Wordpress plugin: Comment Rating
Aug 16th, 2009 by Bob King
If you’re tired of moderating readers’ comments on your blog, stop doing that and let your readers decide which comment deserves to be shown. If you’re getting outrageous comments on your blog, don’t get too angry yet. Let’s see how many readers feel the same. You can do these tasks (and more) with the Comment Rating plugin.
Comment Rating makes “user moderated content” possible. This plugin automatically embeds clickable images in comments using simple light-weight AJAX javascript (not heavy-weight jQuery) to allow visitors rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion. The votes are displayed along with the comments in either two numbers, one combined, or both.
Once the user ratings are in place, the comments can be displayed and styled accordingly. Poorly rated comments (too many Dislikes, not enough Likes) can be hidden in a click-to-see link, just like those on Digg. Highly-rated comments (a lot Likes and few Dislikes) can be highlighted. Hotly-debated comments (many Likes and
Dislikes) can also be highlighted to draw more attention, to fan more votes and comments.
The thresholds for all three types of comments are configurable. So are the styling. Styling can be done with background color, fonts, etc. on the comment as well as the entire comment box.
This plugin allows using Wordpress as a general CMS in a Web 2.0 fashion. User generated content can be voted by other users. Example website is Caption Wit. Followings are a few example screen shots.
Summary of key features;
- Now there’s a companion plugin which display comments with ratings on a side bar. It’s called Comment Rating Widget.
- Auto-insert to comments AJAX based clickable images
- Configurable display of two vote numbers, a combined one or both
- Preventing voting fraud with one vote per IP address. This is less subject to manipulation than cookie based approaches. The author of a comment cannot rate his/her own comment.
- Styling of popular and mostly debated comments based on on the votes
- Poorly rated comments can be hidden in a click-to-see fashion. There’s no point of silencing your own voice on your blog. So when readers mark a comment by the blog author or admin as poorly rated, the comment will not be hidden, but only marked as poorly rated.
- Styling of the vote numbers differently.
- Mouseover effect on images to entice voting
- Choice of images and image size
- Localization support
- Functions are provide for theme customization.
- Allow vote types of: positive only, negative only votes or both.
- Store votes in wp_comments table comment_karma field. Stored votes can be: positive only, negative only votes or combined.
- Simple and light-weight (i.e. high performance). It’s also wp-cache and wp-super-cache friendly.
Comment Rating plugin is built on top of Alex Bailey’s discontinued Comment Karma. It’s released under GPL v3. Thanks to Jean-Paul Horn and many other users for ideas and suggestions.
You can download the latest version here.
Installation
After download the plug in, you can upload and install it from Wordpress Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New. Alternatively, you can unpack and upload the file to the wp-content/plugins folder on your blog.
You can configure the options under Setting -> Comment Rating. The default options should be good enough. It works out of box. You are done. Sit back and have a look at your blog.
If you want to do tight integration with your theme in placement and style, you will need to insert the following line into your theme “comments.php” file within the comment loop.
<?php if(function_exists(ckrating_display_karma)) { ckrating_display_karma(); } ?>
Frequently Asked Questions
For questions & problems, please refer to the Comment Rating Plugin FAQ.
Known Bugs
- If you enable Comment Rating, disable it and then enable it again, the comments were made during the disabling period will not have any database record and won’t show any rating images.
Before I can fix this safely, please avoid disabling the plugin for a long period of time. Fixed in version 2.8.2. - If there are more than one hidden comment displayed on a page and you click to view on one of them, then you have to click to view TWO times to view the second one.
This is caused by a single toggle variable controlling all comments. I’ll fix it when I get some time.
To Do List
Please submit feature requests here.
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Hi Bob,
This looks like an excellent alternative to Comments Karma, thanks for picking up development. I was wondering whether it would be possible to code in some kind of filtering system, e.g. “Dont’t show comments below -2″ (2 dislikes) with the additional option to completely hide the comment (and show it on user initiation). I’ve seen such option on several other websites, but just never for WordPress (and I’ve been looking for a looooooooooong time
). This way trolls and bad guys will be hidden by default for anyone who doesn’t want to see them, with the option to read the comment if they really want to.
Thanks!
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Bob King
wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 20th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Jean-Paul,
That’s a great idea. We’ll need some javascript to hide the comment which meets the criteria and it only shows on click.
I’ll look into this.
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Yeah. As an additional request (now I got your attention
), I would love to have this as a general cookie option (e.g. ‘Never show me negative comments’) and those comments will be hidden by default for this specific user. This way it’s cache-friendly. I think this is doable via jQuery and although I can find my way around in jQuery, my skills aren’t up to par to code this myself. However, if you need beta testers I’ll be very happy to assist.
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 21st, 2009 at 6:26 am
Jean-Paul,
Very original ideas. I’m currently building another plugin and will look into this when I catch a breath
BoB
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Works great, thank you
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Hey there, your plugin installs for me but it’s not working… is there an easy fix for this problem??
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Casey,
Can you show me your website? I’ll have a look.
Bob
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 am
I see that you’ve got something working. There might be a conflict in Javascript.
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Hey Bob, great plugin and thanks. I just have a quick question – how can I edit the javascript message ‘ Error: A vote has already been registered from this IP addres’?
I would rather not inform voters that their IP address has been looked at.
Thanks
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 26th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Arthur,
What would suggest the best message to be?
It’s currently hardcoded in the .php file. I’ll try to make it configurable in the future releases.
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Good suggestion, relieving people from any privacy concerns. I’ll put it in the next dot release: 2.3.3.
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Is there a demo for it?
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Mikely, I assume that you’ve see the demo site http://captionwit.com/
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Version 2.3.3 support the feature suggested by Jean-Paul.
Why do you want to show the Likes + Dislikes (as a negative number)? It provides less information.
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tricky
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August 31st, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Nice to see that someone is working on this plugin
I did modify a comment karma plugin (wouldn´t distribute mine, it´s SO modified it may not work anywhere else) and added some of the functions people are talking about here.
Take a look at this comment:
http://www.vistelacalle.com/10940/carolina-grez/#comment-35410
I set it so it will close comments with -3, but you can still click to see it. It uses simple javascript to do that. Also, if a comment has a value higher than 3, it is highlighted as in this other comment:
http://www.vistelacalle.com/10940/carolina-grez/#comment-35437
Maybe you could even pass this values (negative, highlighted) using comment_class so people can style it.
I find that having a unique value makes it easier to the reader to decide… I like your plugin, would love to have the option to either have one value or two. Maybe the option to display one value is actually the same as two, but only showing the processed result (positive – negative).
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August 31st, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Tricky,
That’s a great implementation. I like the high-light good comment idea. And will put a styling option.
I think the double value is a unique feature. Readers are given more information. I had been looking for a double value voting plug and found none. I don’t know how strongly you feel about this one.
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Oh, and another hack is that if user = admin, votes are infinite
(so I can bury/unbury comments…)
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August 31st, 2009 at 5:30 pm
What do you mean infinite?
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August 31st, 2009 at 5:51 pm
That’s a great idea. I’d think this is really useful. I’d like to add the capability.
How do you identify admin in the voting javascript? Would you care to share the code?
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I tried to do it on the Javascript.. but I had no idea on how to pass this variable from php to js:
So what I did was this. I pass the admin variable to the script by calling the function like this on the comments loop:
ck_display_karma($admin);
then I passed this to the button generation:
onclick=\"javascript:karma('$ck_comment_ID', 'add', '{$ck_link}/wp-content/plugins/ck-karma/', '$admin')
so now, the onclick event will send this variable, and i added a check for it on ck-processkarma.php:
if ($k_admin == 0) {
die('error|A vote has already been registered from this IP address');
}
If admin = 1, it will simple skip that “death”.
Long and messy…. but that´s the only way I managed to do it by myself.
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Smart! I’ll try something similar.
I don’t know how you can grab the cookie either.
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I can’t get anything to work, it is always gray icons. I even try with different IP addresses (using my iPhone) and no matter what I cannot rate anything!
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wealthynetizen.com Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Can you send me your site link? I’ll have a look
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“2.0: Change the vote count from 1 (total) to 2 (Likes and Dislikes) and display them separately.”
Is there a way to only display the total?
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September 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 am
I personally feel that one counter conveys less information. For example, on a most debatable comment, let’s say, with 100 likes and 99 dislikes, a single counter shows “+1″. This is no different from an unpopular comment that has only 1 like and 0 dislike.
Showing a single counter lose much of the information.
However, if you can convince me, I can look into the implementation.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 am
In my experience, as I use one value to either “bury” or “highlight” the community is very active on active posts to make their point about a comment. It gives the readers an easy way to see the pulse, instead of comparing two numbers. I wonder if you can still store both numbers, and let blog admins to either display the two numbers as the output, or display the sum of both numbers (positive – negative). Also, at some point you still need to do that sum, to mark a comment as negative or positive?
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September 3rd, 2009 at 8:21 am
Hi Tricky,
I’m a bear of little brain, but I’d image there must be good use of a single counter. After all, choices and freedom are good. I’ll look into it.
BTW, I’ve put in the good comment highlight in version 2.4.0, thanks to your suggestion. Pls give a try and let me know.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Hello Bob, there should be an option to display the total value e.g. at the end (bracketed)
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September 7th, 2009 at 11:37 am
i agree with this one, must have + or minus in the value of course. This would mean all the functionality is still there, but you have something extra for those wanting the single counter method.
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im facing a small issue in “Comment Rating Options” page like beneath “News
Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/telecom/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787″
can anyone help me out what is wrong ?
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September 6th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Tarun,
This appears to be a problem in Wordpress built-in function. I’ll raise it to the Wordpress team.
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September 6th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Are you mean telekom.de ???
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September 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
No Im from TelecomTalk
@Bob
why u r not using the comment rating plugin in ur blog ?
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September 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I don’t want to mess up download stats
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Hi Bob,
i’ve set “Auto-insert” to no and it said place
if(function_exists(ckrating_display_karma)) { ckrating_display_karma(); }
in comments.php, only that doesn’t make sense (unless i’m missing something) as in 2.7 it’s all handled by wp_list_comments.
So i created my own comments theme using this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments and placed the above code with php tags where i wanted it, and it now shows up, only on voting for the comment the text doesn’t highlight or hide, etc.
Am i doing something wrong?
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September 6th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Jim,
You’re doing it right. I should have been more specific that the code should be within the comment loop.
When turning off auto-insert, the comment_text filter will be turned off. ckrating_display_karma() only shows the voting images.
Ok, I think this is a bug. I can keep the comment_text filter and only remove the voting images/rating.
Let me have a look and put this in the next dot release.
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September 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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September 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Jim,
The styling of comments are done by the theme. Most themes just use
. This could cause conflict with other comment plugin e.g. Threaded Comment.
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September 6th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
alrighty then
On an unrelated note, i can’t find an answer to an issue i’m having here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/308310?replies=1#post-1202063
can you offer a solution?
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@ Bob King i have uninstalled the plug in what should i do next should i wait for wordpress team to fix it out ?
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September 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
i get that error too, i’m not sure you should worry about it for now.
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@ Jim fine let me see.. what is Bob’s take on it !
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September 6th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
As Jim said, you don’t need to worry about it at all. Somebody may have reported to the Wordpress team and they haven’t got around resolving this minor issue.
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Bob,
I gave your plugin a run, looks great! I wanted to comment a couple of things:
- When I vote, buttons turn grey (vote is added) but the values don´t change immediately, as they are supposed to do (works on captionwiz.com on my browser, but not on my page). I wonder if it´s being by a conflict with other js?
- “highlight” could be added as a class to comment_class(); to allow better control of styling (style the whole comment container div). But anyway, it works very good, same as hiding negative comments.
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September 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Thanks Tricky for the kind words. I was trying to make the plugin most compatible with others. This limits its capability to some extent. For example, if it overrides comment_class, it’ll bump into many themes and WP Thread Comment. The highlight is not ideal, but a compromise. I wonder if font and alignment changes can make it better.
As to the JS conflict, it doesn’t use the popular jQuery. But the old JS code was not so careful with name space. Let me have a look. But this is just one possibility that it didn’t work for you. I’d appreciate more debugging info and ideas.
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vistelacalle.com Reply:
September 7th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Bob,
Using comment_class won´t cause any disruptions, as it concatenates classes. It would echo “comment by-user even thread-even depth-1″ and add “highlighted” at the end. So, you just style the highlighted div, or the p inside it… and so on.
I´ll try to debug the JS to see what could be wrong.
Another thing (and this also happened to me with ck-karma). If the server runs out of memory, or the database suddenly crashes… the script won´t be able to find the tables, and it will initiate the install process again, that being… creating the tables. It happened to me this morning (due to a misconfiguration) and I lost all the previous votes, as the tables were created again. I hope my server won´t crash again… but I wonder if this can be prevented. My quick fix with ck-karma was to just comment out ck_install after installing it the first time. Dirty fix…
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September 7th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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vistelacalle.com Reply:
September 7th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Jim,
You can look on how to use this hook:
http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/comment_class?version=2.7&file=wp-includes/comment-template.php
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September 7th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
not sure that made me understand it any more than i did. Can you explain the general process for this actual plugin, i would really appreciate it.
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September 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Tricky,
If comment_class is as you explained, it should work. Now, after going through the link you posted, I still cannot figure out how to implement it.
So far, I’m using “comment_text” filter, which is triggered when the theme is to print out the comment. This must be after the theme printed out the styling code. In order to insert a comment class, we’ll need a different filter/action. There’s nothing obvious here http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference
Any suggestions?!
Regarding the DB crash issue, it’s hard to detect it. the code looks for the wp_comment_rating table to determine whether it’s the first install. The chance of DB crashes when you’re looking at the admin page (i.e. the plugin is looking for the table name) and DB recovers when it’s executing the install code is rather slim. But apparently it happened to you!
I can add a checking the existence of option parameters. Again, those parameters come from DB. So the protection is no more stronger than the existing one.
Any suggestions?
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September 7th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Hi Bob,
Been silent or a while since I’m still on holiday (and haven’t got around to installing Comment Rating), but I really love the hard work and love you’re putting into the plugin.
I’d love to see additional styling as well and have found some helpful pointers to get you started re: the comment_class function.
http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2009/05/29/adding-classes-to-comments/
nathanrice.net/blog/wordpress-2-8-and-the-body_class-function/
http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/_functions/comment_class.html
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hello everybody,
Thanks so much for helping out. Some pointers are most useful.
I’ve put version 2.4.2 to style the entire comment box for highly-rated comment. There may be compatibility issue with theme not using the comment_class introduced only in WP 2.7.
Please test it out and let me know if you find any bug.
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
will check it out asap, thanks bob.
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
first issue: under settings / comment ratings, i get this error message:
[function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pcgagene/public_html/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/comment-rating.php on line 43
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/pcgagene/public_html/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/comment-rating-options.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/pcgagene/public_html/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/comment-rating.php on line 43
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Whops! I cleaned up the option page and put it in a different file, and fogot checking the new file into svn.
Have a look at 2.4.3
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
second issue: my comment boxes have css defined background colour using div.depth-1 and div.depth-1 to give parent comment one colour, and replies a different colour. ckrating_highlight is not overiding these colours. Any ideas?
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Jim,
This could be CSS cascading issue. ckrating_highlight may not be the last one, but being overridden by other styles.
Can you use Firefox Firebug to look at the style cascading? If this is a problem, we can change the wp_head action order.
Let me know.
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vistelacalle.com Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Quick and dirty: .ckrating_highlight {color:#ff00ee !important;background:#ccc !important;}
Correct fix would be to sort your cascading… div.depth-1.ckrating_highlight should do it I think (div with class depth-1 AND ckrating_highlight)
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Yes, the sure thing is to add “!important” as Tricky suggested. I’ll make it the default in the next dot release.
I’m not sure div.depth-1.ckrating_highlight will fix the problem. If another plugin’s comment_class filter is executed after Comment Rating’s, the new styling will overide the previous ones.
I don’t see a final solution for this. Any ideas?
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September 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
If another plugin adds other classes and they are not styled on the CSS, it won´t affect it. It is just to know how to combine your styles.
Jim, can you show us a sample output for the class added by the plugin?
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September 8th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
yeah i can’t get div.depth-1.ckrating_highlight to work using the styling from the actual plugin. It will only work if i add background-colour inside div.depth-1.ckrating_highlight.
But this might actually be my solution to the issue as on depth-2 i’m using a background image, and i’m just guessing but maybe nothing you do will override this one without me doing something like the above – a new style altogether.
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September 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
tricky, i’m not sure what you mean. if you can show me what you want me to find i’ll certainly post it.
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vistelacalle.com Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Jim,
It´s just a css issue then. Well, you can look at the class=”" inside each or for comments, depend on what you are using.
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September 8th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Ok, fingers crossed, it now works with the css i’m using. Had to sort of over ride the plugin style, though.
Now on the to do list (if i can do it) is to add a comment_class for negative posts.
And something i would love to have is where it says “rate:”, depending on if the comment is positive or negative, you can define a new text there. Basically i would put the default setting where it normally say’s “rate:” to “Neutral”, and for positive comments have it change to “high ranked”, and negative “low ranked”.
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September 7th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
bob, so glad your looking into making the rated comments containers change colour. real excited about this, real excited
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September 7th, 2009 at 11:41 am
highlighting an entire comment container is next on the list for me. Any ideas on how to tackle this. Bear in mind my php is not good, so i’d need solid details. thanks!
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Alrighty, did a quick implementation on my test blog and am really impressed with the progress this plugin is making. Thanks so much for all your efforts Bob and I’ll make sure to send a donation after our holiday is over!
My future wishes for this plugin:
- Use of comment_class for hidden / negative rated comments (e.g. ckrating_negative and/or ckrating_hidden);
- More translatable text (like: “Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.”, which is currently hardcoded)
- Comments below a certain negative treshold can’t be viewed at all (only by admin / post author)
- I’d love to have an option to hide the comment altogether (not just comment_text, but the whole li/div). Reason: I have rather large comment bubbles and these take up too much valuable screen estate when the comment is deemed as negative (as only the comment text is hidden, not the actual comment container). Not sure if this can be done though with a WordPress action or hook.
- Would also love an option to disable the insertion of the tags (for ckrating_highlight) into wp_head, as I’d rather take care of this in my own style.css.
That’s all for now. I’ll toy with this on an on/off basis on my development blog while I’m still on holiday and continue with feedback. Rather eager to finally implement this on my production sites!
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September 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
i mentioned doing something similar to this a while back, where instead of having two style thresholds for (negative and positive), its expanded to have four (2 positives and 2 negatives.
This is what i thought the options would be in admin:
Words before the rating images:
for standard: rating
1. for class = ckrating_pos_1) : like “high ranked”
2. for class = ckrating_pos_2) : like “highest ranked”
3. for class = ckrating_neg_1) : like “low ranked”
4. for class = ckrating_neg_2) : like “lowest ranked”
1. Comments with more than: 2 Likes are styled with: #x – (class = ckrating_pos_1)
2. Comments with more than: 5 Likes are styled with: #x – (class = ckrating_pos_2)
3. Comments with less than: 2 Likes are styled with: #x – (class = ckrating_neg_1)
4. Comments with less than: 5 Likes are styled with: #x – (class = ckrating_neg_2)
disable above styling and use own css for styling? yes/no
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jim
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September 8th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
if the above is done, i think i’ll have hit comment rating nirvana
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Bob King
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September 9th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Thank you all for the suggestions. I’ve done some thinking and come up with a todo list here: http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-plugin-todo-list/
Please comment.
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How can I get the comment author id in ck-processkarma.php?
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Bob King
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September 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
What do you want to do?
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I got the same error as Tarus
Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: ……
This is how it looks: tp://i31.tinypic.com/2mongnc.jpg
Pressing it doesnt do anything.
Hope you sort this out soon
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Bob King
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If you see the black image, you have a server configuration issue. If you look at your Apache Error log, you should see something like this:
error_log.3:[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/ima
ges/up.png,
Please Google “client denied by server configuration” for solutions.
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I get this message in the Apache error log:
Thu Sep 10 19:38:17 2009] [error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /home/debxxxxx/domains/xxxxxx.nl/public_html/xxxx/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating/ck-karma.js/, referer: http://xxxxx.nl/xxxxx/
Someone attended me on the / after ck-karma.js, so it would search to a map called ‘ck-karma.js’. I ckecked this and think this is not true.
What is the solution?
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Bob King
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September 12th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
This is really strange. There should not be a “/” after ck-karma.js. Did you modify the plugin?
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LDawg
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September 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I have not modified anything :/
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I’m trying to integrate comments rating with cubepoints plugin (points management plugin form wordpress). cubepints has one function, called cp_log() which makes easier to integrate it with other plugins, inserting the necessary data in necessary place. I inserted this function on line 52 in ck-processkarma.php just after the update is made… so as soon as the rating for the comment is updated, new entry is also added in cubepoins table. But this function has one parameter, called $uid (user id) and the value should be the comment author ID who’s comment was rated. That is why I need the comment author id in ck-processkarma.php…
Can you please help?
Thanks
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Bob King
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September 9th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I guess you meant Author Id of the post.
Currently, Comment Rating doesn’t have the authorID there. It’ll be some work before that can be done.
BTW, Comment Rating is under rapid change at the moment. If you wnat to do customization, please hold off a few weeks till the code and functionality stablizes
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Thanks. Would be very glad to see this function soon as I’m working on a big project right now and this is quite necessary feature.
BTW, Thanks for the great plugin!
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There is a little bug in your plugin:
File: comment-rating.php line 209
You should change this line:
with:
or all blogs that use your plugin will not validate html code.
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Bob King
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September 13th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Got it. Thanks for debugging it.
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Uhm, i can’t insert html code here. I’ll contact you via mail.
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I posted a reply on your reply on post #22
This is just to let you know 
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Bob King
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September 12th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Do you mind giving me your web url so that I can have a look at the source code?
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LDawg
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September 13th, 2009 at 2:43 am
I’d rather not make it public yet. But I have no problems sharing it with you. I send my email-adress and url to you in the ‘Contact Me’ form.
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Bob King
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It’s your Apache configuration problem. Browser access to the content in plugins/* directory is denied. So the javascript cannot be loaded either.
Search for “client denied by server configuration” to see how others deal with the issue, e.g.
http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/000896.html
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September 14th, 2009 at 4:44 am
I fixed it thanks to the support of my host
It wasn’t the Apache configuration, it was the settings of my Wordpress. I had to change the blog url from blablabla.com/index.php to blablabla.com/
It works now, thanks for the great plugin
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I just wish this plug in worked in the administrative interface. Not being able to either see, or reveal low-rated comments in the Admin interface is a pretty severe limitation.
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Bob King
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September 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I just noticed this problem. In admin interface, comment_text filter is run but other ones don’t. So the javascripts are completely missing.
Anybody has a good solution for this one?
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Jean-Paul Horn
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September 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I think you need to use admin_enqueue_scripts to also load the javascript in the admin area: http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2009/01/26/loading-javascript-in-footer-in-wordpress-28/ or http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/script-loader-updates/
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Bob King
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Yeah, I got it. Will put in a dot release shortly.
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Hi Bob ,
Thank you for your beautiful Plugin.
I was face problem after I install ” Ajax Edit Comments “, the problem is “Comment Rating Options ” disappear after install ” Ajax Edit Comments ” Ajax Edit Comments “.
to see the real example Look to last 2 comments
http://king-sabri.net/?p=1149
Thanks a lot
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Bob King
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September 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I think it’s Ajax Edit Comments disabled comment_text filter. You should let the Ajax Edit Comment author know.
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Is there any news about my above comment – getting comment author id in ck-processkarma.php?
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Question: Is the plugin working on WP 2.3 Blogs?
Suggestion: Hover thumbs while mouse is over a thumb. E.g. if hover, then put a border:1 …
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Jean-Paul Horn
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September 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
If you’re still on WordPress 2.3 I strongly urge you to upgrade, as that version is full of security bugs: Are You Responsible Enough To Run WordPress?
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September 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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September 14th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Don’t bet on that. Security holes can be in other php files not in the admin directory. Upgrade is the right way.
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Bob King
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September 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Yes, some activity of the icon on hovering is good. I can try what you suggested with a border. Others html/css gurus can provide better solutions.
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September 15th, 2009 at 1:24 am
If it is easier to implement hover styling: Another idea is to make the white thumb black while hovering.
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tancks.
This Post Helped me
Good Time
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I have found two small bugs.
1. If authors aren’t allowed to rate their comments and they click thumbs on their comment a message is popped up that they have already voted this comment. This isn’t right I think. It should pop up that they aren’t allowed to rate their own comments
2. The thumb icons shouldn’t be visible in RSS.
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Bob King
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Great points.
Are you referring to comment RSS? I haven’t use RSS readers lately.
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September 18th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I’d still like this plug to either not have the pop up box as it’s too intrusive and a little pointless as you now have a tick to show that voting took place, no need for this extra box popping up.
And also, if you really do want it, why not hook into the lightbox jquery boxes, etc so at least the boxes look sexy
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Bob King
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September 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Yes, the popup box cause a bit bad user experience. I’ll fix that shortly.
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And one more: admin footer in edit posts page stops loading for me if this plugin is active!
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Bob King
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Levani, I don’t seem to be able to reproduce this problem. Can you be more specific
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Bob King
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September 17th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
No you cannot use Comment Rating for Posts. Try other poll/rating plugins such as WP-PostRatings or GD Star Rating.
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Mikely
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September 18th, 2009 at 10:57 am
The Plugin Name is COMMENT Rating instead of Post Rating! The Plugin I suggest you is gdstarrating.
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What about the css styling with +x (in green) and -x (in red) like on http://gamespot.com/ps3/action/saw/video/6207779
There are 3 numbers per rating and it looks great.
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Could not find the answer to my question. here it goes:
Is it posible to go one step further and save the rating. I mean for the user (even not logged) “Jim” save his ratings and show them whereever he post a comment.
So it will be a “like / dislike” of the commenter and not the comment (like a forum Karma system).
Is it posible ?
Thanks.
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Bob King
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September 18th, 2009 at 7:41 am
If I understand what you’re say, you want to have a Wordpress template to show commentators with the best karma. Yes, that’s possible.
I have something similar here (based on comments, not karma) http://captionwit.com/hall-of-fame/
Let me know if you want to see the code.
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quicoto
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September 18th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Yes right. Instead of having a TOP commentors (comment number) for the “likes / dislikes”
Example: If somebody voted me with 3 likes, next time I post a comment it will say “quicoto has 3 likes” or something like that.
Thanks for answering
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Jim
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September 18th, 2009 at 11:38 am
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Mikely
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September 18th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
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Jim
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September 18th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Are you really assuming i don’t know about there? Regardless, thanks for your funny idea of help :S
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Of course this is possible!
Basically what you’re asking is for the commenters to carry their rating around, even between sites. And the ratings are aggregated to something meaningful and displayed with all his/her comments.
I’d think this is doable with some AJAX and a hosting site. Let me start a blog and hear what others think.
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Hi Everybody,
Hope that you subscribe to the comments here. I’ve just put out 2.6.0B with a bunch of presentation enhancements. http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-2-6-0-beta-available/
I’d appreciate it if you could give it a test ride.
Bob.
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Hi Bob!
I found one bug/mistake in the code. It is all about “get_bloginfo(‘url’)” function. You should use “get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’)” instead. I have my blog setup to work in the root though it is located under “wordpress” subfolder. It was not working until I made these changes. This will ensure that your plugin works for wordpress installations where BLOG and WORDPRESS urls are different.
Thanks for the great plugin.
Tim
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September 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Silly me! Thanks so much Tim. I’ve correct it and will be in the next dot release.
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I love your plugin.
Thanks wealthynetizen.com
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Hi, thanks for this plugin.
I believe user comment will be a key factor in future online newspaper strategies. Topix, http://www.topix.com/forum/who/hillary-clinton/TEMO2O945QI3LMG44, has taken comments to a new level. What do you think about it?
What are your future plans for this plugin? Will there be more rating options and will there be a widget?
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Bob King
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September 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for your kind words.
Judging from the interest of users, I know user moderated user content will be an interesting trend in Web 2.x. So this plugin is a step towards that direction.
I’m open to suggestions. Pls feel free to post your requests.
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Thank You.
Firstly, I think a good thing would be to let user judge comment out of more criterias. Topix (see link above) has 14 different attributes that user can label each comment with. The next step would be to package this output in easy to read lists like 10 most brilliant comments, helpful, crazy…. etc.
The idea would be to package and enhance the rich plethora that exists inside comments – so that a nicely crafted comment ultimately makes the headline of a newspaper. To exploit comments in this way could be the road to Citizen Journalism that the whole industry are trying to accomplish with other jerky tools.
We wrote 4 000 articles in our local newspaper last year. But in a gallup it was the 20 000 comments that people found the quality in our site.
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September 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Jocke,
That’s brilliant ideas, gathered from real experience!
I’m thinking about how to use the rating information. Using these with a plugin will be the logical choice.
Bob
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September 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Thanks. I don’t know anything about the output of ratings looks in your plugin but I think there’s much to do if you have the resources. We’ve tried to engage Citizen Journalist for two years with different methods but people get blocked when they think of themselves as journalists.
But the best writing is done in the comment form – there’s no doubt about that.
Now when newspapers must move online they must cut staff hard to fit the new ad revenue costume. That’s where the readers come into play.
And I think comments are the road in for this new big group of Content Creators – the readers.
I’m definately up for a premium version should there come one.
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Hi Bob, do my eyes deceive me or in 2.7, the option to disable hidden text element has gone? If so this is a shame as i used that
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September 30th, 2009 at 6:39 am
No, you still see clearly, but think too straight
. The removal was intended.
The same as the desire to turn off hidden text, there’re also needs to turn off highly-rated/hotly-debated highlighting. Having a switch for each would be clumsy.
So if you want to turn off any of the feature, just set the threshhold to an improbably high number.
Hope this solves the problem you have.
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Great plugin! I set it up yesterday but I’m a bit puzzled. If you check out a post like this one : ( http://www.vizworld.com/2009/09/nvidia-demos-gpuaccelerated-flash-video/) then the comment buttons only appear on some of the comments. I thought that perhaps comments coming in from BackType Connect were excluded (which would be fine, honestly) but my current #1 post ( http://www.vizworld.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-edward-tufte ) has 43 comments, a mix of on-site & backtype/twitter and it’s kinda random as to which ones have the rating buttons.
Am I missing something?
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October 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
Comment Rating use the “comment_text” filter to insert the images and votes. I think the 2nd comment is a trackback and your theme didn’t use the comment_text function to display the comment.
If you can dig out the comment.php section of your theme, I can have a look.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 am
I found the problem.. Comments added via backtype (after installation of the plugin) don’t have corresponding records in the comment_Rating table.. So the SQL query in ckrating_display_content returns null…
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Version 2.7.1 adds localization capability. If you don’t see your preferred language, please help out with translation.
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October 4th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Why jQuery?
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October 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
compact, clear.
it’s work with any browser
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October 4th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I see. Some people complain long loading time with jQuery.
I prefer light-weight and simple. the js is only 100 lines.
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I just updated to the latest version that came out today and now it is no longer working… anyone else having problems???
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October 4th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Can you let me know the url and I’ll have a look.
Pls also let me know what’s your Wordpress URL setting, under General -> Setting option page.
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October 4th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
The voting record is based on IP address, not cookie. So it’s harder to cheat.
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For some reason is not appearing to me, i did try insert into comments too but nothing so far, if by any chance you can take a quick look…
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Fixed something went wrong on the db backup
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Is there a list of plugins this may be incompatible with? This is a terrific plugin so far, and I was extremely excited when I came across it, but I’ve installed it and gotten everything set up as far as I can tell, but when I or anyone else tries 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. I’ve tried deactivating other plugins, but I can’t seem to find the issue.
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October 5th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Comment Rating use unique name space, ckrating. there should be no conflict. But you never know.
If you send me the URL, I can have a look.
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October 5th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Thanks for the quick reply! It’s currently on a hidden test site, so I’ll send the link to your contact form. I’m primarily using Firefox Mac, but when I check it on IE8 (Windows 7), it gives me the error “Object expected” in the line(s) where the Comment Rating code was inserted.
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Bob King
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October 5th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
The problem is that Commet Rating javascript is not loaded. If you theme doesn’t call wp_footer() then the line to load javascript is not inserted.
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Hi! I can’t manage to insert the code in comments.php. It throws to a function error.
This is the code
<div id=”comment-”>
dice:comment_approved == ‘0′) : ?>Your comment is awaiting moderation.
<a href="#comment-” title=”">
a las
I WANT TO INSERT YOUR PLUGIN HERE
How can i make? Thanks.
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Bob King
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October 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
You need to activate the plug in and put in the php code.
if(function_exists(ckrating_display_karma)) { ckrating_display_karma(); }
If you have this code, it shouldn’t throw any error.
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The plugin is activated but it keeps me throwing me a function error.
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Bob King
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October 9th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I’ve tested the function. It works.
What does your error say?
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If i put the plugin to automatically add the code works well… but i want to change the place.
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Hi! Now i could manage to make it work. The problem now is for posts with 150 or plus comments. In the lasts comments the plugin doesn’t seem to show.
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October 27th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Problem fixed in version 2.8.2
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Here you have an example. Aprox in comemnt Nº 120 it stops loading…
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October 12th, 2009 at 2:19 am
http://freddiemercury.com.ar/2009/10/07/ultimas-imagenes-de-jim-hutton/#comment-10026
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And in this post at the sixth comment is out
http://freddiemercury.com.ar/2009/10/08/descarga-el-multitrack-de-brighton-rock/#comment-10033
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Bob King
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October 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
This is a problem caused by disabling Comment Rating while the comments were place. So there’s no DB record for those comments. Let me see how it can be fixed. Pls stay tuned.
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Maxi Pandelli
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October 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Oks. Thanks!
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And i have this error below news in the contrl panel
Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/freddie/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787
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Bob King
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October 12th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
No, this is not a problem. Please see http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-plugin-faq/
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Something strange has popped up since one of the post 2.7 updates. Low ranted comments cannot be accessed. When some clicks the link to view the comment, the displayed comment is just the text: comment hidden…
Example: http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2009/10/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/comment-page-3/#comment-24842
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Bob King
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October 12th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
It’s a bug introduced in version 2.7.4. I should have tested more thoroughly.
It’s fixed in version 2.7.5. Thanks for reporting it.
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There is one other small bug that’s not new.
If there are more than one hidden comment displayed on a page and you click to view on one of them, then you have to click to view TWO times to view the second one. It looks like there is only one variable on the entire page indicating whether the low ranked comment is showing, and it cannot correctly track the toggling of multiple hidden comments.
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Bob King
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October 13th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Yes, I can reproduce it now. Very subtle. It’s caused by a single toggle variable controlling all comments.
I’ll have a look and fix it in the future.
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Bob King
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October 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Yes, that can be done. But you have to modify your theme to do so. I can help if you want to do so. http://wealthynetizen.com/donate/customize-your-theme/
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Bob, any news? (“This is a problem caused by disabling Comment Rating while the comments were place. So there’s no DB record for those comments. Let me see how it can be fixed. Pls stay tuned.”)
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Bob King
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October 14th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Maxi,
Still trying to figure the best handling it.
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Hi Bob,
I was wondering if the number of likes/dislikes could be inside the icon. Maybe in that case the icon would have to be bigger and the number in bold…
I think it would like nicer and more tidy this way…
Thank you for great plug-in.
Radek
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Bob King
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
That’s a great idea. However, I’m not sure how to do this. Are there any HTML/CSS gurus out there? If you can let me know the code, I’ll put into the plugin.
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after making necessary changes in the settings the comment rating is not shown under the comment section for my site telecomtalk.info
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Bob King
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October 15th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I don’t think Comment Rating is enabled on your site, because the inline style is not in the source.
Comment Rating does not conflict with iNove theme.
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tarun
telecomtalk.info Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Woops it was my mistake its working now thanks bob ,
but got one doubt will this plugin slow down the blog loading time?
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Bob King
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October 15th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
The plugin is very efficient. It does add one additional DB dip per comment. But if use wp-cache super-cache, there’s no performance impace.
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tarun
telecomtalk.info Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Yeah i can see one new entry under “Database Tables” tagged as “wp_comment_rating” ,i do get more than 700+ comments in some articles
mmm ..neither im using wp-cache or super-cache which one is the best cache plugin ?
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Bob King
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October 15th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
700+ comments per article! you have a great site! I’m sure you don’t mind getting more comments and user interaction (i.e. more time spent on site), even though the page loading will be a little slower.
super-cache is faster. I just fixed an issue with Super-cache’s author. Use the latest version.
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Thanks for the tip ,going to try super-cache hope everything goes will
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Bob King
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October 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
What’s the comment paging plugin you use on your site? I’m getting too many comments on this page. Need to have paging.
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tarun
telecomtalk.info Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Im using “Ajax Comment Pager ”
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ajax-comment-pager/
i was wondering why you have not opted a paging option,
some seo geeks quote paged comments have SEO issues so if you opt comment pager plugin use this downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-for-paged-comments.zip works well .!
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Bob King
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October 16th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Glad you like the plugin. Yes this can be done. Please read the FAQ. http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-plugin-faq/
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Ellie Walsh
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October 16th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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Bob King
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October 16th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Sorry I misread your previous email. I thought you just want turn off Poorly-rated and Hotly-debated. Mine is a common problem in the information age.
Ok, you wanted the flow of positive feeling only. So only Like image/votes show up. Of course this is doable. Let me think it through.
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Ellie Walsh
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October 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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it’s so cool. thx.
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I am struggling to get this working on my site, when I hit the rating button I get a javascript error with this in the title bar
Nothing found for Wp-content Plugins Comment-rating Ck-processkarma Php
You can check it out here http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/forza-3-vs-gt5-prologue-some-proper-in-game-comparisons but I am going to need to turn it off in around 12 hours if I can’t get it working…
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
October 17th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I think this error may have nothing to do the plug in, my wordpress installation seems to be intercepting your call to ck-processkarma and trying to resolve it to an article…
Any idea on how I can fix that?
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Bob King
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October 17th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
What plugin do you have? What’s your .htaccess? It seems that apache is not allow the access to CK-processkarma.php
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
October 17th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I also thought it may be the .htaccess but from what I can find mine is pretty straight forward
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
October 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Forgot to add, I also have these 2 lines in
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
They are in the above block of wp-supercache stuff, but I removed Supercache and had a standard .htaccess file and still had the same problem
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Bob King
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October 17th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Your site is down. You may want to have a look.
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
October 17th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
It’s not my day
… I will see if I can find an Apache guru somewhere
Site is up again, I can’t figure out the problem though and I really wanted to use your plug in
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 12:14 am
I found a resolution to my problem, the server had phpSuExec installed and my plugins folder was set to be writable by the group. I removed the writable access rights and it started working…
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BoB
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October 29th, 2009 at 7:14 am
I wouldn’t be able to figure out this one. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll add it to the FAQ.
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Thanks for your work ! I <3 this plugin :]
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Can this be enabled only on certain posts or does it go on every post site wide? Thank you
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BoB
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October 26th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
It’s side-wide at the moment.
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Marus T
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October 27th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Thats a good idea. If you implement that kind of feature, there should be the possibility to make a choice of enable/disable the plugin on some posts/pages/categories.
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Great plugin! Would it be possible to let us include our own “thumbs up” and thumbs down” icons more attuned to our site theme? Thanks!
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BoB
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October 28th, 2009 at 10:23 am
How do you suggest doing this easily for ordinary users?
A hack is to overwrite the icons in the images directory.
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Marus T
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October 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
@vuxes: What a question, lol. If you want to include your own icons, just do it by uploading it via ftp or change the icons in the plugin folder before you upload the plugin.
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vuxes
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January 6th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
yawn, waking up from deep slumber…:)
>> hack the plugin
… and have them overwritten with next upgrade? It’s n obig deal but how 2 input fields to load the icons would be nice?
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The plug in is working on my site now but when a comment gets voted down far enough it disappears and I can click to view it but I would rather just see it with the negative aspect syling on it?
Would it be possible to implement phased fading so that the comment becomes more transparent the further it is rated down?
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BoB
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November 10th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Multi-level of highlighting is doable but increase the complexity of the code substantially.
So the answer is No.
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Okay, then is it possible to stop the negative commetns from being hidden? Just change the style instead?
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BoB
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November 11th, 2009 at 7:20 am
You can either change the style or the threshold.
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This plugin has completely messed up my website. I’ve just installed it, and my site stopped working suddenly with IE.
So I uninstalled it, and deleted it, but now the site still won’t work with IE.
Can anyone help????
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BoB
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November 11th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Wow! That’s a very strong acquisition!
There is a slight chance that Comment Rating might conflict with other plug-ins. But when it’s disabled, there’s should be no effect to wordpress.
Does your website work with Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera browsers? If it does, you must have copy-and-pasted some funny Microsoft code into your blog. Have a look at the your post on display in HTML form to see if there’s anything funny.
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Simon
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November 11th, 2009 at 10:44 am
hey there
yep. works with everything else apart from IE. Havent made any other changes to the site, so not sure why it’s suddenly stopped working…
arggghhhh!
A shame as it’s a great plugin!
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Ahaa! I have found the problem on the site. All is well! It’s our coding error.
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BoB
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November 11th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I’m glad to hear that. Would you care to share the problem so that others won’t point the fingers to me again?
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I have implemented the plugin on my Web site but find the flags are essentially a line above the numbers and text. Likely there is a conflict with my theme or another plugin. I’ll leave the plugin on for the moment at http://www.theindependentview.com. A line in the source code reads:
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Any suggestions would be welcomed.
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BoB
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November 15th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Most likely your “WordPress address (URL)” is set wrongly. Have a look at the FAQ.
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Matthew
theindependentview.com Reply:
November 15th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Maybe I’m missing it in the FAQ, but the only mention of URL seems to involve Apache servers and another problem. In my case I am using Windows Server 2008 and have same results with either IE8 or Firefox. And, should it matter, the URL is as listed for these other issues. My theme is created using Artisteer 2.2. I have read through the readme file and also do not find anything pertinent there.
I looked at manual inserting the code but cannot find the correct place–nor anyting in your faq or readme or in the Q&A on your web site to answer this question.
I tried placing the view source into a text widget (I have PHP code plugin installed) and things display correctly. Thus, I apparently need to alter the code around the insert to clear up css issues. I’m running around in circles here trying to figure out where to try making changes, much less what changes to try.
Suggestions?
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Gavin
lazygamer.co.za Reply:
November 15th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
In your wordpress Backend click on Settings–>General and then you can see a setting for WordPress address (URL) which needs to be correct…
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Hi! I find this plugin very interesting but I have a good idea to improve it!
It would be nice if the plugin will have the option to show in the bottom of the post excerpt the best voted plugin.
Something like Destructoid: http://www.destructoid.com/
But besides the last comment, the best voted comment.
What do you think??
Regards!
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BoB
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Yes, that’s a great feature. I’ll put it in the todo list.
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wildkyo
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Great! Thanks.
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Let me tell you that I love your plugin, the best one for comments so far.
There’s just one thing. When you doble click a hand to vote, you get 4 error messages, can this issue be solved?
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BoB
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the compliment.
Indeed, that’s a bug. the additional clicks are counted as invalid votes. Let me look into this issue.
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Max
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December 3rd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Wow BoB! You’re amazing!
You solved the issue so fast! Best plugin ever. I’m rating it five stars right now.
Thanks for spending time working on this plugin, you rock.
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BoB
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the kind words.
I take pride in being bug free.
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Have you thought about making this plugin for posts too?
fmylife.com has a similar way to rate each post. It would be really really nice if your plugin could also be used in posts.
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BoB
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December 7th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Yes, I had. There are already well established post rating plugins, e.g. WP post rating & GD star rating.
Why reinventing the wheel! Well, unless my wheel is elliptic and there’s a certain advantage to it.
Anything unique you see for a post rating system. I’m open to suggestions.
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Well I think your rating system is far superior.
WP post rating & GD star rating both have the star rating type which is awful. People don’t like to rate that way anymore.
Textsfromlastnight.com has a better way of rating posts, similar to your comments rating.
I would definitely pay or donate for a rating system for posts, similar to textsfromlastnight.com or fmylife.com
I hope you consider it sometime.
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Jake
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December 10th, 2009 at 6:06 am
I agree. Will also donate if you decide to do it.
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BoB
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December 11th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Ok, let me look into this. Thanks for the feedback.
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Hi there. Great plugin, however I think I broke it. I deleted, then reinstalled and now it no longer works. Is there a way I can completely start over? Take a look:
http://www.dreadlocks.org/
Thanks for the great plugin,
Jack
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BoB
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December 10th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Jack,
All the voting javascript on the images are missing. Did you modify the plugin?
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jack
dreadlocks.org Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Hi Bob, thanks for the quick reply. No, as far as I know I have only installed, uninstalled, and reinstalled the plugin. Is there a way to do a “full” uninstall and try again perhaps?
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BoB
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December 11th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I don’t understand why all the “on click” javascript link in the image attributes are missing. Do you have any other SEO image plugin which rewriting the image attributes?
I can change the order of execution of the plugin to avoid those conflicts.
Full uninstall won’t help. If you really want to try, you need to remove the “wp_comment_rating” table.
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jack
dreadlocks.org Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
No, the only SEO plugin I use is the “All in one SEO”. How would I change the order of execution as you suggest? Thanks again,
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Jack
dreadlocks.org Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Hello to the rest of you. Can anyone else take a look at http://www.dreadlocks.org and let me know why the “on click” javascript is missing? I cannot figure this out!
Thanks in advance,
Jack
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BoB
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December 29th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Jack,
It’s a bug in the Comment Rating Widget which cause the java script changes to happen else where. I’ll put in an update which should fix your problem.
Happy new year!
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Hey Bob,
Awesome plugin, first of all. The only feature that’s missing that I desperately need is a way to list the top 25 or however many highest-voted comments. Is there any way to do this with your plugin? It’s something that none of your competing plugins have by the way. The GD Star Rating creator said it couldn’t be done with his.
You’ll make my week if there’s a way to do it. Either way, thank you very much.
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BoB
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December 10th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Hi Jordan,
Yes, there are ways to do this.
I have a Comment Rating Widget Pro which allows display X number of comments of the last Y days ordered by their rating. I’ve created interfaces in the Comment Rating for people to customize their theme to display comment by rating order in their post.
If you care to donate to support further development, you have both. http://wealthynetizen.com/donate/
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Jordan Lejuwaan
highexistence.com Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Okay I donated (or rather the site owner, Jimmy Bonutto, donated) and I have both Pro plugins. I got the widget working perfectly but how do I display the top 25 highest rated comments on a page? I saw the php shortcode that you can put on a page thru the widget, but I want different settings for the widget and for the top rated page. Is that possible? Thanks a bunch
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BoB
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December 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Let me look into adding shortcode to so in a page.
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Bob – Any way to change the color of the images or perhaps not make them increase in size on roll-over? I have a sports site utilizing blue and orange mostly and would love if I could make the thumbs those colors.
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BoB
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December 14th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Adam,
To stop image size change, you can change the mouse-over effect in the option page.
Regarding the blue/orange images, if you make a donation, http://wealthynetizen.com/donate/customize-your-theme/ I can create a set of images for you.
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why track back section, also have comment rating ability !
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in option page i could select “Position the images above or below comments” but how could i put it in right or left of comments box ?
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BoB
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January 4th, 2010 at 8:35 am
You’ll have to look at the Pro version or customize your theme by yourself http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-pro/
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Just stoped by to say I love your plugin and my readers love it too, specially the ability to highlight comment.
I hope in the future you do something similar for blog posts too.
Like fmylife, or similar.
Thanks for making a great plugin!
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Hi, Bob.
Bob i want to have on my blog the same thing that you have on your comments here, the Threaded Comment with the Rating. I am using the WP Thread Comment, your Comment Rating (Version: 2.9.6) and wordpress v. 2.9. With this configuration I can see the hands for voting but they are grey and don’t accept any votes, any ideas to make it work, maybe an older version of Comment Rating?
Thank you, I am all ears!
Mathias
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BoB
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January 3rd, 2010 at 7:55 pm
It sounds like working to me. Grey means that you’re either the comment author or have voted. Change to a different IP address, the thumbs will be colorful.
let me know the URL if it still doens’t work.
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Mathias
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January 4th, 2010 at 5:04 am
Sorry Bob, my mistake…I was changing the users but forgot that they all had the same ip…It is working just fine
Thanks
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Hello,
I tried in WP 2.9 but it does not shows any icons (images) only text Thumb up, Thumb down, what is the problem ?
Thanks
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BoB
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January 4th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Have a read of the FAQ http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-plugin-faq/
The clickable images don’t show up. Why?
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Is there a demo or screenshot of the new tooltip function?
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BoB
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January 7th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Yes, just float your mouse over the icons on my site and you’ll see the tooltip messages. Now, these “thumb up/down” can be configured.
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I’m getting an error saying “Error: Comments Query Error” when voting. But if you vote again, or refresh the page the vote will show. Can you give me a hand please?
Thanks.
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Mike
newyorkmustangs.com Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Anything Bob? I’m using WP 2.9. Would love to get this plugin working
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BoB
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January 10th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Mike,
I’ve tested the plugin on 2.9/2.9.1. there was no problem.
Can you look at the php error log and mysql log? I’m very puzzled by the database error.
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Mike
newyorkmustangs.com Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 11:05 am
I cannot locate anything in the logs. This looks like a JS error I believe. Any ideas?
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BoB
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January 10th, 2010 at 11:41 am
No this is an error in the backend ck-process-karma.php. It’s for debugging purpose. I’m hesitate to remove this warning. But you can remove the line in your installation.
The side effect is that comment_karma field will not be updated properly. My plugins will work perfectly. But if you customize your theme with comment_karma field, it won’t work.
Give it a try, and let me know.
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Mike
newyorkmustangs.com Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I commented out that line and it seems to be functioning properly after testing on a few browsers.
Thanks.
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Jan
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Dear BoB,
I have the similar problem. When I click on thumb up/down, nothing happens. But after page refreshing the vote is included.
I tried to fix it according to available advices, but the problem remains and I think that now I am not able to solve it by myself.
Please, could you help me?
http://www.modrany.info/
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Franz
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April 2nd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Please, send here reply for Jan! I have the same problem.
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Ally
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July 27th, 2010 at 11:45 am
I’m getting the “Error: Comments Query Error” too, if i refresh the page the vote is there, any idea? Thanks
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hi…
what your plugin still get conflict with my kaskus emoticons plugin ?
if still there, may I help?
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BoB
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January 9th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Yes, unfortunately! If Comment Rating runs before Kaskus Emoticons, the voting images will be messed up. I think if I set the order for CommentRating to 9000, it should run behind Kaskus Emoticons but before WP Threaded Comment
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nartzco
nartzco.com Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 6:22 am
hi BOB…
kaskus emoticons plugin for wordpress has update to version 2.5. see changelog http://bit.ly/8BP2rQ
bug fixing comment rating..
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January 10th, 2010 at 9:39 am
That’s great. Thanks for fixing the issue.
I’ll still put in an priority fix to prevent other conflicts.
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unfortunately this is not working on my site. I tried to installed it but when I tried clicking the botton it will only enlarge but the rating is not counted. help please
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January 15th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Can you let me know your URL? I’ll have a look.
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http://popsicles.ph/ is the link
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January 16th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Your theme is stunningly pretty. But it doesn’t seem to following Wordpress theme design principle. the Comment rating javascripts are not loaded at wp_footer(). Have a read of the 2nd Q in the FAQ http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-plugin-faq/
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January 16th, 2010 at 12:37 am
what should I add sir?
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January 16th, 2010 at 10:18 am
You need to add wp_footer() like other themes.
You also need to clean up your image property so that the icons will line up.
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Please do a similar plugin for post ratings!
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Hi Bob,
i have installed your plugin. I Like it! But the “Counter” is viewed in another line as the clickable-symols. Thats’s not so good. Can You help me and take a look at wellewichser.de ? Thanx
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January 21st, 2010 at 3:31 pm
I’m glad you like Comment Rating.
For lack of training in German, I cannot get around on your site. Could you point be a specific page?
This problem happened in other themes. The cause is your theme defines tag to place the image in a single line. If you know a bit of CSS, you can see it.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 11:04 am
Here is a specific page:
http://wellewichser.de/?p=570#comments
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BoB
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January 22nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
I just created version 2.9.11 which may solve your problem. Please upgrade and let me know.
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Wellewichser
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January 23rd, 2010 at 3:46 am
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Try versino 2.9.12. It should work now.
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Hi author, I want translate your plugin to ukarain language. Please tell me Your email, simply reply me. Thanks, FatCow
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February 24th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Please send your translation to bob at wealthynetizen.com
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[...] Comment Rating – If you go to one of my posts with comments you will see the green and red thumbs in each comment box. This gives your visitors the option vote if they find the particular comment to be useful or not. [...]
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This is the best plug in I have found in awhile. One question/comment – it seems to render odd in IE for some reason? Any suggestions? Again, great work.
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February 28th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Thanks for the kind words.
What oddity in IE? I had a quick peak at packerslounge.com. The “like or dislike” words are in between images and the vote number. This is odd to me. But it’s the same for both IE and Firefox.
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Alex
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February 28th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
What’s odd is that is looks great in Chrome. I also think there is a conflict with AJAX edit comments too. That may be the problem. If you find a fix please let me know. Again, great work.
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February 28th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I’m not clear what the problem is exactly. If you can identify the issues specifically, I’ll have a look. So far the thumbs and behaviour are the same in IE, Firefox, chrome.
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[...] Comment Rating: Allow your visitors to rate each comment. PluginWP [...]
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Hi Bob,
Your plugin looks great, but it doesn’t work on my site, I click on the thump up or down but nothing happen; please have a look and help me! for example: http://sayingimages.com/when-i-first-saw-you/
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March 27th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Hi there,
When I click on the images at http://sayingimages.com/when-i-first-saw-you/ everything is fine. The only problem is that it’s very slow, taking 2~10 seconds. Your server is probably underpowered to the level of your traffic
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I’m using this plugin on several sites with no problems. On one site started with having the option of allowing positive and negative votes and had an issue with some regular readers who didn’t like one another (politics site) marking all comments from a few regular commenter’s down no matter what the comment was about!
Disabled the negative vote option, but the negative votes are still stored and this results in a negative rating on many old comments like http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/bnp-policies-defence-%e2%80%93-no-more-cuts.html/comment-page-1#comment-72 which is -23!
There’s no settings to change this, have looked at the code of the plugin and couldn’t see an obvious way to only use the positive votes and the database entries aren’t editable as there’s no primary key for the database table ####_comment_rating.
Any thoughts on solving this specific problem?
BTW which “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” plugin are you using? I tried the most popular one http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/, but on my sites with multiple paged comments (like we both use) after making a new comment the page didn’t redirect to the correct place if the comment was made on a pages comment page (basically any new comments on old comments didn’t redirect correctly). Hoping you use another plugin?
David
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David Law
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April 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am
Solved the problem.
Renamed the table ck_rating_down to ck_rating_down1
Created a new table with the name ck_rating_down same settings except I changed the Default value from Null to Value and 0.
Works fine now as all the down ratings are 0.
David
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April 2nd, 2010 at 10:29 am
Glad you figured that out. I was about to suggest let visitors place positive and negative comment to see the dynamics. You’ll never know what result you get. You could change the threshhold of rating to control the highlights.
Yes, I use Subscribe To Comments
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David Law
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April 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 am
On my other sites the negative/positive voting isn’t a problem, just that one site (it’s politics, opinions are heated).
I removed the highlighting as just want visitors to make a vote on comments not hide a comment. I have sites with 4,000+ comments each and it’s a BIG part of the reason why visitors return and though it’s a nice feature to have the ability to hide a comment, it’s so easy to abuse.
With regards the Subscribe to Comments plugin I didn’t realise you don’t have paged comments (all comments are on one page), so you won’t be affected by the problem I’ve had. Shame that plugin isn’t updated now.
David
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[...] Markup plugin Style your code tags Hex codes for colors Wordpress comment rating plugin 30+Wordpress Comments plugins Wordpress [...]
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Vote included after page refreshing and thats nat good (
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I cant get the admin page of CK entirely loaded. It keeps loading forever, always stuck at the same part of the page:
http://img.skitch.com/20100520-5×9d49xptp38phu5ca9we3txf.png
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Thiago Mobilon
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May 19th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Hi again,
The problem seems to be happening due to the “news” section at the bottom of the admin page. For some reason, my WP is not beeing able to load it, so it it get stuck at this part, before even loading the “submit options” buttom.
I’ve commented the news lines and its working now.
Thanks for the great plugin!
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Can i insert the code in to single.php?
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BoB
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May 21st, 2010 at 7:20 am
yes, you can
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Hi great plugin! I have english setup on blog but use xlanguage for Norwegian. Is it possible to use the function apply_filters on all the variables you read from options? That way I can use a separator in the config, for instance: “Like or Dislike:|Liker eller misliker”. Then it will show the correct language depending on the reader’s setup.
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$content .= apply_filters(‘the_title’,get_option(‘ckrating_words’),get_option(‘ckrating_words’));
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May 21st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Hi there,
Comment Rating is localization enabled. You can translate the text easily, please see the FAQ.
I’m not sure how apply_filter works. Does it work differently than localization?
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The problem with localization (the po/mo) is that I have both Norwegian and English users. I write my blog in both languages, the xlanguage plugin displays the correct language corresponding the visitors language. If I set my blog to norwegian in wp-config my English users will have problems. apply_filter is used to apply hooks. xlanguage hooks text and split string to view it in different languages. Hmm its difficult to explain.
Here is the reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/apply_filters
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after inserted in single.php got error when try to click it:
“Error: Fatal: html format error”
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Works perfect – thank you for this excellent plugin
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Your voting system sucks – people can multiple vote if they login from public hotspots.
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Thanks for the sweet plugin. Now I just need a new logo and theme.
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[...] you may have noticed a new comment rating system on the blog. It’s a blog plugin called Comment Rating, and it now gives you the ability to go “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” on [...]
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Could an option be added to block vote by “ip_addres OR by cookie” . OR- perhaps allow a certain number of votes to pass from the same IP.
I’m less concerned about multiple votes (could make the subject look “active”/”debatable”) than I am about p’ed off surfers not wanting to return because they access from 1) an access point (like Starbucks, public library) 2) multi-user households.
I try to get traffic via Facebook (for one), and know for a fact that many are in multi-user households and will have the same IP address.
Thanks.
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June 27th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Yes, these can be done. It’s part of the features that I’m working on.
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[...] Comment Rating – Download If you’re tired of moderating readers’ comments on your blog, stop doing that and let your readers decide which comment deserves to be shown. If you’re getting outrageous comments on your blog, don’t get too angry yet. Let’s see how many readers feel the same. You can do these tasks (and more) with the Comment Rating plugin. [...]
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If you’re tired of moderating comments other than spam and kid stuff (I mean real comments like “I think you’re a fucktard because this, this and that”), then maybe you should just stop writing shit in your blog alltogether? Yes, yes, we all have opinions and finally we’re free from this god damn bible dictating our rules (democracy, yay!!), but let’s not forget that if such is the thing, then idiots have a damn good right to know that they’re idiots and that by hanging themselves, they’ll make this world 1/5,500 000 000 smarter.
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Hi!
I have a small conflict with Ajax Comment Preview: http://blogwaffe.com/ajax-comment-preview/
I’ve test to fix but without great result
Someone can test to see if this problem can be fixed?
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really nice plugin..great work,,,
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I’m sorry to resurrect this topic from the dead! But when I install your plugin the thumbs load fine and everything looks great. But then when I click a thumb nothing actually happens. I don’t get the green tick that should appear nor does any increase in rating numbers occur. It’s like I’m clicking an image with no function. It just stands still.
Any ideas? I’d appreciate any help.
Cheers!
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July 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 am
This is a common problem. Don’t be ashamed of it. Your theme is broken.
Please see http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-plugin-faq/
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?
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July 22nd, 2010 at 11:25 am
Same problem over here. When i click the thumbs nothing actually happens. I’ll don’t thinkTheme is broken. Checked the source and the Commet Rating javascript is loaded perfect!
What’s the problem?
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BoB
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July 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 am
Do you show the comments twice in a post?
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Mark
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July 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
No, just once
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BoB
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July 22nd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Pls send you url and I can take a look
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Fantastic! All works fine now. Thank you very much for the prompt response. Much appreciated
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Hi,
I’ve changed my theme, but now i can’t click on comment rating. It shows both like and dislike, but they are not clickable. How can i fix it?
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July 24th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Are you the comment author or have you voted on the comments?
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Hey Bob,
Is it possible to have logged-in users rate a comment just once? I understand the pro version has a logged in function as well a one vote per IP function. But I still want the users to be able to rate other comments other than one they just rated.
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July 29th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Yes, the logged-in user can rate a comment only once based on IP address or cookie. And they only have one vote per comment.
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David
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July 29th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Does the IP based tracking work with WP 3.0?
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BoB
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July 29th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Yes, 100%
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David
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July 29th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Ok I just paid for the pro-version let me try it out
. If it works this would be exactly what I am looking for.
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BoB
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July 29th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Did you make the comment? Comment author cannot vote on his/her own comment
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David
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July 29th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
I am testing with with 2 users. Both are unable – as soon as IP based tracking is selected, all buttons turn gray regardless of which comment I am looking at.
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