=== Comment Rating ===
Contributors: bobking
Tags: comment rating, AJAX, rating, visitor, comment, rate, Dislike, Like
Requires at least: 2.3
Tested up to: 2.8.4
Stable tag: 2.2

Allows visitors to rate the comments on your blog in a Like vs.
Dislike fashion.  It automatically inserts clickable images and ratings 
in comments.

== Description ==

If you're getting outrageous comments on your blog, don't get too
angry yet.  Let's see if your readers feel the same.  You can find
out how your readers feel about those comments with the Comment
Rating plugin.

This plugin uses simple AJAX to allow your visitors rate comments in
Like vs. Dislike fashion.  All the votes are recorded in Like and
DisLike categories.  The votes are displayed along with the
comments.  The up or down vote counts will change rightaway after the
visitor has casted a vote and change color to grey indicating the vote has
been accepted.

To prevent cheating and manipulation of the result, only one vote is
allowed per IP address.  This is less subject to manipulation than
cookie based approaches. 

This plugin also allow other use of Wordpress as a general CMS in a
Web 2.0 fashion.  User generated content can be voted by other
users. Example website is <a href="http://captionwit.com">Caption
Wit</a>.

Comment Rating plugin built on top of
<a href="http://cyber-knowledge.net">Alex Bailey's Comment Karma</a>

== 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 file to the wp-content/plugins folder on your blog.  

1. You can configure the options under Setting -> Comment Rating.
The default options should be good enough. It works out of box. You
are done. Sit back and have a look at your blog.

If you want to tailor the display format further, you will need to
insert the following line into your theme "comments.php" file.
<?php  if(function_exists(ckrating_display_karma)) { ckrating_display_karma(); }
?> 

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Why are the voting image in gray? =

Author of the post is not allowed to vote on user comments.  But if
you change to a different IP address, you'll be able to vote on user
comments.

= Why the voting number does not change ? =

The up or down vote counts will change rightaway after the visitor
has casted a vote and change color to grey indicating the vote has
been accepted.  However, if you have wp-cache or wp-super-cache
enable, other visitors will not see the refreshed vote counts until
the cached page expires and reload.

To keep the vote count fresh, please set wp-cache/wp-super-cache 
Expire time to 1 hour or less.


== Screenshots ==

1. Example a Wordpress installation right after installation.

2. Taken from example website <a href="http://captionwit.com">Caption Wit</a>.

== Changelog ==

= 2.2 =

Add flexibility with an option page.

= 2.1 =

Add auto-insertion rating images into comments, and javascript to footer

= 2.0 =

Change the vote counter from 1 (total) to 2 (Likes and Dislikes) and
display them separately.
Added index to vote count table. Improved the plug-in performance