Comment Rating Pro: Voting by logged-in users only
Jul 13th, 2010 by BoB
After much delay, blaming FIFA World Cup for it, the new Comment Rating Pro version 2.12.1 is finally ready. By popular demand, two key features are implemented in this version:
- Voting by logged-in users only. This gives you the capability of running Comment Rating on a membership-based site. Non-logged-in visitors always see a gray icons and a message reminding them to log in or register.
- Voting fraud detection by cookie. Votes are counted per cookie. This solves the problem that most of your readers are behind a NAT firewall. However, it’s much easier to create voting fraud. User can simply launch a different browser or clear the cookie to make more votes.
Here’s the screen shot of the option page.
Here’s a sample that only logged-in user can vote.
If you have donated before, you can still use the old download link to grab version 2.12.1. If you have lost the link, please email me.
There’s little configuration change, which is still backward compatible to previous versions. The new capabilities are in “Voting fraud prevention” and “Only logged-in users can vote”.
If you haven’t customized Comment Rating Pro options, it’s recommended that you click “Reset options to default” to get all the option variable defaults.
To obtain both Comment Rating Pro and Comment Rating Widget Pro plugins, please donate $20. After donation, please follow the Paypal link returning to my site for the download page.
Bob, How can I clear comment ratings? Before I got the Pro version, some Guests came in and Thumbs downed a few of the comments. I would like to clear these as it makes my users cry (ha).
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BoB
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July 29th, 2010 at 11:36 am
If you want to clear all the comment ratings, you can
1. deactivate comment rating plugin,
2. use WP-DBManager plugin to drop the wp_comment_rating table
3. reactivate comment rating plugin.
There’s no simple way to clear the ratings for one specific comment yet.
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Jan F
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July 29th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Ha. It turned out it was an actual Hide rating and one that we (as a new blog) learned from. I purchased your Pro version so that only logged in users can rate things which will take care of it. The thought of getting into the DB to mess with that table does not appeal to me although I suppose I should at some point figure out how to get into the DB.
Thanks for your quick response.
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Bob, I am interested in purchasing the Pro version of Comment Rating, but have some questions about it. Can you please contact me so we can discuss? Thanks.
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Hi Bob.
Having “Voting by logged-in users only” enabled, is it possible to have one vote per user instead of one vote per IP? If not how would one go about making it possible?
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September 29th, 2010 at 8:22 am
One vote per user is not implemented in the current version. I’ll try to add that functionality soon.
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Patrik
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September 29th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Ok, that would be perfect. Looking forward to it
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Hi Bob, I am definitely buying this plugin… One request, I plan on implementing it with a cool plugin http://wp-answers.com/. Your plugin would make it significantly more attractive in my opinion. One added feature of your pluging that would make it even better would be the ability for the poster to select a “best answer” and have it go to the top of the post like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4866349/my-hashes-are-stacking-unordered-whats-a-loop-that-can-select-them-by-their-has (mouseover the green checkmark in the first answer).
Is it possible for you to add the option for the poster to select the best answer?
chris
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BoB
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February 2nd, 2011 at 4:16 am
I think this is doable with shortcode, which will show X number comments under a certain criteria. I’m planning to do this when I get a bit of free time.
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