Ian

Argh! That’s what I was afraid of… looks like it’s something that COULD be fixed by you or your users messing around with chrome’s settings, but obviously that’s ridiculous to expect… I think the only real way to guarantee it works everywhere is to use images. I’ll include this option in version 1.4.

I’m very sorry for the late reply-
In the CSS, change the classes .rr_small_input and .rr_large_input so they both have:
border: 1px solid black;
Similarly, try various combinations of removing the
float: right !important;
from the class “right”, as well as adding one or more of:

float: left;
display: block;
display: inline-block;
display: inline;

to the rr_small_input and rr_large_input classes.

Thank you very much for this support thread – because of you, mostly, I am going to completely change the way the form is handled in version 1.4!

I’m very sorry for the late reply- can you link me to either one of your sites? In any case, I will work on modifying how the stars are displayed to prevent this from happening.

Homepage would work, yes! Or your footer or anything similar

I think I know what’s causing this now… It seems to be a rare, but known, issue. Tell me, can either of you see any or all of the characters from this page:
http://www.quackit.com/html/html_special_characters.cfm
?
Especially the white and black stars (the 16 & 17th symbols from the top)

As of version 1.3 the reviews themselves will not display in google search results (this is coming very soon!); if you want the aggregate review ratings to be displayed, use the shortcode [RICH_REVIEWS_SNIPPET]. This will show up in google search results as a “star rating” below your site title.

Let me know if you need anything else!

That’s really strange! Rest assured that I see the stars on your site perfectly fine, so it’s likely that most of your users will as well. Perhaps your computer or browsers are not set to the correct encoding? Try (in Chrome, at least) going to View -> Encoding, and seeing if it’s “UTF-8”.

Also, the next release of the plugin will allow you to customize and display your own text or images in place of the stars 🙂

Let’s keep trying to debug what’s going on, and if you figure it out seperate from me please let me know! Not being able to see stars is a big problem for users! 🙂

The most recent version, version 1.3, enables all the features you requested in question (1) – just change the “category” shortcode, as documented in the instructions in the admin page. Let me know if you have any trouble with it!

The form is fairly ugly right now – this is something that is being fixed 🙂 If you’d like to mess with the CSS yourself, change the classes in the plugin folder (or add classes in a custom CSS file – there are no important tags associated with the form so you can easily override it). The appropriate classes are:
reviewform (the wrapper for the entire/overall review form)
rr_input_stars (the stars on the input form)
rr_form_heading (the labels, such as Name/Email/Etc, for each input)
rr_small_input (the input box itself for the single line inputs)
rr_large_input (the input box for the multi line comments input)

I’d love to see what you come up with, and I will let you know when the new form CSS comes out 🙂