luckdragon

it’s not that there’s a problem, it’s that there are many different ways to add avatars to WP, so I was trying to determine which way you were using so that I might be able to help you as efficiently as possible (i.e. the more information you give, the easier it makes it on others)

are you trying to show the widget depending on whether or not the “reader” has an avatar?

instead of:

<strong>Overall</strong>: [Rating:<?php echo $overall_value_formatted ?>/5]

you can try doing something like:

<?php
$line = '<strong>Overall</strong>: [Rating:'.$overall_value_formatted.'/5]';
$line = mommbly_rating_addRating($line);
echo $line;
?>

unfortunately you’d have to find that out from your hosting company.

what is the code echoing? also, do_shortcode does an echo of it’s own, so you are basically saying “echo echo”;

there are a lot of plugins that I’ve found that will create database tables, or “options” that when deactivated, will not remove them.

actually alchymyth, in this situation, that IS a shortcode that the guy has defined. quoting his readme: “The format to add a rating is simply just [Rating:3.5/5]”

what asgsoft neglected to mention is that he’s trying to use the shortcode of one plugin in the output of another plugin. the easiest way to do that is to call the function that the “shortcode” is supposed to call.

In This instance.. he should create the output as he is, then, before he echos it, call: $output = mombly_rating_addRating($output);

then echo it.

http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2009/12/22/creating-custom-wordpress-widgets/

that was one of the better demos I found on creating a custom widget

hopefully that will help you 🙂