Title: Disappointing
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Disappointing

 *  [bseddon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bseddon/)
 * (@bseddon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disappointing-11/)
 * I’m sure the plugin is OK but I spent several hours working out how to make it
   work. If you are using a default posts template and default comments template
   it works fine. However if you’ve used a third party theme you, like me, may not
   be so lucky. Despite the patronizing three step install ‘guide’ these steps are
   only applicable if you are using a theme which calls the WordPress comment_form()
   function.
 * In any other case its necessary make sure your template calls the actions ‘comment_form_logged_in_after’
   and ‘comment_form_after_fields’.
 * There. would it be so hard to include this information in the install guide? 
   OK, it may then look like the install would be a little more difficult – but 
   that’s because for some people it is.

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 *  Plugin Author [Mosterd3d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mosterd3d/)
 * (@mosterd3d)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disappointing-11/#post-7819264)
 * Better with 1.7?
 *  Thread Starter [bseddon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bseddon/)
 * (@bseddon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disappointing-11/#post-7819265)
 * The issues with disabling a rating on a post and the columns in the post list
   in the backend appear to be addressed.
 * I am seeing a new problem in the new ‘stars.php’ file. The error log reports:
 * PHP Notice: Undefined variable: itemParticipants in stars.php on line 170
 * The variable is used before it is assigned. I’ve made the assumption it is OK
   to initialize the variable to an empty string before the preceding for-loop.
 * Another pre-existing problem exists in ‘google_rich_snippets.php’. I sometimes
   see errors in the log because the global $post variable is not assigned. As a
   result the call to $post->ID fails.
 * My fix has been to add the following line immediately after ‘global $post’:
 * `if (!isset($post->ID)) return;`

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