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Minimal Requirements

• PHP: 5.x.x
• mySQL: 4.0, 4.1 or 5.x
• WordPress: 2.8 or newer

Recommended Requirements

• PHP: 5.2.x or newer
• mySQL: 5.x
• WordPress: 2.9 or newer

Theme Requirement

• Header template must contain call for wp_head() function.
• Footer template must contain call for wp_footer() function.

Upgrade Notice

• When you upgrade to new version of the plugin, check widget settings and all the plugin settings.

Basic Installation

• Plugin folder in the WordPress plugins folder must be gd-star-rating.
• Upload gd-star-rating folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
• Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
• Check all the plugin and plugin widgets settings before using the plugin.

Advanced Installation

• if you don't change location of wp-content folder, then you don't need to make any more changes.
• if your wp-content folder is moved out of default WordPress location, then you must edit plugins config.php file and set value with exact location of wp-load.php file for global constant STARRATING_WPLOAD in line 8. Without this most of the features, including saving votes, will not work.

Using gdsr-config.php file

• this file is used to set some of the constants plugin uses.
• to use this file, you must move it file from gd-star-rating folder, one level up to plugins folder.
• once you have moved it, make changes to it and it wll be loaded from the WordPress plugins root.
• all settings in it can be added to wp-config.php. if you do that, you must not move the file from gd-star-rating.

WordPress MU & BuddyPress

• Minimal version supported: 2.9
• Support for WPMU is only partial, not everything works as it should be.
• Plugin is not working with some BuddyPress specific features.

Browser Notice

• Multi review feature on administration Post Edit page will not work properly with IE6 browsers.