to the process to include all methods and series
- newrecalculate: support for emote this rating method
- newrating items grid: option to recalculate ratings
- newpage capture: store current displayed page context
- newwidgets: base classes to make processing and control easier
- newwidgets: fully reorganized all the list widgets
- newwidgets: auto detection for the content aware rating lists
- newwidgets: options to disable any widget from being registered
- newjs/css loading: code to start JS is moved to overridable template
- newjs/css loading: option to load the files only if needed
- newfeeds addon: additional filters for detection and hiding control
- newvotes log: search field that can be used to search by real item ID
- newgenerate privacy policy entry for the global WordPress privacy policy
- newabstract classes for the addons and methods admin classes
- newrewritten process for building settings for addons and methods
- newadditional base classes for addons registration and version
- newtranslation: fr_FR – French
- newtranslation: it_IT – Italian
- newtranslation: nl_NL – Dutch
- newtranslation: ru_RU – Russian
- newtranslation: sr_RS – Serbian
- editrating items grid: improved clear operation with support for series
- editrating votes grid: various small improvements and tweaks
- editearly settings loading moved to the after theme setup action
- editvarious updates to the default styling for the widgets lists
- editimproved process of building the query and period query objects
- editmany of the core objects now use static instance loading
- editvarious changes and improvements in the settings organization
- editvarious changes and improvements in the widgets interface
- editimproved organization of files used for complex panels
- editall the form based files protected against direct loading
- editimprovements to the plugin settings panels loading speed
- editfew updates in the process of the votes deletion calculation
- editremoved some obsolte core code for the addon initialization
- edithide addons for bbPress and BuddyPress if not available
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.11.7
- editd4pLib 2.7
- fixsmall problem with the method to find and load template
- fixwrong URL used for the plugin dashboard page for CSS library
- fixproblem with the query object initialization for series based methods
- fixdisplaying list of methods and series with missing minus sign
- fixminor problem with the registration for some of the shortcodes
- fixproblem with loading some of the addons in the rules panel
- fixproblem with stars rating passive rating mode
- fixfew issues with the widgets interface layout and elements
- fixvotes log potential error when the post type is not registered
- fixsome JS files referenced to the map files plugin doesn’t use
Version: 3.6.1 / may 6 2019
- editimproved cleanup of the sliders shortcode attributes
- editd4pLib 2.6.3
- fixshortcode attributes for sliders were not applied properly
- fixissue with language initialization on plugin load
- fixfew minor issues with undefined variables
Version: 3.6 – Leto / march 30 2019
- newall items operations now check for entity/name validity
- newall metaboxes handling now check for entity/name validity
- newdatabase: adding items now check for entity/name validity
- newdatabase: prevent outside code from adding new rating items
- newinternal: filters for the admin side JavaScript data
- newtranslation to German (de_DE)
- editdatabase: method for adding new item set changed to private
- editdatabase: additional sanitation of the input numeric arrays
- editdatabase: additional absint() conversion for ID based queries
- edittooltop addon: improved JS organization and included minification
- editimproved JavaScript and CSS minification
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.11.6
- editdatetime picker library Flatpickr 4.5.7
- edittooltip jBox 0.6.2
- editd4pLib 2.6.1
- fixpotential vector for injecting bogus rating items in database
- fixmissing sanitation for some input data expected as arrays
- fixwrong method used to get votes count for the item voters
- fixdatabase object internal calls not use $this in every case
- fixfew minor issues with the tooltip lists CSS styling
- fixgetting size of the hidden elements had broken call in some cases
- fixdisplay of method/series in the drop down list was broken
Version: 3.5.5 / march 21 2019
- fixrules panel: major problem with handling of some rule types
- fixbayesian addon: problem with preparation of data
- fixfew issues with the translation file including invalid entries
Version: 3.5.4 / march 19 2019
- editcustom stars function with extra options for responsivenes
- editd4pLib 2.6
- fixstars rendered with custom stars function not responsive
- fixfew issues with the stars responsive calculation
- fixfew minor structure problems in the JavaScript
- fixupdated POT file with few missing strings
Version: 3.5.3 / feburary 15 2019
- editd4pLib 2.5.5
- fixslider review method calls to slider rating method
- fixdisabling slider rating method can crash the settings pages
- fixwrong filter name for the slider rating method user object
Version: 3.5.2 / feburary 5 2019
- editget element dimesions even if hidden to help with resizing
- editd4pLib 2.5.4
- fixrich snippets addon: wrong parameter displayed for Product snippet
- fixrich snippets addon: missing attributes for Product snippet
- fixminor issues in the process of saving plugin settings
- fixwrong names for some of the grid column classes
Version: 3.5.1 / january 29 2019
- editd4pLib 2.5.3
- fixtemplate path debug information not using debug on/off check
Version: 3.5.0.1 / january 11 2019
- edittooltip addon: jBox Library 0.5.3
- fixtooltip addon: problem with loading order in some cases
Version: 3.5 – Eos / january 10 2019
- newoption to disable rating for all rating methods
- newaddon: buddypress notifications – integration
- newaddon: buddypress activity – integration
- newshortcodes: option to disable rating for all rating methods
- newshortcake addon: option to disable rating for all rating methods
- newcompletely rewritten JS and CSS files enqueue process
- neweach method now loads own JS and CSS if active
- newmain CSS stylesheet rewritten using SCSS
- newmain JS split into smaller parts
- newmain JS execution call moved to the website footer
- newoption to load full CSS stylesheet instead partials
- newoption to load full JS script file instead partials
- editthumbs rating: various styling improvements
- editfew updates to the plugin initialization order
- editvarious improvements to the core settings handling
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.11.4
- editdatetime picker library Flatpickr 4.5.2
- editd4pLib 2.5.2
- editthumbs rating: some styling issues with positioning
- fixrules: problem with some rules display in the list
- fixsettings: problems with saving some global settings
- fixeditor addon: mismatched calls for the edit methods
- fixseveral smaller issues with the main rating CSS
Version: 3.4.3 / november 12 2018
- newgeo location: using GeoJS.io service
- editgeo location: updated method to get geo location information
- editd4pLib 2.5
- fixrich snippets addon: problem with the preview
- fixgeo location: missing sanitation for the AJAX call IP
Version: 3.4.2/ october 12 2018
- newrich snippets addon: limit headline to 110 characters
- newrich snippets addon: show headline length notice
- newrich snippets addon: validation method before rendering
- editimprovements to the plural translation strings
- editd4pLib 2.4.2
- fixrich snippets addon: wrong format for image objects
Version: 3.4.1 / august 24 2018
- fixbuddypress: fatal error with the incomplete item object
- fixslider review: missing argument for the widget
Version: 3.4 – Selene / august 21 2018
- newall rating methods: quick revote option
- newrich snippets addon: preview tab for generated snippet
- newrich snippets addon: options to control post types metabox
- newbuddypress addon: support for the AJAX activity loading
- newrating item objects: method to generate or get excerpt
- newperiod query: included few more predefined periods
- newadministration: options to control post types metabox
- newauto rescan for new templates on various settings panels
- newdefault templates storages now include ‘wp_content/uploads/gdrts’
- editvotes log: expanded information in the Help section
- editall rating methods: moved please_wait call in templates
- editrich snippets addon: article uses excerpt for headline
- editrich snippets addon: improved some of the filters
- editrich snippets addon: include aggregate rating only if has votes
- editrich snippets addon: include review rating only if has rating
- editbuddypress addon: disable dynamic load for activity ratings
- editrating javascript: preventing double initialization attempts
- editrating javascript: replaced jQuery .bind with .on
- editperiod query: support for rating_min argument
- editperiod query: support for votes_min argument
- editd4pLib 2.3.6
- fixstars rating: problem with the labels translations
- fixrich snippets addon: saving settings for Review snippet type
- fixperiod query: some arguments have no effect
- fixbayensian addon: problem with the calculation initialization
- fixvotes log: bulk votes deletion is not working as expected
- fixresponsive resizing problem is some rare cases
- fixtemplate scan can fail if storage is not found
Version: 3.3 – Thea / july 12 2018
- newrich snippets addon: completely rewritten
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for CreativeWork
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for WebPage
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for MediaObject
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for Article
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for NewsArticle
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for BlogPosting
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for Product
- newrich snippets addon: snippet for Review
- newrich snippets addon: old snippet type is now legacy
- newrich snippets addon: own metabox for the post panel
- newsettings rules: method and series related addon settings
- newbayesian addon: method related settings rules
- newbayesian addon: support for slider ratings
- newshortcodes: rating value for method and any item
- newshortcodes: rating value for method and current item
- newshortcake addon: support for rating value shortcodes
- newfeeds addon: skip ratings for the XMLRPC requests
- newrating statistics: support for slider rating and review methods
- newbuddypress addon: updated classes for the rating item data objects
- newrating item data objects now have method to get author ID
- newdatetime picker library Flatpickr 4.5.1
- newenhanced modded dropdown library SumoSelect 3.0.3
- editrich snippets addon: optimized legacy builder objects
- editrating statistics: improved the calculation functions
- edittooltip addon: few improvements to the loading
- editvarious improvements to the methods in the main core object
- editvarious improvements to main settings object
- editcore method class with new filter to get data summary for item
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.10.2
- editRating Slider Library 2.0
- editd4pLib 2.3.3
- fixsync to meta: minor problems with the JavaScript file
- fixslider methods: initialization issues with the JavaScript file
Version: 3.2.2 / may 14 2018
- editminor improvements to the single loop initialization
- editslider review: few improvements to the styling
- fixsome methods don’t initialize Call to Action option
- fixslider rating: few problems with the rating rendering
- fixslider review: few problems with the rating rendering
Version: 3.2.1 / may 8 2018
- editposts addon: updated filters for the integration
- editfew changes to the custom blocks rendering methods
- editquery object connects with valid taxonomies for post types
- fixpotential issue with custom templates storage locations
Version: 3.2 – Perses / may 3 2018
- newaddon: sync to meta – for posts, terms, users and comments
- newsync to meta: support for custom rules based on the rating type
- newsync to meta: tool to run full sync of all rating items
- newall methods: compact number of votes for display purposes
- newcomments addon: option to set the filter priority
- newposts addon: option to set the filter priority for each post type
- newposts addon: option to set the filter priority for each post with meta data
- newposts addon: improved performance of the main integration code
- newlist shortcodes: added post_type and status attributes
- newshortcake addon: added post_type and status attributes
- newquery / period query: filter with the post_type for comments
- newabout addons page: show the changelog for each installed addon
- newemote this: new single block rendering settings
- newrating query: add negative term ID’s to exclude them
- newrating query: add negative author ID’s to exclude them
- newall widgets: special unique Developer ID option
- newall widgets and shortcodes: add negative term ID’s to exclude them
- newall widgets and shortcodes: add negative author ID’s to exclude them
- newfunction and filter for the list of default post statuses
- editthumbs rating: improved styling for rating list table
- editfew updates to the plugin core initialization and loading
- editfew updates to all widgets settings organization
- fixposts sorting: problem with negative ratings order
- fixcomments sorting: problem with negative ratings order
- fixperiod query: incomplete list of the default post statuses
- fixemote this: broken display for the feed only text
- fixthumbs rating: some issues with the styling for rating list table
- fixthumbs rating: few render filters had wrong names
Version: 3.1.2 / april 17 2018
- fixslider review: minor issues with the method registration
- fixstars review: few render filters had wrong names
Version: 3.1.1 / march 22 2018
- editdisplay notices for addons about wrong plugin version used
- editremoved unused attributes for review methods shortcodes
- editfew styling improvements for the list table templates rendering
- editd4pLib 2.2.7
- fixWP PostRatings data transfer: few issues with ratings only transfer
- fixproblem with missing the please wait when the rating is saved
- fixinvalid function call in the Stars Rating render list class
Version: 3.1 / march 12 2018
- newdynamic load: visitor and user loading settings
- newdynamic load: filter to exclude rating methods from dynamic loading
- newtools: convert all votes log IP’s into MD5 hashed strings
- newall methods: filter inside the calculation methods before save
- newall methods: args/calc filters for each item in the list loop
- newall methods: completely rewritten single default templates
- newall methods: new list loop default templates – list and table
- newall methods: new render classes methods and filters
- newstars rating: more settings for the rendering methods
- newstars review: more settings for the rendering methods
- newstars review: render method to display rating badge element
- newcentralized method for setting user agent for votes
- newstore IP’s in votes log as MD5 hashed strings
- newdedicated function to get user agent if it is set
- newall widgets are logging currently used widget
- newall shortcodes are logging currently used shortcodes
- newrender process is logging currently used template
- newcompletely rewritten template loading process
- newrender process is logging currently used template
- newfunction to get current rendering template
- newfunction to get current plugin widget
- newfunction to get current plugin shortcode
- editemote this: updates to the rating object and templates
- editfew improvements to the rating item objects
- editold Default templates are now Classic templates
- editchanged the names for the widget with shorter prefix
- editYASR data transfer: support for YASR 1.5 or newer only
- editmetabox support for the Gutenberg editor 2.3 or newer
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.9.2
- edittooltip: jBox 0.4.9
- editd4pLib 2.2.5
- fixYASR data transfer: invalid conversion of the max rating data
- fixYASR data transfer: missing max value for the stars review transfer
- fixYASR data transfer: detection of the database tables
- fixGD Star Rating data transfer: missing max value for the stars review transfer
- fixcheck for loaded methods and addon not working correctly
- fixloading from library for icons on the Entity editor page
- fixstars rating: fixes to the rating badge element rendering
- fixseveral typos in various templates
Version: 3.0.5 / february 13 2018
- newstatic method to get default template for each method and type
- editfew minor styling improvements on the admin side
- fixslider rating: problem with the list values calculations
- fixslider rating widget list: warning when saving settings
- fixslider rating shortcodes: missing some style attributes
- fixslider review shortcodes: missing some style attributes
- fixslider review shortcodes: wrong attributes for list
- fixabout page: panel for addons not working
- fixshortcake ui: default templates value wrong in some cases
Version: 3.0.4 / february 8 2018
- editslider rating: updated to use period query results
- editslider review: updated to use period query results
- editstars rating: updated to use period query results
- editstars review: updated to use period query results
- editthumbs rating: updated to use period query results
- editemote this: updated to use period query results
- editdefault post statuses list includes ‘inherit’ status
- fixslider rating: wrong argument for the period query
Version: 3.0.3 / january 30 2018
- editall rating methods: changes to some default settings
- editadditional filters for single and list engines arguments
- editrenamed default arguments filters for single and list engines
- editRating Slider Library 1.4
- fixdynamic load: option to disable it not working
Version: 3.0.2 / january 14 2018
- editd4pLib 2.2.4
- fixxss vulnerability: query string panel was not sanitized
- fixxss vulnerability: panel variable for some pages was not verified
- fixmissing proper sanitation for some grid filters variables
Version: 3.0.1 / january 5 2018
- newajax handler actions for various processing errors
- newajax handler uses improved validation for request data
- fixone deprecated function missing replacment function
Version: 3.0 – Atlas / december 25 2017
- newcompletely redesigned and expanded dashboard page
- newcompletely redesigned and expanded about page
- newabout page: major and minor versions highlights
- newabout page: list and controls for plugin addons
- newabout page: detailed list of Dev4Press plugins
- newdashbord: list of the recent logged votes
- newdashbord: basic methods and types information
- newrating method: slider rating
- newrating method: slider review
- newaddon: instant vote notifications
- newdummy data: support for slider rating
- newdummy data: filters for dummy data values
- newstars rating: support for RTL text direction
- newstars review: support for RTL text direction
- newrich snippets: support for slider rating
- newrich snippets: support for slider review
- newwp rest api: support for slider rating
- newwp rest api: support for slider review
- newshortcodes: for slider rating method
- newshortcodes: for slider review method
- newshortcake: support for slider rating
- newshortcake: support for slider review
- newwidgets: for slider rating method
- newwidgets: for slider review method
- newdynamic load: argument to prevent dynamic loading
- newslider rating: function to render custom static slider
- newcore object: expanded method for addons registration
- newcore object: expanded method for methods registration
- newtemplates: for widgets with thumbnails
- newrecalculate: for slider ratings
- newsettings rules stored in the internal cache
- newsettings rules notices displayed with global settings
- newall item objects now have thumbnails functions
- newall item objects use filters to modify returned data
- newfunction to get post index for the WP Query loop
- newGD Range Slider jQuery library 1.3
- newseveral deprecated functions
- editmain JavaScript file: new object for custom rendering
- editdummy data: removed votes field for Thumbs Rating
- editpost metabox: improved tabs layout on small displays
- editvarious changes in the CSS and JS files organization
- editplugin is now using a internal cache objects
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.9.1
- editd4pLib 2.2.2
- fixseveral minor issues with the default styling
- fixseveral minor typos in the various parts of the code
- fixdummy data: missing dummy value for the Like This method
- fixrating items grid: broken filter for some periods
- fixrating votes grid: broken filter for some periods
Version: 2.5 – Aura / november 25 2017
- editimprovements to the rating method load classes
- editimprovements to various filters and actions
- editimprovements to support new d4pLib library
- editimprovements to functions used to cleanup arguments
- editd4pLib 2.2
- fixlists rendering: missing default query elements
- fixlists rendering: shows ratings for deleted posts
- fixuser rating object: init problem for non-logged visitors
- fixquery object: problem with limit and offset arguments
- fixquery object: problem with filtering the taxonomy entities
Version: 2.4.1 / october 11 2017
- editchanged order of the plugin initialization on admin side
- editno longer displaying external addon registration list
- editd4pLib 2.1.2
- fixminor issues with function to list active methods
Version: 2.4 / october 3 2017
- newtransfer: GD Star Rating – multi stars rating
- newtransfer: GD Star Rating – multi stars review
- newtransfer: option to control records to process per call
- newtransfer: various improvements to the transfer script
- newtransfer: improvements to GD Star Rating data only methods
- newrecalculate: option to control records to process per call
- newobjects and functions to get and check users ratings for items
- newbase widget class with improved code sharing
- newextensions settings panel shows list of active external addons
- newfunction to check if the external addon is loaded
- editfew updates to thumbs rating support for custom fonts
- editrender classes private methods are now protected
- editvarious improvements to classes for all the widgets
- editall widgets updated to use new base widget class
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.8.2
- editd4pLib 2.1.1
Version: 2.3.1 / august 2 2017
- newquery object: additional return types for the query
- newquery object: method argument to control use of cache
- newcache object: argument to override cache expiration
- editquery object: uses date as the last fallback orderby
- editperiod query object: applied changes from query object
- editchanges for some default plugin cache settings
- editd4pLib 2.0.5
- fixquery object: problem with some of the settings
- fixquery object: minor issue with the query select
- fixquery object: few issues with the caching of results
- fixquery object: problem with return switch block
- fixperiod query object: cache settings not displayed
- fixstars using fonts: styling issue with some themes
Version: 2.3 – Phoebe / july 27 2017
- newcore loop object for easier templates control
- newstars rating: accessibility for the rating block
- newthumbs rating: accessibility for the rating block
- newlike this: accessibility for the rating block
- newemote this: accessibility for the rating block
- newemote this: three new templates using tooltips
- newall rating methods: option and method for ‘Call to Action’ text
- newthumbs rating: solid and solid inline themes
- newthumbs rating: customized template example
- newthumbs rating: settings to hide thumb values
- newrich snippets: settings for additional settings data
- newrich snippets: settings for organization name and logo
- newrich snippets: more settings in the metabox for override
- newdynamic load addon: performance optimizations
- newdynamic load addon: render multiple blocks at once
- newtooltip addon: several new styles for tooltip
- newtemplates: templates organized into method based folders
- newtemplates: centralized filtering for default templates paths
- newadditional abstract classes for some plugin objects
- newall templates modified to use new loop object
- editjavascript: various performance improvements
- edittooltip addon: improved loading and voting handling
- editall rating methods: various rendering improvements
- editall rating methods: various JavaScript improvements
- editthumbs rating: various styling improvements
- editrich snippets: many updates to the Micordata generator
- editrich snippets: many updates to the JSON-LD generator
- editrich snippets: improvements to plugin settings information
- editvarious improvements to the metabox tabbed controls
- editd4pLib 2.0.4
- editjBox 0.4.8
- fixdynamic load addon: problems with addon initialization
- fixtooltip addon: few issues with initialization of the tooltip
- fixposts sorting: problem with the ASC sort order
- fixshortcodes: minor issue processing terms attributes
- fixminor issue with the user processing for display
Version: 2.2.3 / may 22 2017
- editd4pLib 2.0
Version: 2.2.2 / may 12 2017
- newwidgets tabbed interface using ARIA markup
- editwidgets interface using proper HTML input types
- editimprovements with the font handling widget settings
- editd4pLib 1.9.6
- fixwidgets font settings problems with some rating methods
- fixwidgets fields for comma separated terms not working
- fixwidgets fields for comma separated authors not working
- fixwidgets date range field problem with handling ranges
Version: 2.2.1 / may 10 2017
- editseveral updates to responsive support code
- editd4pLib 1.9.5
- fixproblem with custom settings rule loading
- fixsmall issue with the global post set to null
Version: 2.2 – Tethys / april 3 2017
- newratings date period query object
- newratings aggregation object
- newaggregate: items by type
- newaggregate: posts by author
- newaggregate: posts by term
- newaggregate: comments by post
- newadmin interface is now fully accessible
- newall list widgets: set date period for queries
- newall list shortcodes: set date period for queries
- newshortcake addon: set date period for list shortcodes
- newcustom render object: thumbs rating method
- newcustom render object: like this method
- newcustom render object: emote this method
- newdynamic load: filter to control loading
- newdatabase table: for storing cached data
- newdatabase cache handling object
- newmain rating query object supports caching
- editmain rating query object perfromance improvements
- editvarious updates to the custom render object
- editvarious improvements to the plugin core
- editd4pLib 1.9.2
- fixrating log: error when method is not available
- fixthumbs rating: invalid check for the style name
- fixthumbs rating: text display style not working
- fixlike this: invalid class name for the single block
Version: 2.1.3 / march 7 2017
- fixstars rating: division by zero error when removing votes
Version: 2.1.2 / march 4 2017
- editd4pLib 1.9.0.1
- fixcustom settings rules get deleted on plugin update
- fixminor issue in the function to load templates
Version: 2.1.1 / february 23 2017
- editposts: improved inserting of the rating block
- editall main form files preventing direct loading
- editimproved rating item data validation
- editd4pLib 1.9
- fixXSS security issue with the log.php form file
- fixlog display issue when emote this series is removed
- fixissues with the fontawesome font registration
- fixfew problems with badge/symbol rendering
- fixphp warning in the rich snippet addon
Version: 2.1.0.1 / february 10 2017
- fixadmin side issue with Stars Review method disabled
Version: 2.1 – Rhea / february 9 2017
- newstars rating: hidden input field and passive mode
- newthumbs rating: hidden input field and passive mode
- newemote this: hidden input field and passive mode
- newemote this: added theme ‘Button’
- newstars review: hide rating block if no review value is set
- newrating item: method to get all data for a method
- newcustom stars object: rendering object and handling
- newcustom stars object: methods to render stars and badge
- newquery object: filter for custom orderby key
- newfull support for the external addons integration
- newfilter to register additional widgets
- newfilter to provide extra templates storage locations
- newfilters for getting external methods templates
- newfont base class updated to support new rating methods
- newmore actions and filters in the main JavaScript file
- editemote this: improvements to the rendering process
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.7.5
- editshortcake: changes to allow expanding the addon
- editrich snippets: support for series based rating methods
- editreviewed item moved from method to global admin block
- editchanged default templates values for all block widgets
- editimproved validation for the post rating rendering function
- editminor improvements to data validation for all methods
- editadditional optimization for main JavaScript file
- editcode optimization for several core classes
- editmany improvements to the main CSS stylesheet
- editvarious small improvements to admin side panels
- fixstars review: can’t change review value back to 0
- fixposts addon: triggered by home page queries in some cases
- fixemote series: deletion of the series is not working
- fixthumbs rating: styling issues with image thumbs and thumbs themes
- fixminor issue with the YASR plugin data transfer process
- fixmain log item meta database method missing unserialization
Version: 2.0.6 / january 27 2017
- editd4pLib 1.8.9
- fixmultisite issue with the blog switching functions
- fixmultisite issue with deletion of the blog tables
Version: 2.0.5 / january 11 2017
- editshortcake: registration only for loaded rating methods
- fixshortcake: fatal error with emote this method disabled
Version: 2.0.4 / january 3 2017
- editdisplay error messages in the rating block
- editimprovements in the way AJAX response handles errors
- editimprovements to main AJAX error response handling
- fixrich snippets meta: displaying unsupported rating methods
- fixrich snippets: problem with adding snippets in some cases
Version: 2.0.3 / december 28 2016
- edittransfer: better optimization for transfer SQL queries
- edittransfer: updated information displayed during transfer
- editd4pLib 1.8.7
- editupdated plugin system requirements
- fix transfer: some of the log records missing from transfer
- fix transfer: few problems with YASR plugin data transfer
- fixtranslation missing for the word ‘ago’ for rating text
Version: 2.0.2 / december 23 2016
- newdebug: option to force loading of source JS and CSS files
- editsome minor core code changes and cleanup
- fixemote this: rating not working with dynamic load
- fixsome css files not properly minified
- fixone javascript file not properly minified
Version: 2.0.1 / december 22 2016
- fixemote this: showing like this method templates
- fixphp init fatal error with PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4
Version: 2.0 – Cronus / december 16 2015
- newaddon: BuddyPress
- newaddon: Tooltip
- newbuddypress: item objects for activity and group
- newbuddypress: activity rating auto embed
- newtooltip: display static content as tooltip
- newemote this: add custom emote this series
- newemote this: change the emoticons assigned to elements
- newemote this: new template for list based widget
- newemote this: support for the post/comments sorting
- newemote this: improved support for auto embed features
- newtransfer: rewritten to use threaded AJAX based transfer
- newlike this: templates showing users who liked the item
- newstars review: meta data for reviewed item information
- newstars review: template methods to display reviewed item data
- newrich snippet: support for JSON-LD snippet format
- newrich snippet: review includes published and modified date
- newrich snippet: review includes reviewed item information
- newdummy data: support for like this rating
- newposts: automatic archive sorting support for emote this series
- newbbpress: filters for location and method for embedding
- newvotes log: delete from log for like this rating
- newvotes log: delete from log for emote this rating
- newvotes log: method filter includes series where available
- newrating items log: filters and query expanding for the log
- newadmin enhancer: toolbar menu link to the rating types panel
- newadmin enhancer: dashboard widget with latest ratings
- newrating objects: mandatory date published and modified methods
- newmetabox: options to override title and URL
- newdatabase: function to get list of users who votes for an item
- newjavascript: new actions for blocks initialization
- newjavascript: improved method for handling AJAX errors
- newdebug: log AJAX error to console, display alert or hide
- newmany small updates to improve plugin extensibility
- newall rating methods render text: before and after wrapper
- newtheme overridable functions to render various elements
- newseveral new functions for dealing with rating methods
- editshortcake addon: improved code organization
- editshortcake addon: display wrapper and block CSS class options
- editmetabox: updated interface for better usability
- editdynamic load: check if the rendering is inside the feed
- editseveral new templates for various rating methods
- editmany improvements to core methods objects
- editmany improvements to the addon architecture
- editmany updates to the core objects initialization
- editfew improvements to the administration panels
- editfew improvements organization of the plugin code
- editclient detection: device detector updated to 3.7.4
- editd4pLib 1.8.6
- fixshortcake addon: wrong options for the stars review shortcodes
- fixvotes log: display of some rating items titles
- fixvotes log: filter user ID set to zero (visitors)
- fixemote this: issue with some elements of rendering process
- fixshortcodes: few issues with preprocessing of attributes
- fixstars rating: problem with formatting rating value
- fixstars rating: few issues with rendering of votes text
- fixstars rating: list widget template missing list item classes
- fixthumbs rating: few issues with rendering of votes text
- fixdynamic load: doesn’t take into account the feed
- fix transfer: many warnings happening during the transfer
- fix transfer: missing item preparation for saving transferred data
- fixissues with scanning for theme override templates
- fixrating query object: wrong sorting by rating
Version: 1.4.4 / october 31 2015
- newmultisite: remove tables for deleted blogs
- newwidgets: show message if the rating method is not loaded
- editsupport for FontAwesome 4.7.0
- editd4pLib 1.8.4
- fixwarnings when loading widgets for disabled rating methods
Version: 1.4.3 / october 23 2015
- newbbpress: check for the main loop to run ratings embed
- newupdate plugin panel rechecks for broken settings
- fixannonymous verify option can cause broken SQL log queries
Version: 1.4.2 / october 20 2015
- fixstars rating: number of votes not displayed
- fixthumbs rating: number of votes not displayed
Version: 1.4.1 / october 16 2015
- editd4pLib 1.8.3
- fixemote this: wrong object call used for some settings
- fixemote this: wrong filter name used in the user object
Version: 1.4 – Themis / october 10 2016
- newrating method: emote this rating
- newemote this: widgets for block and list
- newemote this: shortcodes for block and list
- newadministration: panel for managing rating entities and types
- newrules panel: buttons for delete and activation of rules
- newrules panel: color coding for list of available rules
- newrules panel: confirmation dialog for deleting the rule
- newlike this: added label for Liked state
- newlike this: text only display method
- newlike this: translation templates for rendering blocks
- newvotes log: filters and query expanding for the log
- newvotes log: remove from log for all rating types
- newvotes log: delete from log for thumbs rating
- newstars rating: translation templates for rendering blocks
- newstars review: translation templates for rendering blocks
- newthumbs rating: translation templates for rendering blocks
- newclient detection: filtering of the votes log by client/device
- newfeeds: support for like this rating method
- newfeeds: support for emote this rating method
- newfeeds: support for thumbs rating method
- newdatabase: new column for ‘series’ to the items table
- newdatabase: indexing more columns in the items table
- newwp rest api: filters for formatting rating item data object
- newwp rest api: rating methods cleanup of rating data
- newdebug: embed SQL query for the rating lists
- newprotect entities and types array from tampering
- editvotes log: refactored SQL query to get log items
- editplugin now uses d4pLib settings core class
- editrefactored access to entities array to use access functions
- editrefactored main rendering JavaScript file
- editchanges in the way JavaScript files are compressed
- editimprovements to rating method core classes
- editimprovements to generated inline CSS for font icons
- editimprovements to addons loading of own JavaScript files
- editsmall improvements to default Like This templates
- editremoved rich snippets filters from Like This templates
- editvarious styling improvements all default templates
- editd4pLib 1.8.3
- editremoved some outdated code from rating methods
- fixremoval of rating items not working in some cases
- fixsome votes log URL’s were not working in every case
- fixmissing sanitation of the settings for some operation
- fixfew minor issues with the rendering objects
Version: 1.3.3 / september 5 2016
- editd4pLib 1.8
Version: 1.3.2 / august 23 2015
- fixclient detection: fails when the user agent is not set
- fixfew small issues when the user agent is not set
- fixsome minor issues with admin side interface loading
Version: 1.3.1 / august 13 2015
- newsupport for IP detection when behind CloudFlare
- editd4pLib 1.7.8
- fixwrong attribute name for item ID for some shortcodes
Version: 1.3 – Pallas / august 1 2016
- newaddon: Feeds – for RSS, AMP, FIP, ANF integration support
- newaddon: Client Detection – detect bots, browers, devices
- newfont icons: support for adding custom icon fonts
- newfont icons: support for FontAwesome icons font
- newfont icons: 10 more icons in default icons font
- newrewriten handling for the font icons
- newterms filtering for list shortcodes
- newauthors filtering for list shortcodes
- newterms filtering for list widgets
- newauthors filtering for list widgets
- newset item title and url override via the shortcode
- newallow or prevent authors to vote for own rating items
- newfilter to modify votes meta data added to the database
- newactions run when voting items data is saved to the database
- newrecalculation tool: support for thumbs rating
- newrecalculation tool: support for like this rating
- newratings and votes grids allow for adding of new columns
- editimproved sanitation of plugins settings on save
- editimproved buttons on all dialogs on the admin side
- editlike this rendering uses similar technique as stars rating
- editthumbs rating rendering uses similar technique as stars rating
- editrendering changes to work around the WordPress emoji replacments
- editmany improvements in handling shortcodes and widgets
- editratings grid proper use of the rating item objects
- editvarious small admin side interface improvements
- editmany small improvements to the JavaScript code
- editd4pLib 1.7.6
- fixshortcake addon: thumbs rating wrong list of templates
- fixfew minor problems with the main JavaScript file
- fixfew minor styling issues related to rating lists
- fixsaving option to disbale custom settings rule not working
- fixwarnings generated by the missing style type and/or name
- fixsmall issue with type option in the shortcodes processing
- fixduplicated classes added for star rating font icons styles
- fixminor problems in applying default styles for widgets
- fixwarnings related to query object SQL query in some cases
- fixseveral small typos
Version: 1.2.4 / june 4 2015
- newposts sorting object moved from addon to core
- newposts sorting auto sort supports filtering of arguments
- newposts sorting with new argument for minimal value
- newcomments sorting object moved from addon to core
- newcomments sorting with new argument for minimal value
- newrating query supports use of post status (publish and closed by default)
- editchanged function call order for loading translation
- editposts addon: expanded additional information displayed
- editd4pLib 1.7.2
- fixbbpress views for like this method show topics with no likes
- fixproblem with repeated revoting log entries for like this method (fix provided by Benj Lipchak)
- fixlogs display warnings with post types are missing
- fixpost meta box settings not saving due to action order problems
- fixplural forms for the text for the like this method
Version: 1.2.3 / may 31 2015
- newtemplates for showing ratings only, voting disabled
- editseveral improvements for bbPress reply post type
- fixbbpress addon: views not registered on the admin side
- fixbbpress addon: views topics ordering not working as expected
- fixfew minor issues with some of the default templates
Version: 1.2.2 / may 13 2015
- newtransfer data from KK Star Ratings plugin
- editposts addon: do not embed if inside the rss feed
- editprotect expanded rendering functions
- editminor imporvements in the transfer data classes
- editfew improvements in the JS/CSS files enqueue
- editd4pLib 1.7.0
- fixcomments addon: rating display when no comment is detected
- fixposts addon: rating display when no comment is detected
Version: 1.2.1 / may 6 2015
- newdebug information added for shortcodes and widgets
- newseparate security and debug settings panels
- editd4pLib 1.6.7.1
- fixlike this: render method arguments not passed to JSON
- fixsome of the plugin settings not displayed
- fixsmall issue with the d4pLib shortcodes class
Version: 1.2 – Helios / april 19 2016
- newrating method: like this rating
- newlike this: widgets for block and list
- newlike this: shortcodes for block and list
- newposts addon: sort posts by rating
- newposts addon: automatic archives sorting by rating
- newposts addon: additional control filters
- newcomments addon: sort posts by rating
- newcomments addon: additional control filters
- newbbpress addon: view with top rated topics
- newbbpress addon: view with current user top rated topics
- newthumbs rating: simple and compact thumbs styling
- newall rating methods: custom CSS class to add to rating block
- newquery engine: posts filter by author, meta and terms
- newquery engine: comments filter by author and meta
- newquery engine: terms filter by meta
- newquery engine: users filter meta
- newrich snippets addon: filter to modify snippet nodes
- newjavascript hooks based events manager
- newcontrol thumbs rating with javascript
- newcontrol stars rating with javascript
- newcontrol like this rating with javascript
- newoption to add basic debug info into rating block
- newmu-plugins based filters override php starter file
- editbbpress addon: changes to the initialization of the addon
- editstars rating: improved rendering of rating text
- editthumbs rating: improved rendering of rating text
- editthumbs rating: improved rendering of thumb buttons
- editthumbs rating: improved display of the thumb sign
- editthumbs rating: rating handler moved to main button
- editnew settings and updates for rendering of rating blocks
- editminor updates to some of the templates
- editvarious small improvements to all rating methods
- editvarious small changes to plugin administration interface
- editvarious small changes to filters and actions registration
- editd4pLib 1.6.5
- fixdummy data addon: various problems
- fixthumbs rating: theme option not saving properly
- fixstyle class option not applied to the rating block
- fixdisplay of help tabs for some of the settings panels
- fixseveral issues with widgets added through customizer
- fixseveral warnings when saving widgets settings
Version: 1.1.4 / march 25 2015
- newsettings panel now uses dividers for settings groups
- editsome minor improvements on the admin side interface
- editd4pLib 1.6.2
- fixbbPress: conflict with GD bbPress Toolbox Pro quote
Version: 1.1.3 / february 11 2015
- editupdated filters for single rating block rendering
- editimproved loading of bayesian calculation rules
- editminor changes to the bayesian calculation algorithm
- fixseveral issues with dummy data addon
Version: 1.1.2 / february 4 2015
- editextra information for transfer data panels
- editcheck if method is active for transfer data panels
- editd4pLib 1.5.9
- fixminor issue with the GD Star Rating transfer process
Version: 1.1.1 / january 23 2015
- newfront page knowledge base and support links
- editfew minor updates to the default styling
- fixtemplates in theme subfolder ‘gdrts’ not loaded
Version: 1.1.0.1 / january 19 2015
- fixproblem with single and list rating loops abort check
- fixrich snippet: review snippet is missing review text
- fixstars review: using wrong data for rich snippet rating
Version: 1.1 – Oceanus / january 18 2016
- newaddon: Bayesian calculation for Stars Rating method
- newaddon: bbPress topics and replies Integration
- newstars rating: choose rating calculation method for display
- newstars rating: set custom colors for font icons based stars
- newstars review: set custom colors for font icons based stars
- newthumbs rating: choose rating calculation method for display
- newthumbs rating: percentage based rating calculation
- newthumbs rating: order ratings by percentage rating
- newthumbs list order by UP or DOWN votes
- newshortcodes support for font icon custom colors
- newwidgets support for font icon custom colors
- newdaily maintenance background job
- newbackground job: calculate rating type based statistics
- newbackground job: recalculate ratings on stars number change
- newblank templates to add only rich snippet markup
- editdynamic load: skip override if the blank template is used
- editrich snippets: additional settings to control insertion
- editfont icons: includes spinner icon and some extra classes
- editfont icons: font files included with plugin version parameter
- editsome improvements to main rating JavaScript object
- editrating query object allows filtering of query elements
- editmain posts metabox improves default filters and actions
- editposts integration addon shows help for the addon
- editposts integration addon hides bbPress post types
- editd4pLib 1.5.8
- fixcomment rating type missing title when display in lists
- fixusing FontAwesome spinner icon for loading message
- fixmethod and addon issues with missing custom rule values
- fixstars review metabox not using resolution settings
- fixseveral smaller issues with the admin interface
- fixproblems with rating lists ordering by votes
Version: 1.0.7 / january 4 2016
- editsome addons function moved into plugin core
- editimprovements to some rendering functions
- editswitched to new admin object base class from D4PLib
- fixextensions panel allows for all methods to be disabled
- fixstars review: division by zero when there is no rating set
- fixrich snippet addon: broken if selected method is disabled
- fixrating method dropdown lists show disabled methods
- fixstars review method using stars rating method object
Version: 1.0.6 / january 2 2016
- editimprovements with default grid results styling
- editd4pLib 1.5.6
- fixrendering errors with disabled rating method
Version: 1.0.5.1 / december 29 2015
- fixabstract method class inheritance problem
Version: 1.0.5 / december 28 2015
- editimprovements to loading of the templates list
- editprevent update checks from WordPress.org
- editd4pLib 1.5.5
- fixdeleting custom rules not working
- fixshowing disabled methods and addons on rules panel
- fixloading conflict with GD bbPress Toolbox Pro
- fixminor metabox initialization issue
Version: 1.0.1 / december 27 2015
- newmetabox for posts to override embed settings
- editplugin initialization priority changed
Version: 1.0 / december 25 2015
- newfirst official version
Version: 1.0 Stable / december 24 2015
- editminor tweaks to the admin interface
- fixsome CSS files not properly minified
Version: 1.0 RC #1 / december 23 2015
- newaddon: dynamic loading
- editthumbs rating: additional theme styling
- editmany styling improvements and tweaks
- fixwp rest api addon: issue with date conversion
- fixsmall issues with resizing star rating blocks
Version: 1.0 Beta #2 / december 22 2015
- newaddon: editor
- newsymbol rating rendering for stars rating and review
- newtransfer thumbs rating data from gd star rating
- newadmin page for information about templates
- newdummy data addon: support for thumbs rating
- newwp rest api addon: ratings grid shows rest api data url
- editmany changes and improvements for templates
- fixgeo location: flags css file not loading
- fixwp rest api addon: several smaller issues
- fixbroken ratings grid main data query
Version: 1.0 Beta #1 / december 20 2015
- newrating method: thumbs rating
- newaddon: rich snippets
- newshortcodes: thumbs rating for block and list
- newwidgets: thumbs rating for block and list
- editimprovements to several base classes
Version: 1.0 Alpha #3 / december 17 2015
- newrating method: stars review
- newshortcodes: stars review for block and list
- newwidgets: stars review for block and list
- newgeo location features now moved into addon
- newrating and votes grids now filter each column content
- fixmissing files for admin side widgets panel
- fixremoved some obsolete admin side code
Version: 1.0 Alpha #2 / december 15 2015
- newratings panel has views for objects rated status
- newratings panel shows number of votes with rating
- newwp rest api addon: format and cleanup of items output
- editposts addon: new post types set to hidden by default
- fixwp rest api addon: issue with parameters validation
Version: 1.0 Alpha #1 / december 14 2015
- newfirst pre-release version