Comment Rating Widget Faq
Nov 11th, 2009 by BoB
Do I need both Get Recent Comment and Comment Rating Widget plugins?
No you don’t. You only need to have Comment Rating Widget activated. If you keep both plugin activated, there will be a conflict.
In fact, if you had Get Recent Comment installed before, you need to click the “Reset template to default” to get the Comment Rating Widget template.
Is there a way to manually add users avatars? Is there a way to make the post title a link?
Yes, Please change the display template, see image, to
<li> %gravatar <a href="%comment_link" title="%post_title, %post_date"> %comment_author: %comment_excerpt</a> %comment_rating</li>
How do I show just “Likes” thumb-up in the Widget and both thumbs in the comments?
You can choose to display different style of images in the comments and in the widget. Please see image below for configuration.
I cannot see the Comment Rating images/votes on my sidebar.
Please check the Comment Rating Widget option page, the default template should look like the following.
<li><a href=”%comment_link” title=”%post_title, %post_date”>%comment_author</a>: %comment_excerpt %comment_rating</li>
If not, please click the “Reset template to default” to get the Comment Rating Widget template.
How do I control the displayed image and rating in the widget?
The comment rating and images on display can be “Likes only”, “Dislikes only”, or Both. This is customizable by the “Value for comment_karma” option in Comment Rating (under Advanced Option).
I made the change to the Comment Rating “Value for comment_karma”, but there’s no change on the sidebar.
The plugin comes with an internal cache to reduce performance impact on page loading. You have to clean the cache by clicking on Comment Rating Widget option “Update recent comment options” at the bottom.
If the Comment Rating plugin is not installed, will this widget still work?
Yes, this plug in will function exactly as “Get Recent Comment”.
Is there any way to display comments on another Wordpress page?
Like a link “Most voted comments” And when peolple click on the link, the can see all the comments with majority of votes.
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BoB
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January 13th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Not yet. I’m planning to add a shortcode which can be inserted into a post to display comments based on rating.
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khaled hakim
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July 30th, 2010 at 5:15 am
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
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July 30th, 2010 at 8:12 am
I’m working on the shortcode feature. What are the parameters do you plan to use? obviously, number of comments shown, ascending/descending order, etc.
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Khaled Hakim
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August 1st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I’m actually looking for the ability to show comments based on vote count. If this was a wish list I would also like to see the introduction of third icon that can be enabled from the admin menu and has a value / count just like the UP and DOWN votes but that one can be defined by the user of the plugin. Say for instance you have a “share your favorite quote” website and you utilize the comments for a place where people can share their fav. quotes. People can also rate other quotes UP and DOWN. Sometimes the DOWN is not necessarily offensive content, it’s simply not liked. So it should not be this counter that deactivates a (makes hidden) a comment. The third parameter could be an icon “offensive / inappropriate) (say an orange thumb or exclamation mark)…
I don’t know if i made sense to you. But basically would like:
1. order ascending / descending option
2. customizable third parameter vote icon.
3. I’d also like to see an intergration of more thumbs or the ability to upload / select / specify url of ones own icons. I know that can be done hacking the code of your plugin, but if it can be added to the admin panel, that would be excellent.
I’m willing to buy your pro widget. I just could not get the chance to really know the diff between the pro and the not pro. Also if above fixes come in.. ooh!
Thanks BoB!
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Hi, I just buyed the Pro version, and I want to know if there is a way to show the top comments in the sidebar without using widgets.
Thanks!
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September 12th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Without using widgets, you’ll have to hardcode the theme to display on sidebar. Is that what you wanted to do?
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Pablo Schonfeld
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September 16th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Yes, that’s what I want.
Thanks!
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Is it possible to rate the comments from the sidebar rather than going to the post?
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BoB
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October 5th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
The current plugins cannot do that yet. But this can be done.
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the plug-in no longer works, even the posts that weren’t made from my IP show up as grey now and I have reset to default a few times… please advise
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Is there any way of displaying comments left on Pages as well as those for Posts? The widget doesn’t seem to do this out of the box, nor can I find anything in the options or documentation that suggests how to enable the feature, but it would be quite useful.
If you’re interested in seeing the site: http://localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/ – there’s been a comment on one of the ‘about us’ subpages, and we wanted these to appear within the homepage ‘top comments’ section, but at the moment it only seems to show comments associated with Posts.
many thanks
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December 2nd, 2010 at 11:18 pm
You just need a theme which displays comments on the sidebar. Comment Rating Plugin will work.
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how can I get the comment_rating feature to appear via the following code? the following code gets the info. w/o comment rating how can i get comment rating feature to display?
$share_cmt_id_output = get_comment($id);
$content = $share_cmt_id_output->comment_content ;
echo $content;
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