[THIS PAGE IS DEPRECIATED - SEE "Starred Review 2" FOR UPDATES]
Around 3AM this morning (serriously, I really want this plugin to work) I stumbled on a block of code (see here) that was causing problems on my Wordpress setup at least. It works for me, but others are having difficulties. So, I’ve zipped my whole “Starred Review” folder, made a change or two (Thumbs.db!) and uploaded it as Starred Review 2.0 Beta (Patched).
Install
- Remove the file
starred-review.phpand the folderstarred-reviewfrom your plugins directory. Download and un-zip Starred Review 2.0 Beta (Patched).- Open the folder “Starred Review Patched” and copy the contents (minus README) to the plugins directory on your Wordpress server
- CMOD & Set Permissions all those files to 777. I don’t understand CMOD, but it could help.
- Open up your Wordpress Admin, go to Plugins - make sure that “Starred Review” is enabled.
That should be it really, if this is your first installation / virgin-install of the patch check Marc’s way-better install page for details / style info.
The default stars are Black gifs, you can easily change these by downloading the original Starred Review file (check out the images folder, replace the files in my patched images black-gif folder). Or download the psd for Photoshop.
Leave a comment if it works, especially if it doesn’t. heh.
Once again, a big thanks to you for all the work. I downloaded your patch, set it up as you instructed and it worked! At least the stars showed up. You can see the results in this screenshot: My review page after applying your patch
It was an ugly mess but at least the stars showed up. The only glitch I encountered was that the “category,” “title,” and “rating” links did not work. The path appears to be correct but when I click any of the links it takes me to my homepage. Actually, now that I look at it closer your path and mine is a bit different.
Your link path goes to http://www.metacomment.com/blog/reviews/?sort=rating or reviews/?sort=category or reviews/?sort=title as the case may be. My path goes to myurl/index.php?sort=rating or myurl/index.php?sort=category, etc. Seems my link doesn’t include the /reviews part and instead has an /index.php. I’m not sure why or how this happens or if it even matters.
As for the styling, I’m not sure what to do. I downloaded Mark’s CSS, put it in my stylesheet and wrapped the php code to call the reviews in a div class of “reviews.” After a little tweaking the best I could get you can see in this screenshot: My reviews page after my hack and slashes to Mark’s CSS
The rating stars don’t exactly align properly with the movie titles, a tad below, and they are too far to the right. I’m really don’t understand CSS and code so I’m a bit stumped. I don’t intend to make this your problem but thought I’d mention it.
And yet again, I very much appreciate your work on this. I love the idea of a starred review page. I watch a lot of movies and have kept an offline database of all the ones I’ve watched with ratings since 2000. I’d love to be able to stick it on my blog and this plugin might be just the thing.
Please excuse the long comment. As I said I’m a bit of a noob so I’m not sure what is important information and what isn’t.
well,
good work Amos, you have a nice css there.
can you email it to me please?
radiognome _at_ gmail . com
@alper: Be happy to send you what I’m working with but just so you know I’m not sure how I ended up with what I did. My coding skills entail hacking and slashing stuff. But it’s yours to play with.
hello again you two. I spent a good part of yesterday evening getting to grips with the CSS for Starred Review, its not an easy one - to customise it to the point at which I was happy I had to both “hack and slash” Marc’s originally provided CSS, and do a bit of hacking in classes.php (my / BBEdit’s new best friend).
You have to split the front page “badge” from the Reviews Page first, then do the CSS pokery then keep tweaking. Its pretty simple once you’ve gone into classes.php, you’ll find (using your blog’s front page source code as referance) where the code originates.
The CSS I can’t *really* instruct you on, not I don’t want to - I don’t really know how. I make tiny changes and use a good editor / refresh page combination! It can go on for hours. I know of no WYSIWYG editior that deals with CSS the way I’d want… so tweak, backup and tweak. Does that help? pff….
You can always just take mine, its in style.css. Your welcome to the Starred Review parts. Down at the bottom:
/* Some Film Review "Page" CSS */
.sr-menu {
text-align: right;
color: #BBB;
position: absolute
margin-top: 45px;
}
.sr-menu-selected {
font-weight: bold;
}
.reviews a {
color: #bf4ebd;
text-decoration: none;
}
.sr-title-link {
color: #BBB;
text-decoration: none;
position: relative;
font-size: 25px;
left: 40px;
}
.sr-title-link a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
.reviews a:hover {
color: #EAEAEA;
background-color: #bf4ebd;
}
.sr-star {
border: none !important;
}
.sr-review-category {
color: #333333;
left: -3px;
position: absolute;
text-decoration: none;
}
.reviews, h3, .sr-section-title {
letter-spacing: -1px;
color: #bf4ebd;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
padding-top: 100px;
}
.sr-review-read {
margin-left: 45px;
}
/* Some Film Review "Badge" CSS */
.review-title-link {
}
.film-review-read {
margin-left: 10px;
}
REMEMBER- if you intend to build on that above code you’ll have to go into classes.php and change the sr-title-link for the badge. Maybe I should post a how-to, this has been a bit of a ramble! :D
change the sr-title-link for the badge?? :)
@Callum: that’s basically what I did as well. I find it amusing because I honestly have no firm understanding of php and css’ principles. I don’t get it on a fundamental level but it doesn’t stop me from ripping stuff out and sticking stuff in. It’s all magic to me. In the end, I found a solution to the styling for my starred review page. Not sure how I did it or why it works but it does and that’s good enough for me. Now I’m scared to touch anything. Feel likes it’s all a house of cards… I really appreciate you helping us all out here. Very kind of you to give your time to this project like you have.
@alper: Not sure if this is what you’re asking but I had to change one div in classes.php for the review teaser on my homepage to work or I should say so it looked half way decent in Camino and Firefox. I still have no clue what my site looks like in IE. I shudder to think… i wish I could remember what div class it was but it is the one that wraps the code you use for the teaser. Something like div class=”starred_review_badge” or something. In my case I changed it to div class=”reviews” and it came out pretty, in my eyes. you can check it out on my site. hope that helps.
Hey this is cool, Call. Is there a way to place the star rating on a post page?
Hey Rob you may want to check out the original plugin author’s page; http://sevennine.net/projects/starred-review
the code is the same old:
< ?php starred_review_badge(limit, category); ?>check out Marc’s original install spec.
File not Found! Damn, and I really wanted this, too…
sorry about that, the patch is live again. forgot to take my \’uploads\’ folder with me in the server switch.
enjoy.
Thanks for the download.. still can’t quite figure out how to get it to look to my liking though.. most of the comments here just confuse me.
Hmm.. apologies for double-commenting, but any chance someone can tell me what to edit here.. I want the reviews organized such as the sevinnine’s review page (here) and I’ve even tried the CSS provided on that page but with no damn luck..
You can see my progress here: http://70.47.109.229/~walkings/reviews/ (excuse the broken images in the header and other places.. in the process of switching servers)
sorry Jake, i’m lost - where exactly are you getting lost - looks easy as taking his CSS - ripping what you need and bingo. please be exact.
I’m working on Starred Review v.3 as of today.
- support for Wordpress 2.0+
- built-in Amazon associates linking
- images!?
- rss
- widget (for osx)
coming soon.