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Version Release Date Change Log
3.1.6 2022-11-14
  • 2022-11-14 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with a minor bug-fix.
3.1.5 2022-11-13
  • 2022-11-14 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.1.4 2022-02-28
  • 2022-02-28 =
  • Update: Security patch.
3.1.3 2022-01-06
  • 2022-01-06 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features (clone resolution is now supported).
3.1.2 2021-02-03
  • 2021-02-03 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.1.1 2020-10-07
  • 2020-10-07 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.1.0 2020-07-15
  • 2020-07-15 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.0.9 2020-03-11
  • 2020-03-11 =
  • Fix: Fixed a fatal error on the "Advanced" settings page.
3.0.8 2019-12-16
  • 2019-12-16 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
3.0.7 2019-12-15
  • 2019-12-15 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.0.6 2019-06-04
  • 2019-06-04 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.0.5 2019-02-28
  • 2019-02-28 =
  • Update: Security patch.
3.0.4 2019-01-08
  • 2019-01-08 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
3.0.3 2018-12-08
  • 2018-12-08 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
3.0.2 2018-11-25
  • 2018-11-25 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and new features.
3.0.1 2018-08-19
  • 2018-08-19 =
  • Fix: Fixed the download link for the premium version on the "Account" section.
3.0.0 2018-05-27
  • 2018-05-27 =
  • Major update: The plugin is now fully GDPR ready!
2.9.5 2018-04-24
  • 2018-04-24 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
  • Fix: Fixed the rendering of newly inserted BuddyPress activity ratings when there are no status updates or comments yet.
  • Fix: Fixed the JS logic that determines if BuddyPress is inserting a new status update or comment.
  • Fix: Fixed the issue with the logic for the rendering of BuddyPress activity comment ratings that was causing an infinite loop.
2.9.4 2018-03-27
  • 2018-03-27 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
2.9.3 2018-03-02
  • 2018-03-02 =
  • Update: Improved multi-site network Integration.
2.9.2 2018-02-21
  • 2018-02-21 =
  • Fix: Fixed the saving of the options.
2.9.1 2018-01-17
  • 2018-01-17 =
  • Fix: Fixed API server clock syncing.
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
2.9.0.1 2017-12-13
  • 2017-12-13 =
  • Fix: Fixed the referrer policy for admin pages that have a rating.
2.9.0 2017-12-12
  • 2017-12-12 =
  • Performance: Improved the localization mechanism for reduced memory consumption.
  • Fix: Misc bug fixes.
  • Update: Updated the Freemius SDK version.
2.8.9 2017-10-01
  • 2017-10-01 =
  • Security Fix: Fixed an XSS security vulnerability.
2.8.8 2017-08-24
  • 2017-08-24 =
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes.
  • New: The Product Rich Snippet markup now supports the JSON-LD format for WooCommerce version 3.0.0 and above.
2.8.7.1 2017-05-09
  • 2017-05-10 =
  • Fix: Translation method dependency fix.
2.8.7 2017-04-27
  • 2017-04-28 =
  • Optimization: Removed the screenshots from the plugin to lighten the zip size.
  • Readme: Tweaked the FAQ section to show up nicely in the new directory.
  • Readme: Moved the location of the video to show above the fold.
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and full translation to Japanese.
2.8.6 2017-03-07
  • 2017-03-07 =
  • Fix: Fixed an unclosed div tag related to the Rich Snippets markup.
  • Update: Updated version of Freemius with bug fixes and full translation to Japanese.
2.8.5 2016-12-12
  • 2016-12-12 =
  • Fix: Fixed a major issue that was causing the accounts to disconnect from the RatingWidget backend.
  • Fix: WooCommerce integration now works with multisite setup.
2.8.4 2016-12-07
  • 2016-12-08 =
  • Fix: Adjusted bbPress legacy logic to work with mysqli instead of mysql for PHP 7.
  • Fix: Updated Freemius version (bunch of bug fixes).
  • Update: From now on, Flash cookie voter identification will be disabled by default since browsers like Firefox are starting to stop supporting Flash.
2.8.3 2016-09-14
  • 2016-09-13 =
  • Fix: Fixed some logic in license activation.
2.8.2 2016-08-10
  • 2016-08-11 =
  • New: Add filter for altering the list of excluded custom post types for the rating widget display.
  • New: Show ratings on product category pages.
  • Fix: Fixed an HTTPS-related issue in the RatingWidget SDK.
  • Update: Don't limit post title on top rated table.
2.8.1 2016-05-04
  • 2016-05-04 =
  • Update: Tested plugin on WP 4.5.1.
  • Update: Improved the UI of the add-ons section.
  • Fix: Minor JavaScript fixes.
  • Fix: Fixed auto-updates mechanism for pro versions.
2.8.0.1 2016-04-12
  • 2016-04-12 =
  • Fix: Fixed the bug with the post editor.
2.8.0 2016-04-12
  • 2016-04-11 =
  • Fix: Fixed the comment review ratings type so the top-rated widget will load them correctly as comment ratings.
  • Update: Added code type into plugin's HTML comment signature (helps for debugging).
  • Update: Freemius version update.
2.7.9 2016-03-01
  • 2016-02-29 =
  • Performance: Major performance optimization by significantly reducing the number of API calls and making them non-blocking using wp-cron mechanism.
  • Fix: Fixed some PHP notices for PHP 5.2 when running in WP debug mode.
  • Fix: CSS fixes to adjust to the new WP versions CSS.
  • Fix: Fixed title encoding issue in the star rating reports page.
2.7.8.4 2016-01-24
  • 2016-01-24 =
  • Fix: Plugin slowdowns due to constant API requests on every pageview.
2.7.8.3 2016-01-23
2.7.8.2 2016-01-22
2.7.8.1 2016-01-22
  • 2016-01-22 =
  • Fix: Fixed API connectivity admin notices when not required.
  • Fix: Plugin was throwing errors when executed without HTTP context (e.g. CLI).
2.7.8 2016-01-16
  • 2016-01-17 =
  • Fix: Fixed fatal error undefined function fs_override_i18n().
2.7.7 2016-01-15
  • 2016-01-16 =
  • Minor: Updated opt-in button to be more user friendly.
  • Fix: Updated to Freemius latest SDK which prevents SDK versions collision (when two plugins using Freemius).
2.7.6 2015-12-29
  • 2015-12-29 =
  • Fix: Fixed the 'Last Year' option in the top-rated widget and the 'Last 6 Months' option in the top-rated shortcode.
  • Fix: The 'Workflows' sub menu item should only be visible when there is an active add-on.
2.7.5 2015-12-23
  • 2015-12-24 =
  • Update: Updated the rich snippet markup properties based on Google's latest requirement.
2.7.4 2015-12-22
  • 2015-12-23 =
  • Fix: Fixed minor text-related bugs in the reports page and in the admin notice that asks for a 5-star review.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue related to the criteria ratings in the live preview.
2.7.3 2015-12-09
  • 2015-12-09 =
  • Optimization: Removed unused templates.
  • Fix: Fixed reports page encoding issue.
  • Fix: Fixed issues related to the live preview.
  • Fix: The metabox rating should always be active (not read-only).
  • Fix: Fixed JavaScript compatibility issues with lower versions of WordPress.
  • Update: Rich snippet is now enabled by default when using the [ratingwidget] shortcode.
2.7.2 2015-11-18
  • 2015-11-18 =
  • Fix: Minor fix in deactivation form.
2.7.1 2015-11-14
  • 2015-11-14 =
  • Fix: Added a corresponding activation message when cURL is not installed on server (instead of fatal error).
  • Update: Bumped to Freemius newest version.
2.7.0 2015-10-30
  • 2015-10-30 =
  • Announcement: Happy Halloween!!!
  • Fix: Resolved API connectivity and activation issue for servers with non-synced clock.
  • Fix: Fixed a bug in the upgrade data migration process.
  • Fix: Fixed the issues with the afterRate and beforeRate handlers when overridden by the workflow engine.
  • New: Added feedback mechanism to plugin deactivation.
2.6.9 2015-10-13
  • 2015-10-13 =
  • Fix: Renamed workflows shortcode from wf to rw_wf since was colliding with other themes / plugins.
  • New: Implemented plugin install ownership transfer protocol.
2.6.8 2015-10-12
  • 2015-10-12 =
  • Fix: Minor bug fix in the activation.
2.6.7 2015-10-12
  • 2015-10-12 =
  • Optimization: Prepared plugin for WordPress.org Language Packs release.
  • New: Implemented Workflows! A rule-engine based on rating related actions.
  • New: Released first Add-On!
2.6.6 2015-09-17
  • 2015-09-17
  • Fix: Resolved the upgrade issues users without an API secret-key were having on upgrade to the new version.
  • Fix: The [ratingwidget] shortcode can now retrieve the current post's ID if the post_id attribute is not set.
  • New: Added an option to force account reset with external details.
2.6.5 2015-09-12
  • 2015-09-12 =
  • Update: Improved API connectivity messaging + added the error from the API call when user submit a request to fix.
  • Optimization: No need to validate connectivity after the user is already register, since there might be temporary connectivity issues which the plugin must handle.
2.6.4 2015-09-11
  • 2015-09-11 =
  • Optimization: Resized and compressed all screenshot images to significantly reduce plugin Zip size.
  • New: Added special flow to recover previous lost account.
  • Fix: Fixed API fallback to HTTP. Seems like the fallback param wasn't stored correctly in the DB.
  • Fix: Added API fallback to RW SDK.
  • Update: Added RTL support for sticky admin notices.
2.6.3 2015-09-10
  • 2015-09-10 =
  • Fix: Fixed account details migration (versions that account stored only in FS object).
  • Fix: Added API fallback to HTTP since seems like some cURL versions don't play well with CloudFlare.
2.6.2 2015-09-10
  • 2015-09-09 =
  • Fix: func_get_args() can't be used as a function parameter on old PHP versions.
  • Fix: Removed "\" from classes since namespaces aren't supported in PHP < 5.3.
2.6.1 2015-09-09
  • 2015-09-09 =
  • Fix: Mistakenly left PHP errors flag on which caused showing all site's PHP warnings and notices. Sorry :(
  • Fix: Removed duplicated handler from live preview JS.
2.6.0 2015-09-09
  • 2015-09-09 =
  • New: Added comments Moderator Only mode. To enable admin only voting on comment ratings.
  • Update: Modified Power-User settings custom image example images URLs to the default yellow medium ratings.
  • Optimization: Removed old unused code.
  • Update: Code modernization + added regions for better folding during editing.
  • Optimization: Removed all reports' API calls and rendering, since it's not relevant for the free version.
  • Fix: Fixed the remove criterion button in the live preview by adding display: block. Without display: block, the button doesn't work work well in Chrome.
  • Update: Finally officially removed all ratings boosting functionality.
  • Update: Fully integrated Freemius.
2.5.9 2015-07-28
  • 2015-07-28 =
  • New: Added review mode for comment ratings so users can submit a rating with their comments.
2.5.8 2015-07-21
  • 2015-07-21 =
  • Update: Updated the rich snippet markup properties (headline, image, and datePublished) based on Google's latest requirement.
2.5.7 2015-07-06
  • 2015-07-06 =
  • Fix: Fixed the HTML code for the Rich Snippets.
  • Fix: Fixed a bug that shows warnings on the Activity Updates and Activity Comments tabs.
2.5.6 2015-06-23
  • 2015-06-23 =
  • Fix: The users' ratings are now in sync with the server when the User Rating Type is Reputational.
  • Fix: Fixed a bug that shows warnings in the top-rated widget (cast the value produced by Urid2Id method to integer).
2.5.5 2015-06-17
  • 2015-06-16 =
  • Fix: BuddyPress activities' ratings are now visible also when the user is not logged and the position is bottom.
  • Fix: Muti-criterion ratings are now visible when the summary rating is hidden.
  • Fix: Fixed a bug that shows warnings in the top-rated widget when displaying bbPress topics.
2.5.4 2015-06-03
  • 2015-06-03 =
  • Fix: Fixed a bug in displaying bbPress' forum posts/replies in the Top-Rated widget.
  • Update: Updated Spanish translation.
2.5.3 2015-05-12
  • 2015-05-12 =
  • Fix: Admin homepage stats widget is now visible only for admin users.
  • Fix: Fixed some dashboard warnings.
2.5.2 2015-04-28
  • 2015-04-28 =
  • New: Adaptive Rich-Snippets for Pro users. We are now dynamically identify your theme's metadata to show only the required schema.org tags to prevent duplicates which breaks the schema.
  • New: Tested on WP 4.2 and fixed a small bug.
  • Fix: Fixed Rich-Snippets for multi-criteria ratings without aggregated summary rating shown.
2.5.1 2015-04-17
  • 2015-04-16 = New: Added new add-ons section with extended functionality. Fix: Fixed admin settings category selection issue with jQuery. Fix: Fixed warnings bug for Windows OS due to differences in filesystem path (slashes). Fix: Removed "\" prefix for exceptions catching since namespaces are not supported on old PHP versions. Optimization: If not registered, don't initiate any resources on site. Fix: Fixed a bug in ApiCall error handler.
2.5.0 2015-04-06
  • 2015-04-06 = Update: Small text update on readme page. Fix: Fixed posts/pages editor bug that was caused by JavaScript collision of Array.prototype.
2.4.9 2015-03-31
  • 2015-03-31 =
  • New: Added 5-star ask from loyal users.
  • Fix: Fixed bbPress forum ratings for some users who installed version 2.4.5.
  • Fix: Fixed duplicate rating appearance for attachment pages.
2.4.8 2015-03-26
  • 2015-03-25 =
  • Fix: Fixed the dashboard fatal error for our customers registered before mid 2014.
2.4.7 2015-03-25
  • 2015-03-25 =
  • Fix: Fixed the dashboard fatal error when plugin still not activated - sorry :(
2.4.6 2015-03-24
  • 2015-03-24 =
  • New: Added RatingWidget stats to the home dashboard.
  • New: Added multi-criteria rating to bbPress integration.
  • Fix: Fixed Slovenian translation.
2.4.5 2015-03-18
  • 2015-03-18 =
  • Fix: Finally we managed to fix the BuddyPress Ajax comments ratings rendering. From now on, when user submit a new comment, the BuddyPress rating will appear right with the comment without the need to refresh the page.
2.4.4 2015-03-02
  • 2015-03-02 =
  • New: Added affiliation section so you can apply to become RatingWidget's affiliate.
  • Fix: Fixed visibility settings for bbPress forum replies.
2.4.3 2015-02-24
  • 2015-02-24 =
  • Fix: Updated criteria ratings type so they won't affect the Top-Rated ratings.
2.4.2 2015-02-14
  • 2015-02-14 =
  • Fix: Fixed API connectivity issues.
  • Fix: Fixed activation issue for new customers.
2.4.1 2015-02-10
  • 2015-02-10 =
  • New: Top-Rated Table! Configured right in your TinyMCE editor.
2.4.0 2015-02-03
  • 2015-02-03 =
  • Fix: Fixed user aggregated rating (reputation) after deployment of Multi-Criteria support. Multi-criteria view was removing the uarid property of the summary rating.
2.3.9 2015-01-27
  • Fix: Modified multi-criteria rating ids in the settings preview section to be sequential and not random.
2.3.7 2015-01-20
  • Fix: Fixed a bug that in some cases were affecting the rating type on excerpts. Hardcoded it to front-post rating.
2.3.6 2015-01-14
  • New: First release of our new awesome Multi-Criteria ratings support!
  • Fix: Fixed Jeegy's Barrels starts theme.
2.3.5 2015-01-06
  • Fix: Fixed a small warning bug for non bbPress & BuddyPress users.
  • Fix: Turned all code to human-readable.
2.3.4 2015-01-06
  • Optimization: From now bbPress & BuddyPress can NOT vote/like their own items.
  • New: Added corresponding notification message on License Sync, when the access is un-authorized due to invalid key pair.
2.3.3 2014-12-30
  • New: Top-Rated widget is now spiced with time-frame selection. So you can select to show top rated posts created in the past year, 6 months, month, week or even a day period.
2.3.2 2014-12-23
  • Fix: Fixed account verification process for users registered before 2013.
  • New: Upgraded Power User Settings with Ace editor (http://ace.c9.io/).
  • New: Added the Pricing section into the dashboard.
2.3.1 2014-12-16
  • New: Added readOnly property per post/page/product controlled by metabox.
2.3.0 2014-12-10
  • Update: Modified Rich-Snippets schema from schema.org/BlogPosting to schema.org/Article, which is more tolerant with other schema configurations.
  • New: Added the options to Edit "Public Key" and "Site ID" for old accounts which might have one of the params missing.
  • Update: Temporary blocked all Google Analytics tracking, even for people who opted-in. Will be fixed in the future.
2.2.9 2014-12-03
  • Fix: Mistakenly added anonymous function which is not supported before PHP 5.3, therefore we modified that to support older versions.
2.2.8 2014-12-02
  • Fix: Another tiny but crucial fix.
2.2.6 2014-12-02
  • New: Added an option to clear plugin's cache (including Top-Rated Widget's cache).
  • New: Added custom notifications to Sync License functionality.
  • Fix: WooCommerce product "Show Rating (Uncheck to Hide)" metabox is now fully functional.
  • Fix: Added notification for management dashboard when there's a connectivity problem with RatingWidget's API.
  • Fix: Fixed bbPress forum reply author ID extraction to make sure user's forum rating/reputation is showing the correct rating.
2.2.5 2014-11-25
  • Fix: Trashed / Deleted Posts/Pages/Products are now synced with RatingWidget backend, to prevent zombie items in the Top-Rated Widget.
  • Optimized: Modified view of Voting Frequency Settings to work with a dropdown to save space.
  • Update: Updated secure connection domain from https://secure.rating-widget.com to https://rating-widget.com
2.2.4 2014-11-12
  • Fix: Fixed Italian translation.
  • New: Added an option to delete an account locally in debug mode.
  • Fix: Fixed WooCommerce featured product thumbnail extraction for Top-Rated.
2.2.3 2014-11-04
  • Fix: Fixed Japanese translation (thanks to Satoru Steve Naito).
  • Fix: Fixed Rich-Snippets integration bug.
  • Fix: Fixed rating's shortcode Rich-Snippets integration.
  • Fix: Fixed HTTPS identification method for servers that using $SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] instead of $SERVER['HTTPS'].
  • New: Added new shortcode [ratingwidget_raw id="{{alphanumeric id}}" title="any title"] for generic ratings embed, whether there's a corresponding WordPress element or not.
2.2.2 2014-10-28
  • Fix: Fixed description page.
  • Fix: Fixed dashboard reports page URLs.
  • Fix: Removed WooCommerce products duplicate schema.org/Product metadata.
2.2.1 2014-10-21
  • New: WooCommerce full integration! W00t!
  • New: Author review support! You can now set the ratings to ReadOnly, and vote as the admin directly on the Page/Post/Product page.
  • Fix: Fixed Top-Rated Widget ratings style for pages that didn't include ratings but had the Top-Rated sidebar widget.
  • New: Optimized plugin's code to easily add extensions for new rated elements (like WooCommerce products).
2.2.0 2014-10-14
  • New: Added new Cups theme.
  • Fix: Fixed Top-Rated Widget for STARTER plan customers.
  • Optimized: Changed core code syntax to follow WordPress standards.
  • New: Started to implement Chosen dropdown lists to decrease the height/size of the settings.
2.1.9 2014-10-07
  • New: Prepared plugin for CloudFlare's FlexibleSSL support.
  • Fix: Minor fix in the cor Multibyte functions test.
2.1.8 2014-09-30

Update: Relocated account actions from "Advanced" to "Account" section. New: Added an option to "Clear Ratings" after testing the plugin. New: Added an option to "Start Fresh" from factory settings. Optimization: Added multiple additional frequently used examples to the "Power User" settings.

2.1.7 2014-09-22

Major Fix: Added sanity check before executing Super Cache wp_cache_clear_cache() method. Fix: Fixed post title extraction for non-English Unicode letters.

2.1.6 2014-09-19

Fix: For users that have a caching plugin and their plan is also supporting Rich-Snippets, the cache will be now cleared every 24 hours. Fix: In the dashboard plugins page, the upgrade link in the plugin's links collection will be now shown only to non paying users. Update: Updated the FAQ section on the plugin's listing.

2.1.5 2014-08-28

New: Added Rich-Snippets banner for non paying users.

2.1.4 2014-08-19

New: Finally Professional plan users can setup the visitor identification method to IP right from the dashboard. Fix: Removed Upgrade tab from Account settings for premium users.

2.1.3 2014-08-07

Fix: Fixed email confirmation process by extracting site's ID.

2.1.2 2014-07-09

New: Added Video for Plugin Setup and Overview. Fix: Fixed Persian language translation. Update: With the new schema.org objects, we've now modified the type from http://schema.org/Product to http://schema.org/BlogPosting

2.1.1 2014-06-22

New: Fixed BuddyPress rtMedia rich activities ratings support. Optimization: Top-Rated Widget menu item is now being removed after the widget addition to one of the widget areas. Fix: Fixed RatingWidget's SDK error handling issue. Fix: Fixed bbPress forum replies ratings style starting from the 2nd page and further.

2.1.0 2014-06-09
  • Fix: Fixed bbPress inline user ratings visibility when User ratings are disabled.
  • New: Added menu links to FAQ and Support Forum.
  • Optimization: Top-Rated Widget's cache is now purged after every setting change of the Top-Rated Widget.
2.0.9 2014-06-01
  • Fix: Fixed Rich-Snippets data extraction.
  • New: New settings tabs layout (much improved UX).
  • New: Added change plan button in Account page for paid users.
  • Fix: Fixed advanced font settings bug.
2.0.8 2014-05-28
  • New: Added new awesome thumb rating theme (by GOHAM).
  • Fix: Fixed settings thumb rating sizes preview icons.
2.0.7 2014-05-27
  • Fix: Removed namespaces from integrated PHP SDK to support PHP versions older than 5.3.
  • Fix: Fixed a bug in the rendering JavaScript.
2.0.6 2014-05-26
  • New: Getting plugin ready for full localization.
  • New: Added Weekly Rating Reports for WordPress users - requires email confirmation.
  • New: Revamped account activation process for new users.
  • New: Added automated trial period for all users with full plugin's functionality.
  • New: Added new awesome star rating Barrels theme (by Jeegy Design).
2.0.5 2014-04-27
  • New: Added Unlimited voting option to voting frequency settings.
  • New: Localized to Maltese.
2.0.4 2014-04-10
  • Fix: Top-Rated sidebar widget title & max length configurations are back.
  • Fix: Fixed advanced settings flash dependency change.
2.0.3 2014-04-03
  • Hot Fix: Top-Rated Thumbnail images cache is now automatically cleared after post/page featured image update.
  • Fix: Updated WP_User->id to WP_User->ID due to earlier deprecation.
  • Fix: Account activation is now working correctly on HTTPS management dashboards.
  • Fix: FB Fans widget is working on HTTPS.
  • New: Add quick plugin review link to support the plugin.
2.0.2 2014-03-20
  • Update: Improved Top-Rated Widget UI and UX with accordion style tabs.
  • Fix: Fixed settings saving issues after history cleanup.
  • Fix: Reports thumb style records.
2.0.1 2014-02-25
  • Major Fix: Fixed caching of ratings data for Google Rich-Snippets (for Premium users) and Top-Rated Widget. Should highly improve plugin's load time.
  • Fix: Minor PHP fixes (call to method as if it was static).
2.0.0 2014-02-16
  • Fix: "Hide Star Rating" in page/post editor was fixed.
  • Fix: Spanish "votes" translation was fixed.
1.9.9 2014-02-13
  • Major Optimization: Aggregated all settings into one DB record to reduce number of Read/Write queries to the WP database. Plus, significantly reduced number of JSON ecodes/decodes.
1.9.8 2014-01-16
  • Fix: Forum reply's rating style & availability settings are now defined exactly as bbPress topic rating.
1.9.7 2013-12-30
  • New: Added bbPress forum replies section to Top-Rated Widget.
  • Fix: Fixed Chinese translation.
  • Fix: New Premium users' secret keys must not be permuted to lower case.
  • Fix: Forum reply's rating style is now defined by bbPress topic rating style.
1.9.6 2013-12-17
  • Fix: Fixed bbPress forum replies duplicate ratings issue for new bbPress versions.
  • New: Separated between bbPress forum topics and forum replies.
  • New: Added bbPress forum replies to Top-Rated Widget.
  • Update: Improved bbPress plugin detection method.
  • Update: Updated default star theme to flat yellow theme.
1.9.5 2013-12-05
  • New: Added new awesome RatingWidget star rating's theme + 6 flat additional designs.
  • New: Added new tiny size to the size options after so many requests we got.
  • Fix: Fixed advanced settings text options labels.
  • Update: Upgraded mobile detect library to 2.7.5 (http://mobiledetect.net).
1.9.4 2013-12-01
  • New: Localized to Ukrainian.
1.9.3 2013-11-12
  • New: Added site category on registration process to provide better targeted recommended content.
1.9.2 2013-11-10
  • Fix: Fixed logger for DEBUG state in management dashboard.
  • Fix: Fixed rating styling/CSS on dashboard preview.
  • Fix: Fixed ratings data view on Premium reports.
1.9.1 2013-10-26
  • Fix: Fixed GetTopRatedData for users' ratings fetching.
  • New: Added a shortcode for user rating: rw_get_user_rating and rw_the_user_rating.
  • New: Finally added translations for 'out of' and 'We Recommend'.
  • New: Added advanced filter that can prevent from a rating being loaded according to custom rules (rw_filter_embed_rating).
1.9.0 2013-09-29
  • Fix: $before_widget and $after_widget html items encoding for Top-Rated Widget were fixed.
  • Fix: Fixed Show on excerpts option savings.
1.8.9 2013-09-19
  • New: Control whether to show votes in excerpts, archive, category and search results view.
1.8.8 2013-09-12
  • New: Revamped plugin's main description page.
  • Fix: Fixed Top-Rated Widget to hide deleted, spam & private elements (posts, pages, BuddyPress activites, bbPress topics & replies).
  • Fix: Fixed Top-Rated Widget for themes with before and after widget multi-line html.
1.8.7 2013-08-30
  • Fix: Fixed double Users Top-Rated Widget settings for when BuddyPress and bbPress both active.
  • Update: Changed TOS agreement to opt-in option.
  • Update: Clarified plugin & service licensing.
1.8.6 2013-08-06
  • Update: Removed affiliation links from admin's dashboard.
  • Fix: Made Google Analytics tracking as an opt-in option to meet with the WordPress repository guidelines. The tracking is for UX improvement and only activated on Rating-Widget's admin's dashboard settings.
  • Fix: Top-Rated Widget is now working correctly with custom before widget and after widget html content.
1.8.5 2013-07-30
  • Fix: Added missing file user_rating_type_options
1.8.4 2013-07-24
  • New: Added user accumulated rating feature for BuddyPress and/or bbPress installations.
  • New: Added beautiful thumbs compact style for the Top-Rated Widget.
1.8.3 2013-07-09
  • New: Top-Rated Widget UI revamp! We've added beautiful thumbnail style and more styles are coming soon.
1.8.2 2013-06-25
  • Fix: Ratings control in admin's dashboard.
1.8.1 2013-06-25
  • Fix: Broken layout bug.
  • Fix: Pro users won't see the Upgrade button in the Advanced settings.
1.8.0 2013-06-24
  • Fix: Fixed comment ratings availability validation.
  • Fix: Fixed bbPress redirection error.
  • Fix: Fixed support for bbPress forum posts ratings on Top-Rated Widget.
  • New: Featured image extraction for future post recommendations.
1.7.9 2013-06-16
  • New: Added bbPress user ratings right at forum-topic's thread.
  • New: Added user rating options for bbPress settings page, to support bbPress without BuddyPress config.
  • Fix: Fix warning for PHP 5.4 'Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in'.
  • Fix: Fixed warning that were displaying on Top-Rated widget, after the user deleted rated comments - 'Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The first argument should be either a string or an integer'.
1.7.8 2013-06-14
  • Fix: bbp_is_forum fatal error fix.
1.7.6 2013-06-06
  • Fix: Fixed the warning when trying to save settings when non categories selected.
  • Fix: Necessary JS and CSS are now loaded only on Rating-Widget settings page.
  • Fix: Removed account creation button disable mode.
  • New: Added GA to collect usage stats to learn and improve the product.
  • New: Added Upgrade CTA to sub menu.
1.7.5 2013-05-26
  • New: Added settings customization box for Power Users.
  • New: Improved settings layout for better user experience.
  • Fix: From now saving rating labels with quotes is working (i.e. French "j'approuve").
  • Fix: 'Go Pro' button is not shown anymore for pro users.
1.7.4 2013-05-09
  • New: From now you can control the title max length in Top-Rated Widget.
  • New: New PHP shortcode to extract ratings data rw_get_post_rating_data($postID);
  • New: Jelly beans stars theme.
  • New Premium Feature: Multilingual blogs support (with WMPL plugin). The ratings language is automatically modified according to current WMPL language.
  • Fix: Fix of the ratings exclude option box.
1.7.3 2013-04-16
  • New & Fix: From this version posts' ratings won't affect the labels of the Top-Rated Widget ratings. We've added a capability of control per rating instance even if it's the same rating.
1.7.2 2013-03-25
  • New: Localized to Afrikaans.
  • New: Localized to Tamil.
1.7.1 2013-03-10
  • New: Posts and Pages ratings shortcodes!!! For the content use '[ratingwidget post_id=123]'. For PHP, use rw_get_post_rating($postID) and rw_the_post_rating($postID).
  • New: Added transient caching support to speed up the Top-Rated Widget and rich snippets data load for Premium users.
  • New: Beautiful votes preview report on votes label hovering.
  • Fix: The option to exclude ratings on post/page add/edit section is now visible only to admins.
  • Fix: Hidden categories selection for pages' ratings options.
1.7.0 2013-02-14
  • New: New beautiful candle thumb rating by Yoram Zara (http://www.avelim.co.il/).
  • Fix: Fixed settings sections layout height for new WP versions.
1.6.9 2013-01-27
1.6.8 2013-01-27
  • New: Localized to Slovak.
  • New: Localized to Slovenian.
  • Fix: Multibyte string functions include validation.
1.6.7 2013-01-08
  • New: New beautiful thumb rating design by David Shenberger.
1.6.6 2012-12-28
  • New: Localized to Bengali.
1.6.5 2012-12-24
  • New: User voting frequency settings - you can now allow daily, weekly, monthly and annually voting.
1.6.4 2012-12-14
  • Fix: Top-Rated Widget ratings label is now showing always votes count instead of 'Rate This'.
1.6.3 2012-12-14
  • Update: Updated plugin description to clear out the Pro features..
1.6.2 2012-12-14
  • New: Christmas Special Edition Thumb & Stars Rating styles - http://rating-widget.com/blog/beautiful-christmas-star-rating-styles/
  • Fix: Improved Greek translation (thanks to our awesome community).
1.6.1 2012-12-08
  • New: Localized to Estonian.
  • New: Localized to Korean.
1.6.0 2012-11-20
  • Fix: Activation bug was fixed.
  • Fix: Rich Snippets (schema.org) fix for premium users.
1.5.9 2012-11-13
  • New: Added SSL support for Pro users.
  • Fix: Post/Page save/publuish warnings.
1.5.8 2012-11-06
  • New: Option to exclude ratings on post/page add/edit section. No more need to manually type posts/pages ids in the visibility section!
1.5.7 2012-10-29
  • Fix: Fixed layout problems.
1.5.6 2012-10-27
  • New: Support for Inherited font (blog's default font style).
  • New: Beautiful ratings white background style.
  • New: Changed default star ratings style to Oxygen.
1.5.5 2012-10-15
  • New: MAJOR FOR PREMIUM USERS - Added mechanism for user key pair preservation to prevent the need for re-uploading the key.php file after every upgrade.
  • Fix: wp_footer() auto detection message is now appears as a notice instead of an error.
1.5.4 2012-10-14
  • New: wp_footer() auto detection message. Now, when wp_footer() isn't called a relevant message will appear on admin's dashboard.
  • Fix: Finally fixed admin's dashboard layout for Right-To-Left WordPress versions.
  • Tested on WordPress 3.4.2
1.5.3 2012-10-07
  • New: Localized to Hindi.
1.5.2 2012-10-07
  • Fix: Rich Snippets fix (added http://schema.org/Product).
1.5.1 2012-09-23
  • Fix: Fixed reports access to premium users.