=== Comment Rating Widget ===
Contributors: bobking
Tags: widget, sidebar, comments, vote, poll, polls, image, images, rating, ratings, comment, AJAX, javascript, automatic, button, plugin, plugins, Dislike, Like, embed, Formatting, user, users, visitors, text, counter, cms, highlight, digg, integration, thumb, tool, style, youtube, community
Donate link: http://WealthyNetizen.com/donate/
Requires at least: 2.3
Tested up to: 2.8.5
Stable tag: 2.0.6.0

Add on to the Comment Rating plugin. Display ratings along with the most recent comments in the sidebar. Built upon Get Recent Comment widget. 

== Description ==

This plugin is an add on to the Comment Rating plugin (version 2.9.0 or later). It displays ratings
along with the most recent comments in the sidebar in formats of your design.
The comment rating and images on display can be "Likes only", "Dislikes only", or Both. 
This is customizable by the "Value for comment_karma" option in Comment Rating.
An example website is <a href="http://WealthyNetizen.com">Wealthy Netizen</a>.

To avoid reinventing the wheel, the plugin is built upon Krischan
Jodies' popular and stable "Get Recent Comment" widget.  All the
features of "Get Recent Comment" remain as is. The "Comment Rating
Widge" plugin will track the most recent release "Get Recent Comment".

If the Comment Rating plugin is not present, this plug in
will function exactly as "Get Recent Comment".

The following is Krischan Jodies' description of <a href="http://blog.jodies.de/2004/11/recent-comments/">Get Recent Comment</a>.

This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your
sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance. This ranges
from the number of comments, the length of the excerpts up to the html layout.
You can let the plugin order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply
order them by date. The plugin can (optionally) separate the
trackbacks/pingbacks from the comments. It can ignore comments to certain
categories, and it offers support for gravatars. It only gives extra work to
the database, when actually a new comment arrived. You can filter out
unwanted pingbacks, which originate from your own blog. And it is a widget.

*Feature List*

* Highly configurable via WordPress admin interface.
* Adjustable layout by macros.
* Handles trackbacks and comments in separate lists, or in one combined list.
* Widget support
* Caches the output
* Order comments by date, or by posting
* Support for Gravatars
* Option to exclude comments to posts in certain categories
* Doesn’t show pingbacks originating from own blog

== Installation ==

1. After download the plug in, you can upload and install it from 
Wordpress Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New. Alternatively, you can
unpack and upload the dir with files to the wp-content/plugins folder on your blog.  

1. Activate the plugin.

1. You also need to install Comment Rating plugin version 2.9.0 or
later.  If the Comment Rating plugin is not present, this plug in
will function exactly as "Get Recent Comment".

1. Now you need to add the widget to your sidebar.  Go to Appearance
-> Widgets and drag the "Comment Rating Widget" the desired sidebar. 

1. You can configure the options under Setting -> Comment Rating
Widget.  The default options should be good enough.
 
1. The comment rating and images on display can be "Likes only",
"Dislikes only", or Both.  This is customizable by the "Value for
comment_karma" option in Comment Rating (under Advanced Option).
 

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

Please see <a href="http://wealthynetizen.com/comment-rating-widget-faq/"> Comment Rating Widget plugin FAQ</a>.

== Screenshots ==

1. Example a Wordpress installation right after installation.

2. Option page showing the rich & flexible configuration features.

3. How widget is added to the sidebar.

== Changelog ==

= 2.0.6.0 =

Created from "Get Recent Comment" version 2.0.6.  Fully tested with
Comment Rating version 2.9.0.