Sep 27th, 2009 by BoB

Why are the voting image in gray?

If the thumbs are grey, it’s most likely working well. Comment author cannot vote on his/her own comments. That’s why the voting images are grayed out and don’t respond to mouse-over. But if you change to a different IP address, you’ll 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.

My comments are not hiding when the “poorly rated comments” value is reached – only the style gets applied. Anything I need to do in the template?

Well all comments are equal. But some comments are more equal than others. Comments made by the blog post author or admin will never be hidden. All other comments will be hidden when they reach the poorly rated threshold.

When I try to click either vote button, the button changes size as it’s supposed to but no vote is logged and nothing changes to a checkmark. Why?

The problem is that Commet Rating javascript is not loaded. If you theme doesn’t call wp_footer() then the line to load javascript will not be inserted. Have a look at the page source code (Ctrl-U with Firefox), you should see in the Javascript in the footer section, see image.

I get a javascript error with this in the title bar.

If the error says, “Nothing found for /wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/ck-processkarma.php” or similar, and your hosting server have phpSuExec enabled, you must have the permission 777 on your /wp-content/plugins or /wp-content/plugins/comment-rating. PHPSUEXEC will refuse to serve any pages that are at security risk, for example with 777 as permissions. (will generate an Internal Server Error).

Changing the directory permission to 644 (removing the writable access rights) should solve the problem.

Comment Rating doesn’t work in Thesis theme.

It’s a bug in Thesis 1.7/1.8.

You’ll have to modify /lib/classes/comments.php in Thesis 1.7

Around line 276 you’ll see:
if ($output) echo $output;

Change it to:
if ($output) echo apply_filters(‘comment_text’,$output);

My Suffusion theme displays the voting icon and numbers in separate lines.

If you use the popular Suffusion Theme, you will see the voting icons and numbers are shown in separated lines, like below.

It’s the definition of the line of “display: block;” that caused the problem.

.commentlist small {
margin-bottom: 5px;
display: block;
font-size: 87%;
}

You need to remove the “display: block;” line. Then everything will be fine.

My native language is not supported. How do I add a translation?

Please install the plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/ . After installation, Codestyling Localization’s page is under Wordpress Admin page: Tool->Localization. Locate Comment Rating plugin. Click “Add Language”.

Now you need to do the next 3 steps:

click “Rescan” beside the language you created.
then click on “Edit”, beside the language you created.
“Edit” will show you a list of terms used in Comment Rating. You need to click on “Edit” for each term to add your translation. Then “Save” or “Save/Next” until you’re done for each term.

When you’re done, please send me the ‘ckrating_xx_XX.po’ and ‘ckrating_xx_XX.mo’ files in the comment-rating plugin directory. I’ll distribute the translation in future release with acknowledgment to your contribution.

I’d love to have an option to hide the comment altogether (not just comment_text) but the whole comment. How can this be done?

WordPress filters does not allow this to happen. But you can customize your theme to skip displaying a comment if the rating is too low. I can also help. Please see here.

Can I style the whole comment box of highly-rated/poorly-rated/hotly-debated comments

Yes. the comment styling uses the new comment_class filter (introduced in WordPress 2.7). If your theme doesn’t use WordPress 2.7 wp_list_comments(), you’ll only see the comment text background being styled or highlighted. To fix the problem, you need to add comment_class 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 blog’s readers are different. Some have passionate and active readers who vote on almost every comment. Some have indifferent readers who don’t want to click.

There’s no magic formula. You’ll have to experiment. Hopefully, it’s fun to play with the numbers.

Can a comment be both highly-rated, and poorly-rated or hotly-debated?

Yes, if you’re not careful with your thresholds. Won’t there be messy formatting? No, there won’t be. Rest assured. Comment Rating will use only one style based on the following descending priorities: highly-rated, poorly-rated, hotly-debated.

How do I turn off one or more styling?

You can do so by simple set the threshold for the undesired feature to a high number. For example, if you don’t use hotly-debated highlighting, set its threshold to 1000.

When a comment is hidden, will search engines index them?

Comment Rating uses HTML style attribute “display:none” to hide poorly-rated comments. The comment text are still in the HTML page. They are just not shown by the browser. All search engines will index those text.

Why sometimes the voting number does not change ?

The up or down vote counts will change rightaway after the visitor has casted a vote and change color to grey indicating the vote has been accepted. However, if you have wp-cache or wp-super-cache enable, other visitors will not see the refreshed vote counts until the cached page expires and reload.

To keep the vote count fresh, please set wp-cache/wp-super-cache Expire time to 1 hour or less.

The clickable images don’t show up. Why?

There may be multiple reasons.

Possibility 1: If your Apache error log show an error like this:

error_log:[Wed Aug 19 09:42:20 2009] [error] [client 10.9.1.67] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/try/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/images/up.png,

You have a misconfigured Apache server which preventing the loading of the images. Please Google “client denied by server configuration” to see how others deal with the issue, e.g. http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/000896.html.

Possibility 2: You may have configured your Wordpress URL to be, for example, http://CaptionWit.com/index.php. Please change it to http://CaptionWit.com under Settings -> General: WordPress address (URL).

Is there a list of plugins this may be incompatible with?

Comment Rating uses a unique name space, ‘ckrating’. There should be no conflict with other plugins. But you never know.

Warning in PHP, should I be worried?

I have this PHP warning message below News in the control panel

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /xxx/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787.

This is a bug in the Wordpress http.php file. I’ve reported to the Wordpress team. So far, the only problem it generates is the warning message.

Don’t worry. This is not a problem. And it will be fixed by the Wordpress team.

After clicking the voting image a popup comes up …

If you observes a pop-up box saying: “Response: done”, this is the normal response code. The browser javascript should handle it by update the votes and changing the image to a checkmark. The “Response: done” should not show up at all, unless you’ve enabled javascript debugging or something similar. Try change to a different browser.

Here are a few more error messages:

“Your browser does not support the XMLHttpRequest Object!”: please change to a different browser or upgrade your browser
“Response has no value”, “Error: Try again later”, “Error: Query Error”, “Error: Comment Query error”, “Error: Comment doesnt exist”, “Error: Fatal: html format error”: These mean that Comment Rating backend has various problem accessing the database. The problem varies from non-existing comment ID entry to having problem access the database. These basically mean that your Wordpress database is corrupted or the database is too busy. You should seek help from a Professional (someone knows Wordpress and mySQL well). If you are the Professional and you’re sure your DB is not too busy, backup your database (using phpMyAdmin or Wp-DBManager plugin), and then using the same tool to drop the table “wp_comment_rating” table, de-activate and re-activate Comment Rating.

Comments

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134 Responses to “Comment Rating plugin: FAQ”

1 toronto on 10 Oct 2009 at 9:51 pm

Why, as a Canadian, am I not allowed to rate comments or submit one. I’m getting the message that there is no Karma and try again later. But later never comes. What’s up with that?

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Bob King Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 7:13 am
I’m also a Canadian. But the politician I voted for never took office

You have all my sympathy.

The error message you state appears to be a server busy issue. Can you be more specific about the site URL? I can have a look.

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2 tricky on 19 Oct 2009 at 4:23 pm

Wp 2.9 offers the possibility for further integration with this plugin:

Comment metadata: plugins and themes can now take advantage of arbitrary metadata for comments, just as for posts, pages, and users. This should make it easier to create plugins to highlight “popular” or “hot” comments, among other things.

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3 ivan on 22 Oct 2009 at 9:13 am

I can vote only once per IP. When I try to vote on another comment, vote icons are gray (different user, different comment). So, after my first vote I can’t vote anymore (all comment icons are gray).

Btw, nice plugin, but still need work on it.
Regards, Ivan

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Dana Reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 12:15 am
How did you fix this? what code did you add? I am having the same problem.

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BoB Reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Does your theme call wp-footer?

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Will Reply:
October 10th, 2010 at 10:38 am
My theme doesn’t call wp-footer, hence voting is not enable, what do I do to cal it? Just add that line of code in the image in the FAQ above to the footer.php in my theme?

Thanks,

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BoB Reply:
October 12th, 2010 at 6:51 am
Yes

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4 ivan on 22 Oct 2009 at 9:15 am

Ignore my post above. Now its fixed. I just need to add some code in footer (.js) to work properly.
Thanks for this great plugin.

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5 Frank on 24 Oct 2009 at 1:55 am

Hello, the clickeable image dont show up in my theme and the error isn’t in the list of the faq. When i saw the source code, the img tag of the votess just didn’t appear.

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BoB Reply:
October 24th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Frank,

Are the inline style sheet (clearly marked as inserted by Comment Rating) in the HTML Head section? If not, the plugin is not enabled.
Otherwise, please post your URL and I’ll have a look.

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6 FlicksRealm flicksrealm.com on 25 Oct 2009 at 4:23 pm

Hi,

Is it possible to insert the comment voting into a post somehow using a php call maybe?

Example Post:

Link A – Like/Dislike
Link B – Like/Dislike
Link C – Like/Dislike

Thanks!

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BoB Reply:
October 25th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Do you mean to insert into the Post saying,
“Here’s the top three comments:
Comment A – Like/Dislike
Comment B – Like/Dislike
Comment C – Like/Dislike”

That’s a great idea. I can see this can be very useful. Unfortunately, it’s not doable yet. I’ll add to the Todo list.

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7 FlicksRealm flicksrealm.com on 25 Oct 2009 at 7:17 pm

Hi,

That isn’t actually what I meant but it is a great idea and I’d also be very interested in it.

An example of what I was referring to can be seen here: http://www.watch-movies-online.tv/movies/the_tournament/

As you can see each link has the ability to be rated. I’d like to be able to call this plugin via a php call so I can insert it anywhere in a post and replicate the functionality in the example site.

Thanks!

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BoB Reply:
October 25th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
If I understand the sample site correctly, we are getting into post rating space. Comment Rating ties close into the comments, not posts. You can try WP-post rating or GD star rating.

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8 Fauna chinasmack.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 5:19 am

Is it possible to only allow registered members to vote? How can this be accomplished? Thank you.

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BoB Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Voting by registered member only is not available yet. But will be in the future.

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BoB Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I’ve added voting only by registered member/comment contributor to Todo list.

You have an excellent site. Do you use a customized Woo Theme? Which one?

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Fauna chinasmack.com Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
What is Woo Theme? Our theme is custom. Thank you for your compliment.

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9 David on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:17 am

My thumbs are voting icons are grayed out and don’t respond on mouse-over even from other computers?

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BoB Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 7:27 am
If the thumbs are grey, it’s most likely working well. 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 will be in color.

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10 ron on 29 Oct 2009 at 1:52 pm

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hi,
i’m looking for a way to insert the ckarma via css to somewhere else, let’s say to the comment-meta div, but i had though luck to find the necessary css classes, any suggestions?

thank’s in advance.

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ron Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
hi again,

i assigned meanwhile tags with classes , so that worked somehow, but then there is still a question; i’m not such a good php guy , but all i need is to insert the rating as get_comment_date so next to the date instead somewhere above or below the post.

where exactly can i add or replace what with “get_comment_date” in the comment_rating.php?

thank’s in advance

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BoB Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I’m not sure what you try to do. Are you trying to move the voting images to the same line as comment date? You’ll need to disable auto-insert and call the comment-rating interface.

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ron Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
kinda placing a tag?

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ron Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
ah i was not able to post the tag, since wordpress won’t allow critical php or other code snippets … so let me ask the other way around: to call the interface, what should i insert into the comment-meta div ?

thank’s

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BoB Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
A tag around the voting images and words so that you can style it in CSS?
I can add a fix CSS tag to those content. Will it solve the problem?

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ron Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
finally i’ve found the tag, it was mentioned at bottom in the admin menu of the plug under “customized theme” so i’ve found this one right a minute ago.

but now i get only one button displayed instead of two , but the setting is on “both”.

is there probably a well known glitch or such?

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ron Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
ok it worked now, a simple plugin enable/disable made the trick. thank’s a bunch for your help bob

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11 Ovidiu goingout.ro on 03 Nov 2009 at 1:05 pm

Hello,
I installed the plugin, it looks great, when I vote it works fine, the vote is counted and the logo becomes gray.
But, if i reload the page, the vote is lost, and the logo get back to the original state (unvoted). I voted again, again reloaded the webpage… the same thing.
The table field ck_rating_… is increasing normal, so the votes are stored in the table….
Can you, please, give me an advice?

Here is an example:
http://www.goingout.ro/yann-tiersen-la-sala-palatului/comment-page-1/#comment-3489

Thank you very much!
Ovidiu

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BoB Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Do you run WP-cache or WP-super-cache?
If so, lower the expiry time to 1 hour or lower.

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12 Ovidiu goingout.ro on 03 Nov 2009 at 1:25 pm

Thank you very much for the quick answer.
Unfortunately, I don’t have that plugins installed…

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BoB Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I tried it on your site. It’s like what you described.
Can you look at the wp_comment_rating database table to see if the votes are registered?

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Ovidiu goingout.ro Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
yes, the votes are registered.
As you see, in the original state, the counter shows 0-0.
After the vote (if like), it changes to 2-0 (obviously, there are counted).
The table looks like this:
ck_comment_id ck_ips ck_rating_up ck_rating_down
3489 [BLOB - 55B] 2 1

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13 Ovidiu goingout.ro on 03 Nov 2009 at 1:45 pm

Now I noticed that in the wp-admin Comments section the plugin works corect.

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BoB Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
If the plugin displays the votes correctly in admin page, then your website must be cached.

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14 Ovidiu goingout.ro on 03 Nov 2009 at 3:47 pm

Maybe the theme itself has some caching, no cache plugins are installed. I’ll check, thank you very much for your answers.
Good luck!

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15 corey on 03 Nov 2009 at 10:35 pm

When I vote on a comment I get a pop-up box saying: “Response:
done”

then another pop-up saying, “Karma not changed, please try again later.”

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BoB Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Those are error messages indicating failed updating the database. This happens when the database is overloaded.

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sean Reply:
November 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I am testing this plugin on localhost and messages appear too. What does it mean “overloaded database” in this case?

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sean Reply:
November 26th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
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…and after simply reloading the page, voting is done, so uploading the database seems to be ok…

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BoB Reply:
November 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
@sean, if you observes a pop-up box saying: “Response: done”, this is the normal response code. The browser javascript should handle it by update the votes and changing the image to a checkmark. The “Response: done” should not show up at all, unless you’ve enabled javascript debugging or something similar. Try change to a different browser.

It’ll be more helpful if you can describe the exact error message.

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sean Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 am
I have tested this plugin on my server in internet and everything is ok – image changes into a checkmark. That javascript messages show up only on localhost. I don’t know why but it doesn’t matter, i don’t need it working on localhost.

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BoB Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 12:16 am
When the database cools down, please try again.

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16 cindy on 15 Nov 2009 at 11:01 pm

Hello, How to display the rating on the right? thanks.

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Gregory Reply:
November 16th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I want to get the same info… Thanks BoB

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BoB Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Yes, that’s doable. Will try to put it into the next update.

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Cindy Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:37 am
It’s great! Thanks BoB.

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17 Fat Cow on 22 Nov 2009 at 5:32 pm

Hi author, I want translate your plugin to russian language. Please tell me Your email, simply reply me to mrilyuha [ @ ] gmail.com. Thanks

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18 Krid on 05 Jan 2010 at 1:38 pm

Hello,
“My Suffusion theme displays the voting icon and numbers in separate lines.
It’s the definition of the line of “display: block;” that caused the problem.

.commentlist small {
margin-bottom: 5px;
display: block;
font-size: 87%;
}”
Can you help me, I can not found these lines…

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BoB Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Please look for “.commentlist small” line in your style.css and remove the “display: block”. The problem should be resolved.

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19 Ash on 17 Jan 2010 at 10:34 pm

The website “allkpop.com” uses this type of commenting system and everytime I try to see the lowly rated comments I click on “Click here to see” and nothing shows up. Is there something on my computer blocking it or is it just low rated comments cannot be seen by anyone?

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20 Harry on 19 Feb 2010 at 11:13 am

It’s really confusing. I click the “thumb” icons on your page,NOTHING happend? The icon is not gray and the number is the same as before.Also I got the same problem on my pages.

My browser is IE (on Vista OS)

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BoB Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
I just tried my site with IE 8.0, on XP (no one can convince me moving to Vista), and the clicks register ok.

Now, did you turn Javascript off on your IE? If so, it explains.

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21 d1psin on 11 Mar 2010 at 8:26 am

Hey, if you could make something like this for posts I would definitely pay for it. It would be exactly what I am looking for. I can see above that you mention it but I cant find anything about it anywhere.

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22 Phat on 05 Apr 2010 at 10:35 pm

Hi, thank you very much for you great plugin! It’s very useful and nice-designed. I’m currently test it on BuddyPress. It also works nicely, but it’ll be much better if we can add the rating in Activities and Activities’ comments. Would you mind helping WP users with that great function? Have a nice day!

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23 Claus lisichansk.com.ua on 08 Apr 2010 at 2:43 pm

Hello from Ukraine!
I need your help! The plugin works, but after the update page, all ratings are lost and you can vote again. Here is my site with your plugin, please help understand what problems. lisichansk.com.ua/2010/04/2490
Sorry for my bad English:)

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24 Alvaro garo0.com on 08 Apr 2010 at 3:27 pm

Hi Bob! wonderful plugin! I have a little problem, I’ve installed the plugin and worked fine, I put the javascript call in the footer calling ck-karma.js, I voted a comment and worked like a charm.
BUT:
When I refresh the page the icon is available for vote again!! I need the plugin recognize the IP address of the visitor and prevent “multi-voting” pleeeaseee!! help me, i dont know what to do and I need the votes working ASAP!!
the site: http://pacificdentalcare.org/wordpress/?p=31
Thank you in advance!
(PD. sorry 4 my english )

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25 Claus lisichansk.com.ua on 09 Apr 2010 at 1:58 am

I think that the Problem in the permission … on the local computer everything works

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26 Cristian proyectopropio.cl on 13 Apr 2010 at 12:21 pm

Hi,
Thanks for this plugin is very important for me. I Have a problem. ¿How I can refresh automatically the count of votes…in my site I have that refresh manually for that votes counts can be seen.
Please give me a hand.
Thanks in advance

http://www.proyectopropio.cl/2010/02/al-dia-n%C2%BA21

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AL Reply:
June 30th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
hey bob, i got this exact same problem too.. could you help? thnx in advance mate!

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Cristian Reply:
July 2nd, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Hi Al,
In my case was the hosting, my client bought a very poor hosting slowly and bad, the count of votes work in a few seconds more that normal, but work, be sure to put wp_footer before of close body tag.
Good luck!

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27 Mathias on 10 May 2010 at 12:35 pm

Hi Bob, great plugin! I’m trying to get the Highly-rated comments from each post and show them on the post body, but until now I had no lucky to find out the right code for that. Could you please help me on that?

Thanks

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BoB Reply:
May 10th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
I’m considering add a Wordpress shortcode for the feature you mentioned. It’ll take me some time.

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Mathias Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Okay, but I wonder if pasting something like that on the post would work:
= (int)get_option(‘ckrating_goodRate’)) {
//add comment highlighting class
echo comment_text();
}
?>

Thanks

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Mathias Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
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Please ignore the code above
global $ck_cache;
//get the comment object, in case $comment_id is not passed.
$ck_comment_ID = get_comment_ID();
ckrating_get_rating($ck_comment_ID);

if ( ((int)$ck_cache['ck_rating_up'] – (int)$ck_cache['ck_rating_down'])
>= (int)get_option(‘ckrating_goodRate’)) {
//add comment highlighting class
echo comment_text();
}

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28 andrew on 12 May 2010 at 11:52 pm

Can I format the Like or Dislike text so it is not the same font and size as the comment itself?

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BoB Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 7:24 am
Yes, you can enter html code in the Link or Dislike text box. E.g. Like or Dislike

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29 andrew on 13 May 2010 at 6:57 pm

Any advice on how to deal with this issue:
“When I click on a green “thumbs up” I get a green check. That’s cool. But after I click on a red “thumbs down” a green check mark also appears. This bugs me. I expect to see a big red X appear beside comments that I have decided suck (not a check mark, and not a green one at that).”

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BoB Reply:
May 15th, 2010 at 8:47 am
You are not supposed to see this. After click the green thumbup and saw the green check, the red thumb down become gray and un-clickable.
Do you display comment list twice?

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30 andrew on 15 May 2010 at 2:28 am

Another question. Can you set it so that the unpopular ratings are not hidden, but just displayed with the adjusted text formatting.

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BoB Reply:
May 15th, 2010 at 8:46 am
Not yet. I’m going to add the capability.

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31 ORiOn libertytuga.com on 11 Jun 2010 at 12:10 pm

Should there be any javascript from Comment Rating included at the header?

Cause there is none, and when I click on any image(thumb), it does nothing.

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ORiOn libertytuga.com Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Forget my last comment… lol

(I should have first read the FAQ xD)

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32 Corley on 02 Aug 2010 at 4:36 pm

Hi! Votes aren’t registering at ALL unless I click “like” or “dislike” from my admin panel. Is there something I’m missing?

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33 Juanmi improvisa.com on 07 Sep 2010 at 8:04 am

Hi, thanks in advance for the plugin.

I have a problem with the translate file. My languaje is es_ES and i have in my wp-config:

define (‘WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’);

The plugin show the words in English.
How can i do to show the plugin in Spanish?

Thanks in advance.

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Mooh instituts-francais.fr Reply:
November 17th, 2010 at 2:10 am
I am not a Canadian but I happen to speak French and I have the same problem as Juanmi. This is the first time this happens to me: there is an .mo file for French in the /wp-content/plugins/comment-rating directory but the messages won’t show in French. What can I do?

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34 Nikita menteriors.com on 26 Oct 2010 at 5:51 pm

I use thesis theme in wordpress for my website. The comment rating icons show up in my WP admin panel but not in the post comments. HELPO

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Lina taroskopai.lt Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Hi, I have the same problem with Thesis theme. Comment rating show in the admin panel, but not on site. Does anyone found a cure yeat? I followed the advice in FAQ, changed the comments.php file, but it didn’t help

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35 Steven on 05 Nov 2010 at 6:09 am

Thanks for the plugin, however please note it doesn’t work for blogs that are accessed via SSL (https), becuase the author has hardcoded “http” into the PHP source.

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36 Urban on 21 Nov 2010 at 12:40 pm

I have permission issues. Can vote but doesn’t get the callback right, the checked green image doesn’t show. What to do?

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37 Michael untrustable.de on 25 Nov 2010 at 6:31 am

Hi, thanks for this great plugin… I donated for the pro versions but the widget doesn’t show anything on my site… What can I do? In the settings the result also says that there are no comments yet… Can you please give me a hint?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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BoB Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 pm
There seems to be a bug in WP 3.0.1 that prevents the widget to show comments. The problem had been fixed in WP 3.0.2.

If you have this problem, pls upgrade to WP 3.0.2 or downgrade to 2.9.x

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Michael untrustable.de Reply:
December 15th, 2010 at 2:49 am
Hi BoB,
still doesn’t work – I updated to 3.0.2 (didn’t work) and now to 3.0.3 and still doesn’t work… Could it be about German dates? Or what can I do?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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38 Paul on 28 Nov 2010 at 8:45 pm

Hi Bob,

Really great plugin! (You know what’s coming…) However, I am working on my site in a local install on my machine (wampserver). As I understand it, since it checks the IP I have no way of testing out the functionality. I’ve tried resetting the router with no success. Is there a way to disable the IP address check or to allow the admin super judging powers? I dinked around a bit in comment-rating.php and commented out lines 251-258 and line 272- that allowed me to see the mouseover effect but nothing happened onclick. The javascript is showing when I ctrl-U as you described above in the faq. Any ideas? Let me know if it is going to take you too much time to help me out for free

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BoB Reply:
November 28th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Hi there,
Not many people need to dig into those details and need these much flexibility. That’s why the standard version is limited that way. It’s also for the sake of ease of use.

However, there’s a Pro version which allows you disable authenticate at will. See here: http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-pro/

Bob

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39 Moki on 09 Dec 2010 at 3:07 am

Hello,

my problem ist the error or better… the flase size… loook self:
http://zockah.de/news/wikileaks-website-wird-nun-gespiegelt/

is this normal? how can i fix it?

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BoB Reply:
December 9th, 2010 at 9:06 am
This is a problem in your theme’s img property.
You can donate to use the Pro version and I can help looking at your theme.
http://wealthynetizen.com/donate/

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40 Al Spaulding alspaulding.com on 11 Dec 2010 at 10:08 pm

hi there. i have installed the plugin on my blog which is using the thesis theme 1.8 with wordpress. Now while i’m able to view it just fine in my comments section on my dashboard it doesn’t show up at all on any og my blog posts. i even set the settings back to default to no avail. can anyone help me out? is the thesis theme not supported?
thanks in advance,
Cheers!

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BoB Reply:
December 11th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
It’s a bug in thesis 1.8. Search the website, I and someone else had posted a fix

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Al Spaulding alspaulding.com Reply:
December 12th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
may i please have the link? i’ve searched this site for 45 miin and havent found anything related to this

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41 Al Spaulding alspaulding.com on 12 Dec 2010 at 6:09 pm

search what website?? i cant find anything?

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Al Spaulding alspaulding.com Reply:
December 12th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
scratch that. i found it. google it. here is the link for anyone else using thesis them. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-comment-rating-incompatible-with-thesis-theme

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42 micha on 22 Dec 2010 at 10:20 am

hello bob,

i really like this plugin but i have on problem to change check by ip i want to check it by user id, coz if a user want post a comment, he must register. but that know, that if they get a new ip they can rating again. do u know a simple way to fix it?

regards from germany^^

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BoB Reply:
December 22nd, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Hi Micha,

Your right, IP address as voting fraud detection is not effective. The best way is to use WP user ID. I’m implementing this in the next few days in the Pro version. Hope that you can donate and use the Pro.

Bob

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43 Scott Perry blog.blueearthceramics.com on 28 Dec 2010 at 11:51 pm

I just installed and activated “Comment Rating” in my wordpress blog using Thesis 1.8 but for some reason, none of the Comment-Rating-icons showed up at all in my blog. I haven’t altered any of the default settings, and I’ve reviewed all of the defaults and they seem to be set as I would expect in order to get the plugin to work. Any suggestions? Thanks, Scott Perry

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44 Phil Duncan multisitepro.net on 14 Jan 2011 at 9:42 am

I bought the pro version, but we need strong voting fraud prevention and an option to limit a user’s voting to one vote per day. (or voting x times per x variable time period) I am willing to pay for the modifications and am in need immediately of these changes. Please respond if this is possible.

Thank you.

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BoB Reply:
January 14th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for your support.

The Pro version currently support, IP, Cookie and logged in user based fraud prevention. What additional mechanism do you have in mind?

“limit a user’s voting to one vote per day” will take a huge DB resource and may not be doable.

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45 Greg livebold.org on 02 Feb 2011 at 8:14 pm

I use the “Forum Server” plugin on my site. It grabs the comment rating plugin on posted topics. When the the ratings are clicked, I get the following error in a pop up box. “error:fatal:html format error”. Ideas? I did not install comment rating for Forum Server… it just appeared. Is there a known conflict?

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46 Will on 06 Feb 2011 at 8:57 pm

This plugin is great, but I can vote more than once from the same IP
Here ths link, note that there is a comment with more than 10 thumbs up, I voted from the same machine:
http://evilwill.com.br/index.php/2011/01/31/loren/#comment-39

Thanks

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BoB Reply:
February 8th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Sorry I cannot reproduce the problem of duplicated voting from the same IP.

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47 Will on 08 Feb 2011 at 5:27 pm

I already disabled the plugin, thanks for your reply anyway

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48 cosmos maniac.ensg.mn on 10 Feb 2011 at 6:38 am

Hi. This is nice plugn. But it plugn not working on the WordPress 3.05

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49 cosmos maniac.ensg.mn on 10 Feb 2011 at 6:42 am

Last added ck-karmas.js in the footer.php last sources, but not working.

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cosmos maniac.ensg.mn Reply:
February 10th, 2011 at 6:44 am
Javascript loaded not working,but working page refresh. ?

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BoB Reply:
February 10th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Can you switch to the default theme to see if it works?
If it doesn’t work, your theme have problem. It can be unmatching HTML tag.

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50 Shane googlyeye.com.au on 12 Feb 2011 at 9:21 am

I want to use Comment Rating plugin with Mingle Forum. I tied a simple install… I get the options to like/dis-like, but you can’t press on either thumbs (they are in colour) and no rating is updated (they just stay at 0 0). Is there a way to get Comments Rating to work with Mingle Forum?

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51 Dani 2sides.co.il on 01 Apr 2011 at 12:19 am

I got a weird problem. When I press the voting icon nothing happens. On Chrome and Firefox when I refresh the page i can see the vote and the icons turns grey. On IE it doesn’t work at all and showing this error:
Message: Access is denied.

Line: 44
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://2sides.co.il/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/ck-karma.js?ver=3.1

what’s wrong?

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BoB Reply:
April 1st, 2011 at 12:45 am
It’s the different in your domain URL. You must have http://www.2sides.co.il and 2sides.co.il

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Dani 2sides.co.il Reply:
April 1st, 2011 at 10:27 pm
I don’t understand. If you type 2sides.co.il Or http://www.2sides.co.il you get in my site, so it’s the same.
other thing, when i put this adress http://2sides.co.il/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/ck-karma.js?ver=3.1
in Chrome it alods me to download the file and there is no problem, but in IE i get the Not found page.
Is there anything i can do to fix it?
By the way, on here i can vote perfectly on comments even with IE.

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BoB Reply:
April 1st, 2011 at 11:56 pm
These two are considered as different domains, as far as IE is concerned.

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52 Mark ihatethemedia.com on 03 Apr 2011 at 3:31 pm

Love your plugin. Something is not working now though. Comments with over X number of votes down are no longer hidden. WP 3.1. Thesis. 1.8. Comment Rating 2.9.26.

Example: http://tinyurl.com/3pnwnbd

(I first posted this on another page of yours, but see this is likely the best page to put it.)

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53 Anthony on 05 Apr 2011 at 10:21 pm

Here’s a screenshot of what I’m encountering. I’d also love to know how to get other images for votes. I see them in the plugin folder. But there isn’t any option to change them in the plugin’s settings in Wordpress.

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54 manolo grappling-italia.com on 06 Apr 2011 at 2:57 pm

Hello,
I also have a problem when i click LIKE/ DISLIKE: the count does not go up ( all the rest is perfect).
I ve read the faqs and

– yes, i ve checked and i ve
line written in the code

- Yes, i ve checked the Cache plugins (i don’t have any)

- I m using Gabfire themes

any suggestion ?
thanks
Manolo

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BoB Reply:
April 13th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
The javascript parse the page for the right tag. If your page doesn’t comply to xhtml, e.g. missing closing tag, the parsing will fail and the tag cannot be found and votes not changed.

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55 Barry thecagedoor.net on 13 Apr 2011 at 1:49 pm

Like is being displayed and when I (or others) vote I see a green check and the number of likes so I know it gets recorded, but when I refresh the page is shows 0 likes and the button is NOT greyed out. I vote again but it doesn’t increase the number of votes, but again shows me the green check mark and the number of likes. Any help?

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BoB Reply:
April 13th, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Your page can be cached. Let me know if this is not the case.

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Barry thecagedoor.net Reply:
April 13th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
No caching is enabled on our site.

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Barry thecagedoor.net Reply:
April 14th, 2011 at 2:09 am
I’m live with this, so I’d like to get it fixed or remove it soon. Anybody have a clue as to why it’s behaving like this?

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Barry thecagedoor.net Reply:
April 26th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Bump. Anything? Anyone?

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56 jon fr.programmeelectoralelections2011.ca on 21 Apr 2011 at 5:09 pm

One of the users of our site is having a problem where the images disappear when he mouses over them — here’s a screenshot showing that the top two have vanished http://d.pr/85op

He’s in Safari, although other Safari users aren’t seeing the same problem.

Suggestions?

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57 Khulood estrogenat.com on 01 May 2011 at 9:13 am

Hello there. The plugin was working fine until recently when I press the voting icon nothing happens, but when I refresh the page the vote is there!
Most of my readers complaining that the voting isn’t working so they are not using it.
What is the problem?

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58 Sopp on 05 May 2011 at 4:54 pm

I found comment rating plugin didn’t work correctly with the wp 3.1.2, the number couldn’t be refreshed automatically I clicked the up or down. I didn’t know how to solve the problem, could you check it?

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59 Marion explainyourdreams.com on 18 May 2011 at 8:43 pm

Hi Bob – Great plugin! I’ve read all the FAQs and I’ve deactivated and reactivated the plugin, but I still can’t get it to show the number of votes. Thumbs are red and green, you can click on them, they enlarge when you hover, but the vote count doesn’t change from zero. Viewing the source code shows the plugin in the header and in the footer. Can you point me to a fix?
Thanks so much!

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60 Stephen Fairbanks qwota.co.uk on 23 May 2011 at 1:30 pm

I really like your plugin, and have integrated it as a big feature in my website. The plugin was working fine, but now all new comments have a greyed out thumb and no-one can click on it. I’ve tried the website with a different IP and it still doesn’t work. All older comments are still clickable, but only the new ones are not. The only thing I can think of is that I moved the address of my website recently from the testing area to the live area?

I’d really appreciate your help.

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BoB Reply:
May 23rd, 2011 at 8:03 pm
please send me the site url and I can have a quick look.

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61 Nikola onlinezarada.info on 07 Jun 2011 at 4:41 pm

Hi there, I’m having problems with “Error: Comment Query error”

When I installed it gave me an error that header was already sent. Now the tricky part is this. It reports “Error: Comment Query error” but it counts the vote after refreshing the page…
Any thoughts?

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62 Alex on 27 Jun 2011 at 11:09 pm

Hi all,
I have this problem. The plugin is installed, wp-footer appears and also javascript line is loaded in the source code. Anyway, nothing happens when I click to vote. What can I do?

Thanks
Alex

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BoB Reply:
June 27th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Does the votes show up after reloading the page? If so, you may have missing HTML tags that caused parsing error in the javascript, hence nothing happened.

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Alex Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Vote does not show up after reloading. Everything seems to be ok in the code, but nothing happens

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Alex Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 7:48 am
Solved! It was a permission issue on our server. Now it works. Thanks for your support!

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63 hrc sisak.info on 17 Jul 2011 at 1:43 am

BTW im very interested in custom work from you about this plugin so if it’s not a trouble for you to respond me to my email so we can make that happen
skype / fbook or any live chat are also more than welcome

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64 ZAD on 20 Aug 2011 at 10:19 pm

How do I add these comments to one of my WordPress pages? Also, how do I customise what details of the commenter are given (e.g. name, email, website, phone number etc.)?

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65 Alyzande thegoldqueen.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 7:01 pm

I wanted to let you know that the “echo fix” described in
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-comment-rating-incompatible-with-thesis-theme
unfortunately makes no change to the display

What does fix this is a few lines added to the Thesis 1.8 custom_functions

function custom_comments_ratings() {
?>

<?php
if(function_exists(ckrating_display_karma)) {
ckrating_display_karma();
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_comment_meta', 'custom_comments_ratings');

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