Title: Plugin tweak help needed – desperately! Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Plugin tweak help needed – desperately! * [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/) * (@ladydelaluna) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/) * Okay, in my hunt for a way to have the admins ONLY (not site visitors) be able to rate a post, I found this plugin: * [http://design.sneak.co.nz/plugins/ds-rating/](http://design.sneak.co.nz/plugins/ds-rating/) * It’s perfect in every way except one: I need to be able to use the rating system to display posts in order from 5 stars to 1 star. And I don’t want the stars to show up on the live site either (this is already built into the plugin). * This should be easy for plugin devs and higher-than-my-level programmers (which doesn’t say anything for my level, believe me)… Even the original plugin author made mention of it in the comments: * _“I definitely considered doing that. Ideally I wanted to be able to order posts by rating as well (highest to lowest or vice versa) but didn’t have the time to persue it._ * I don’t think it would be very difficult — it’s just a matter of writing a function that makes the right type of calls to the database and filters using the custom ratings meta data.” * I just don’t know about writing functions and calls and filters and such. Normally, I have a programmer I outsource to who does this sort of thing for me – but he’s booked up and I need this done by the end of the month. * I’d be willing to make a PayPal donation or some such if that’s what it takes… but it doesn’t seem difficult for someone with the knowledge to do it. * Anyone? * (If you’re only offering paid help – please contact me at lara AT anubismarketing DOT com with what you’d charge me for this. Otherwise, I’m entertaining offers for generousity too… thanks!) Viewing 3 replies - 16 through 18 (of 18 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/?output_format=md) 2 * [benzin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benzin/) * (@benzin) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/page/2/#post-441548) * try this.. if _ds_rating is in the same table * got to go for now.. bbl * Thread Starter [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/) * (@ladydelaluna) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/page/2/#post-441549) * `cat=1&orderby=_ds_rating&order=ASC` * first, I want it for all categories. second, I still don’t think it’s as simple as using the `orderby` tag. third, again, it’d be DESC if this were to work. * benzin, i appreciate your time, but since you’re obviously so busy, i fear that none of this will work. i need someone who can focus on this – as i’ve said many times already – this isn’t a personal site of mine, it belongs to a client. there’s no room for errors here, only room for experience and skill. that’s what i need. * that said, if someone can help, please contact me at the email address i gave before: lara AT anubismarketing DOT com * thanks… * Thread Starter [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/) * (@ladydelaluna) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/page/2/#post-441803) * I’m leaving this as unresolved, however my programmer finally had some time to get to it for me. Don’t ask me what he did – I have no clue – but it works beautifully and didn’t take him much time (about 2 hours) to get it working perfectly for this site in particular (other sites may be much easier, this one is full of customizations). * Hopefully someone will figure it out and post it here for everyone… that’s the only reason I’m leaving it “unresolved”. Viewing 3 replies - 16 through 18 (of 18 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/?output_format=md) 2 The topic ‘Plugin tweak help needed – desperately!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [plugin help](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-help/) * [post sorting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-sorting/) * [sort posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort-posts/) * 18 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/) * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweak-help-needed-desperately/page/2/#post-441803) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics