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Show plain stars block inside the WP loop
If you need to display the rating block inside the WordPress Loop, you will need to get the rating snippet...
Posts Addon: Limit rating embed using code
If you are using Posts addon in GD Rating System to automatically add rating blocks into posts, pages or custom...
WordPress custom query with ratings
If you have a template that uses WordPress WP_Query object (or query_posts function), you can expand it to display rating and/or...
Rating query object
To search and filter rating items, GD Rating System includes easy to use object, that will construct and run the...
Data for custom rating types
For known rating types (posts, terms, users, comments), the plugin has special objects that will return data for the items belonging...
Rating block showing own rating only
Templates for rating blocks are used to display ratings, and they can be customized to adjust how the ratings are...
Customize user statistics display in topics and replies
User stats area for each topic and reply allows the display of various additional information related to the user. You...
Get rating item object
In some cases, you might need to get the rating item object with all rating data, regardless of the rating...
ASCII/Unicode characters icons for stars, thumbs and likes
GD Rating System 1.3 added ability to add custom font icons sets for stars, thumbs, and likes. This has now...
Add custom font icons set for stars, thumbs and likes
GD Rating System allows you to add custom font icons sets to use for stars, thumbs or likes. This tutorial...
Add custom image sets for stars, thumbs and likes
GD Rating System allows you to add custom image sets to use for stars, thumbs or likes. This tutorial will...
Register new rating entity and types
By default, the plugin supports custom post types, taxonomies, comments and users as entities and rating types. But, you can...
Rating expanded comments query
Comments addon for GD Rating System adds support for ordering comments based on the rating for all supported rating methods....
Rating expanded posts query
Posts addon for GD Rating System adds support for ordering posts based on the rating for all supported rating methods....
JavaScript Actions and Filters
GD Rating System Pro 1.2 includes a hooks system similar to WordPress PHP based actions and filters. It allows control...
Manually add rating block with PHP
The plugin has few ways to add rating blocks into the website. But, if that is not enough and you...
Expanded Rating Templates
Rating Templates are described in the previous article. But, with the Pro version, rating templates can be expanded to allow...
Database Tables Schema
GD Rating System adds several database tables to store rating logs and rating objects/items data. There are 2 main tables...
Enable WordPress debug mode
By default, WordPress debug mode is disabled. Error handling and display depend on the server settings. In most cases, this...