Rating categories ?

Resolved fred_villa
(@fred_villa)

8 years, 8 months ago
Hi Lester,

I’m using your great plug-in for long on some sites to rate posts.
Now I’m working on a new project about video games.

Each “Video Games” is a category and there will be many posts for each “Video Games” as categories.
Of course I know how to handle your plug-in for the posts but trying to use it for categories, I’m currently unable to know if what I would like to do could be done.

The rating works for categories, so on a category page, visitors could rate the “video game” and I’m able to display a rate on each “video games” page.

But is it possible to display each categories rate on the same page? I’m currently unable to do it.

Using
```
<?php
    $categories =  get_categories();
    foreach  ($categories as $category) {
       echo '<a href="'. get_category_link( $category->term_id ) .'"><img src="'. z_taxonomy_image_url($category->term_id, 'medium') .'" /><br/>'. $category->cat_name .'</a>';
            }		    
?>
```
I’m able to display all “video games”/”categories” on the same page.

But if I add in the foreach loop
if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); }

it doesn’t display the ratings of each “video games”/”categories” but it displays the rating of the page I’m building under each “video games”/”categories”.

I assume I’m missing something but my programming skills are not good enough to find it on myself.

Thanks for your help.

Fred

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Plugin Author Lester Chan
(@gamerz)

8 years, 8 months ago

Sorry, it doesn’t work on categories because it uses post ID to keep track of the ratings as it is using the postmeta table. There is no way around it.

Thread Starter fred_villa
(@fred_villa)

8 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for your answer.
It offers me to not continue to try to find a solution when there’s none.
Thread Starter fred_villa
(@fred_villa)

8 years, 8 months ago
OK, I’ve find a different way to do what I want.

I’ve added categories and tags to Pages.
```
function add_taxonomies_to_pages() {
 register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'post_tag', 'page' );
 register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'page' );
 }
add_action( 'init', 'add_taxonomies_to_pages' );
```
Then I created Pages for each Video Games declaring the Page to the associated category for the Video Game.
I needed to learn how to use WP_Query for the loop, a little hard at first but really interesting for the final result.

So now my Platform pages are linking all pages for the Video Games, and a Video Game page is linking to posts for the Video Game category.

This way visitors will be able to rate Video Games and I could rank them by rate with the precious
'meta_key' => 'ratings_average', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC'

Now I need a different kind of help.
Is there a function to call to display only %RATINGS_AVERAGE% on some places?
Cause using the_ratings() displays the stars. As I use 10 stars, on some place of the site I would prefer to only display the %RATINGS_AVERAGE%.

Thanks for your help.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by fred_villa.

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