With GD Star Rating 2.0 Alpha #2 Public coming next week, here is one more preview of the standard stars rating block. Very important new feature here is that user can now see his own vote value in the rating block, since new plugin version allows changing of votes.
So, here is enlarged image of the rating block:
GDSR 2.0 Rating Block
It looks quite like the old rating block, and that is on purpose, all new templates are based on the old ones. But, you see that stars have more colors that usual. White ones are the maximal rating value (5 in this case). Yellow is the current average rating (4.2 here). But, now we have orange value. It is in fact red with 40% opacity, and that represents rating cast by the current user. Normal red is the active rating selection. So, depending on the rating rules, user can change his vote.
This rating block is 100% Google rich snippets compatible, and i have been working with experts from Google to bring the best possible implementation for this snippet type, supporting both average and review snippets, and in microdata format and in Scheme.org format (you can select which one you prefer).
So, this is it for now, new plugin will begin its public journey in 5 days. I hope you are excited about the new version, and that you will test it once it is released.
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Looking forward to it
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Wasn’t it going to be release yesterday?
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Yes, but it will be delayed until tomorrow. I have some issues with database related code, and I have to resolve that first.
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looking forward to this too, big time
will it be something i can integrate with my license for GD Products Center? I assume should be no problem… i am getting a site finally set up with GDPC now, and would love to have the rich snippets/microdata be there to show up in serps, etc. as well
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GDPC will get options for integration with GD Star Rating 2.0. But, it will take some time, since I have to stabilize and finalize code for GDSR 2.0. But, by the time GDSR 2.0 reaches Beta stage, GDPC will get direct integration support for it.