Comments on: Getting Starred Review plugin to work

By: alper

alper — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:46:25 +0000

Thanks nate.

I started to use WP-Ratings plugin (google it). On the main page I continue to use Starred Review, but the main list is WP-Ratings plugin.

By: Mea culpa at {emoglasses}

Mea culpa at {emoglasses} — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:00:17 +0000

[...] The plug-in (Starred Review) is user-created, and not without its flaws — it wasn’t until I found a hacked version somewhere else that it began to display the star images properly. That pretty much sums up the pros & cons of an active modding community, though. Even if someone else creates something buggy, someone else is free to pick it apart and make it work like a charm — like this quick fix for the last.fm plug-in I use. [...]

By: nate

nate — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:55:17 +0000

Best I can tell, the offending CSS attribute that renders the stars invisible is the {float:right} value assigned to “sr-review-rating”.

I worked around it by editing the classes.php file, and rearranging the order that the review values appear (from rating/category/title to category/title/rating). Just search for “sr-review-rating” (it only appears twice in classes.php, you want the second), and move that line and the two beneath it to the end of that indented list, but within the overarching div tag.

After that, to reproduce the effect of the float tag, I chnaged the CSS line from “.reviews .sr-review .sr-review-rating {float:right;}” to “.reviews .sr-review .sr-review-rating {text-align: right}”. It seems to have worked for me, hopefully my instructions aren’t too fuzzy and it’ll work for you too.

By: Rouven

Rouven — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:53:57 +0000

i have exactly the same problem like hubs (using k2 theme as well)…

i added

to my review template but the changes i make to my stylesheet wont be applied to my review page.

is there anything else i can do?! where should i look at?!

By: hubs

hubs — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:18:43 +0000

yeah, still no luck, i guess i’ll just fool around with every attribute till i get it working. thanks for trying.

By: alper

alper — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:18:27 +0000

what about doing this:

reviews .sr-star {
border: none !important;
margin: 10px;
}

remove the margin line. if this doesn’t work, also remove:

.reviews .sr-review .sr-review-rating {float:right;padding:10px;margin:10px;border:5px;}

first border, then if it doesn’t work, margin too.

i am not a css expert, so i can’t say ‘try this and it will do it’ all i can come up is advices. but i guess it should work.

By: hubs

hubs — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:14:23 +0000

even when i take the borders off, the stars still don’t show up. i think it has something to do with k2. the mouseover color i can change easy.

By: alper

alper — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:15:49 +0000

hubs, i guess you got it to work proper. now you need to make some changes to the css.

you need to change the colors of the review titles and also the mouseover.

as for the stars not showing right. i guess it is because your theme puts borders to images. i guess it will also be solved if you removed those borders, or write a new style for the star images.

i looked at your site and the class to play is sr-star. just make one w/o borders or borders 0px, and i guess it will look nice.

the one on my site uses theme defaults, so it looks fine on mine, but you gotta make your own. if you can’t figure it out, just let me know and we’ll see what we can do :)

By: hubs

hubs — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:19:43 +0000

It is still not looking right on my reviews page. any suggestions?

http://www.artifacting.com/blog/reviews/

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:44:39 +0000

Ahh, cool. Thanks for the link! The only thing about Starred Review that I would miss is its database tables, and the ability to view in a list all the reviews that I’ve starred.

But then again, either way I have to hand edit all 87 of my movie reviews, so why not use something like Rate My Stuff? Thanks again. :)