=== Post Ratings ===
Contributors: digitalnature
Support link: http://digitalnature.eu/forum/plugins/post-ratings/
Tags: ajax, post, rating, simple, jquery, vote, widget
Requires at least: 3.2
Tested up to: 3.2
Stable tag: Trunk

Simple, developer-friendly, straightforward post rating plugin. Relies on post meta to store avg. rating / vote count.

== Description ==

What does this plugin do:

* Allow your site users to rate posts (of any kind)
* Display the average post rating, vote count or weighted (bayesian) rating within your posts
* Display a widget with the top rated posts in your sidebar
* Allow you to create your own rating formula

Why another rating plugin? Because the existing ones are either outdated, bloated with useless functionality, or just too buggy :)

== Installation ==

Activate the plugin, and set it up as you wish from the plugin settings

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How does this plugin log votes? =

Basic check trough cookies, IP match against a limited transient-cached IP list, and user meta records (if registration-only ratings are enabled). If any of these checks fail the user is not allowed to rate.

= How do I manually display the rating links where I want? =

Either fill the custom filter field with your own action tag in the plugin settings, or use  the `[rate]` shortcode. If you want to do this within template files, you can manually echo `PostRatings::app()->control();`

== Changelog ==

= 1.2 =
* Added the ability to use a custom bayesian formula
* Made the IMDB rating formula as default
* Fixed some localization inconsistencies on the Atom widget

= 1.1 =
* Added Atom widget (replaces the default widget if the site runs on an Atom theme)
* Fixed javascript error when running non-Atom 2+ themes

= 1.0 =
* First public release.

== Screenshots ==

1. Plugin options
2. Rating controls in the front-end
3. "Top Rated" widget
4. Atom version of the "Top Rated" widget (for Atom themes only)


== Thanks ==

Thanks goes to:

* [thebroth](http://www.thebroth.com/blog/118/bayesian-rating)
* [Utku Yıldırım](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8214902/order-database-results-by-bayesian-rating) on StackOverflow