=== Rating-Widget ===
Contributors: ratingwidget, svovaf
Donate link: http://rating-widget.com/get-the-word-press-plugin/
Tags: rate, rating, ratings, vote, votes, voting, star, stars, like, dislike, thumbs, widget, widgets, sidebar, comment, comments, post, posts, page, pages, google, admin, administrator, review, reviews, rich-snippets, plugin, plugins, ajax, buddypress, bbpress, social, javascript, js, wordpress, meta, woocommerce
Requires at least: 2.6
Tested up to: 3.8
Stable tag: 2.0.2
License: GPLv2 or later

Star Rating System for WordPress - the most beautiful & user-freindly Thumb & Star ratings for WordPress.

== Description ==

The Rating-Widget **Star Ratings WordPress plugin** allows you to create and manage ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can embed thumb & star ratings into your posts, pages or comments. All Rating-Widget star ratings are fully customizable, cross-browser, support multi-language, CSS3 compliant and hosted by Rating-Widget.com. You can create unlimited thumb & star ratings and collect unlimited votes. The star ratings editor allows you to fully customize your ratings and its placement on your blog's layout. You can also avail of the 'Top Rated' widget that will allow you to place the widget in your sidebar. This widget will show you the top rated posts, pages and comments.

The plugin has [PRO VERSIONS](http://rating-widget.com/get-the-word-press-plugin/) with extra features.

> #### Standard Pro Version:
> * Remove (i) icon from Ratings
> * Secure Connection (Fraud protection)
> * No Ads in votes overview pop-up

> #### Premium Pro Version:
> * Priority Email Support
> * Remove (i) icon from Ratings
> * No Ads in votes overview pop-up
> * Google Rich Snippets (schema.org)
> * Secure Connection (Fraud protection)
> * SSL Support
> * Advanced Ratings' Analytics
> * WMPL Language Auto-Selection
> * BuddyPress activity updates, comments and user profiles ratings.
> * Ratings on bbPress forum replies and replies' authors.

To get the **Pro Version** go to - http://rating-widget.com/get-the-word-press-plugin/

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> #### Supported in 40 Languages
> Rating-Widget star ratings are localizable and currently available in:
>
> Afrikaans, Arabic - العربية, Bengali - বাংলা, Bulgarian - български, Catalan - Català, Chinese - 汉语/漢語, Croatian - Hrvatski, Czech - Čeština, Danish - Dansk, English, Estonian - Eesti keel, Finnish - Suomi, French - Français, Georgian - ქართული, German - Deutsch, Greek - Ελληνικά, Hebrew - עברית, Hindi - हिंदी, Hungarian - Magyar, Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia, Italian - Italiano, Japanese - 日本語, Korean - 한국어/조선말, Lithuanian - Lietuvių, Mongolian - Mongγol Kele, Nederlands - Dutch, Norwegian - Norsk, Persian - فارسی, Polish - Polska, Portuguese - Português, Romanian - Română, Russian - Русский, Serbian - Српски, Slovak - Slovenčina, Slovenian - Slovenščina, Spanish - Español, Swedish - Svenska, Tamil - தமிழ், Turkish - Türkçe, Vietnamese - Tiếng Việt, Ukrainian - Українська Мова
>
> Can't find your language? Help us translate [here](http://rating-widget.com/help-translate/): http://rating-widget.com/help-translate/

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> #### Are you a designer?
> Help us to enrich Rating-Widget's themes collection by adding more thumb & star ratings designs at - http://rating-widget.com/contribute-rating-design/

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> #### Follow Us
> [Blog](http://rating-widget.com/blog/) | [Twitter](http://twitter.com/ratingwidget) | [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/rating.widget) | [Google+](https://plus.google.com/103776958800403053498/) | [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/1856639) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/ratingwidget)

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> #### Rating-Widget Support Forum
> Please visit the [Rating-Widget's Support Forum](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rating-widget) for additional help with using this plugin. You may also post feature requests, ideas and bug reports there.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the plugin to your blog.
2. Accept the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.
3. Done!

== Screenshots ==

1. Ratings settings button
2. Add ratings
3. Set rating alignment
4. Ratings on a posts
5. Ratings on comments
6. Ratings on BuddyPress activity updates & comments
7. Ratings on bbPress forum replys and replys authors'
8. Top Rated widget
9. Ratings options
10. Ratings advanced font options
11. Ratings advanced layout options
12. Ratings advanced text options
13. Rating settings Live Preview
14. Top Rated widget settings
15. Ratings availability settings
16. Ratings visibility settings
17. Option to exclude ratings on post/page add/edit section

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How is Rating-Widget different than some other rating widgets, like starrating.org or polldaddy.com? =
It's the best one! The Rating-Widget is without registration, fully customizable, cross-browser & multi-language supported - including Right-To-Left languages support, and of course we host it for free.

= How can I change the default stars style with something else? =
It's very easy. First, go to the Ratings settings. Then, on the Rating-Widget options, select the "Custom" button in the color section, and follow the instructions which will appear in the new window.

= Can my Authors edit my blog ratings? =

Nope. Only administrators can edit the blog ratings.

= The plugin don't work, where are my ratings? =

Check your theme's footer.php calls wp_footer. The rating javascript is loaded on this action. 
More info here - http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Plugin_API_Hooks

= The ratings on the Top-Rated Widget are not being updated, what's wrong? =
Check out if you have any active caching plugins in your WordPress, they might cause this affect.


== Change Log ==
= 2.0.2 =
* Update: Improved Top-Rated Widget UI and UX with accordion style tabs.
* Fix: Fixed settings saving issues after history cleanup.
* Fix: Reports thumb style records.

= 2.0.1 =
* Major Fix: Fixed caching of ratings data for Google Rich-Snippets (for Premium users) and Top-Rated Widget. Should highly improve plugin's load time.
* Fix: Minor PHP fixes (call to method as if it was static).

= 2.0.0 =
* Fix: "Hide Star Rating" in page/post editor was fixed.
* Fix: Spanish "votes" translation was fixed.

= 1.9.9 =
* Major Optimization: Aggregated all settings into one DB record to reduce number of Read/Write queries to the WP database. Plus, significantly reduced number of JSON ecodes/decodes.

= 1.9.8 =
* Fix: Forum reply's rating style & availability settings are now defined exactly as bbPress topic rating.

= 1.9.7 =
* New: Added bbPress forum replies section to Top-Rated Widget.
* Fix: Fixed Chinese translation.
* Fix: New Premium users' secret keys must not be permuted to lower case.
* Fix: Forum reply's rating style is now defined by bbPress topic rating style.

= 1.9.6 =
* Fix: Fixed bbPress forum replies duplicate ratings issue for new bbPress versions.
* New: Separated between bbPress forum topics and forum replies.
* New: Added bbPress forum replies to Top-Rated Widget.
* Update: Improved bbPress plugin detection method.
* Update: Updated default star theme to flat yellow theme.

= 1.9.5 =
* New: Added new awesome RatingWidget star rating's theme + 6 flat additional designs.
* New: Added new tiny size to the size options after so many requests we got.
* Fix: Fixed advanced settings text options labels.
* Update: Upgraded mobile detect library to 2.7.5 (http://mobiledetect.net).

= 1.9.4 =
* New: Localized to Ukrainian.

= 1.9.3 =
* New: Added site category on registration process to provide better targeted recommended content.

= 1.9.2 =
* Fix: Fixed logger for DEBUG state in management dashboard.
* Fix: Fixed rating styling/CSS on dashboard preview.
* Fix: Fixed ratings data view on Premium reports.

= 1.9.1 =
* Fix: Fixed GetTopRatedData for users' ratings fetching.
* New: Added a shortcode for user rating: rw_get_user_rating and rw_the_user_rating.
* New: Finally added translations for 'out of' and 'We Recommend'.
* New: Added advanced filter that can prevent from a rating being loaded according to custom rules (rw_filter_embed_rating).

= 1.9.0 =
* Fix: $before_widget and $after_widget html items encoding for Top-Rated Widget were fixed.
* Fix: Fixed Show on excerpts option savings.

= 1.8.9 =
* New: Control whether to show votes in excerpts, archive, category and search results view.

= 1.8.8 =
* New: Revamped plugin's main description page.
* Fix: Fixed Top-Rated Widget to hide deleted, spam & private elements (posts, pages, BuddyPress activites, bbPress topics & replies).
* Fix: Fixed Top-Rated Widget for themes with before and after widget multi-line html.

= 1.8.7 =
* Fix: Fixed double Users Top-Rated Widget settings for when BuddyPress and bbPress both active.
* Update: Changed TOS agreement to opt-in option.
* Update: Clarified plugin & service licensing.

= 1.8.6 =
* Update: Removed affiliation links from admin's dashboard.
* Fix: Made Google Analytics tracking as an opt-in option to meet with the WordPress repository guidelines. The tracking is for UX improvement and only activated on Rating-Widget's admin's dashboard settings.
* Fix: Top-Rated Widget is now working correctly with custom before widget and after widget html content.

= 1.8.5 =
* Fix: Added missing file user_rating_type_options 

= 1.8.4 =
* New: Added user accumulated rating feature for BuddyPress and/or bbPress installations.
* New: Added beautiful thumbs compact style for the Top-Rated Widget.

= 1.8.3 =
* New: Top-Rated Widget UI revamp! We've added beautiful thumbnail style and will add more styles soon.

= 1.8.2 =
* Fix: Ratings control in admin's dashboard.

= 1.8.1 =
* Fix: Broken layout bug.
* Fix: Pro users won't see the Upgrade button in the Advanced settings.

= 1.8.0 =
* Fix: Fixed comment ratings availability validation.
* Fix: Fixed bbPress redirection error.
* Fix: Fixed support for bbPress forum posts ratings on Top-Rated Widget.
* New: Featured image extraction for future post recommendations.

= 1.7.9 =
* New: Added bbPress user ratings right at forum-topic's thread.
* New: Added user rating options for bbPress settings page, to support bbPress without BuddyPress config.
* Fix: Fix warning for PHP 5.4 'Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in'.
* Fix: Fixed warning that were displaying on Top-Rated widget, after the user deleted rated comments - 'Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The first argument should be either a string or an integer'.

= 1.7.8 =
* Fix: bbp_is_forum fatal error fix.

= 1.7.7 =
* New: All versions of bbPress are now fully supported for Premium users.
* New: Activation of the plugin is automatically redirecting to settings page.
* New: Added options links to plugins page.
* New: Removed reCAPTCHA from activation page due to Google servers socket issues.
* Fix: Optimized script loading to only load relevant scripts to each context site/admin.
* Fix: Removed 'Upgrade' menu item for pro users.
* Fix: Updated menu icon to colorful.

= 1.7.6 =
* Fix: Fixed the warning when trying to save settings when non categories selected.
* Fix: Necessary JS and CSS are now loaded only on Rating-Widget settings page.
* Fix: Removed account creation button disable mode.
* New: Added GA to collect usage stats to learn and improve the product.
* New: Added Upgrade CTA to sub menu.

= 1.7.5 =
* New: Added settings customization box for Power Users.
* New: Improved settings layout for better user experience.
* Fix: From now saving rating labels with quotes is working (i.e. French "j'approuve").
* Fix: 'Go Pro' button is not shown anymore for pro users.

= 1.7.4 =
* New: From now you can control the title max length in Top-Rated Widget.
* New: New PHP shortcode to extract ratings data rw_get_post_rating_data($postID);
* New: Jelly beans stars theme.
* New Premium Feature: Multilingual blogs support (with WMPL plugin). The ratings language is automatically modified according to current WMPL language.
* Fix: Fix of the ratings exclude option box.

= 1.7.3 =
* New & Fix: From this version posts' ratings won't affect the labels of the Top-Rated Widget ratings. We've added a capability of control per rating instance even if it's the same rating.

= 1.7.2 =
* New: Localized to Afrikaans.
* New: Localized to Tamil.

= 1.7.1 =
* New: Posts and Pages ratings shortcodes!!! For the content use '[ratingwidget post_id=123]'. For PHP, use rw_get_post_rating($postID) and rw_the_post_rating($postID).
* New: Added transient caching support to speed up the Top-Rated Widget and rich snippets data load for Premium users.
* New: Beautiful votes preview report on votes label hovering.
* Fix: The option to exclude ratings on post/page add/edit section is now visible only to admins.
* Fix: Hidden categories selection for pages' ratings options.

= 1.7.0 =
* New: New beautiful candle thumb rating by Yoram Zara (http://www.avelim.co.il/).
* Fix: Fixed settings sections layout height for new WP versions.

= 1.6.8 - 1.6.9 =
* New: Localized to Slovak.
* New: Localized to Slovenian.
* Fix: Multibyte string functions include validation.

= 1.6.7 =
* New: New beautiful thumb rating design by David Shenberger.

= 1.6.6 =
* New: Localized to Bengali.

= 1.6.5 =
* New: User voting frequency settings - you can now allow daily, weekly, monthly and annually voting.

= 1.6.4 =
* Fix: Top-Rated Widget ratings label is now showing always votes count instead of 'Rate This'.

= 1.6.3 =
* Update: Updated plugin description to clear out the Pro features.

= 1.6.2 =
* New: Christmas Special Edition Thumb & Stars Rating styles - http://rating-widget.com/blog/beautiful-christmas-star-rating-styles/
* Fix: Improved Greek translation (thanks to our awesome community).

= 1.6.1 =
* New: Localized to Estonian.
* New: Localized to Korean.

= 1.6.0 =
* Fix: Activation bug was fixed.
* Fix: Rich Snippets (schema.org) fix for premium users.

= 1.5.9 =
* New: Added SSL support for Pro users.
* Fix: Post/Page save/publuish warnings.

= 1.5.8 =
* New: Option to exclude ratings on post/page add/edit section. No more need to manually type posts/pages ids in the visibility section!

= 1.5.7 =
* Fix: Fixed layout problems.

= 1.5.6 =
* New: Support for Inherited font (blog's default font style).
* New: Beautiful ratings white background style.
* New: Changed default star ratings style to Oxygen.

= 1.5.5 =
* New: MAJOR FOR PREMIUM USERS - Added mechanism for user key pair preservation to prevent the need for re-uploading the key.php file after every upgrade.
* Fix: wp_footer() auto detection message is now appears as a notice instead of an error.

= 1.5.4 =
* New: wp_footer() auto detection message. Now, when wp_footer() isn't called a relevant message will appear on admin's dashboard.
* Fix: Finally fixed admin's dashboard layout for Right-To-Left WordPress versions.
* Tested on WordPress 3.4.2

= 1.5.3 =
* New: Localized to Hindi.

= 1.5.2 =
* Fix: Rich Snippets fix (added http://schema.org/Product).

= 1.5.1 =
* Fix: Fixed reports access to premium users.

= 1.5.0 =
* New & Huge: Filter star ratings by categories (you've asked for, we are delivering :-).

= 1.4.9 =
* Fix: Google Rich Snippets support for premium users.

= 1.4.8 =
* New: Star rating HOver color support in the Advance Font Settings.

= 1.4.7 =
* New: Star rating Flames theme by Giuseppe.
* New: Star rating Smiley theme by Daya.

= 1.4.5 =
* New: Google search ratings support (schema.org AggregateRating item).

= 1.4.4 =
* Privacy: New users must accept our Terms of Use and Privacy policy before they start using the plugin.
* Sponsor: Added Host1Plus banners.

= 1.4.3 =
* New: Localized to Catalan.
* New: Localized to Indonesian.
* New: Localized to Mongolian.

= 1.4.2 =
* New: Updated JS, CSS & Image urls to new sub-domains.
* New: Localized to Lithuanian.

= 1.4.1 =
* Fix: Replies of signed-out BuddyPress user's were fixed.
* New: Localized to Finnish.
* New: Localized to Norwegian.
* New: Localized to Persian.
* New: Localized to Vietnamese.

= 1.4.0 =
* New: Advanced option to control whether to show star ratings on mobile devices or not.
* New: Top-Rated Widget is now able to show all BuddyPress & bbPress star ratings.

= 1.3.9 =
* Fix: BuddyPress & bbPress ratings support for the newest versions.

= 1.3.8 =
* New: Top-Rated Widget order type - you can now show worst rated elements.
* New: Localized to Czech.
* New: Localized to Danish.
* New: Twitter follow us button (at the dashboard).

= 1.3.7 =
* New: Top-Rated Widget minimum votes parameter.
* New: Top-Rated Widget Order By parameter (Average Rate, Likes Number, Created, Updated).
* Fix: Top-Rated Widget Average Rate Order for thumbs was fixed (sort by likes minus dislikes).
* New: Added Rating Boosting options for Pro version users.

= 1.3.6 =
* Fix: Top-Rated Widget is now showing the thumb & star ratings (Sorry friends :-).

= 1.3.5 =
* Fix: API Key is now showing your unique-user-key even if you don't have a secret key.
* New: Additional advanced analytics reports - you can now filter votes by IP, PC Identifier and User Id.
* New: Localized to Chineese.
* New: Localized to Hungarian.
* New: Localized to Japanese.
* New: Localized to Swedish.

= 1.3.4 =
* New: Added BP's bbPress forum topics ratings support.
* New: Debug mode is now supports logging.
* Fix: Thumbs rating style on front-posts while the Top-Rating widget is enabled.
* Fix: Ratings settings dashboard CSS was updated for the new WP version.

= 1.3.3 =
* New: "Top Rated" Widget titles display is now configurable.
* New: Short code for adding posts & pages inline thumb & star ratings - **[ratingwidget]**.

= 1.3.2 =
* New: Localized to Georgian.
* New: Localized to Serbian.

= 1.3.1 =
* Fix: "Top Rated" Widget font size and line height.
* New: Advanced thumbs rating settings - now you can hide/show like or/and dislike thumbs.

= 1.3.0 =
* New: Localized to Greek.
* New: Localized to Nederlands.
* New: Localized to Romanian.

= 1.2.9 =
* Fix: "Top-Rated Widget" is now loading the right graphics.

= 1.2.8 =
* New: BuddyPress activity page is now showing also blog posts & blog comments ratings.
* Fix: Comments ratings alignment fix.

= 1.2.7 =
* New: Localized to Italian.
* Fix: Removed mb_strlen and mb_substr dependency.

= 1.2.6 =
* New: Advanced settings page.
* New: You can now control flash dependency.

= 1.2.5 =
* New: You can now control whether star ratings will appear on excerpts or not.
* New: Localized to Bulgarian.
* New: Localized to Turkish.

= 1.2.4 =
* Fix: BuddyPress another bug fix.

= 1.2.3 =
* New: Localized to Polish.
* Fix: BuddyPress comments star ratings.

= 1.2.2 =
* Fix: Post urid fix.

= 1.2.1 =
* New: Advanced star options - you can now select the number of stars you will have in your widget.
* New: Availability settings - you can now specify if star ratings will be active, disabled or hidden for un-logged users.
* New: Visibility settings - you can now explicitly exclude or include star ratings from specified posts/pages/comments/activity-updates/activity-comments.
* Fix: Show ratings on excerpts.
* Fix: BuddyPress background stuck bug fixed - now you can explicitaly select between Transparent or BuddyPress background types.
* Fix: Removed unnecessary user-key validations.
* Fix: Organized hooks hierarchy.

= 1.2.0 =
* New/Fix: Now you can rate from multiple computers under the same network.
* Fix: Themes list alignment & preview was fixed.

= 1.1.9 =
* New: We now hold 44 different star rating themes.

= 1.1.8 =
* Fix: Fixed posts & pages disable option bug.

= 1.1.7 =
* New: Localized to Arabic.

= 1.1.6 =
* New: Rating-Widget is now suppports BuddyPress activity!
* New: Special BuddyPress Stars & Thumbs Theme.
* Fix: Optimized JS loading mechanism.
* Fix: CSS tweaks for BuddyPress.

= 1.1.5 =
* New: Top Rated Widget is now available!

= 1.1.4 =
* Fix: Initial size icons are now match to the selected theme and type.
* Fix: Initial themes list is now match the saved thumb & star rating type.
* Fix: ReadOnly icons are now linked to the correct url.
* Fix: Themes list loading Gif is now points to the correct url.

= 1.1.3 =
* Fix: There was a problem when selecting the default theme of the thumbs type.

= 1.1.2 =
* Fix: Initial settings preview bug fix.

= 1.1.1 =
* New: Localized to Croatian.
* New: Localized to Portuguese.
* Fix: Russian translation was fixed.

= 1.1.0 =
* New: Major UI change, now we have Themes option.
* New: 3 new star rating designs (check out the Thumb type).
* New: Color property was deprecated.
* New: HTTP calls optimization.
* Fix: JS optimizations.
* Fix: CSS stylesheet tweaks.

= 1.0.9 =
* New: Localized to French.
* New: Localized to Spanish.
* Fix: CSS stylesheet improvements.

= 1.0.8 =
* New: Localized to German.

= 1.0.7 =
* New: ReadOnly functionality was added - now you can set your star ratings to also be readonly (e.g. the front page posts).
* New: You can now specify any UTF-8 letters in the advanced text settings. E.g. you can use Swedish words with letters like ֳ…, ֳ„, ֳ–.
* Fix: CSS stylesheet improvements.

= 1.0.6 =
* New: Added find us on Facebook window.
* Fix: Internal CSS bug fixes.

= 1.0.5 =
* Fix: Settings UI loading minor fixes.
* New: No more confusing 2 different save buttons - one "Save Changes" button for all.

= 1.0.4 =
* Fix: Rating-Widget options errors were fixed.

= 1.0.3 =
* Fix: reCAPTCHA set keys was replaced into global keys. Now it will work across all domains.
* Fix: Plugin version fix.

= 1.0.2 =
* Fix: Readme file was changed.
* Fix: Plugin containing folder was removed.

= 1.0.1 =
* New: Initial release