Category: Tutorials
Control who can vote for specific rating items
The voting process is controlled by the global plugin settings or settings rules for every rating method. Until there is...
Scheduling topics to publish in the future
Plugin version 6.3 added a new feature for scheduling topics to be published in the future. It is easy to...
Check if the user is online from code
You can check if the user is tracked as online from anywhere in your code. This tutorial shows example PHP...
Additional HTML templates
To add additional HTML templates, plugin includes a simple method for registering new templates you want to use. This tutorial...
Setup rich snippets for rating items
Setting up rich snippets in GD Rating System is done in two parts: global settings, and individual posts settings. ...
Inserting attachments into content
When you add attachments to topics or replies, these attachments will be listed under the topic/reply content. But, in many...
Attachments MIME Types
GD bbPress Toolbox Pro allows you to set up additional MIME types (extensions) to be added for attachments upload. Without...
Support for AJAX loading
If your theme is using AJAX to load pages, or if you have a plugin or some other code that...
Migration guide for version 4.0
GD Knowledge Base Pro version 4.0 introduces a lot of new features and some very important changes. Some of these...
User review public method settings
When you configure the user reviews integration and decide on using public ratings so that visitors can say what they...
User review rating method settings
When you configure the user reviews integration, the rating blocks for the rating methods used (Stars, Sliders, Multi Stars or...
Quote vs Post Quote
Plugin version 5.6 added new BBCode called Post Quote: [postquote]. It is a bit different from regular Quote and very...
Conditionally disable voting using filters
In preparing for rendering, plugin runs a wide range of filters and actions to allow the developer to make changes...
Setup the Sync Meta
Sync Meta is a built-in addon for GD Rating System Pro that will copy calculated rating data from the plugin...
Customize user stats Online/Offline badge
User statistics area in topics thread, depending on the settings, shows the Online and Offline badges. They are simple, coloured...
Show grade instead of the rating number
GD Rating System plugin is highly customizable, but there are limits to what settings can do. For some more unusual changes,...
Setup the lightbox for the attached images
GD bbPress Toolbox Pro supports using Lightbox plugins to display attached images, but it doesn't include lightbox itself. You need...
Use MD5 hashed IP’s in the votes log
Since version 3.1, GD Rating System Pro has a new very useful security-related feature: it can store voters IP's as...
BBCode: Hide
BBCode Hide can be used to hide parts of the post, and show them only when reader fulfils the terms...
Show plain stars block inside the WP loop
If you need to display the rating block inside the WordPress Loop, you will need to get the rating snippet...