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1. Emanon
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Is it only me, or does Alex King's popularity contest plugin bug out if you have comment moderation on?

   I have moderation on for everyone that has not posted before, and those comments that I have to approve of adds no points to the post.

   I'm also using the secureimage-plugin, perhaps there's a conflict?

   Anyways, you can see for yourself at http://www.emanon.nu/ - a comment should give 10 more points to a post according to my settings.

2. alexkingorg
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It works fine on my blog - so it's possible another plugin is messing things up.

   You could test by disabling the other plugins...

3. Emanon
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Done. I've tried to disable all other plugins, and I've tried adding comments when logged in, when not logged in, and as a previously unapproved commenter. The popularity values were increased by 1 for every comment, probably because you get the full post view (which I have set to 1 point)?

   I tried to change the value of a comment to 11, thinking there might be a problem with handling 10 properly. No result.

   I suppose this plugin calculates popularity every time I reload the page? That is - if I change values of anything and save them to the database, and then reload the page - I will get some new scores, right?

   btw. I use the 1.0 beta 4, perhaps there is a newer version out there?

   EDIT: Updated to version 1.0, didn't help.

4. alexkingorg
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Are the comment counts being recorded in the database?

5. Emanon
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   What exactly am I looking for, and where?

   If you mean the number of comments registered in "wp_ak_popularity", then yes - they are registered.

   The values in "wp_ak_popularity_options" are also correct.

6. alexkingorg
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Sorry, this works fine for me so I have no idea what the problem is. Is anyone else having this trouble?

7. Emanon
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Just a thought; If a post's popularity is calculated as a percentage of the most popular post, and a couple of posts have got a huge amount of comments (eg. spam), the value of a single comment would be neglectible, right?

   Can this be it, or have I misunderstood how your plugin works?

   I have a couple of post's from back in the days (before spamprotection) that has got more than five hundred comments registered in the database (although they are deleted from the blog).

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