WP Movie Ratings
WP Movie Ratings is a wordpress plugin that makes rating movies very easy. At its core is a bookmarklet, which combined with Internet Movie Database and a little bit of AJAX magic lets you rate movies with just one click. Also, there is no need to write the title of the movie as it is automatically fetched from imdb. Optionally, you can also write a short review for each movie. The output from this plugin is a list of recently watched movies, which you can put anywhere you want (it’s a matter of one simple function call from the template). Check out the live demo.
The published movie reviews are hReview compliant.
Current version: 1.5 (tar.gz, zip) (2008-05-18).
Screenshots
Recently watched movies list:
Bookmarklet in action (one click movie rating):
Requirements
- Wordpress 2.04 or newer
- FTP, SSH or SCP access to your wordpress blog (so you can upload this plugin).
Installation
- Download the plugin.
- Extract the contents of the .tar.gz/.zip file into the Wordpress plugins directory (usually
wp-content/plugins). Alternatively you can upload them using ftp. You should have a new directory there called wp_movie_ratings (just along the akismet directory). - Activate the plugin by going into your administration panel and selecting Plugins from the menu and clicking the Activate button for the WP Movie Ratings.
- Go to the Manage section in the administration panel and see the new Movies menu option there (you’ll find the bookmarklet there too). Rate at least one movie (using the bookmarklet or the administration page).
- Go to the Options section in the administration panel and under the Movies
tab customize this plugin’s options. - Edit your blog template (it’s probably the best to edit the
index.phpfile from your current theme) and put this line there:<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(); ?>
If you want to have movie ratings listed in the sidebar, you must, of course, edit the
sidebar.phpfile from your current theme. Alternatively you can create a new post/page and type it there:[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
It will create a listing of all rated movies sorted by title.
- Go to your blog and see the movie ratings!
Upgrading
- Download the newest version of the plugin.
- Go to the Plugins section of the administration panel and deactivate the WP Movie Ratings plugin. Don’t worry as it will not delete any movie ratings.
- Go to the wp_movie_ratings plugins directory and delete all of the plugin files (should be
wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings). It will not delete any movie ratings. Be aware though, that if you’ve made any changes to the plugin, you might want to consider a backup. - Extract the contents of the .tar.gz/.zip file into the wp_movie_ratings directory (
wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings). - Go to the Plugins section of the administration panel and activate the WP Movie Ratings plugin (notice that higher version number of the plugin). The deactivation/activation cycle is required because of the new options that need to be written into the wordpress database (during activation).
- Enjoy life with the newest version of the WP Movie Ratings plugin.
FAQ
How can I have the ratings box displayed right after the first post?
Assuming you want to have movie ratings displayed on the front page of your blog, edit the index.php file. Find the line similar to this one:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Change it so it looks like this:
<?php $first_post = true; ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
And then, inside the while loop find this line:
<?php endwhile; ?>
and make it look like this:
<?php if ($first_post) wp_movie_ratings_show(); $first_post = false; ?> <?php endwhile; ?>
And that should do it.
How can I create a separate page listing all of my movie reviews?
Create new Wordpress page by selecting Write Page in the Write menu option of the administration panel and put this line as the page content:
[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
What to do when the rating box is too wide?
Wrap the plugin function call in a fixed width <div>, like that:
<div style="width: 200px"> <?php wp_movie_ratings_show(); ?> </div>
Your plugin is not working! All I get are (EmptyReference!) errors!
Stop using Adobe GoLive! as it is utter evil.
The bookmarklet is not working! Help!
Currently the bookmarklet works in Mozilla Firefox, Camino and WebKit. No IE, sorry.
Check if your blog’s home address is the same as your wordpress installation. If it is not (for instance when your website’s address is example.com and there sits your wordpress installation, but your blog is located at blog.example.com), then using this bookmarklet is not possible as that kind of AJAX calls are regarded as XSS and are blocked by Firefox (by default). You need to mess with your wordpress installation for it to work.
I’m using the Markdown plugin and I cannot create a movie ratings page!
Instead of writing:
[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
try
<!--wp_movie_ratings_page-->
and if that still does not work for you, wrap the call in a <p> tag, like this:
<p><!--wp_movie_ratings_page--></p>
or like this:
<p>[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]</p>
How can I have the reviews shown when in page mode but hidden while in sidebar mode?
Go into the options panel and set all of the settings you want to have for the page mode. For the sidebar mode execute the following php code:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(6, array("sidebar_mode" => "yes", "include_review" => "no")); ?>
The first parameter of the wp_movie_ratings_show() function is the number of latest movie reviews to show. The second is the array of additional display options (all are optional). Here is the list of all the options you can set (hash array):
text_ratings– text ratings (like 5/10) instead of the stars,include_review– include review with each movie rating,expand_review– initially display expanded reviews when in page mode,sidebar_mode– compact view for sidebar mode,five_stars_ratings– display movie ratings using 5 stars instead of 10,highlight– will highlight the stars of top rated movies,page_mode– display all movie ratings on a separate page,page_url– link to the movie reviews page,char_limit– will cut any character in the title after this number.only_not_rated- will select only not yet rated movies (’yes’/'no’).only_rated- will select only already rated movies (’yes’/'no’).order_by- default sort (valid only when used with combination of either ‘only_rated’ or ‘only_not_rated’) (’title’/'rating’/'watched_on’).order_direction- default sort direction (valid only when used with combination of either ‘only_rated’ or ‘only_not_rated’) (’ASC’/'DESC’).
Other questions?
Just ask.
License
Released and available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Known bugs
- Bugs? What bugs?
TODO
v2.0 plans:
- Convert movie ratings from separate database table to normal posts and assign custom tag to hide them from normal content (similarly to the sideblog plugin). Doing this will give us: integrated search for already rated movies, RSS feeds, comments under reviews, permalinks to each review.
- Automatically fetch movie covers from amazon, fetch director, cast, rating, movie language from imdb (when adding a new review).
- Automatic updates through the Wordpress plugin administration panel.
Post v2.0 plans:
- Use static methods of Movie class, like Movie::get_watched_movies_count() instead of what I’m doing currently (tested; works in PHP 4.4.x).
- Different color schemes/images for different blog backgrounds (white/black/transparent) using different CSS selectable via panel option.
- Dynamic graph chart showing the votes breakdown.
- Automatic voting on imdb.
- Amazon links ($$).
- Turn the plugin into a widget.
- Bookmarklet working in Internet Explorer.
- Implement vote history import from imdb.com (and somehow solve the watched_on problem as imdb doesn’t tell when the movie was rated).
- Expand on the concept of this plugin being a general rating plugin, which will let you rate books and music too.
- Implement multiple users ratings (for multi-author websites).
- Automatically collect the movies you saw each month/week and post them on the blog.
Changelog
2008-05-18
- added option to add movies without rating them (only through the administration panel) (to create a list of owned just not yet seen dvds, for example).
- added option to select all ‘only_rated’ or ‘only_not_rated’ movies using the wp_movie_ratings_show() function call.
- char_limit option can now be passed as a parameter to the wp_movie_ratings_show() function call.
- fixed problems making the movie reviews pages non XHTML compliant.
- fixed error which prevented certain users from activating the plugin (the database table was not created).
- fixed XHTML validation error in the bookmarklet.
- release 1.5.
2006-11-18
- fixed lots of rendering issues (problems in IE, Blue-k2 theme, Golden Gray theme, reviews not expanding, etc.).
- completely rewritten encoding module, so now international characters as well as HTML should work correctly.
- fix for Markdown markup - you can now use the alternate tag:
<!--wp_movie_ratings_page-->to create a movie ratings page. - new feature: if no imdb link is given, the plugin will not look for the movie’s title on imdb. As a drawback, there can be now movies without imdb links (and without titles…).
- new feature: ability to edit imdb links for already rated movies.
- new feature: added pagination in page mode (so movie reviews can now span among several pages).
- added option to disable pingerati.net pinging.
- added option to highlight top rated movies.
- added link from the recently rated movies list to the page with all movie ratings.
- movies are now grouped together by month when sorting by view date in page mode.
- added default movies sorting options for page mode.
- added a new database field with optional link that is used instead of imdb.
- added option to initially display expanded reviews in page mode.
- added ability to edit movies directly from the displayed ratings list (in page mode too).
- release 1.4.
For previous changes check out the changelog file within the plugin’s archive.
June 18th, 2006 at 4:20 am
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June 18th, 2006 at 7:14 am
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June 18th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Dear Paul,
Thanks for the plugin, looking good, but> I’ve a question for you:
Having uploaded the files, activated the plugin and clicked through Manage: Movies, I see the following line:
Warning: Division by zero in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/wp_movie_ratings.php on line 186
June 18th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
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June 18th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for the bug report, Niklas. You may safely ignore it, as it should disappear after 24 hours since the rating of the first movie.
However, you can download the version 1.0.1 which fixes this bug.
June 18th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Thanks a lot, Paul!
June 19th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
How do I delete movies in the database?
June 19th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
shelby -> atm the only way to edit/delete a movie rating is to edit the database manually. I’m planning to add edit/delete ability soon (v1.1 probably).
June 20th, 2006 at 12:57 am
Great plugin… how would I go about including this in a page or post though? Usually for that, support for extra markup is needed like [[movierating]]. Or am I wrong?
June 20th, 2006 at 1:02 am
At the moment you can include movie ratings only as a php function call, but it’s a brilliant idea to have a tag like that. I’ll definitely implement it.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:56 am
Would love to use your plug-in on my sidebar, but so far, I’ve been unable to get it to work in the sidebar.php file of wordpress. i know you said that the code should be added to the main index template, but that doesn’t really work well with my css. Please help. I love your plugin and the fact that it works with imdb.com.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Sam -> The code can be added to the sidebar.php file too. It will work. The caveat is that it will not look good as the sidebar just doesn’t have enough space for this plugin. Unless, of course, your sidebar is at least 370px wide.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:52 am
Thanks Paul, waiting for the new version
Here’s an idea, how about expanding this to accept music, restaurants, or any other list of things one can rate? Instead of imdb, make it a generic link and allow multiple lists (like [[toplist:listA]] etc… unless there’s something that I am missing about your plugin and it’s made very specifically for movies with no changes like this possible.
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June 21st, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Could you post a Zip file instead? i’m on PC and dont use Unix.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:23 pm
okie i got it to work finally.
but i get this error in the admin :
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near \'SELECT watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings WHERE id=(SELECT MIN(id]
SELECT TO_DAYS((SELECT watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings WHERE id=(SELECT MIN(id) FROM wp_movie_ratings)));
June 21st, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Archon810 -> I believe that strength of my plugin lies in the ability to rate movies very easily (bookmarklet integrated with imdb). It’s not quite simple with other ‘categories’ like music, restaurants, plays, etc. There are quite a few ‘generic’ rating plugins around. They are not as good as mine when it comes to rating movies, but the allow you to rate some other stuff too. So, answering your question - I really doubt this plugin will ever become more generic.
Toon -> The zip file is posted. Judging by the error it seems your MySQL copy is quite old (without the support for subqueries). I’ll write it in my TODO list to make simpler SQL queries so it works with older MySQL versions too.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Great work, but…
traget=_blank for outgoing imdb links will be pretty nice, for some users.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I firmly believe that
target="_blank"is evil, so that functionality will probably never be in my plugin. Although if you really need it, feel free to modify the show() method in the movie.class.php so it includes thetargetattribute (it’s pretty easy).June 22nd, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Got it, thx.
… _url ?>” target=”_blank” …
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June 23rd, 2006 at 6:25 am
So, have next idea too. When IMDb dont have the movie, lets set the (in german EAN) unique binarycode or ISBN like the bookcover plugin.
June 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 pm
If there was a central registiry of such unique codes, why not. I doubt there is one, though. Never heard of one. Even if there was one, most independent movies would not reach it (and those are the movies that are not listed on imdb; 99,99% of the others is there). Besides, my plugin depends too much on imdb.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Thanks! Dziękuje!
czekam teraz 1-2-3 tygodnie na lepszą wersję 
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm
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June 24th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I think having the ability to include this in a post with tags like what Archon810 said is a great idea. Right now, having a sidebar or regular section is great but could get a little out of hand if you want to rate a lot of movies or rating movies isn’t a main purpose of your blog.
[movie /link/ /numbered rating/]review text[/movie]
Also, instead of a 10 star system, I would suggest a 5 star one with halves. It’s just easier on the eyes and won’t take up much space for movies with long titles
Just my 2 cents sir. Keep up the great work =)
June 25th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
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June 25th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Good idea about 5 stars with halves. I second that!
June 25th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Great idea for a plugin and a terrific start. I too vote for 5 stars. Hard to tell at a glance if a rating is 6 stars or 7. As much as I love it, I can’t really make use of this plugin until it is more side-bar friendly. I’m going to mess with the CSS and see if I can make it work for me. Cutting down the number of stars and moving them on their own line under the movie title would go a long way toward slimming it down. Keep working on this one, it’s a winner!
June 26th, 2006 at 12:36 am
5 stars instead of 10 as a max rating will be implemented probably in v1.5. It will be more sidebar friendly quite soon (I plan on doing that for v1.1). There are some IE CSS errors I’m fighting with now, though.
June 26th, 2006 at 4:14 am
I’m trying to use this plugin in my blog (WordPress 2.03), but it’s coming an error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class httprequest in /home/xxx/domains/evilasio.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/httprequest.class.php on line 12You know what it is? I really have no idea! Thanks!
June 26th, 2006 at 8:10 am
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June 26th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Great plugin! It would be useful to not just only have a link to imdb, but also to the post(s) I wrote about the movie (if there is one.) This shuldn’t be automatical of course.
About the target=”_blank” being evil: One of the main reasons against it was that it opens a new window instead of a new tab. I always use target=”_blank”, I hate if a link accidantely makes the page i’m reading go away, but I never had a problem with it in Maxthon (my primary browser). I tested it now in Opera and Firefox as well and it always opened a new tab, never a new window. Maybe it was just me turning this on when I installed them, I don’t know.
June 26th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Cool plugin.
And looks nice in my sidebar after a little bit of CSS altering!
Cheers
June 26th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
very useful…tanks
June 26th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Wow, exactly what I wanted. I have a question though. Can you have a page that lists all your reviews? Is there a review archive?
June 26th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
This is a fantastic plugin and exactly what I need for a site I’m developing for a film screening group. One request: can it use links from Amazon.com as well as the iMDB? It would be great to link to the item through an affiliate account!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Paul, you want to use this technique to insert the stylesheet in the head. Plugin hooks are nifty!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
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June 26th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Very nice work!
Short question though. I know that for many, IE is the root to many an evil, so skip that part, when and if answering
Why does the output of the plugin look super in e.g. Firefox, but not likewise in IE? Any suggestions?
June 26th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
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June 26th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Evilasio -> Plugin namespaces conflict. There will be v1.1 of my plugin in a few days which will fix it.
stadi -> Added to the TODO list. Maybe for v2.0.
dave -> There will be a page with all reviews in v1.2 (2-3 weeks i think). There might be amazon links in the fututre (2.0?)
ceejayoz -> Thx!
Markus -> All IE problems are fixed now. There will be a new release shortly (v1.1)
June 27th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Thanks, Paul. I’ll be waiting!
June 27th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Great plugin! Nice work. After implementing the TODO list, it will even be better.
June 27th, 2006 at 11:42 am
hi there,
if you could add a ‘product link’ (to imdb, or amazon) and a ‘review’ link, that would be great.
also, director and genre fields would be great.
is it possible to do them?
thanks!
June 27th, 2006 at 11:51 am
hi i want to use that plug-in for my wordpress blog but i get this error:
WordPress database error: [Table 'burwordpress.wp_movie_ratings' doesn't exist]
SELECT title, imdb_url_short, rating, review, DATE_FORMAT(watched_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10
Note from admin: This has been fixed in v1.2.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
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June 27th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
alper -> Product link maybe, it’s in my todo. Linking to review posts too. Director, genre, cast, etc. is out there on imdb. No need to duplicate it.
bsam -> It might be that your wordpress installation is not quite ok. Or you might have simply not activated my plugin. Or maybe you don’t have the rights to create new tables in your wordpress installation (admin account on wordpress is required, leve 8 or higher). Or maybe I just don’t know what
June 28th, 2006 at 8:50 am
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June 28th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Any idea is to let user comment the movie too. i guess, will forward a discussion on blogs too.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Uhm, not directly. Look at this post. It’s a little bit different from my other posts (the background, the rating, which is the work of another plugin atm).
For v2.0 of WP Movie Ratings I imagine there will be a link from the list of rated/reviewed movies from the plugin to the post with the full review (so, for example one movie would share one rating). I imagine there will be an option for each movie review done with WP Movie Ratings to write a full review with just 1 click (it would automatically set up the background on the post and the rating stars). That way full reviews could have comments, because they would be actually normal posts. I’m not exactly sure how to do all that, so it’s a v2.0 feature
June 29th, 2006 at 5:02 am
this is cool. thanks!
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June 29th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Great plugin Paul, thanks for all the hard work. It took me a bit of time to get it working - I decided to have the ratings be on their own page as opposed to on the sidebar or the main page and the layout was a bit off. for some reason the stars wanted to go top to bottom instead of left to right (easy fix by editing movie.class.php) and the description box was enormous (turns out my theme’s css has a description class as well that was taking over). For some reason, though, every time I add a movie I get an error (Error: not added. .) even though the title is added. Any idea why this might be happening?
July 1st, 2006 at 7:20 am
Okay, I’ll probably look like a complete schlub here, but for the life of me, I can’t get your nifty plug-in to work right. I’m pretty new to wordpress/php and this is one of the first plugins I’ve tried to add. When you say to put the
in the index.php file, do you mean the one under the specific theme that I am using for my blog? It seems that no matter where I place the tag, I can’t get my reviews to nest comfortably in my sidebar. It just pops up in the middle of the screen (or top or bottom, depending on where in the php file I place it) and obfuscates my posts. I’m using the default theme, by the by.
What am I missing? Thanks!
July 1st, 2006 at 3:20 pm
serg -> If the movie is added to the database and you still get that error it might suggest that your php/mysql is from older version and that’s why you get this error. I’ll try to make that part of the code more backwards compliant.
Andrius -> Yes, index.php from the theme you are using. If you want to have movie ratings in the sidebar you must edit the sidebar.php file from your theme.
July 1st, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Thanks Paul. Since it works anyway I can live with it.
Here’s a link to the plugin working on it’s own page -> http://blog.viganos.com/movie-ratings/
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:50 am
Thanks for the help. It’s coming along. Now, if I want to edit or delete a film review, I need to edit the database, correct? Which file would this be?
Also, if I want to change the title of the reviews on my sidebar from “movie reviews” to something else, where should I look?
Again, sorry for the simple questions, but I’m learning as I go along…
Thanks!
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Andrius -> In order to edit reviews you need either to wait for v1.2 (eta: about 2 weeks) or edit the MySQL wordpress database (wp_movie_ratings table). As for the title you need to edit
wp_movie_ratings_show()function in the thewp_movie_ratings.phpfile.July 3rd, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Hey Paul,
Great plugin! I’m using the Sideblog plugin and can’t wait for a widget version of WP Movie Ratings.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Love the plugin. This is actually one I am finding to be very useful.
I had three questions but I see you have answered question #1 about editing your review.
So here are the other questions.
2. How about a comments feature so others can critique your review? You know know the saying opinions are like A-Holes everyone has one.
you know know question #3 I just answered myself….so just really one question today. thanks.
PS I guess #2 isn’t really a question but more of a suggestion.
July 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
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July 5th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Edmond: Since so many people ask for comments, it’s now in the TODO list, although I haven’t got a slightest idea how to implement them (yet!).
July 5th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Hey there!
Thanks for 1.1, and I’ve just gotta say I’ve just removed the plugin from my site due to my not being able to edit my entries; due to an error by myself, where I forgot to close an italics-HTML-tag, all entries below the plugin were displayed in italics. Sad, but true.
I’ll be checking in in a week or two to catch 1.2!
July 6th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Hey Paul,
Thanks for the plugin! I will definitely find it very useful. I saw from under your To-do-list, that you have planned to incorporate a vote history function. I hope you stick to it! i really really want that function real bad. Pls take a look at this recent thread which i’ve posted on the wordpress support forums to see what i mean. Pls let me know if you think you can nail it. Thanks!
July 6th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Niklas -> you can always edit the database directly.
Gio -> It should be easy to implement in my plugin. The $10 bounty makes it even more tempting. Problem is that there is no easy way for you to pay me, unless you’re able to make international money transfer.
July 6th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Don’t worry Paul, if paypal doesn’t work for you, let it be IT then, or money order, we’ll find a way
I hope you can crack it. perhaps you can alias with Paul Downey as well. Godspeed!
July 7th, 2006 at 12:57 am
this looks great, i can’t wait until i have some spare time to get my teeth into customising this plugin… really happy someone did all the coding
i’ve been working on something similar, a patched version of Starred Review #. what do ya think: http://www.metacomment.com/blog/2006/05/14/starred-review-patch/
July 9th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Starred review is too general for me. I’m only interested in movies
I’ll make a link to it, though.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:27 am
thank you for a great plugin. i use it with this plugin Executable PHP widget to get in my sidebar. it was some bugs with some themes but found a theme that it worked grat with …
thank you very much…
July 14th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
[...] It’s been less than three weeks since the v1.1 release and I have managed to prepare a significant upgrade to the WP Movie Ratings wordpress plugin. Here is the direct download link. Remember to follow the upgrade instructions when upgrading. [...]
July 14th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Hi!
I installed the plugin (only movies page) but my stars don’t look like yours in IE and they don’t appear in Firefox at all.
Also, is there a way to display the short review in the movies page?
thx
July 15th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
stadi -> I’ll look into it so the plugin is compliant with more wodpress themes (K2 especially).
It is not possible to display the short review using the [[wp_movie...]] tag (yet, it’s in my TODO), but it is possible to have the same effect by using the php function call with high number as argument, for example: wp_movie_ratings_show(10000);.
July 16th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
[...] Star Rating for ReviewsA few plugins are already available for your readers to rate your posts through star ratings (e.g. Votio and Post Star Rating). But to my knowledge, there have been none to allow you to arbitrarily insert star ratings into your own posts (there’s one for movies though, but it’s very specialized) and even generate an overall rating calculated from all the ratings you’ve added into the post. This plugin provides exactly those functions exactly. Moreover, the number of stars used (up to 20) and denominator used can be customised (no more cliche 5 stars only). [...]
July 17th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
How can I add genre, director(s), cast .etc. from imdb to my movie-page? And how can I show when movie is watched?
PLEASE HELP.
July 17th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Genre, director, cast - all those things are out there on imdb. Don’t need to duplicate this info in my plugin (it would just pollute the screen with useless info). To know when the movie was watched/rated hover over the movie’s title and the tooltip with this date should show up.
July 18th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Can we get this widgetized for the sidebar? I’d definately use it then! Thanks!
July 18th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Paul: But If I want that the plugin gets info (title and all the other details) from imdb to my page without the link to imdb-site?
And is it possible to create different look to sidebar than the created movie-page.
My [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] didn’t work, I had to create template for empty movie-page.
July 18th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
trench -> widget mode is planned in the future. I might do it sooner than the planned v2.5 though.
Rolle -> If you’d like to have those things fetched from imdb you could definitely hack my plugin so it does all that. Same goes for the plugin look - you just need to mess with css a little bit.
July 20th, 2006 at 6:48 am
Paul,
For some reason, the height of the individual review boxes seems to be fixed. This creates a problem for longer reviews and shorter reviews alike, and if a longer review is last, it spills over the color of the table. Any ideas? I’d like it to look more like your screenshot. Thanks, man. Awesome plugin.
Jake Bouma
July 22nd, 2006 at 12:26 am
I got styles but please, Paul or somebody, tell me how to get cast/director/ and other information from imdb? I need them. I’m not good at coding php, so I beg you. Please.
July 22nd, 2006 at 4:46 am
Trying to make my reviews a PAGE, and it comes up with the title and link but NO review? http://www.scottwyden.com/information/movie-reviews/
July 22nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Jake -> must be something with your css. In about 2 weeks there will be a new version that is friendly with more wordpress themes, hopefully it will fix your problems.
Rolle -> If there are enough requests I’ll think about it, for now you just have to stick to what you have.
Scott -> Yes, there are no reviews in page mode (yet! they will be in a new release).
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:48 pm
1.2 is a radiant update. Thanks a lot!
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:11 am
How can I show “next page” and “previous page” -links etc. if I want that all the movies are showed but 10 movies per page? is that possible? If I limit showed movies (for example 10), then the older ones are invisible. And I watch a lot of movies! I don’t want to show them all, but I don’t want to hide anything in my movies-page.
I’m working on with cast/director/comments/public rating/… information fetch -thing, but my coding skills with php are poor, so I just have to guess and try. I’m near-perfectionist-kind-person, so what I desire that I want to create.
July 23rd, 2006 at 3:44 pm
What would be great it to have a HTML allowed in descriptions. I would like to link this to my full reviews I have on my blog. Looking great so far. Also if you could add text that would be 1/5, 2/5, etc.. similar to what you did with the stars, that would be great. I would prefer text instead of images but in the FIVE STAR FORMAT.
Thanks.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I watch A LOT of movies and now I have rated about 40 movies. In ‘Movies’-admin page, where did the bottom movies disappear? I want to see them all.
And, I want to see all movies in my movies-page and about 10 recent movies in my sidebar. How can I do that?
July 30th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Number of movies solved! Different number of rated movies to sidebar and your movie-page:
Just put
in your movie-template-page and some value (e.g. 10) to admin panel box.
July 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
[...] Wie ihr ja schon gesehen habt, habe ich ein neues Plugin installiert wp_movie_ratings [...]
July 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
php wp_movie_ratings_show(999999);
with question
August 1st, 2006 at 3:08 pm
trench -> HTML is allowed in the descriptions/reviews (you can link to full reviews by hand, no problem here). 1-5 ratings as text will be implemented, for sure.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
rolle -> the admin page lists only recently rated movies and it will stay this way. There will be, however, the ability to edit any movie from the page mode listing all movies (it will redirect you to the admin panel). Now as for the next/prev buttons for page mode they will be there too at some point.
August 4th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
[...] Vandaag een plugin geinstalleerd voor het bijhouden en reviewen van films. De plugin heet “WP Movie Ratings” en is geschreven door Paul Goscicki. Hier vind je een beschrijving van de plugin evenals een live demo. [...]
August 6th, 2006 at 5:01 am
1.3 looks great! thanks! Exactly what I wanted!
August 7th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for a great plugin.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
[...] Dönüşle birlikte sayfamda birkaç değişiklik de yapmış bulunuyorum. Bir tanesi pek gözle gözükmeyecek olan Wordpress 2.0.4′e güncellemiş bulunmam. Diğeri ise film yorumlarımı farklı bir eklenti ile gösteriyor olmam. Artık WP-Ratings Plugin kullanıyorum. Bu sayede uzun eleştiri yazmadığım filmlere kısa şeyler yazabiliyorum. Ana sayfada ise Starred Review kullanmaya devam ediyorum. etiketler: özel, tatil ve yolculuk [...]
August 11th, 2006 at 12:57 am
[...] Testing out this cool plug-in. [...]
August 15th, 2006 at 10:07 am
hello,
is it possible to do a montly view of all movies rated? like that of Starred Review plugin?
like:
August 2006
This movie
that movie
July 2006
He movie
She movie
August 15th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Hi!
In K2’s new release 0.9 WP Movie Ratings doesn’t work well. First the font of “Movies I’ve watched recently:” in the sidebar changed (this is not a big thing) and in the movies page, the reviews are open by default and the x key does not work.
I like the last one this way better, but this is not intended like this I think
August 15th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
[...] Paul Goscicki » WP Movie Ratings [...]
August 26th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
hi,
another feature request: a field in the settings where we can set the default view options. i mean, like time descending sorting.
August 27th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Can someone help me fix this page. I added the line as stated to show the content as a page. The problem is there is a HUGE gap and you have to scroll all the way down to start the page….Help!?!?!
http://www.cornelliers.com/movie-reviews/
PS - I LOVE THIS PLUGIN!!!!
August 28th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
alper -> Not yet. I’d like to see it that way too (sorting by date by months/years), so there is a good chance that it will be like that (quite soon). There will be also an option to set the default sorting order when in page mode.
Stadi -> The font change is ok. I’ve decided that the title should be displayed using the theme’s font, so any font change will be visible in my plugin. Now as for the reviews, I think that it’s not a K2 related problem, but some aggressive plugin that you’re using. In the source code of your blog I can see this:
.description { display: block !important; (...) }. This line prevents the reviews to work correctly. Try to find what puts this line there and, if possible, remove it. Plus, you have reviews in the sidebar and in the body of the page, which makes the HTML invalid (and that creates some problems too). There should only be one movie reviews box per page.Jason C. -> It has something to do with your theme and IE (in Firefox it looks ok). When I go to “Resume” on your blog I have the same gap so it has nothing to do with my plugin.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Hi Paul, Thanks so much for the plugin. I have been struggling with starred review for the last month with little to no success and your plugin came in and savd the day. So thanks!
The small problem I’m having is when I try to include the last five movies revieved in a post my stars end up lining up vertically instead of horizontally. Do you know of a way to fix this? thanks in advance for all your help.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
hubs -> If your stars line up vertically it usually means that the movie reviews box is a part of an open
<pre>tag. It’s a wordpress issue/feature - try closing the tag and see if it helps (looking at source code first to confirm this is sensible too).August 28th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Hi! I’ve put the “.description { display: block !important; …” thing into the css, so that it doesn’t display the description of the blog in the header. It used to work in previous versions of K2 without “!important” but in the new version it doesn’t, that’s why I had to put it there.
Is there a way to make the reviews in the sidebar appear only on the frontpage? I don’t like that they are there always, but two of them only appear in the movies page.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
unfortunately you’re speaking above me. this didn’t work however.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
stadi -> Now I know that it is a K2 related issue. One of the styles (k2blue) includes a very aggressive !important rule on the .description class, which leaves my hands tied as I cannot get around this issue. I’ll try to work on that, though.
hubs -> Wait for the newest version and then tell me if it still displays the stars like that.
August 31st, 2006 at 10:54 am
[...] Now to the coolest new thing: the Movie Ratings Page. You'll notice at the top of the blog a tab labeled "Movies". Go there and you'll see all the movies I've seen and rated, along with brief reviews. I'll be updating this frequently as I've got quite a backlog of movies to rate (luckily I've saved every ticket stub from the last ten years). Big ups to Paul Goscicki for creating the plugin. [...]
September 1st, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Nice plugin but when I try to insert a link it always says the imdb link is not retriable and it aborts.
Any hint?
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:37 am
Hi, i’m using your plugin, i like a lot
http://www.chrismise.com/blog/?page_id=67
That would be nice something like alper asked
“hello,
is it possible to do a montly view of all movies rated? like that of Starred Review plugin?
like:
August 2006
This movie
that movie
July 2006
He movie
She movie “
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:09 am
etherea -> It might be that your host is blocking http requests to imdb.com.
Chris Mise -> Yes, it will be in v1.4 which is to be released quite soon.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:55 am
@Paul: I generally surf to imdb.com easily, as I’m also a registered user..
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:48 pm
etherea -> You don’t understand. The plugin is making http connection to imdb.com from the machine that your weblog is _hosted_, not from your local computer. This is what might be blocked as you’re the first user to report that.
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:35 pm
I see, thanks.
September 8th, 2006 at 7:21 am
[...] WP-Movie Ratings - Movie reviews published via this plugin are in the hReview microformat. [...]
September 13th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
In the WP K2 Theme, I get empty squares instead of stars (referring to the image movie ratings).
September 16th, 2006 at 9:31 am
This is such a cool plugin! One tiny problem I’m having though is that when I try to post from the bookmarklet, it says, “Error: cannot add movie rating. Not logged in.” Errr, I am logged in. Why does it keep doing this? I’d love to use the bookmarklet because it’s ridiculously convenient (particularly since I spend half my off work internet time browsing IMdB like a dork). Thanks!
Rachel
September 17th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Thanks for the great plugin
I love it!
I have a question though. Is it possible to delete the ‘Watched and reviewed on’ thing in the tooltip manually? Should I delete a line of code? I’m not that into php so I’m not sure if I can delete something or not. Thanks!
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Zeph -> This is a known problem which will be fixed in v1.4 (to be released quite soon).
Rachel -> Hard to say. It works for me so I cannot trace the problem. Maybe try hitting F5 before clicking on any of the stars?
Sanne -> Search for
"# Movie title"text in themovie.class.phpand delete the title attribute from the link few lines below.September 23rd, 2006 at 7:12 pm
[...] WP Movie Ratings es un plugin que nos permitirá desde nuestro wordpress 2.x calificar y tener una calificación de películas en nuestro propio blog, mediante interface ajax, por el cual lo único que tenemos que hacer es introducir la dirección de IMDB perteneciente a la película, escribir una pequeña revisión de dicha película y asignarle un valoración activando una serie de estrellas.Como se puede observar, la información la obtiene directamente desde IMDB, con lo que no es necesario introducir el nombre de la película, además tenemos de esta forma el enlace directo a la información de cada una de esas películas que tenemos listadas. [...]
October 1st, 2006 at 12:26 am
Great plugin.
Just wondering if it takes long before you implement this:
v2.0: Convert movie ratings from separate database table to normal posts and assign custom tag to hide them from normal content (similarly to the sideblog plugin). This way we get automatic RSS feeds, comments and permalinks to each movie review.
I will use your plugin as soon as this is implemented, because if want my readers to give ratings also (im using postratings plugin), and i want to use that plugin with yours. Is it a easy way to do this so i can use the postratings plugin? Keep up the good work!
October 7th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Hi Paul,
Love your plugin. However, I’m experiencing some problems. When I just installed everything worked fine. But for some reason it has stopped displaying the text of the movie ratings on my main index, even though my settings are set to display them.
I have de-installed and installed and tried puting the code somewhere else in the page (just to see if it was somehow connected to its place in de the page), but nothing worked. Also, I changed all settings forth and back, but nothing worked.
Any ideas? Thanks.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Tom -> I’m afraid that it’s still a long way till that happens. But who knows…
Ivar -> That’s a known problem related to your theme. Kubrick’s CSS overwrites rules set in wp_movie_ratings plugin. This issue has been resolved, so no need to worry. You’ll have your reviews as soon as I finally release v1.4 (which is ready to be released).
October 8th, 2006 at 11:09 am
[...] Testing out this cool plug-in. [...]
October 8th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Great, thanks!
October 10th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
This is *exactly* what I’ve been looking for. Thank you for a wonderful plugin!
October 11th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Hi Paul: just curious, what’s the release date of v1.4?
October 11th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Ivar -> probably this week or the next one.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:40 am
[...] 插件页面: 点击进入 [...]
October 15th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Good - just checked your TODO. Boy you are ambitious - plans all the way to ver 3!
I like it as it is - so do not hesitate for my sake. Haha.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:00 am
Hello, i love this plugin!
but i had a problem… i use markdown… the [[***]] markup didnt work, so i had to edit the php…
maybe if for next rls you change it to
would be nice… sory for my bad english
October 16th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
task -> that can be arranged (probably without any regressions). Check out v1.4 when it comes out.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
tnkz ;)!
this week?!
October 16th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Yea, as soon as I have some free time and new bugs won’t come out. I’m still waiting for a few beta-testers reports
October 24th, 2006 at 6:57 am
[...] Note: I decided that I want to track my book reviews so I took the movie rating plugin found on the bottom site and created a a book review plugin. You can find it on my Tools page. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
[...] Jeg har tidligere nevnt omtale av filmer og plugin for dette, men er ikke helt fornøyd med den jeg bruker nå. Så hvis noen har noe bedre forslag for å få lagt ut omtale av filmer i Wordpress, let me know. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
How to add archive page with + and - marks like you have? I just upgraded to 1.3. http://rolleweb.net/elokuvat (forgive me, my movie-page is in finnish at the moment)
October 26th, 2006 at 1:11 am
rolle -> Try creating a new page and enter [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] tag there. Alternatively you may try this in your template:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(9999, array("page_mode" => "yes")); ?>
October 27th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Thanks Paul. I have to say that your plugin is more than brilliant. I admire your work a lot and I can’t wait till version five
Sounds too good already. Keep in touch!
October 29th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Is it possible to show little statics about watched movies, for example how many movies watched in years 2000-2006 for example? that would be nice!
October 30th, 2006 at 1:10 am
The bookmarklet works in webkit (safari nightly) as well. Just a heads up
October 30th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Rolle -> you have your statistics in the administration panel. At one point I made it so that you could include them in the page view as well but run into some problems, so it got kind of abandoned. But it’s still possible using the
wp_movie_ratings_show_statistics()function. You just need to look into the code.Caius -> thanks for the info. I’ll update the page.
October 31st, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Is there a way to display the reviews already “expanded” when opening a page in WP?
See http://calliopyranch.com/?page_id=26.
Thanks— great plugin.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Mike -> Yes, there is a way to do that but you need v1.4 which was about to be released more than a week ago but you know, life got in the way. I’ll release it hopefully in the not too distant future. It should also fix those CSS problems you’re having.
November 3rd, 2006 at 5:44 am
Great plugin Paul. Just what I’ve been looking for. Easy to install and setup. One question for you. I don’t use this in my sidebar at all, only as a page. I plan to list a whole lot of movies that we’ve seen over the years. Is there a way to limit how many movies are listed on one page, before it starts another page. Say I only wanted to show 100 movies per page, is that possible now or maybe possible in a future release? Again, great job, keep up the good work.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Do any of your PHP wizards know how to integrate:
(stats for wp movie rating
into the wp_stats plugin found here:
http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php
November 4th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
John -> Yes, there will be a way to do just that in the upcoming v1.4.
November 5th, 2006 at 1:55 am
Anybody who wants to integrate their wp_movie_rating stats with Lester Chans wp_stats, here’s how you do it! I’m using wp_stats version 2.0.5, but I guess it should work the same with previous versions, but it hasn’t been tested with previous versions. Enjoy!
Open up stats.php, find:Code:
if($stats_display['recent_posts'] == 1 || $stats_display['recent_commtents'] == 1 || $stats_display['commented_post'] == 1 || $stats_display['emailed_most'] == 1 || $stats_display['rated_highest'] == 1 || $stats_display['rated_most'] == 1 || $stats_display['viewed_most'] == 1) {
Add above it:Code:
if(function_exists(’wp_movie_ratings_get_statistics’)) {
$temp_stats .= ‘‘.__(’WP-MovieRatings’).’‘.”\n”;
$temp_stats .= wp_movie_ratings_get_statistics();
}
November 7th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Paul,
Just wondering, when do you suspect that v1.4 will be availble? Also, do you want any beta testers? If so, I’m really interested…I have to get my movie page, paged (so it isn’t so long) or it’s going to drive me crazy..lol
November 7th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
John -> I’ve sent you the latest version. I’m still waiting for some free time to release the v1.4 to the public (hopefully this week…). It should’ve been released 3 weeks ago :/
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Got it upgraded Paul. Wow, anybody who has been using this in the past will love your upgrades..Great job man……so far, it’s working like a charm…
November 13th, 2006 at 6:39 am
Hi Paul,
1) count me as another vote to make a “review” a blog post and also keep a page or sidebar that collects all reviews.
2) I display all the movies in a page, how can I make the display default order be descending by “view date”.
3) The bookmarklet should have a field to edit the view date.
4) The bookmarklet should have a “save” button. Marking the star rating is not the same thing as being done with the review.
5) Thanks for a cool plugin it is definitely the best in this category!
6) If you’re looking for beta-testers get in touch with me.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
earlax -> 1) yea… v2.0 someday, maybe
2) v1.4 (soon… really) 3) Uhm, I don’t really want to clutter the bookmarklet, and it’s only useful for backfilling, so that’s a “no” 4) Uhm, no. It’s purpose is to be as simple as possible. Use admin panel for any advanced features. 5) Thanks for the kind words! 6) Check your email.
November 18th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Thank you for the wonderful plugin, Paul!
I look forward to your v1.4!
November 19th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Nice update Paul. Looks great on my sidebar!!!!
November 19th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Hey, thanks! The new version (1.4) is great. Keep up the good work!
November 19th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Great job Paul! Thanks for letting me test the beta…
November 20th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
[...] Movie Ratings，显示一个电影列表和IMDB上的星级评分，虽然输入信息时一定要提供IMDB的相关链接，但是你也可以使用其他介绍地址来替换它作为最终输出链接。 [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 5:14 pm
i’m still having the problem with markdown…
i’m using this plugin
http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ v 1.0.1c
the page is not showing, only if i deactivate markdown…
http://wearemad.weblogs.us/colophon/#movies
November 21st, 2006 at 7:47 pm
task -> wrap the call in a <p>< tag, like this:
November 22nd, 2006 at 12:34 am
that did the trick!!
tnkz
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:11 am
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to reviews.pingerati.net:80 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_http_request.class.php on line 60
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_http_request.class.php on line 61
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_http_request.class.php on line 66
this is appearing, sometimes… when editing…
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:05 pm
task -> disable pingerati.net pinging in the options panel.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:52 am
How could I setting for “shows reviews in my movie page but no reviews in sidebar“?
Thanks~
November 25th, 2006 at 6:47 am
I’ve got the plugin installed, and prior to adding movies, the page had worked fine (and showed sans reviews.) Upon adding reviews, I end up getting a fatal error that results in the movie reviews not being displayed for that specific page, as well as the main index after the first entries Title and category listings.
The error I receive is:
Fatal error: Unknown function: wp_get_current_user() in /home/riane/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/movie.class.php on line 385
I figured it might’ve been another plugin conflicting with it, which is nataan.com’s useronline plugin, so I deactivated that, and then reactivated the movie plugin, and I still receive that error… Any idea what’s conflicting with the plugin, if a conflication is even the problem.
Thanks in advance
November 25th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
ss -> 1) Go into options panel and set all of the options that you want to be enabled on your movie page. 2) For the sidebar mode execute the following php code:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(6, array("sidebar_mode" => "yes", "include_review" => "no")); ?>Jordan -> You need Wordpress 2.0.4 or newer for my plugin to work.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Brilliant plug-in. Thanks! It does exactly what I’m looking for! Something useful would be to have a pointer/map to which CSS files and tags we could edit, as I had to resolve some conflicts with the CSS file for my theme.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
AHA. Thanks for the reminder; Updated and voila.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Awesome plugin–I love it. One question though. When I sort using the view date link, I end up with the following error at the top of the list (which, btw, does sort itself into months):
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'watched_on' in 'order clause']
SELECT id, title, amazon_url_short, rating, review, DATE_FORMAT(read_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS read_on FROM wp_book_ratings ORDER BY watched_on ASC, read_on DESC
Any ideas?
December 6th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Scott -> You are using the Devin Reams’ modified version of my plugin, which lets you rate books. Contact him for any support as it’s clearly a bug in his code.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
[...] Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0.5 and installed Paul Goscicki’s Movie Ratings Plugin. Due to my total ignorance when it comes to php and mySQL it took longer than it should have done but now it’s all up and running and I’m pretty happy with it. The five most recently watched movies now show at the bottom of the sidebar and there is also a Movies page that lists all the films that have been reviewed. [...]
December 9th, 2006 at 11:41 am
[...] WP Movie Ratings [...]
December 10th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
[...] In my random browsing of the web, I came across a wordpress plugin, and as I often do, thought “What a brilliant idea!” The difference to me normally thinking this is that this time it is something that I can, and will, use. The plugin in question is Wordpress Movie Ratings by Paul Gosciki. [...]
December 12th, 2006 at 3:02 am
[...] Since deleting warcraft from my computer I’ve found myself with an insane amount of free time. Got the flickrRSS plugin working again finally. Also I’m pretending you give a flying fuck what I’ve been listening to so installed the last.fm recent songs plugin, as well as a movie rating plugin that I’m ripping apart viciously. At this rate I’ll be all out of motivation in about 6 or 7 minutes. [...]
December 13th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
I just noticed the bug mentioned. It’s hard having two competing style sheets. Paul, do you know of a way to conditionally load one vs. the other based on the script running? I’ve tinkered with it for a bit and am having no success.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Devin: Hard to say… wordpress gives some possibilities of checking for example which plugins are enabled. Other way of dealing with that is assigning different ids to html elements and create CSS rules with lots of ids, like this:
#ratings #single-rating #item p.item a { color: red; }(this is the way I deal with hostile templates).December 15th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Using the paragraph tag in the review breaks the CSS on my blog, so I have to use double line breaks instead. This might be a bug.
December 15th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
emre: this probably happened as a result of a clash between my plugin’s css and your theme’s css. I’ll have a look at it someday.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Is there a way to show only the titles and rating on the index.php page, and in the archives allow the user to expand the reviews? Right now to have expandable reviews on the archive page it shows the review text on the front page.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Jeff: read the FAQ and act accordingly to your needs.
December 20th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
[...] Akismet. A necessary tool to fight the spam comments that would otherwise over-run this website. AMM. Allows me to keep my [Adult Swim] DVDs page stocked with Amazon affiliate links to the merchandise. FAQ. Allows me to run the Q and A page. Footnotes. Allows me to add footnotes to my posts. 1 Google Sitemaps. Allows me to create Google compliant sitemaps.2 Popularity Contest. Lets me know what posts are getting the most air-time. Also lets me know what topics my readers like the most. Word Count. Not really a necessity, but when posting for PPP, it helps to validate my post for the writing criteria of the assignment I have taken. Database Backup. Necessary. I backup the database of my Wordpress installation at least twice a week. Good for when things go wrong. 3 Polls. Not a necessity, but allows me to create polls for my viewers to partake in. Let’s me know how you all think. Polls widget. Let’s me put the polls in the sidebar. Necessary for the polls plugin. Stats. All the information about the blog can be found using this plugin on this page. Movie Ratings. Let’s me post ratings to movies I’ve seen, as seen on this page. [...]
December 26th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Fantastic plugin.
December 28th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
[...] Heute bin ich auf ein WordPress Plugin gestossen, das es mir sogleich angetan hat. WP Movie Ratings zeigt, in meinem Fall auf einer separaten Seite, Filmwertungen an. Dazu trägt man einen Film ein den man gesehen hat, gibt eine Wertung von 1 bis 10 und versieht das ganze noch mit einem Link, vornehmlich zur IMDB. Nun lassen sich die Einträge übersichtlich nach Wertung, Datum oder Alphabet sortieren und anzeigen. Zusätzlich besteht die Möglichkeit, zu jedem Film einen kurzen Kommentar zu speichern. Um das Plugin zum Laufen zu bringen, wird die Version 2.0.4 von Wordpress benötigt. Da ich noch mit 2.0.1 unterwegs war, war heute dann doch mal wieder ein Update fällig. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Great plugin!!! Am using it as a sidebar widget and am using IMDB links to fetch the movie titles. However, every title has a trailing letter ‘e’ afterwards! Any idea how I can adjust the file to NOT show the ‘e’ after the title? THANKS!
S
January 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Shawn: uhm, it’s a feature! It’s a direct link to edit the movie rating/review and it is only displayed for logged in users (namely admin). This is the same as Wordpress does for comments (at least in the classic Kubrick theme).
January 1st, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Oh…lol! Duh! I didn’t even notice - but it’s a great feature (now that I know it’s there!) Keep up the good work and thanks for the prompt reply
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:20 am
Amazing plugin. I skipped the IMDB link and used the replacement so i can review games (and other items). Awesome job
January 4th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
[...] Wer dieses Plugin auch für seinen Blog nutzen möchte, kann es hier Downloaden. Die Installation ist ganz einfach, wenn man sich mit Wordpress ein wenig auskennt, im grunde genommen ganz einfach. [...]
January 6th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Wow, i loved the new features!!!!
your plugin is great!
January 7th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
How can I change or delete the sentence “Movies I’ve watc