GD Star Rating: Features

# GD Star Rating

## plugin features

### Rating & Review

- Rating of posts and pages
- Rating of comments
- Thumbs up/down rating of posts and pages
- Thumbs up/down rating of comments
- Multiple ratings for posts and pages
- Review rating for posts and pages
- Review rating for posts and pages with multi ratings
- Review rating for comments

### Unique Features

- Data prefetch and caching
- Internal CSS optimization
- Builder panel for getting shortcodes and functions

### Integration

- Modifing WP query to sort posts by ratings data
- Widget with list of ratings
- Widget with top blog rating
- Widget with post comments ratings
- Widgets with multi instance support
- Widgets support templates
- WordPress shortcode support
- WordPress editor button and tinyMCE3 plugin for shortcode
- RSS Integration for powered by button
- RSS Integration for post ratings
- Expanding plugin using WordPress actions and filters
- Manual placement functions of the rating code and template integration
- Support for QTranslate plugin

### Rendering & Graphics

- Advanced T2 templates system
- Charting support with pChart library
- Administration dasboard widget
- Alternative rendering to generate rating stars as static images
- Preview stars, thumbs and trends image sets
- Different trend, thumbs and star styles and sizes
- Select sets to include in main CSS file
- Cache support for storing rendered images

### Voting / Rating

- Voting rules on post/page base
- Voting rules based on categories
- Auto inserting rating code
- Moderation of votes
- Saving of voting data for registered users and regular visitors
- Saving IP and user agent data for each vote
- Calculation of voting trend data for each post, page and comment

### Others

- Support for cache plugins
- Ajax rating support using jQuery
- Multi language support
- Post and comments based votes administration
- User based votes administrations
- Saving cookies with votes
- Various additional tools for maintenace and bulk operations
- Banning IP's, IP ranges and masked IP's
- Filtering out search bots
- Export data into csv file
- Extensive PDF User Guide

### Import Data

Plugin can import data from different rating plugins:

- WP Post Rating http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/
- Star Rating For Reviews http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/star-rating-for-reviews/
- Post Star Rating http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-star-rating/