Review Scoring

  • emf_saurus

    (@emf_saurus)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    For reference, the website in question is http://myinsidegamer.com/

    The theme that we’re using is supposed to work with the GD Star plugin, so the sidebar box that says “Recent Reviews” was built to display the stars when we review a game.

    However, we’ve moved on from stars to a numerical percentage scale, and we haven’t the slightest idea how to change it so that the review number is there instead. Also, we’ve been using the Review Box plugin for reviewing our games.

    Additionally, it would be pretty nice if we were able to have the percentage on the same line as the title, but floating to the right… although if we couldn’t figure that out, I suppose we could just throw it in the title.

    My only thought on how to do this is to create some kind of right-floating DIV in the sidebar and the index and somehow pull the “score=x” into to display in the DIV. But I’m not entirely sure.

    I’m almost not entirely sure what other information you guys might need to help us out. Thanks in advance, though!

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  • Thread Starter emf_saurus

    (@emf_saurus)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    No ideas?

    Jess

    (@jessn)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I did something kind of similar, though using star ratings. But it might work for you too. The Extra Comment Fields plugin will let you add another field to your database, so you can have people enter a number in a new field. The one that’s up in the repository though doesn’t work with 3.0. Use the file from this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/293846?replies=11

    Then once it’s activated you can type in the new name for your field under Settings. Say “rating”.

    Then you have to add something in two places. In your comments template you have to enter <?php print $comment->extra_rating; ?> with the word extra_ going before the name of the field you entered.

    Then to add the field to the form, add a new input field like so:
    <input type="text" name="rating" id="rating" value="" size="22" tabindex="3" /> with the name and id being the value of the new field you made.

    This was a PIA for me a few days ago, so if you need more help let me know!

    Thread Starter emf_saurus

    (@emf_saurus)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Didn’t notice a reply until just now; thanks for the help.

    However, is that setup going to deposit the rating value beside the title in my widget? If not, how would I set something up like that?

    The widget I’m currently using is merely a WordPress default category list, specifically just outputting a single “Review” parent category.

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