I am very sorry to report, but the GD Star Rating 2.0 has been delayed once again. I managed to work on the plugin during Novemeber for several days, and I will have some time for it before the year’s end, but public version of the plugin will not be ready in at least few more months.
My other projects are gaining in popularity, and I need to spend more time working on other plugins, so GDSR 2.0 got much less development time than I hopped for. I am very, very busy and you can see from latest releases on Dev4Press that my time has gone into different plugins, putting GDSR 2.0 on the back burner. Good thing is that development is progressing, even if it slower than it should be.
I have outlined my time for the first 6 months in the next year, and plans for GDSR 2.0 is to be ready in the first quarter of 2012. In the next 2 weeks I will have plans published on the website, and they include xScape Theme Framework development, work on all current plugins, completion of current Beta plugins, at least one more major versions for GD Press Tools Pro and GD Custom Posts and Taxonomies Tools, major rewrite of GD Simple Widgets Pro and of course, GDSR 2.0.
Yes, please tell us.Waiting for some time now.
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Bad and good news.
I can understand that you have to fulffill the needs of paying users.
But wouldn’t it be good to think about what made you ‘famous’?
I think it’s no good story to announce a new version (which is not compatible to the current) and let your users wait for one year or more.
If your users find a new/similar plugin they may think over if it’s worth to use the others.
The fact that your plugins work with each other is your success – think about it.
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I am totally agree with the previous commenter and in fact this is my first comment and just entered here to advice you it and I am glad someone else also thinks the same thing…
I remember you announced 2.0 even in your previous forum months or, I try to remember, at least two years ago.
You are asking for more than 100€ per year suscription for the support and I believe the plugin is good bud need a new version asap.
I believe that if this version would had been ready earlier sites like http://wp.tutsplus.com/ could have used yours instead of other one and if you have a look at wordpress.com it seems that quite soon jetpack will include also ratings….
The good thing about GD is its customisation but time runs fast….
Even yourself should realise that there is a lot of space for improvement.
http://www.dev4press.com/2011/blog/benchmark/measuring-impact-of-plugins-on-wordpress-loading/
Take your time to think about it… May be in christmas…
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By the way, I believe you do your best and it is just up to you how to manage your business but may be, just may be, you could associate with another good plugin developer like yoast or frederick from w3totalcache or any other one for advancing into 2.0 or try to hire someone…
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Considering that I am developing alone, and that most of my Pro plugins are really big and complex (GD Press Tools Pro replaces more than 50-60 other plugins), my development time is well spent. I have tried to hire developers that will be able to work with me on this, but so far I had no luck with that. I have a certain way of working and developing, and I can’t just hire anyone to work with me, and people I tried with (and some of them were suppose to be top developers), simply didn’t work out. GD Star Rating 2.0 is now 40% done, and it will get done in the next few months. As for the other plugins, there is none unfortunately. I would like to see any plugin coming close to even on GDSR, but so fat no such thing. Comprehensive rating plugin is very complicated, and that is why it needs a lot of time, and that is why there is no other good plugin.
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Sigh. I understand that you have to focus on what pays your bills. Too bad that GD Star Ratings is not one of the plugins that do…
The ironic thing is that I was waiting for months to use the 2.0 on one of my business web sites exactly because it’s the best thing out there, and it being free had nothing to do with it – I’d have been ecstatic to be able to *buy* GDSR 2.0, had offered to pay for a part of its development, anything to get it done. Alas, I also have business to run, and can’t keep waiting or depend on a plugin that’s at the back of a developer’s “to do” list. I’ll have to find something (not as good) else…
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I have even paid for the pro support.. I believe people that really needs all your features will pay for it…
And related to GD Press Tools pro, it is just my view but may be it is too big… If it does things that other plugins do, people can use those other plugins… It is like headspace… I used it and after a while I uninstalled it beacuse it was too big and had many more features than I needed… Same thing happens withh your gd press tools… I would use many of its features but per instance i dont need backups because there are many other plugins that do that… CDN integration is done by W3 total cache that you also recommend and use… SEO is brillantly done by yoast seo plugin…
For me it is a problem of strategy… I believe GD PRes is very very good but it does things that others do… but GD STar Rating does things that nobody else does (so far…) and you should pay more attention to it….
As Otto says, Plugins should only try to do one thing, and to do it well.
http://ottopress.com/2011/modified-yourls-plugin/
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As I said, I am sorry about the GDSR 2.0. It is coming along, not as fast as I want it, but it is. Some of my projects are on hold because of it, and I understand frustration with delays.
As for the GD Press Tools, I and obviously my users don’t agree with you on this. There are many advatages having one plugin to handle numerous things. Obviously, I will not add things in it that are not administration related (like widgets or social links embeding or other things). Problem with multiple plugins is maintenance. If you use 20 plugins to do all things done by GD Press Tools Pro, do you really believe that all 2 plugins will be updated on time for next WP or even work together. GD Press Tools is updated before new WP enters beta stage and is more than ready for use before WP is released. How many other developers you know that do that ahead of WP release time? 20 plugins will use 3-5 times the resources used by GD Press Tools Pro. And I am pretty sure that you will not find better optimized plugin than GD Press Tools Pro. And when it comes to administration, that is more important than anything. All features in GD Press Tools Pro are made the same way, easy to get around and you don’t need to learn 20 other plugins (or more).
In the end it comes to individual choice on plugin use, but I will never replace one excellent plugin like GD Press Tools Pro with 20 or more others that could bring down my websites after update.
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Hi. I’d like to know if you can confirm that this works with WordPress 3.3 before I upgrade. I checked on WordPress support forums and it’s being reported that GDSR does NOT work on WP3.3 and I can’t destroy my high traffic resource because this doesn’t work. So, can you confirm full functionality/proper operation on WP3.3? Thanks.
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As far as I know it works. I am using it on several WP 3.3 websites, and all is fine. I will investigate bug reports from WordPress.org forum.
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Petrovic my previous question is because i have a new project that requires ratings and it’s only for know if i can’t wait or not for the beta release, in the post you spoke for release on the first quarter, the second month is coming, if u plan to release at last month i really appreciate an answer to me…
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Nothing is changed, plugin is still on schedule for the first quarter of this year, and that is somewhere in March, still 2 months away.
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Thx for the reply!, regards.