Plugin tweak help needed – desperately!

  • Okay, in my hunt for a way to have the admins ONLY (not site visitors) be able to rate a post, I found this plugin:

    https://design.sneak.co.nz/plugins/ds-rating/

    It’s perfect in every way except one: I need to be able to use the rating system to display posts in order from 5 stars to 1 star. And I don’t want the stars to show up on the live site either (this is already built into the plugin).

    This should be easy for plugin devs and higher-than-my-level programmers (which doesn’t say anything for my level, believe me)… Even the original plugin author made mention of it in the comments:

    “I definitely considered doing that. Ideally I wanted to be able to order posts by rating as well (highest to lowest or vice versa) but didn’t have the time to persue it.

    I don’t think it would be very difficult — it’s just a matter of writing a function that makes the right type of calls to the database and filters using the custom ratings meta data.”

    I just don’t know about writing functions and calls and filters and such. Normally, I have a programmer I outsource to who does this sort of thing for me – but he’s booked up and I need this done by the end of the month.

    I’d be willing to make a PayPal donation or some such if that’s what it takes… but it doesn’t seem difficult for someone with the knowledge to do it.

    Anyone?

    (If you’re only offering paid help – please contact me at lara AT anubismarketing DOT com with what you’d charge me for this. Otherwise, I’m entertaining offers for generousity too… thanks!)

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  • try this.. if _ds_rating is in the same table
    <?php
    query_posts(“cat=1&orderby=_ds_rating&order=ASC”);
    ?>

    got to go for now.. bbl

    Thread Starter ladydelaluna

    (@ladydelaluna)

    cat=1&orderby=_ds_rating&order=ASC

    first, I want it for all categories.
    second, I still don’t think it’s as simple as using the orderby tag.
    third, again, it’d be DESC if this were to work.

    benzin, i appreciate your time, but since you’re obviously so busy, i fear that none of this will work. i need someone who can focus on this – as i’ve said many times already – this isn’t a personal site of mine, it belongs to a client. there’s no room for errors here, only room for experience and skill. that’s what i need.

    that said, if someone can help, please contact me at the email address i gave before: lara AT anubismarketing DOT com

    thanks…

    Thread Starter ladydelaluna

    (@ladydelaluna)

    I’m leaving this as unresolved, however my programmer finally had some time to get to it for me. Don’t ask me what he did – I have no clue – but it works beautifully and didn’t take him much time (about 2 hours) to get it working perfectly for this site in particular (other sites may be much easier, this one is full of customizations).

    Hopefully someone will figure it out and post it here for everyone… that’s the only reason I’m leaving it “unresolved”.

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