WP Movie Ratings
WP Movie Ratings is a wordpress plugin that makes rating movies very easy. At its core is a bookmarklet, which combined with Internet Movie Database and a little bit of AJAX magic lets you rate movies with just one click. Also, there is no need to write the title of the movie as it is automatically fetched from imdb. Optionally, you can also write a short review for each movie. The output from this plugin is a list of recently watched movies, which you can put anywhere you want (it’s a matter of one simple function call from the template). Check out the live demo.
The published movie reviews are hReview compliant.
STABLE (for Wordpress 2.2-2.6): 1.5 (tar.gz, zip) (2008-05-18).
DEVELOPMENT (for Wordpress 2.7+): github.
Screenshots
Recently watched movies list:
Bookmarklet in action (one click movie rating):
Requirements
- Wordpress 2.04 or newer
- FTP, SSH or SCP access to your wordpress blog (so you can upload this plugin).
Installation
- Download the plugin.
- Extract the contents of the .tar.gz/.zip file into the Wordpress plugins directory (usually
wp-content/plugins). Alternatively you can upload them using ftp. You should have a new directory there called wp_movie_ratings (just along the akismet directory). - Activate the plugin by going into your administration panel and selecting Plugins from the menu and clicking the Activate button for the WP Movie Ratings.
- Go to the Manage section in the administration panel and see the new Movies menu option there (you’ll find the bookmarklet there too). Rate at least one movie (using the bookmarklet or the administration page).
- Go to the settings section in the administration panel and under the Movies tab customize this plugin’s options.
- Edit your blog template (it’s probably the best to edit the
index.phpfile from your current theme) and put this line there:<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(); ?>
If you want to have movie ratings listed in the sidebar, you must, of course, edit the
sidebar.phpfile from your current theme (be sure to set the sidebar mode in the settings panel too!). Alternatively you can create a new post/page and type it there:[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
It will create a listing of all rated movies sorted by title.
- Go to your blog and see the movie ratings!
Upgrading
- Download the newest version of the plugin.
- Go to the Plugins section of the administration panel and deactivate the WP Movie Ratings plugin. Don’t worry as it will never ever delete any movie ratings.
- Go to the wp_movie_ratings plugins directory and delete all of the plugin files (should be
wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings). It will not delete any movie ratings (those are saved in the database). Be aware though, that if you’ve made any changes to the plugin, you might consider doing a backup. - Extract the contents of the .tar.gz/.zip file into the wp_movie_ratings directory (
wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings). - Go to the Plugins section of the administration panel and activate the WP Movie Ratings plugin (notice that higher version number of the plugin). The deactivation/activation cycle is required because of the new options that need to be written into the wordpress database (during activation).
- Enjoy life with the newest version of the WP Movie Ratings plugin!
FAQ
How can I have the ratings box displayed right after the first post?
Assuming you want to have movie ratings displayed on the front page of your blog, edit the index.php file. Find the line similar to this one:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Change it so it looks like this:
<?php $first_post = true; ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
And then, inside the while loop find this line:
<?php endwhile; ?>
and make it look like this:
<?php if ($first_post) wp_movie_ratings_show(); $first_post = false; ?> <?php endwhile; ?>
And that should do it.
How can I create a separate page listing all of my movie reviews?
Create new Wordpress page by selecting Write Page in the Write menu option of the administration panel and put this line as the page content:
[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
How to I make the imdb link open in a new window?
Open movie.class.php and change this line:
$o .= "<a class=\"url fn\" href=\"";
to
$o .= "<a class=\"url fn\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"";
What to do when the rating box is too wide?
Wrap the plugin function call in a fixed width <div>, like that:
<div style="width: 200px"> <?php wp_movie_ratings_show(); ?> </div>
Your plugin is not working! All I get are (EmptyReference!) errors!
Stop using Adobe GoLive! as it is utter evil.
The bookmarklet is not working! Help!
Currently the bookmarklet works in Mozilla Firefox, Camino and WebKit. No IE, sorry.
Check if your blog’s home address is the same as your wordpress installation. If it is not (for instance when your website’s address is example.com and there sits your wordpress installation, but your blog is located at blog.example.com), then using this bookmarklet is not possible as that kind of AJAX calls are regarded as XSS and are blocked by Firefox (by default). You need to mess with your wordpress installation for it to work.
I’m using the Markdown plugin and I cannot create a movie ratings page!
Instead of writing:
[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
try
<!--wp_movie_ratings_page-->
and if that still does not work for you, wrap the call in a <p> tag, like this:
<p><!--wp_movie_ratings_page--></p>
or like this:
<p>[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]</p>
How can I have the reviews shown when in page mode but hidden while in sidebar mode?
Go into settings in the administration panel and set all of the settings you want to have for the page mode. For the sidebar mode execute the following php code:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(6, array("sidebar_mode" => "yes", "include_review" => "no")); ?>
The first parameter of the wp_movie_ratings_show() function is the number of latest movie reviews to show. The second is the array of additional display options (all are optional). Here is the list of all the options you can set (hash array):
text_ratings– text ratings (like 5/10) instead of the stars,include_review– include review with each movie rating,expand_review– initially display expanded reviews when in page mode,sidebar_mode– compact view for sidebar mode,five_stars_ratings– display movie ratings using 5 stars instead of 10,highlight– will highlight the stars of top rated movies,page_mode– display all movie ratings on a separate page,page_url– link to the movie reviews page,char_limit– will cut any character in the title after this number,only_not_rated- will select only not yet rated movies (’yes’/'no’),only_rated- will select only already rated movies (’yes’/'no’),order_by- default sort (valid only when used with combination of either ‘only_rated’ or ‘only_not_rated’) (’title’/'rating’/'watched_on’),order_direction- default sort direction (valid only when used with combination of either ‘only_rated’ or ‘only_not_rated’) (’ASC’/'DESC’).
Other questions?
Just ask.
License
Released and available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Known bugs
- Bugs? What bugs?
TODO
v2.0 plans:
- Convert movie ratings from separate database table to normal posts and assign custom tag to hide them from normal content (similarly to the sideblog plugin). Doing this will give us: integrated search for already rated movies, RSS feeds, comments under reviews, permalinks to each review.
- Automatically fetch movie covers from amazon, fetch director, cast, rating, movie language from imdb (when adding a new review).
- Automatic updates through the Wordpress plugin administration panel.
Post v2.0 plans:
- Use static methods of Movie class, like Movie::get_watched_movies_count() instead of what I’m doing currently (tested; works in PHP 4.4.x).
- Different color schemes/images for different blog backgrounds (white/black/transparent) using different CSS selectable via panel option.
- Dynamic graph chart showing the votes breakdown.
- Automatic voting on imdb.
- Amazon links ($$).
- Turn the plugin into a widget.
- Bookmarklet working in Internet Explorer.
- Implement vote history import from imdb.com (and somehow solve the watched_on problem as imdb doesn’t tell when the movie was rated).
- Expand on the concept of this plugin being a general rating plugin, which will let you rate books and music too.
- Implement multiple users ratings (for multi-author websites).
- Automatically collect the movies you saw each month/week and post them on the blog.
Changelog
2008-05-18
- added option to add movies without rating them (only through the administration panel) (to create a list of owned just not yet seen dvds, for example).
- added option to select all ‘only_rated’ or ‘only_not_rated’ movies using the wp_movie_ratings_show() function call.
- char_limit option can now be passed as a parameter to the wp_movie_ratings_show() function call.
- fixed problems making the movie reviews pages non XHTML compliant.
- fixed error which prevented certain users from activating the plugin (the database table was not created).
- fixed XHTML validation error in the bookmarklet.
- release 1.5.
2006-11-18
- fixed lots of rendering issues (problems in IE, Blue-k2 theme, Golden Gray theme, reviews not expanding, etc.).
- completely rewritten encoding module, so now international characters as well as HTML should work correctly.
- fix for Markdown markup - you can now use the alternate tag:
<!--wp_movie_ratings_page-->to create a movie ratings page. - new feature: if no imdb link is given, the plugin will not look for the movie’s title on imdb. As a drawback, there can be now movies without imdb links (and without titles…).
- new feature: ability to edit imdb links for already rated movies.
- new feature: added pagination in page mode (so movie reviews can now span among several pages).
- added option to disable pingerati.net pinging.
- added option to highlight top rated movies.
- added link from the recently rated movies list to the page with all movie ratings.
- movies are now grouped together by month when sorting by view date in page mode.
- added default movies sorting options for page mode.
- added a new database field with optional link that is used instead of imdb.
- added option to initially display expanded reviews in page mode.
- added ability to edit movies directly from the displayed ratings list (in page mode too).
- release 1.4.
For previous changes check out the changelog file within the plugin’s archive.
June 18th, 2006 at 4:20 am
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June 18th, 2006 at 7:14 am
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June 18th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Dear Paul,
Thanks for the plugin, looking good, but> I’ve a question for you:
Having uploaded the files, activated the plugin and clicked through Manage: Movies, I see the following line:
Warning: Division by zero in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/wp_movie_ratings.php on line 186
June 18th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
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June 18th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for the bug report, Niklas. You may safely ignore it, as it should disappear after 24 hours since the rating of the first movie.
However, you can download the version 1.0.1 which fixes this bug.
June 18th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Thanks a lot, Paul!
June 19th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
How do I delete movies in the database?
June 19th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
shelby -> atm the only way to edit/delete a movie rating is to edit the database manually. I’m planning to add edit/delete ability soon (v1.1 probably).
June 20th, 2006 at 12:57 am
Great plugin… how would I go about including this in a page or post though? Usually for that, support for extra markup is needed like [[movierating]]. Or am I wrong?
June 20th, 2006 at 1:02 am
At the moment you can include movie ratings only as a php function call, but it’s a brilliant idea to have a tag like that. I’ll definitely implement it.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:56 am
Would love to use your plug-in on my sidebar, but so far, I’ve been unable to get it to work in the sidebar.php file of wordpress. i know you said that the code should be added to the main index template, but that doesn’t really work well with my css. Please help. I love your plugin and the fact that it works with imdb.com.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Sam -> The code can be added to the sidebar.php file too. It will work. The caveat is that it will not look good as the sidebar just doesn’t have enough space for this plugin. Unless, of course, your sidebar is at least 370px wide.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:52 am
Thanks Paul, waiting for the new version
Here’s an idea, how about expanding this to accept music, restaurants, or any other list of things one can rate? Instead of imdb, make it a generic link and allow multiple lists (like [[toplist:listA]] etc… unless there’s something that I am missing about your plugin and it’s made very specifically for movies with no changes like this possible.
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June 21st, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Could you post a Zip file instead? i’m on PC and dont use Unix.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:23 pm
okie i got it to work finally.
but i get this error in the admin :
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near \'SELECT watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings WHERE id=(SELECT MIN(id]
SELECT TO_DAYS((SELECT watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings WHERE id=(SELECT MIN(id) FROM wp_movie_ratings)));
June 21st, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Archon810 -> I believe that strength of my plugin lies in the ability to rate movies very easily (bookmarklet integrated with imdb). It’s not quite simple with other ‘categories’ like music, restaurants, plays, etc. There are quite a few ‘generic’ rating plugins around. They are not as good as mine when it comes to rating movies, but the allow you to rate some other stuff too. So, answering your question - I really doubt this plugin will ever become more generic.
Toon -> The zip file is posted. Judging by the error it seems your MySQL copy is quite old (without the support for subqueries). I’ll write it in my TODO list to make simpler SQL queries so it works with older MySQL versions too.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Great work, but…
traget=_blank for outgoing imdb links will be pretty nice, for some users.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I firmly believe that
target="_blank"is evil, so that functionality will probably never be in my plugin. Although if you really need it, feel free to modify the show() method in the movie.class.php so it includes thetargetattribute (it’s pretty easy).June 22nd, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Got it, thx.
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June 23rd, 2006 at 6:25 am
So, have next idea too. When IMDb dont have the movie, lets set the (in german EAN) unique binarycode or ISBN like the bookcover plugin.
June 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 pm
If there was a central registiry of such unique codes, why not. I doubt there is one, though. Never heard of one. Even if there was one, most independent movies would not reach it (and those are the movies that are not listed on imdb; 99,99% of the others is there). Besides, my plugin depends too much on imdb.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Thanks! Dziękuje!
czekam teraz 1-2-3 tygodnie na lepszą wersję 
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm
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June 24th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I think having the ability to include this in a post with tags like what Archon810 said is a great idea. Right now, having a sidebar or regular section is great but could get a little out of hand if you want to rate a lot of movies or rating movies isn’t a main purpose of your blog.
[movie /link/ /numbered rating/]review text[/movie]
Also, instead of a 10 star system, I would suggest a 5 star one with halves. It’s just easier on the eyes and won’t take up much space for movies with long titles
Just my 2 cents sir. Keep up the great work =)
June 25th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
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June 25th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Good idea about 5 stars with halves. I second that!
June 25th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Great idea for a plugin and a terrific start. I too vote for 5 stars. Hard to tell at a glance if a rating is 6 stars or 7. As much as I love it, I can’t really make use of this plugin until it is more side-bar friendly. I’m going to mess with the CSS and see if I can make it work for me. Cutting down the number of stars and moving them on their own line under the movie title would go a long way toward slimming it down. Keep working on this one, it’s a winner!
June 26th, 2006 at 12:36 am
5 stars instead of 10 as a max rating will be implemented probably in v1.5. It will be more sidebar friendly quite soon (I plan on doing that for v1.1). There are some IE CSS errors I’m fighting with now, though.
June 26th, 2006 at 4:14 am
I’m trying to use this plugin in my blog (WordPress 2.03), but it’s coming an error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class httprequest in /home/xxx/domains/evilasio.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/httprequest.class.php on line 12You know what it is? I really have no idea! Thanks!
June 26th, 2006 at 8:10 am
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June 26th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Great plugin! It would be useful to not just only have a link to imdb, but also to the post(s) I wrote about the movie (if there is one.) This shuldn’t be automatical of course.
About the target=”_blank” being evil: One of the main reasons against it was that it opens a new window instead of a new tab. I always use target=”_blank”, I hate if a link accidantely makes the page i’m reading go away, but I never had a problem with it in Maxthon (my primary browser). I tested it now in Opera and Firefox as well and it always opened a new tab, never a new window. Maybe it was just me turning this on when I installed them, I don’t know.
June 26th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Cool plugin.
And looks nice in my sidebar after a little bit of CSS altering!
Cheers
June 26th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
very useful…tanks
June 26th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Wow, exactly what I wanted. I have a question though. Can you have a page that lists all your reviews? Is there a review archive?
June 26th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
This is a fantastic plugin and exactly what I need for a site I’m developing for a film screening group. One request: can it use links from Amazon.com as well as the iMDB? It would be great to link to the item through an affiliate account!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Paul, you want to use this technique to insert the stylesheet in the head. Plugin hooks are nifty!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
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June 26th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Very nice work!
Short question though. I know that for many, IE is the root to many an evil, so skip that part, when and if answering
Why does the output of the plugin look super in e.g. Firefox, but not likewise in IE? Any suggestions?
June 26th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
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June 26th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Evilasio -> Plugin namespaces conflict. There will be v1.1 of my plugin in a few days which will fix it.
stadi -> Added to the TODO list. Maybe for v2.0.
dave -> There will be a page with all reviews in v1.2 (2-3 weeks i think). There might be amazon links in the fututre (2.0?)
ceejayoz -> Thx!
Markus -> All IE problems are fixed now. There will be a new release shortly (v1.1)
June 27th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Thanks, Paul. I’ll be waiting!
June 27th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Great plugin! Nice work. After implementing the TODO list, it will even be better.
June 27th, 2006 at 11:42 am
hi there,
if you could add a ‘product link’ (to imdb, or amazon) and a ‘review’ link, that would be great.
also, director and genre fields would be great.
is it possible to do them?
thanks!
June 27th, 2006 at 11:51 am
hi i want to use that plug-in for my wordpress blog but i get this error:
WordPress database error: [Table 'burwordpress.wp_movie_ratings' doesn't exist]
SELECT title, imdb_url_short, rating, review, DATE_FORMAT(watched_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10
Note from admin: This has been fixed in v1.2.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
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June 27th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
alper -> Product link maybe, it’s in my todo. Linking to review posts too. Director, genre, cast, etc. is out there on imdb. No need to duplicate it.
bsam -> It might be that your wordpress installation is not quite ok. Or you might have simply not activated my plugin. Or maybe you don’t have the rights to create new tables in your wordpress installation (admin account on wordpress is required, leve 8 or higher). Or maybe I just don’t know what
June 28th, 2006 at 8:50 am
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June 28th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Any idea is to let user comment the movie too. i guess, will forward a discussion on blogs too.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Uhm, not directly. Look at this post. It’s a little bit different from my other posts (the background, the rating, which is the work of another plugin atm).
For v2.0 of WP Movie Ratings I imagine there will be a link from the list of rated/reviewed movies from the plugin to the post with the full review (so, for example one movie would share one rating). I imagine there will be an option for each movie review done with WP Movie Ratings to write a full review with just 1 click (it would automatically set up the background on the post and the rating stars). That way full reviews could have comments, because they would be actually normal posts. I’m not exactly sure how to do all that, so it’s a v2.0 feature
June 29th, 2006 at 5:02 am
this is cool. thanks!
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June 29th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Great plugin Paul, thanks for all the hard work. It took me a bit of time to get it working - I decided to have the ratings be on their own page as opposed to on the sidebar or the main page and the layout was a bit off. for some reason the stars wanted to go top to bottom instead of left to right (easy fix by editing movie.class.php) and the description box was enormous (turns out my theme’s css has a description class as well that was taking over). For some reason, though, every time I add a movie I get an error (Error: not added. .) even though the title is added. Any idea why this might be happening?
July 1st, 2006 at 7:20 am
Okay, I’ll probably look like a complete schlub here, but for the life of me, I can’t get your nifty plug-in to work right. I’m pretty new to wordpress/php and this is one of the first plugins I’ve tried to add. When you say to put the
in the index.php file, do you mean the one under the specific theme that I am using for my blog? It seems that no matter where I place the tag, I can’t get my reviews to nest comfortably in my sidebar. It just pops up in the middle of the screen (or top or bottom, depending on where in the php file I place it) and obfuscates my posts. I’m using the default theme, by the by.
What am I missing? Thanks!
July 1st, 2006 at 3:20 pm
serg -> If the movie is added to the database and you still get that error it might suggest that your php/mysql is from older version and that’s why you get this error. I’ll try to make that part of the code more backwards compliant.
Andrius -> Yes, index.php from the theme you are using. If you want to have movie ratings in the sidebar you must edit the sidebar.php file from your theme.
July 1st, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Thanks Paul. Since it works anyway I can live with it.
Here’s a link to the plugin working on it’s own page -> http://blog.viganos.com/movie-ratings/
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:50 am
Thanks for the help. It’s coming along. Now, if I want to edit or delete a film review, I need to edit the database, correct? Which file would this be?
Also, if I want to change the title of the reviews on my sidebar from “movie reviews” to something else, where should I look?
Again, sorry for the simple questions, but I’m learning as I go along…
Thanks!
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Andrius -> In order to edit reviews you need either to wait for v1.2 (eta: about 2 weeks) or edit the MySQL wordpress database (wp_movie_ratings table). As for the title you need to edit
wp_movie_ratings_show()function in the thewp_movie_ratings.phpfile.July 3rd, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Hey Paul,
Great plugin! I’m using the Sideblog plugin and can’t wait for a widget version of WP Movie Ratings.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Love the plugin. This is actually one I am finding to be very useful.
I had three questions but I see you have answered question #1 about editing your review.
So here are the other questions.
2. How about a comments feature so others can critique your review? You know know the saying opinions are like A-Holes everyone has one.
you know know question #3 I just answered myself….so just really one question today. thanks.
PS I guess #2 isn’t really a question but more of a suggestion.
July 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
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July 5th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Edmond: Since so many people ask for comments, it’s now in the TODO list, although I haven’t got a slightest idea how to implement them (yet!).
July 5th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Hey there!
Thanks for 1.1, and I’ve just gotta say I’ve just removed the plugin from my site due to my not being able to edit my entries; due to an error by myself, where I forgot to close an italics-HTML-tag, all entries below the plugin were displayed in italics. Sad, but true.
I’ll be checking in in a week or two to catch 1.2!
July 6th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Hey Paul,
Thanks for the plugin! I will definitely find it very useful. I saw from under your To-do-list, that you have planned to incorporate a vote history function. I hope you stick to it! i really really want that function real bad. Pls take a look at this recent thread which i’ve posted on the wordpress support forums to see what i mean. Pls let me know if you think you can nail it. Thanks!
July 6th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Niklas -> you can always edit the database directly.
Gio -> It should be easy to implement in my plugin. The $10 bounty makes it even more tempting. Problem is that there is no easy way for you to pay me, unless you’re able to make international money transfer.
July 6th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Don’t worry Paul, if paypal doesn’t work for you, let it be IT then, or money order, we’ll find a way
I hope you can crack it. perhaps you can alias with Paul Downey as well. Godspeed!
July 7th, 2006 at 12:57 am
this looks great, i can’t wait until i have some spare time to get my teeth into customising this plugin… really happy someone did all the coding
i’ve been working on something similar, a patched version of Starred Review #. what do ya think: http://www.metacomment.com/blog/2006/05/14/starred-review-patch/
July 9th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Starred review is too general for me. I’m only interested in movies
I’ll make a link to it, though.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:27 am
thank you for a great plugin. i use it with this plugin Executable PHP widget to get in my sidebar. it was some bugs with some themes but found a theme that it worked grat with …
thank you very much…
July 14th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
[...] It’s been less than three weeks since the v1.1 release and I have managed to prepare a significant upgrade to the WP Movie Ratings wordpress plugin. Here is the direct download link. Remember to follow the upgrade instructions when upgrading. [...]
July 14th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Hi!
I installed the plugin (only movies page) but my stars don’t look like yours in IE and they don’t appear in Firefox at all.
Also, is there a way to display the short review in the movies page?
thx
July 15th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
stadi -> I’ll look into it so the plugin is compliant with more wodpress themes (K2 especially).
It is not possible to display the short review using the [[wp_movie...]] tag (yet, it’s in my TODO), but it is possible to have the same effect by using the php function call with high number as argument, for example: wp_movie_ratings_show(10000);.
July 16th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
[...] Star Rating for ReviewsA few plugins are already available for your readers to rate your posts through star ratings (e.g. Votio and Post Star Rating). But to my knowledge, there have been none to allow you to arbitrarily insert star ratings into your own posts (there’s one for movies though, but it’s very specialized) and even generate an overall rating calculated from all the ratings you’ve added into the post. This plugin provides exactly those functions exactly. Moreover, the number of stars used (up to 20) and denominator used can be customised (no more cliche 5 stars only). [...]
July 17th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
How can I add genre, director(s), cast .etc. from imdb to my movie-page? And how can I show when movie is watched?
PLEASE HELP.
July 17th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Genre, director, cast - all those things are out there on imdb. Don’t need to duplicate this info in my plugin (it would just pollute the screen with useless info). To know when the movie was watched/rated hover over the movie’s title and the tooltip with this date should show up.
July 18th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Can we get this widgetized for the sidebar? I’d definately use it then! Thanks!
July 18th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Paul: But If I want that the plugin gets info (title and all the other details) from imdb to my page without the link to imdb-site?
And is it possible to create different look to sidebar than the created movie-page.
My [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] didn’t work, I had to create template for empty movie-page.
July 18th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
trench -> widget mode is planned in the future. I might do it sooner than the planned v2.5 though.
Rolle -> If you’d like to have those things fetched from imdb you could definitely hack my plugin so it does all that. Same goes for the plugin look - you just need to mess with css a little bit.
July 20th, 2006 at 6:48 am
Paul,
For some reason, the height of the individual review boxes seems to be fixed. This creates a problem for longer reviews and shorter reviews alike, and if a longer review is last, it spills over the color of the table. Any ideas? I’d like it to look more like your screenshot. Thanks, man. Awesome plugin.
Jake Bouma
July 22nd, 2006 at 12:26 am
I got styles but please, Paul or somebody, tell me how to get cast/director/ and other information from imdb? I need them. I’m not good at coding php, so I beg you. Please.
July 22nd, 2006 at 4:46 am
Trying to make my reviews a PAGE, and it comes up with the title and link but NO review? http://www.scottwyden.com/information/movie-reviews/
July 22nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Jake -> must be something with your css. In about 2 weeks there will be a new version that is friendly with more wordpress themes, hopefully it will fix your problems.
Rolle -> If there are enough requests I’ll think about it, for now you just have to stick to what you have.
Scott -> Yes, there are no reviews in page mode (yet! they will be in a new release).
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:48 pm
1.2 is a radiant update. Thanks a lot!
July 23rd, 2006 at 1:11 am
How can I show “next page” and “previous page” -links etc. if I want that all the movies are showed but 10 movies per page? is that possible? If I limit showed movies (for example 10), then the older ones are invisible. And I watch a lot of movies! I don’t want to show them all, but I don’t want to hide anything in my movies-page.
I’m working on with cast/director/comments/public rating/… information fetch -thing, but my coding skills with php are poor, so I just have to guess and try. I’m near-perfectionist-kind-person, so what I desire that I want to create.
July 23rd, 2006 at 3:44 pm
What would be great it to have a HTML allowed in descriptions. I would like to link this to my full reviews I have on my blog. Looking great so far. Also if you could add text that would be 1/5, 2/5, etc.. similar to what you did with the stars, that would be great. I would prefer text instead of images but in the FIVE STAR FORMAT.
Thanks.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I watch A LOT of movies and now I have rated about 40 movies. In ‘Movies’-admin page, where did the bottom movies disappear? I want to see them all.
And, I want to see all movies in my movies-page and about 10 recent movies in my sidebar. How can I do that?
July 30th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Number of movies solved! Different number of rated movies to sidebar and your movie-page:
Just put
in your movie-template-page and some value (e.g. 10) to admin panel box.
July 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
[...] Wie ihr ja schon gesehen habt, habe ich ein neues Plugin installiert wp_movie_ratings [...]
July 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
php wp_movie_ratings_show(999999);
with question
August 1st, 2006 at 3:08 pm
trench -> HTML is allowed in the descriptions/reviews (you can link to full reviews by hand, no problem here). 1-5 ratings as text will be implemented, for sure.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
rolle -> the admin page lists only recently rated movies and it will stay this way. There will be, however, the ability to edit any movie from the page mode listing all movies (it will redirect you to the admin panel). Now as for the next/prev buttons for page mode they will be there too at some point.
August 4th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
[...] Vandaag een plugin geinstalleerd voor het bijhouden en reviewen van films. De plugin heet “WP Movie Ratings” en is geschreven door Paul Goscicki. Hier vind je een beschrijving van de plugin evenals een live demo. [...]
August 6th, 2006 at 5:01 am
1.3 looks great! thanks! Exactly what I wanted!
August 7th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for a great plugin.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
[...] Dönüşle birlikte sayfamda birkaç değişiklik de yapmış bulunuyorum. Bir tanesi pek gözle gözükmeyecek olan Wordpress 2.0.4′e güncellemiş bulunmam. Diğeri ise film yorumlarımı farklı bir eklenti ile gösteriyor olmam. Artık WP-Ratings Plugin kullanıyorum. Bu sayede uzun eleştiri yazmadığım filmlere kısa şeyler yazabiliyorum. Ana sayfada ise Starred Review kullanmaya devam ediyorum. etiketler: özel, tatil ve yolculuk [...]
August 11th, 2006 at 12:57 am
[...] Testing out this cool plug-in. [...]
August 15th, 2006 at 10:07 am
hello,
is it possible to do a montly view of all movies rated? like that of Starred Review plugin?
like:
August 2006
This movie
that movie
July 2006
He movie
She movie
August 15th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Hi!
In K2’s new release 0.9 WP Movie Ratings doesn’t work well. First the font of “Movies I’ve watched recently:” in the sidebar changed (this is not a big thing) and in the movies page, the reviews are open by default and the x key does not work.
I like the last one this way better, but this is not intended like this I think
August 15th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
[...] Paul Goscicki » WP Movie Ratings [...]
August 26th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
hi,
another feature request: a field in the settings where we can set the default view options. i mean, like time descending sorting.
August 27th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Can someone help me fix this page. I added the line as stated to show the content as a page. The problem is there is a HUGE gap and you have to scroll all the way down to start the page….Help!?!?!
http://www.cornelliers.com/movie-reviews/
PS - I LOVE THIS PLUGIN!!!!
August 28th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
alper -> Not yet. I’d like to see it that way too (sorting by date by months/years), so there is a good chance that it will be like that (quite soon). There will be also an option to set the default sorting order when in page mode.
Stadi -> The font change is ok. I’ve decided that the title should be displayed using the theme’s font, so any font change will be visible in my plugin. Now as for the reviews, I think that it’s not a K2 related problem, but some aggressive plugin that you’re using. In the source code of your blog I can see this:
.description { display: block !important; (...) }. This line prevents the reviews to work correctly. Try to find what puts this line there and, if possible, remove it. Plus, you have reviews in the sidebar and in the body of the page, which makes the HTML invalid (and that creates some problems too). There should only be one movie reviews box per page.Jason C. -> It has something to do with your theme and IE (in Firefox it looks ok). When I go to “Resume” on your blog I have the same gap so it has nothing to do with my plugin.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Hi Paul, Thanks so much for the plugin. I have been struggling with starred review for the last month with little to no success and your plugin came in and savd the day. So thanks!
The small problem I’m having is when I try to include the last five movies revieved in a post my stars end up lining up vertically instead of horizontally. Do you know of a way to fix this? thanks in advance for all your help.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
hubs -> If your stars line up vertically it usually means that the movie reviews box is a part of an open
<pre>tag. It’s a wordpress issue/feature - try closing the tag and see if it helps (looking at source code first to confirm this is sensible too).August 28th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Hi! I’ve put the “.description { display: block !important; …” thing into the css, so that it doesn’t display the description of the blog in the header. It used to work in previous versions of K2 without “!important” but in the new version it doesn’t, that’s why I had to put it there.
Is there a way to make the reviews in the sidebar appear only on the frontpage? I don’t like that they are there always, but two of them only appear in the movies page.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
unfortunately you’re speaking above me. this didn’t work however.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
stadi -> Now I know that it is a K2 related issue. One of the styles (k2blue) includes a very aggressive !important rule on the .description class, which leaves my hands tied as I cannot get around this issue. I’ll try to work on that, though.
hubs -> Wait for the newest version and then tell me if it still displays the stars like that.
August 31st, 2006 at 10:54 am
[...] Now to the coolest new thing: the Movie Ratings Page. You'll notice at the top of the blog a tab labeled "Movies". Go there and you'll see all the movies I've seen and rated, along with brief reviews. I'll be updating this frequently as I've got quite a backlog of movies to rate (luckily I've saved every ticket stub from the last ten years). Big ups to Paul Goscicki for creating the plugin. [...]
September 1st, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Nice plugin but when I try to insert a link it always says the imdb link is not retriable and it aborts.
Any hint?
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:37 am
Hi, i’m using your plugin, i like a lot
http://www.chrismise.com/blog/?page_id=67
That would be nice something like alper asked
“hello,
is it possible to do a montly view of all movies rated? like that of Starred Review plugin?
like:
August 2006
This movie
that movie
July 2006
He movie
She movie “
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:09 am
etherea -> It might be that your host is blocking http requests to imdb.com.
Chris Mise -> Yes, it will be in v1.4 which is to be released quite soon.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:55 am
@Paul: I generally surf to imdb.com easily, as I’m also a registered user..
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:48 pm
etherea -> You don’t understand. The plugin is making http connection to imdb.com from the machine that your weblog is _hosted_, not from your local computer. This is what might be blocked as you’re the first user to report that.
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:35 pm
I see, thanks.
September 8th, 2006 at 7:21 am
[...] WP-Movie Ratings - Movie reviews published via this plugin are in the hReview microformat. [...]
September 13th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
In the WP K2 Theme, I get empty squares instead of stars (referring to the image movie ratings).
September 16th, 2006 at 9:31 am
This is such a cool plugin! One tiny problem I’m having though is that when I try to post from the bookmarklet, it says, “Error: cannot add movie rating. Not logged in.” Errr, I am logged in. Why does it keep doing this? I’d love to use the bookmarklet because it’s ridiculously convenient (particularly since I spend half my off work internet time browsing IMdB like a dork). Thanks!
Rachel
September 17th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Thanks for the great plugin
I love it!
I have a question though. Is it possible to delete the ‘Watched and reviewed on’ thing in the tooltip manually? Should I delete a line of code? I’m not that into php so I’m not sure if I can delete something or not. Thanks!
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Zeph -> This is a known problem which will be fixed in v1.4 (to be released quite soon).
Rachel -> Hard to say. It works for me so I cannot trace the problem. Maybe try hitting F5 before clicking on any of the stars?
Sanne -> Search for
"# Movie title"text in themovie.class.phpand delete the title attribute from the link few lines below.September 23rd, 2006 at 7:12 pm
[...] WP Movie Ratings es un plugin que nos permitirá desde nuestro wordpress 2.x calificar y tener una calificación de películas en nuestro propio blog, mediante interface ajax, por el cual lo único que tenemos que hacer es introducir la dirección de IMDB perteneciente a la película, escribir una pequeña revisión de dicha película y asignarle un valoración activando una serie de estrellas.Como se puede observar, la información la obtiene directamente desde IMDB, con lo que no es necesario introducir el nombre de la película, además tenemos de esta forma el enlace directo a la información de cada una de esas películas que tenemos listadas. [...]
October 1st, 2006 at 12:26 am
Great plugin.
Just wondering if it takes long before you implement this:
v2.0: Convert movie ratings from separate database table to normal posts and assign custom tag to hide them from normal content (similarly to the sideblog plugin). This way we get automatic RSS feeds, comments and permalinks to each movie review.
I will use your plugin as soon as this is implemented, because if want my readers to give ratings also (im using postratings plugin), and i want to use that plugin with yours. Is it a easy way to do this so i can use the postratings plugin? Keep up the good work!
October 7th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Hi Paul,
Love your plugin. However, I’m experiencing some problems. When I just installed everything worked fine. But for some reason it has stopped displaying the text of the movie ratings on my main index, even though my settings are set to display them.
I have de-installed and installed and tried puting the code somewhere else in the page (just to see if it was somehow connected to its place in de the page), but nothing worked. Also, I changed all settings forth and back, but nothing worked.
Any ideas? Thanks.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Tom -> I’m afraid that it’s still a long way till that happens. But who knows…
Ivar -> That’s a known problem related to your theme. Kubrick’s CSS overwrites rules set in wp_movie_ratings plugin. This issue has been resolved, so no need to worry. You’ll have your reviews as soon as I finally release v1.4 (which is ready to be released).
October 8th, 2006 at 11:09 am
[...] Testing out this cool plug-in. [...]
October 8th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Great, thanks!
October 10th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
This is *exactly* what I’ve been looking for. Thank you for a wonderful plugin!
October 11th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Hi Paul: just curious, what’s the release date of v1.4?
October 11th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Ivar -> probably this week or the next one.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:40 am
[...] 插件页面: 点击进入 [...]
October 15th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Good - just checked your TODO. Boy you are ambitious - plans all the way to ver 3!
I like it as it is - so do not hesitate for my sake. Haha.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:00 am
Hello, i love this plugin!
but i had a problem… i use markdown… the [[***]] markup didnt work, so i had to edit the php…
maybe if for next rls you change it to
would be nice… sory for my bad english
October 16th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
task -> that can be arranged (probably without any regressions). Check out v1.4 when it comes out.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
tnkz ;)!
this week?!
October 16th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Yea, as soon as I have some free time and new bugs won’t come out. I’m still waiting for a few beta-testers reports
October 24th, 2006 at 6:57 am
[...] Note: I decided that I want to track my book reviews so I took the movie rating plugin found on the bottom site and created a a book review plugin. You can find it on my Tools page. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
[...] Jeg har tidligere nevnt omtale av filmer og plugin for dette, men er ikke helt fornøyd med den jeg bruker nå. Så hvis noen har noe bedre forslag for å få lagt ut omtale av filmer i Wordpress, let me know. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
How to add archive page with + and - marks like you have? I just upgraded to 1.3. http://rolleweb.net/elokuvat (forgive me, my movie-page is in finnish at the moment)
October 26th, 2006 at 1:11 am
rolle -> Try creating a new page and enter [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] tag there. Alternatively you may try this in your template:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(9999, array("page_mode" => "yes")); ?>
October 27th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Thanks Paul. I have to say that your plugin is more than brilliant. I admire your work a lot and I can’t wait till version five
Sounds too good already. Keep in touch!
October 29th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Is it possible to show little statics about watched movies, for example how many movies watched in years 2000-2006 for example? that would be nice!
October 30th, 2006 at 1:10 am
The bookmarklet works in webkit (safari nightly) as well. Just a heads up
October 30th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Rolle -> you have your statistics in the administration panel. At one point I made it so that you could include them in the page view as well but run into some problems, so it got kind of abandoned. But it’s still possible using the
wp_movie_ratings_show_statistics()function. You just need to look into the code.Caius -> thanks for the info. I’ll update the page.
October 31st, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Is there a way to display the reviews already “expanded” when opening a page in WP?
See http://calliopyranch.com/?page_id=26.
Thanks— great plugin.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Mike -> Yes, there is a way to do that but you need v1.4 which was about to be released more than a week ago but you know, life got in the way. I’ll release it hopefully in the not too distant future. It should also fix those CSS problems you’re having.
November 3rd, 2006 at 5:44 am
Great plugin Paul. Just what I’ve been looking for. Easy to install and setup. One question for you. I don’t use this in my sidebar at all, only as a page. I plan to list a whole lot of movies that we’ve seen over the years. Is there a way to limit how many movies are listed on one page, before it starts another page. Say I only wanted to show 100 movies per page, is that possible now or maybe possible in a future release? Again, great job, keep up the good work.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Do any of your PHP wizards know how to integrate:
(stats for wp movie rating
into the wp_stats plugin found here:
http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php
November 4th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
John -> Yes, there will be a way to do just that in the upcoming v1.4.
November 5th, 2006 at 1:55 am
Anybody who wants to integrate their wp_movie_rating stats with Lester Chans wp_stats, here’s how you do it! I’m using wp_stats version 2.0.5, but I guess it should work the same with previous versions, but it hasn’t been tested with previous versions. Enjoy!
Open up stats.php, find:Code:
if($stats_display['recent_posts'] == 1 || $stats_display['recent_commtents'] == 1 || $stats_display['commented_post'] == 1 || $stats_display['emailed_most'] == 1 || $stats_display['rated_highest'] == 1 || $stats_display['rated_most'] == 1 || $stats_display['viewed_most'] == 1) {
Add above it:Code:
if(function_exists(’wp_movie_ratings_get_statistics’)) {
$temp_stats .= ‘‘.__(’WP-MovieRatings’).’‘.”\n”;
$temp_stats .= wp_movie_ratings_get_statistics();
}
November 7th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Paul,
Just wondering, when do you suspect that v1.4 will be availble? Also, do you want any beta testers? If so, I’m really interested…I have to get my movie page, paged (so it isn’t so long) or it’s going to drive me crazy..lol
November 7th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
John -> I’ve sent you the latest version. I’m still waiting for some free time to release the v1.4 to the public (hopefully this week…). It should’ve been released 3 weeks ago :/
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Got it upgraded Paul. Wow, anybody who has been using this in the past will love your upgrades..Great job man……so far, it’s working like a charm…
November 13th, 2006 at 6:39 am
Hi Paul,
1) count me as another vote to make a “review” a blog post and also keep a page or sidebar that collects all reviews.
2) I display all the movies in a page, how can I make the display default order be descending by “view date”.
3) The bookmarklet should have a field to edit the view date.
4) The bookmarklet should have a “save” button. Marking the star rating is not the same thing as being done with the review.
5) Thanks for a cool plugin it is definitely the best in this category!
6) If you’re looking for beta-testers get in touch with me.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
earlax -> 1) yea… v2.0 someday, maybe
2) v1.4 (soon… really) 3) Uhm, I don’t really want to clutter the bookmarklet, and it’s only useful for backfilling, so that’s a “no” 4) Uhm, no. It’s purpose is to be as simple as possible. Use admin panel for any advanced features. 5) Thanks for the kind words! 6) Check your email.
November 18th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Thank you for the wonderful plugin, Paul!
I look forward to your v1.4!
November 19th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Nice update Paul. Looks great on my sidebar!!!!
November 19th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Hey, thanks! The new version (1.4) is great. Keep up the good work!
November 19th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Great job Paul! Thanks for letting me test the beta…
November 20th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
[...] Movie Ratings，显示一个电影列表和IMDB上的星级评分，虽然输入信息时一定要提供IMDB的相关链接，但是你也可以使用其他介绍地址来替换它作为最终输出链接。 [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 5:14 pm
i’m still having the problem with markdown…
i’m using this plugin
http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ v 1.0.1c
the page is not showing, only if i deactivate markdown…
http://wearemad.weblogs.us/colophon/#movies
November 21st, 2006 at 7:47 pm
task -> wrap the call in a <p>< tag, like this:
November 22nd, 2006 at 12:34 am
that did the trick!!
tnkz
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:11 am
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to reviews.pingerati.net:80 in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_http_request.class.php on line 60
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_http_request.class.php on line 61
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_http_request.class.php on line 66
this is appearing, sometimes… when editing…
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:05 pm
task -> disable pingerati.net pinging in the options panel.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:52 am
How could I setting for “shows reviews in my movie page but no reviews in sidebar“?
Thanks~
November 25th, 2006 at 6:47 am
I’ve got the plugin installed, and prior to adding movies, the page had worked fine (and showed sans reviews.) Upon adding reviews, I end up getting a fatal error that results in the movie reviews not being displayed for that specific page, as well as the main index after the first entries Title and category listings.
The error I receive is:
Fatal error: Unknown function: wp_get_current_user() in /home/riane/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/movie.class.php on line 385
I figured it might’ve been another plugin conflicting with it, which is nataan.com’s useronline plugin, so I deactivated that, and then reactivated the movie plugin, and I still receive that error… Any idea what’s conflicting with the plugin, if a conflication is even the problem.
Thanks in advance
November 25th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
ss -> 1) Go into options panel and set all of the options that you want to be enabled on your movie page. 2) For the sidebar mode execute the following php code:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(6, array("sidebar_mode" => "yes", "include_review" => "no")); ?>Jordan -> You need Wordpress 2.0.4 or newer for my plugin to work.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Brilliant plug-in. Thanks! It does exactly what I’m looking for! Something useful would be to have a pointer/map to which CSS files and tags we could edit, as I had to resolve some conflicts with the CSS file for my theme.
November 25th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
AHA. Thanks for the reminder; Updated and voila.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Awesome plugin–I love it. One question though. When I sort using the view date link, I end up with the following error at the top of the list (which, btw, does sort itself into months):
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'watched_on' in 'order clause']
SELECT id, title, amazon_url_short, rating, review, DATE_FORMAT(read_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS read_on FROM wp_book_ratings ORDER BY watched_on ASC, read_on DESC
Any ideas?
December 6th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Scott -> You are using the Devin Reams’ modified version of my plugin, which lets you rate books. Contact him for any support as it’s clearly a bug in his code.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
[...] Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0.5 and installed Paul Goscicki’s Movie Ratings Plugin. Due to my total ignorance when it comes to php and mySQL it took longer than it should have done but now it’s all up and running and I’m pretty happy with it. The five most recently watched movies now show at the bottom of the sidebar and there is also a Movies page that lists all the films that have been reviewed. [...]
December 9th, 2006 at 11:41 am
[...] WP Movie Ratings [...]
December 10th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
[...] In my random browsing of the web, I came across a wordpress plugin, and as I often do, thought “What a brilliant idea!” The difference to me normally thinking this is that this time it is something that I can, and will, use. The plugin in question is Wordpress Movie Ratings by Paul Gosciki. [...]
December 12th, 2006 at 3:02 am
[...] Since deleting warcraft from my computer I’ve found myself with an insane amount of free time. Got the flickrRSS plugin working again finally. Also I’m pretending you give a flying fuck what I’ve been listening to so installed the last.fm recent songs plugin, as well as a movie rating plugin that I’m ripping apart viciously. At this rate I’ll be all out of motivation in about 6 or 7 minutes. [...]
December 13th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
I just noticed the bug mentioned. It’s hard having two competing style sheets. Paul, do you know of a way to conditionally load one vs. the other based on the script running? I’ve tinkered with it for a bit and am having no success.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Devin: Hard to say… wordpress gives some possibilities of checking for example which plugins are enabled. Other way of dealing with that is assigning different ids to html elements and create CSS rules with lots of ids, like this:
#ratings #single-rating #item p.item a { color: red; }(this is the way I deal with hostile templates).December 15th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Using the paragraph tag in the review breaks the CSS on my blog, so I have to use double line breaks instead. This might be a bug.
December 15th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
emre: this probably happened as a result of a clash between my plugin’s css and your theme’s css. I’ll have a look at it someday.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Is there a way to show only the titles and rating on the index.php page, and in the archives allow the user to expand the reviews? Right now to have expandable reviews on the archive page it shows the review text on the front page.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Jeff: read the FAQ and act accordingly to your needs.
December 20th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
[...] Akismet. A necessary tool to fight the spam comments that would otherwise over-run this website. AMM. Allows me to keep my [Adult Swim] DVDs page stocked with Amazon affiliate links to the merchandise. FAQ. Allows me to run the Q and A page. Footnotes. Allows me to add footnotes to my posts. 1 Google Sitemaps. Allows me to create Google compliant sitemaps.2 Popularity Contest. Lets me know what posts are getting the most air-time. Also lets me know what topics my readers like the most. Word Count. Not really a necessity, but when posting for PPP, it helps to validate my post for the writing criteria of the assignment I have taken. Database Backup. Necessary. I backup the database of my Wordpress installation at least twice a week. Good for when things go wrong. 3 Polls. Not a necessity, but allows me to create polls for my viewers to partake in. Let’s me know how you all think. Polls widget. Let’s me put the polls in the sidebar. Necessary for the polls plugin. Stats. All the information about the blog can be found using this plugin on this page. Movie Ratings. Let’s me post ratings to movies I’ve seen, as seen on this page. [...]
December 26th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Fantastic plugin.
December 28th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
[...] Heute bin ich auf ein WordPress Plugin gestossen, das es mir sogleich angetan hat. WP Movie Ratings zeigt, in meinem Fall auf einer separaten Seite, Filmwertungen an. Dazu trägt man einen Film ein den man gesehen hat, gibt eine Wertung von 1 bis 10 und versieht das ganze noch mit einem Link, vornehmlich zur IMDB. Nun lassen sich die Einträge übersichtlich nach Wertung, Datum oder Alphabet sortieren und anzeigen. Zusätzlich besteht die Möglichkeit, zu jedem Film einen kurzen Kommentar zu speichern. Um das Plugin zum Laufen zu bringen, wird die Version 2.0.4 von Wordpress benötigt. Da ich noch mit 2.0.1 unterwegs war, war heute dann doch mal wieder ein Update fällig. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Great plugin!!! Am using it as a sidebar widget and am using IMDB links to fetch the movie titles. However, every title has a trailing letter ‘e’ afterwards! Any idea how I can adjust the file to NOT show the ‘e’ after the title? THANKS!
S
January 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Shawn: uhm, it’s a feature! It’s a direct link to edit the movie rating/review and it is only displayed for logged in users (namely admin). This is the same as Wordpress does for comments (at least in the classic Kubrick theme).
January 1st, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Oh…lol! Duh! I didn’t even notice - but it’s a great feature (now that I know it’s there!) Keep up the good work and thanks for the prompt reply
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:20 am
Amazing plugin. I skipped the IMDB link and used the replacement so i can review games (and other items). Awesome job
January 4th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
[...] Wer dieses Plugin auch für seinen Blog nutzen möchte, kann es hier Downloaden. Die Installation ist ganz einfach, wenn man sich mit Wordpress ein wenig auskennt, im grunde genommen ganz einfach. [...]
January 6th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Wow, i loved the new features!!!!
your plugin is great!
January 7th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
How can I change or delete the sentence “Movies I’ve watched recently” in the sidebar?
thanks
January 8th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
would be possible for the next rls that the ratings page validates xhtml?!
ther’s a
i don’t know where it’s coming from that gives an error…
tnkz
January 8th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Bloo -> look into “options”…
task -> I’ve fixed it in the trunk (so for example now all of my movie reviews pages validate). Drop me an email and I’ll send you the newest version.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
mail sent…
January 10th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Hi there,
You mentioned to Rolle that if you got more requests you’d implement the ability of your plugin to fetch cast and credit information from IMDB. I could really use that feature, seeing as how I probably spend more time copying the cast and credit info from IMDB than actually writing reviews.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Butch -> It will be there in v2.0 or v2.1 but I have no deadline set yet.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:25 am
Hey that’s great! I was thinking of writing a plugin myself, and I may still, but it’s nice to know I have another option if it doesn’t work out.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
[...] The team that creates the Wordpress Podcasts decided that my WP Movie Ratings plugin is good enough to be featured in the newest episode, 17th. I feel so honored I’m almost blushing. Go, listen to it. Now. There’s also a local copy you can download. [...]
January 13th, 2007 at 10:25 am
[...] After much hemming and hawing and deciding what to do I’ve found a plugin to manage my movie list. I’m using WP Movie Ratings which keeps a handy list of movies I’ve seen along with a rating and review snippet. You have the option of linking to IMDB or your own link. [...]
January 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
How can I “hide” the ‘watched on:’ date? I am adding this code to my site’s sidebar and would only like to display the movie’s name & rating.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Art -> It’s hidden by default. If it shows it means that either 1) you’ve messed something up (like disabling plugin’s stylesheet) or 2) your theme messed my plugin up (that requires a manual fix on my or your theme’s author part).
If it’s the latter, send me an url to your blog and the theme theme you’re using (via email).
January 19th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Hi, I’m using the latest version and WP is still telling me that the database tabes are not installed. Any suggestions?
January 19th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Matt -> First, you need to be running v2.04 or later and second, you must follow the installation instructions carefully.
January 20th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
[...] I installed the movie plugin into this version of wordpress (which incidentally was upgraded to 2.0.7) which gives me the ability to create mini movie reviews and stats - all the movies are stored at this page [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Feature request: add an option to display reviews in the sidebar as tooltips (when you hover over the title).
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
emre -> that’s a good idea for current version, although I’m more thinking about v2.0 now and in 2.0 that would be both kind of not that needed and kind of hard to do…
January 24th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
[...] WP Movie Ratings [...]
January 24th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
This plugin is awesome!! I really love it!
How can I add the link to the “Movie ratings archive »” below the “Movies I’ve watched recently” table, like in your live-demo example? Where exactly do I have to put the link?
thanks
January 24th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I have found the solution in the tab options
January 25th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Wouldn’t it great to have opportunity integrate a thumb from IMBD if there is one? Thats something I would appreciate for a future version.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:17 am
lausse -> movie thumbnails will probably make their way to v2.0 (or some future update).
January 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Anyone else having trouble with WP 2.1, and this plugin?
All movie related fields in the relevant admin pages are displaying html code.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Great plugin. I love it. I was curious if there were any plans to add functionality that changes the appearance of the output - such as different stars, colors, etc.
January 28th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Im not sure if this is working for 2.1 I had alot of errors and everything was fine when I deleted your plugin from my folder. I love this one though!! Any word on an update??
January 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I’m using it with WP2.1 and it’s working fine so far.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Clean install on WP2.1 results in the following screenshots:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4820/moviereviewerrorsbz7.png
and
http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=moviereviewerrors2wx1.png
So something is off….
January 29th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Apparently there are some issues with my plugin and Wordpress v2.1. I was so happy when first reports came saying there are no problems with v2.1… Damn. I’ll have a look at it in a day or two, so you can expect a new release which will fix those… Sorry for the inconvenience.
UPDATE: I’ve looked into Wordpress v2.1 and done both upgrading and clean install on my development machine. I have found no problems whatsoever. Willem -> drop me an email with your configuration details (PHP version, Apache version, list of installed plugins, Operating system).
UPDATE 2: I’ve updated this very blog to v2.1 and there are no problems either.
UPDATE 3: The problem you’ve described is based on the fact that you have
short_open_tagset tooff. I’ve made it so that my plugin does not depend on this setting.January 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
It runs fine on my WP 2.1 install too. No problems at all.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Thanks Paul for fixing my problem.
Great service for this even greater plugin. Thumbs up on this one
January 30th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
[...] added a new plugin to Wordpress v2.1. It’s called WP Movie Review Ratings. It enables you to place movie reviews on you Wordpress [...]
January 30th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
hello, something like list x top movies in x time feature would be nice…
so best 10 movies in 2006, would be automated, and i think it’s not much job in sorting things!
as always i can beta test!
January 31st, 2007 at 12:01 am
task -> Yes, more detailed statistics is the one thing I’m after too. Now top10 of 2006 is hard, simply because there can be 20 or any number of movies rated 10/10. But yes, the best of 2006 is definitely possible. It would just not be a top 10 .)
February 1st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
[...] WP Movie Ratings: I was looking for a way to display the movies I have seen in recent times with a quick rating system and without actually reviewing them in depth. I found it first via Kottke’s blog. This plugin lets me share my quick opinions on a movie and even write a one-line review. All you need is an IMDB link to list the movie and rate the movie by selecting the appropriate rating from a drop-down box. Clean and elegant. You can select the number of movies you want to display and even number of stars[5 or 10] in your rating system. [...]
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
[...] yüzden burasını daha takip edilebilir kılmak adına bazı eklentiler ekledim. Bunlardan birisi WP Movie Ratings eklentisi. Nahnu‘da ilk gördüm ve bir sinemafanatik olarak hemen edindim. Anasayfada [...]
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:20 am
I did a clean install of WP 2.1 and activeated your plugin, and BAM! It fixed! Thanks for the wonderful plugin and looking forward to future updates.
February 5th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Hi Paul: there is something wrong with this plug-in running on my blog…wordpress2.1…after I clear all the old database of WP2.1 ,reinstalled it, the “WP Movie Ratings” plug-in always said “database wrong”.but it did work well before I reinstalled the WP! (here is the screenshot: http://photo1.bababian.com/20070205/6730335713918A47B09CDFB1C347E454.jpg)
I’ve tried to deactivate it-activate it ,delete it and upload the files again, but it seems no use….give me some advice, so many thanks : (
February 5th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Joycapri: I’ve just did yet another clean install of WP2.1 and WP Movie Ratings 1.4 and it WFM. It is clear, however, that my plugin activation script does not work for you and I really suspect it’s your wordpress installation/config that’s the culprit. One strange thing about your errors is the “inside_” table prefix.
Do you have it set up like that in the
wp-config.phpfile (variable$table_prefix) and do all of your wordpress database tables have this prefix?February 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Paul,thanx for your reply.when i install the WP,i set the table prefix as”inside_” indeed…..maybe that’s why my movie-rating-plugin cannot be installed….but things didnt happen when I installed the plugin….so strange….okok,let me try to take it , thanks for your help and opinion~~!
February 6th, 2007 at 10:05 am
[...] Bücher und CDs, die hier auf meinem Blog bisher online gingen, abrufbar. Dank des tollen Plugins WP Movie Ratings, auf das mich der Kingu aufmerksam machte, ist die Einbindung und Sortierung automatisiert und [...]
February 12th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Hi!
I really liked the plugin!
BUT, i’m here to ask if its possible to add a new feature! To display the movie poster!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Hi! i’m here to ask another thing
is there a way to posts a specific review on the post? not only the newest???
February 16th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Chris -> I’m not quite sure I follow you, but you cannot have my movie plugin instance in every post and you cannot use my plugin to show just one specific review. At least not yet. 2.0 will bring that (no ETA). Same goes for posters.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Hello Paul, it is possible to limit the characters on the sidebar, but show full name in paged list?
February 17th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
task -> yes. I’ve updated the FAQ to include this option too. First, you need to go into options and set the character limit for page mode and then execute the plugin on the homepage like this:
<?php wp_movie_ratings_show(6, array("char_limit" => "20", "sidebar_mode" => "yes")); ?>February 23rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
[...] I think after some time I should have a lot of movie listed there it, should be a serious competition to IMDb! Heh? Not really.. just Kidding. Anyway my wife/kids/grandkids must be amazed to see such a lot of review and would be freaked out! By the way, that page is powered by this WP Movie Rating Plugin. [...]
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
[...] WP Movie Ratings [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 2:12 am
[...] Filme. Ist grad noch nicht so voll, aber der Grundstein ist schonmal gelegt. Ach ja, das Plugin ist dieses [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I try to install this great plugin, but I can’t get it to add the table to the databease for some reason. Im pretty sure my WP installation is ok. Could you maybe put an file here on the page with the databaseinfo that I can import manually via phpMyAdmin? I really wanna use this plugin!
February 28th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Jompa -> Try looking into the source code. File:
wp_movie_ratings.php, functionwp_movie_ratings_install(). You need more than just a new table in the database, though. Drop me an email with the exact error that you get (+screenshot).March 1st, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Excellent plugin, just wanted to say thanks!
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:54 am
Great plugin! Easy to use and easy to install. No problems with it so far. Cheers!
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 am
[...] Wordpress sowieso. Von daher bin ich mal so frei und benutz jetzt dieses wundervolltolle Plugin aka WP Movie Ratings, welches mir schon 15 Minuten meiner Zeit gestohlen hat, weil ich bis jetzt zu doof war, einige [...]
March 4th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Just want to share a tip for peaople who also want an image to their films.
In the wp_movie_ratings-folder open add_movie.html
Change the textareathing at row 26 to:
<textarea name="review" id="review" cols="20" rows="3">
<img style="margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 2px" src="xxxx" width="65" />
</textarea>
Next time you use the bookmark - there will be a small textsnippet at top in the textarea. Now you just find a pic - and paste in the URL where it says xxx
March 5th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
That is one dirty hack
March 10th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
hello paul, any new beta for testing since last one?!
looking over there i found this:
http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/20/css-star-rating-redux/
and i thinked maybe it would be a nice way of adding ratings… it’s more graphical than numbers… and it’s more comprehensive…
keep up the excellent work on this plugin!! maybe a coming features spoiler?
March 11th, 2007 at 12:32 am
I’ve had those CSS stars (not redux, though) in the bookmarklet from the very beginning. The thing is that adding movies through the wordpress admin panel is so tiresome that I don’t use it. Ever. Unless I edit some rating/review, which happens very rarely. That’s why the UI there is so old-school. And it will stay this way as I want it to be as simple and as much wordpress alike as possible (so for example, when wordpress changes panel styles, just like they did in v2.1, my admin page will change too, without the need to update the plugin).
Version 1.5 (coming in a few weeks) of my plugin will feature the ability to add movies without rating, so you can, for example, have two lists - one listing movies that you want to see and the other for those that you’ve seen. And that’s basically it. The next step is v2.0, which is still only a concept rather than code (details about 2.0 are in the TODO).
March 14th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Hey, I’ve got the plugin to work now.. I have no idea what the problem was, but anyway.. how do I localize this plugin? I’ve been searching the php-files for something to translate, but I only find text related to the options page, any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
March 14th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Glad to hear that it works now
As for the translation, there isn’t much to translate, but if you insist, you should look into movie.class.php first.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Thanx Paul, I found what I was looking for.. the only thing left to translate is the date. Look at http://www.grymfilm.com/index.php/snabbrecensioner/ to see what I mean.. ‘March, 2007′ should be ‘Mars, 2007′. I suspect this is related to PHP, but how do I get it to show the date in my language? The rest of my blog uses swedish dates btw..
March 15th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
[...] I would post this list of movies on the reviews page. Have fun with it. Here’s a link to Paul Goscicki’s blog page where you can download the plugin if you have [...]
March 15th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Jompa -> Try searching at php.net. Getting (native) localized dates in PHP (and in Linux in general) is cumbersome at best and impossible at worst.
March 18th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Nice plugin.. I am in midst of starting a blog dedicated to Hollywood and Bollywood.. and this plugin would be awesome!
I really dint think anyone would make something like this.. but the search paid off.. Thanks mate
March 19th, 2007 at 4:29 am
[...] WordPress movie ratings [...]
March 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Hi. I wanted to use movie plugin for my second blog (first blog’s plugin is working) but i got this error :
“WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' watched_on DESC LIMIT 0, 0' at line 1]
SELECT id, title, imdb_url_short, rating, review, replacement_url, DATE_FORMAT(watched_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings ORDER BY , watched_on DESC LIMIT 0, 0;
WordPress database errorı: [Table 'wpen.wp_movie_ratings' doesn't exist]
SELECT COUNT(id) AS count FROM wp_movie_ratings
Warning: Division by zero in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\nihilanth.org\httpdocs\en\wp-content\plugins\wp_movie_ratings\wp_movie_ratings.php on line 359
I control my wordpress mysql database and there is no wp_movie_ratings table. what can i do now for work?
March 20th, 2007 at 12:37 am
I copy the existing wp_movie_ratings table file and upload it to my new database and deactivate+activate plugin but i got same error again.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:07 am
Just what I’ve been looking for for so long!! THANK YOU!
I noticed when editing the star images, that there are half stars… am I missing something in the ranking? How do I rank something as a half? or is this for future dev?
THANKS AGAIN LOVE THE PLUGIN!!
March 21st, 2007 at 2:09 am
Oh, also one thing, my archive page isn’t showing up when I create a page with [[wp_movie_ratings_page]].
Do I need to implement some javascript manually? or turn on visual editor?
March 21st, 2007 at 2:16 am
Sorry, didn’t read your whole page… I’m using markdown… got it now!!! LOVE IT!!!
March 21st, 2007 at 11:55 am
nihilanth -> it either means that your wordpress version is too old or your installation is hosed. Or both. Try installing my plugin on a fresh wordpress install. Manually creating the table just won’t do.
Pace -> Half stars show up when you enable “5 stars movie ratings”. You rate movies from 1 to 10 but you can display the rating as 5 stars and that’s when you can see the half-stars.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I feel like a total idiot trying to figure this out, and I know that it is probably the simpliest thing in the world, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this damn thing to go in my sidebar!!! Can you help? Sorry for being so php challenged.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:44 am
duanne -> It’s all in the FAQ. Anyway, I can see that you’ve managed to do it.
March 25th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Great plugin. Works flawlessly for me. I have my own review site and I was thinking to myself the other day that it would be great to be able to view a list of all the reviews in order of rating. Which is basically just want you’ve done.
I guess what I really need is to have individual reviews as posts, but also have the list functionality you have here. I see you’ve planned that in for version 2. Can’t wait to see that. I might even have a go myself at building something like that myself if I could ever find the time.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Doing the plugin that has movie reviews as post alone is no big deal. It’s the integration and the conversion of current wp_movie_ratings reviews to normal wordpress posts that gives me the creeps.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Hi, This is awsome and just what I’ve been looking for but I am having a problem with it when I activated the plug in, its somehow automatically gone onto my index page, but is just showing these errors?
WordPress database error: [Table 'gf7org_wrdp1.wp_movie_ratings' doesn't exist]
SELECT id, title, imdb_url_short, rating, review, replacement_url, DATE_FORMAT(watched_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings ORDER BY title ASC, watched_on DESC LIMIT 0, 0;
WordPress database error: [Table 'gf7org_wrdp1.wp_movie_ratings' doesn't exist]
SELECT COUNT(id) AS count FROM wp_movie_ratings
Warning: Division by zero in /home/gf7org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/wp_movie_ratings.php on line 359
Im not sure how its showing up in my main index as I havnt pasted any code in there yet..? but I have the latest version of wordpress installed.
Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
With Many Thanks
Martin
March 26th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
One or two more this kind of complains and I’ll actually have a second look at the installation hook in my plugin. For now, I can only recommend starting with a fresh wordpress install and see if it works this way.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Hi Paul..
Thanks for such a rapid reply.. and like i say the plugin itself seems awsome, and thanks for all the hard work, time and effort you put in to it’s creation.
unfortunately I’ve already tried a fresh install of wp and was getting the same results.. I did look at the mysql database and there was no table there as the error report states, but Im not sure what parameters etc to put in to try creating one manually..
It’s strange… hmmm
i wil keep trying and keep you posted.
Many Thanks
Martin
March 26th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
hello paul…
after our server crashed and was restored with new hardware and PHP5
i have the following issue:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/9157/moviesdk4.jpg
i saw others also having this… did you fond what could it be?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
task -> You have “short_open_tag Off” set in your php.ini file. Change it and it should work just fine.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:21 am
It’s the weirdest thing. For a week now I’ve only gotten the database error, I just just about to copy and paste the error here so you would know it’s not isolated errors because mine was a 100% clean install, at the time even had the default theme.
Seconds ago I went to copy and paste the error, but when activated it worked.
I can’t explain it.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:02 am
thank you very much!!!
March 29th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Hi Paul,
I read tgpo’s message and wondered if it was maybe to do with imdb updating their database or something.. but alas.. still the same, I tried installing the script on another domain with a fresh install of wpress but still the same.. Its weird eh!…
I’m gonna keep trying though..
M
March 29th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Paul, I love your plug in. One question, is there an easy way I can change the color of the stars? I would LOVE for them to be orange, as it is my favorite color, and I don’t want to compromise the layout by trying to make my own image. Is there any way you could help me with this? Any help is much appreciated. Again, LOVE the plug in!
March 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
duane -> Just fire up Photoshop and change the included gifs. Don’t create new ones, just change the existing.
March 29th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Word! Will do! Thanks Paul!
March 31st, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Thanks! This plugin works great.
April 11th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Hi! I have the same issue as maz. I’ve tried everything. I’ve re-installed the plugin countless of times, I’ve uninstalled WP and installed a fresh copy but it doesn’t help, I still get a MySQL error :/
April 17th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
[...] http://paulgoscicki.com/projects/wp-movie-ratings/ [...]
April 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
[...] WP Movie Ratings - Siehe unten in der Sidebar [...]
May 6th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Like Maz & K.E I’m having the same issues. I got rid of the problem with it installing by creating the table myself, but I still get this error:
Warning: Division by zero in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/wp_movie_ratings.php
:s
May 8th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
[...] Wp Movie Ratings Ich mag Filme fast jeglicher Art, ich mag Sterne. Also mag ich auch dieses Plugin, womit man eine Filmliste erstellen kann, Inhaltsangaben bzw kurze Gedanken dazuschreiben kann, Bewertungen in Form von Sternen abgeben kann. [...]
May 11th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
For 2.0, you might consider an “archive” system like Now Reading. While other readers can’t leave comments on the books there, it is pretty adaptable to multiple users (I made some changes to it do so) and allows for using amazon for thumbnails and $$. Just something else to think about, so that you don’t need to figure out how to hide the movie posts from normal feeds.
BTW, if those were to be hid from the main feed, would it possible to have the movie rating included in both the “ratings” and regular feed? I think it’s a great plugin and has great potential. Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put into it. If there’d be anyway to search the movies in 1.4, it’d be just right.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:13 am
There will be search and there will be an option to have movies in the main feed. Thanks for the kind words!
May 15th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Hi Paul,
First of all, this is a great plugin! However, I’m having some trouble installing it. I’ve activated the plugin but it doesn’t seem to create a table in the database.
Error message:
WordPress database error: [Table 'aggiflinki.wp_movie_ratings' doesn't exist]
SELECT id, title, imdb_url_short, rating, review, replacement_url, DATE_FORMAT(watched_on, ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%i’) AS watched_on FROM wp_movie_ratings ORDER BY watched_on DESC, watched_on DESC LIMIT 20
I have Wordpress 2.1.3 and WP-movie-ratings 1.4, both installed yesterday.
Any ideas on what to do?
May 15th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
A follow up:
My site is hosted by godaddy.com.
I tried it on another site I have that is hosted at a different location and it worked fine. I also tried installing some other plugin on my godaddy-hosted site, and it worked.
This problem is therefore specific to WP Movie Ratings and the Godaddy-hosting, at least in my case.
My site simply won’t be complete without this plugin - hope you can solve the problem soon!
May 21st, 2007 at 4:46 am
Awesome plugin. I, too, join the request to make it configurable for books, movies, restaurants, songs, albums, bands, etc. But hey, it’s awesome like this.
But one thing: When I try to create the “list all movies” page, I get a 404 error. It shows up fine in my sidebar, but the list all just doesn’t work. It did work once, but then I changed some of the options on the options page and now I just get a 404 error. Any suggestions?
May 21st, 2007 at 5:43 pm
ambib -> 404 errors are not related to my plugin but to the wordpress itself. You’ve just probably messed up your permalinks.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Hi Paul,
Do you know how I can get the lastest five movies rated to show up “inside of” a post? i’m using php-exec with no luck. any suggestions?
thanks
May 27th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
hubs -> The suggestion is simple: don’t do it. Do it the way which is shown in the installation instructions.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Is it possible (if so how) to change the colour the text that the plug in uses cause the theme on one of my blogs is dark blue but uses white text but with your plug in it has a white background area so the plug in just looks like one big rectangle of white.?
June 12th, 2007 at 12:47 am
You need to hack the
wp_movie_ratings.cssfile.June 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
For those having trouble with the install, I was running into the same table errors. Here’s how I got to work.
Deactivate the plugin.
Open wp_movie_ratings.php and remove the following lines of code near the top:
# only special users can install plugins if ($user_level < 8) { return; }June 29th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Can anyone else confirm this?
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July 11th, 2007 at 12:31 am
I can confirm that it does work. I now have it all set up. Nice one Aaron.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Hey thanks!
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July 18th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Hmm.. As soon I turn on Pierres AJAX Shoutbox (http://pierre.sudarovich.free.fr/index.php/2006/02/28/ajax-shoutbox/) I get databaseerror for the movieratings plug.
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July 22nd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Did you ever update this so the reviews can be edited or deleted? I see in the comments that this was in the works last year, but I don’t see an updated version available for download. I love the plugin, but it would be so much nicer to have that facility instead of having to edit the db table by hand.
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Nevermind, I just figured it out. Those editing icons are so tiny and my eyesight isn’t what it used to be.
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
But I spoke too soon. I tried changing the title of the move and got an error message. Then I thought I should just delete the movie and start again and I got the following error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/mydirectory/public_html/class/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/wp_movie_ratings.php on line 550
When I checked the Movie Rating page, the film I’d tried to delete was indeed gone, but this definitely doesn’t seem to be working properly.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:19 am
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July 25th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Fantastic plugin… though in my multi-author blog this plugin can only be seen by the administrator to use. Can other authors who are not administrator use this plugin? I have the Role-Manager Plugin which helps lists what access should be given to what role… but I did not see this plugin pop up in the Role-Manager screen to check mark and allow for authors access.
This plugin would be a great one for us if authors who are not administrators can somehow use it… would appreciate any help on this…
July 27th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Paul, any updates in the works? I’m very much anticipating having the movie reviews in the same table as posts.
July 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
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July 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
This is an awesome plugin. I had to remove the user level
July 31st, 2007 at 9:42 pm
lausse -> I’ll have a look at that.
kali -> I cannot reproduce your error and since you’re the only one person reporting it, I assume it might have something to do with your configuration/hosting environment.
oz -> One day I might sit and see where the problem lies when it comes to multi author blogging.
Brad -> Still no ETA for that. The v1.5 (which fixes few small issues) is like ready from some time now, though.
July 31st, 2007 at 10:23 pm
It will be nice if you could extend this plugin to games and books as well
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 am
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August 4th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Any idea why, after upgrading to 2.1.3, my Movies page just shows this: [[wp_movie_ratings_page]]?
I tried putting tags around it (yes, without the spaces,) and it didn’t work.
I have also triple-checked that the plugin is indeed activated. What obvious thing am I missing?
August 4th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Brad -> Check the FAQ (the question about the Markdown plugin) and try using one of the other syntaxes.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I’ve got wordpress 2.2 and the latest movie ratings widget, but when I try to add a movie review, I get the same error as bsam, nihilanth, maz, aggi, K.E. and Barry.
This is what shows up after activation, when I go into manage/movies, just at the bottom of the “Add a new movie rating” section;
http://www.paulietheboss.com/images/recently_watched.gif
Any new ideas on this problem? I’m absolutely gutted because your plugin looks great, and it’s just what I was looking for. Doesn’t seem to have an equivalent anywhere unless I want to start trying to modify the now reading widget that’s out there, but I’m not confident enough to try that!
Paul
August 6th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Paul -> Follow aaron’s advice. Should work
August 6th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
ahhh!!! awesome
Sorry, I skimmed down the page and didn’t notice that solution, it appears to have worked!! Thanks a TON. Can’t wait to have a play with this wee badboy. Cheers man, and thanks for the quick reply!
August 6th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
thanks Paul… hopefully you’ll get the chance to do this sooner than later
August 7th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Paul, I used one of the other syntaxes (all of them actually,) and nothing is working. Do you have any ideas of what may be the problem? or where I should start looking?
Thanks!
August 7th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Paul, found the culprit: the Google website Optimizer for Wordpress plugin (http://websiteoptimizer.contentrobot.com/). Deactivating it makes the Movies page work fine.
Not a problem for me, but I thought I’d let you know about it.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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August 7th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Brad -> I’ll check that.
August 9th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Hi Paul!
I just want to say THANK YOU again for adding the possibilty to enter a replacement link instead of the imdb query. That helps me a lot since I can’t connect to other servers from my site (freespace provider).
Finally I can get rid of my dirty hack
Keep up the good work.
August 13th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Thank you so much! I think it’s just about perfect already. I love the layout and the sorting options. The only other thing I wish it had is an RSS feed for my reviews.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Thank you for such a great plugin! I’m thrilled with it’s many features and ease of use. I expect movie reviewing will take up a lot of my time in the near future.
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August 15th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I’m having the same problem as many others on this site, and can’t quite put my finger on it on how to fix this.
The sidebar plugin works great when using the php syntax to pull the info, but when I put the bracket version (and i’ve tried all the different iterations) it only displays the [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] on the page instead of generating. I’ve noticed this has occured on another plugin (KG_archives) as well, so I think this is site-wide.
I don’t use the Google Website Optimizer like the guy above, so I’m not quite sure what is causing it to break. Any clues?
I’ve also modified the plugin to remove the user line as stated above, and didn’t fix.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Oh and i’m on WP 2.2.2
August 16th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Haggis -> Try disabling your plugins one by one until you find the culprit.
August 17th, 2007 at 5:11 am
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August 18th, 2007 at 2:48 am
am i missing something ? when the plugin is activated i don’t see any movie lists are we required to get an account over at the movie website ?
from the instructions i sounded as if in the admin a list of movies would appear not sure if that’s how its suppose to work
i don’t get any list only an add a movie rating with blank fields
August 18th, 2007 at 4:08 am
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August 18th, 2007 at 11:07 am
so we have to go all the way to the IMDB website copy a title link then add it in the plugin ?
August 19th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
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September 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 am
I am having a problem with the plugin in the latest firefox, the review of the first film is pushed downwards and to the right. It appears ok in IE but doesnt display text of a second film review. Take a look at 11nights.com and see what you think, the plugin is displayed in the 3rd sidebar which is located under siderbar one and two.
September 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 am
PoeticJaffaCake: Add the below to one of your css files:
#wp_movie_ratings #reviews li p.description { float: none; }September 2nd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Cheers mate, all sorted.
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 am
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September 5th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Hi Paul, Thanks so much for the plugin.
The small problem I’m having is when I try to include the last five movies revieved in a post my stars end up lining up vertically instead of horizontally. Do you know of a way to fix this? thanks in advance for all your help.
Here is an example:
http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-movies/
September 6th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Hey, I watch loads of movies, and want to incorporate a star rating review system to my site… so far though; as much as I like it, I want each review to be posted as an individual post. Does that make sense? As in, when I write a review a movie, it should be in its very own post. I’m not sure if I’m making sense, can this be done with your plugin? If so, can you show me how? Or direct me maybe to another plugin that you might know does this?
September 6th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Erika, you want to be using this plugin:
http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/star-rating/
September 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
hubs -> You must be running some other plugin which is inserting <br /> tags. Try disabling your plugins one by one to see. If you find the culprit please do contact me via email and I’ll see what I can do about it.
Erika -> That will be coming in v2.0. For now you can use my plugin as it is or try the one suggested by hubs.
September 7th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
It’s is so weird. By messing around with some of the options i was able to get the stars to align horizontally but now everything is five stars. Something here is definitely wonky.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:29 am
hubs -> I believe that the problem lies with the fact that you’re trying to have my plugin running as a normal wordpress post and that as such is not recommended (better to use the php code in the theme’s files).
September 10th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
indeed i was trying to use it inside of a post. however, it still acts stragely inside of a page too. see example:
http://www.artifacting.com/blog/movie-reviews
September 10th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
hubs -> You’re using a custom modification of my plugin so I cannot help you directly. You just need to mess with CSS and plugin’s options to have everything as you want.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Hi Paul, thank you for the plugin
September 21st, 2007 at 3:02 pm
How can I get this to use JQuery instead of Prototype?
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
sean -> There’s no need to do that (only the bookmarklet uses prototype) but if you insist it should be fairly easy as I’m using maybe two components from the prototype library (ajax being one). Update: since Wordpress now uses (and includes) the jQuery library I’m considering switching to it.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
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September 29th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
hey paul
GREAT plugin. thanks for making all of us look so good and sleak.
1 quick question.
i now understand the different between “Recently reviewed movies” and the “movie review page” in that the “Recently reviewed movies” shows the latest 5 (or however many predefined) movies reviewed and the “movie review page” shows all movie reviews.
what i want to know is if it is possible to have the “Recently reviewed movies” as a dated post, as opposed to the current method of a permanent inclusion into the template (?php wp_movie_ratings_show(); ?>)
please let me know if i’m being unclear about this. basically i want to have this “?php wp_movie_ratings_show(); ?>” in a post, but obviously wordpress posts cannot have working php tags. i even tried using a separate plugin (exe-php) to try to execute the php tag in a post, but to no avail.
appreciate any help on this.
thanks again.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:01 pm
fish8me -> I’ve seen it working on some blogs the way you want it to. I believe they were using php-exec or similar plugin. There were other problems with it, though (mostly html/css related). I would not recommend using it like that.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 am
“Convert movie ratings from separate database table to normal posts and assign custom tag to hide them from normal content”
I, for one, cannot wait until you do this! Thanks in advance.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 am
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October 6th, 2007 at 2:46 am
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October 10th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Excellent plugin–this is just what I was looking for! Thank you, Paul!
October 19th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Excellent plug-in for frequent movie review bloggers! Thank you so much for you hard work that you invested in this little gem. In the process of incorporating it into my blog, I found some XHTML validation errors, so I went ahead and fix them. There are still some errors in my movie page, I am trying to debug them. Just thought to let you know, so maybe you can fix them in the next release. Once again, thank you!
October 20th, 2007 at 10:14 am
AsceticMonk -> thanks for the report. The validation errors have been fixed already, the new release is just waiting to be pushed out the doors…
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Is it possible to use this same plugin for music album reviews or would another plugin be suited for such use?
October 24th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Jay -> Sure you can use my plugin. Some people even rate games using my plugin (they make use of the ‘alternative url’). You can also try any of the similar plugins.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Paul, Very excited about the new release. Is there a mailing list we can get on about updates?
October 25th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Brad -> Uhm, no, nothing as such exists. Too much hassle, too few new updates/new releases
October 30th, 2007 at 2:36 am
First of all, thanks for a great plug-in! I had been looking for something like this…
But there seems to be a problem with long movie titles - they’ll overlap the stars. For example: “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)” - see an example on my site:
http://www.officialstation.com/kvikmyndir/
Maybe you could cut off long titles (after an X number of characters) and just put “…”
- or place the stars in a new line above or below the title.
Just wanted to let you know.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Hannes -> go into “Options/movies” in your wordpress administration panel and see/set the option “Cut movie title at:”. You can have the star ratings in new line too - just activate the sidebar mode. I recommend reading the faq.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:58 am
Oh, my bad. I didn’t notice that when I glanced over the FAQ.
Silly case of RTFM
October 31st, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Any hopes for upgrade soon? I’d love to get this as a widget!
November 7th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Paul, any progress on the feature that all authors can access your plugin in a group blog site. Currently only the admin can.
November 7th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
oz -> sorry, no.
November 24th, 2007 at 6:23 am
A sincere thank you for this plugin. It was exactly what I needed.
I wanted to post what I ran into just in case someone else ran into the same thing. I’m not sure what is unique about my setup but in order to get the plugin to work I had to go through each of the PHP files and replace <?= with <?php print
Once I did that everything started to work as expected. Any ideas?
Thanks again,
JW
http://www.evolv3.net
November 24th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Jonathan -> Yea, it’s about php’s
short_open_tagoption, which you have disabled. This has been fixed in the upcoming release.December 14th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Great plugin, definitely something that was needed. But, naturally, immediately after I get something for the site that rocks, I’m looking for something new that it could do! LOL
What I’d love to see in a future version:
1. Make it available to multiple authors, and show who wrote which review.
2. Change the layout so that it explicitly gives an option for a ‘full’ review.
3. An option to change the ratings graphic and the range — including negative ratings. Why negative ratings? I tend to review crappy B-movies, so, a ‘good’ movie would tend to rate somewhere in the positive range, whereas as crappy b-movie would be better if it had a ‘more’ negative score.
4. If the rating scale could integrate into a full review post, that would make it completely indispensable.
So there’s my wish list. Great plugin!
December 28th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Thank you for this great plugin. I added to my blog. And started translating to Turkish. When finished i will send it to you…
January 8th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Thank you so much! It works wonders.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:23 am
for russian users - for correct charset change charset of table “wp_movie_ratings” to utf8_general_ci
January 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Hi Paul,
Are you still working on this? I’m just starting to ramp up my blogging again, and this plugin may feature quite significantly in my plans
Regardless, it’s a great piece of work.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Dan -> At the moment the development is kind of stalled…
January 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Hey, I installed the plugin, wrote a new page called movies, and added the [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] and saved it.
I tried to klick on the new page, but it got “404, not found”-message.
I tried with
wp_movie_ratings_show();
No luck there either.
What should I do?
January 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Robin -> It’s a wordpress error not related to my plugin. Try reading about wordpress pages.
January 27th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Turkish version of this plugin has been released in here. Check it out!
Bu eklentinin Turkce surumune buraya tiklayarak ulasabilirsiniz.
http://www.umutdogan.com
February 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Hi Paul,
I am new to wordpress and I want to create a movie review site. I am looking to create one similar to “http://www.dvdinmypants.com/” that gives you the movie title and an image along with that title. Will your plugin get the movie details and image for the movie from the Imdb web site.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Dunstan -> No, not at the moment. In some distant future… who knows.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
2 Flector Says: “for russian users - for correct charset change charset of table “wp_movie_ratings” to utf8_general_ci”
Thank you so much! It works wonders!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
thanks for the plugin. I’ll see if I can incorporate it in my movie film review blog this weekend.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
AWESOME plugin.
I’ve been searching for something like this for a lo-o-o-ong time.
Question: Why not use the Tiny MCE editor instead of a textbox?
This would make it SOOO much easier to prettify the reviews.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
David -> I much more prefer textile instead of editors like TinyMCE. Anyway, if you wish to use it, I believe its only a few lines of code to have it play with my plugin.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am
As a movie fan I love this plugin. Its easy to use, it looks nice and works good. Thanks, Dee
March 17th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Hey. Just tried to set up and use the plugin but encountered a database error. The plugin activated fine and the menu items appear in my Wordpress admin area under Manage, and Options, but when I try to add a review I get a database table not found error. I’m using WordPress 2.3.3 and the latest version of the plugin (1.4). The error message is:
Error: not added. Table ‘mydatabasename.wp_movie_ratings’ doesn’t exist.
I’ve checked your code quickly, but haven’t had real chance to debug it myself yet. At this stage I can only presume the issue is regarding the logic used in the activation/installation hook. I’m guessing the event isn’t triggering the installation function call. I observed that none of the options in the Options page had any default values either, which lead me to that conclusion, since they’re also defined in the installation function.
I have a standard WordPress install, and I copied the entire plugin directory as the README said to. It definitely activates, but just doesn’t trigger the installation call.
I noticed you said the plugin isn’t in development right now so I’ll see what I can find and post back if I can get it working.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Seems the problem is with the user level checking in the installation function:
if ($user_level user_level or something similar. Hope that helps your future development.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Davey -> That problem has been long fixed. Just not released. Thanks for the input, though.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Excellent plugin!
A wish: Is it possible to make a choice in the settings, where I can choose to paginate on a ‘Per year’-basis in stead of ‘Max movies per page: 100′. You see; I want to show all the movies for the current year, and then show links for previous years at the bottom where it now shows pagination-links (previous 1 2 3 4 next). Was that understandable?
April 6th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Paul, I have to say that I LOVE this plugin in. It works like a charm. I am wondering though if you can tell me how to the use the pagination from your plugin in my blog for posts. I love the look of the plugins navigation, very clean and crisp. I am currently using WPPageNavi for my posts, but I’m not nearly as fond of that look.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I’ve been trying to add the date before the movie title in the page listings, in a different date format than the standard YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. I want to show them as simply d.m.y.
What I did, I got this slightly modified version from a friend of mine, he added the following part under # Movie title (about line 374/375 in movie.class.php:
$mindato = date_format(date_create($this->_watched_on), ‘d.m.y’);
$o .= “$mindato: <a class=\”url fn\” href=\”";
But this doesn’t seem to work for me, the page loads just my header and part of my page-template just until the beginning of your plugin.
I don’t expect much, but do you have any idea what it could be?
April 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
same prob here we by davey. pls just release new version to become this prob fixed. thx! i need this lovley plugin, pls
April 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
@Stian Andreassen: this is a very good idea. I’ll put it on my TODO list.
@kasper: if you’re a developer, it should be fairly simple to use stuff from my pagination in another plugin. If you don’t know how to code, though, it’s another pair of boots.
@Asbjørn: you should be better off with the strftime function (http://pl.php.net/manual/pl/function.strftime.php).
@skyarc: tell me about it… I know I need to release it… anyway, check your email.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Thanks, Paul, used the following to get the date I wanted:
strftime(”%d.%m.%y”, strtotime($this->_watched_on))
April 24th, 2008 at 5:51 am
hi paul, and old user here…
a beta version would be nice!!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
@task: check your mail
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
pls a “beta” version for me 2, thx
May 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
what about a public beta test?
if not, i would like to test your latest version of this great plugin. thanks.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
loving your plugin….. I finally scrolled down all the comments to the form, phew
my request is already in your todo list for v2.0, and that is for extra movie details and a cover image. I found another plugin whilst searching, its does the bits your plugin doesnt, but doesnt do the stuff that yours does. http://www.fots.nl/index.php/imdb-tag
May 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I’m going to release version 1.5
this weekby May 18th, so just bare with me.@jon: who knows, one day…
May 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I super can’t wait for the new version! Been wondering what was up with this plugin, it’s one of my favorites
May 12th, 2008 at 12:38 am
can you also show a short example how to implement the output into a sidebar? mine is just 150px wide, and I am getting nowhere. If I just use it gets automatically limited to 150px by my sidebar, but the stars are showing oevr the title, and you cannot read anything, just looks shi**y…
is it actually possible to fit the output into a sidebar of 150px wide?
can you give an example i.t. to show the latest 5 movies, with title, stars ratings and short review?
thanks
May 12th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Thanks a lot for this plugin, is very usefull… i hope new options in v1.5! thanks
May 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Thanks for this …. This looks awesome … will go well with my next site
May 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
@ovidiu: just use the sidebar example from the FAQ and use the options panel to switch to 5 stars rating and limit the title length (once again in the options panel) to appropriate number of characters. That should do the trick.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
ok, got it to work, looks pretty nice in my sidebar. but can you give me directions where the url to imdb for the title is assembled? I would like to add a class=”no_icon” to outgoing urls, as I have a plugin that adds a small icon to outgoing urls, and I want to avoid it for these links as it looks ugly.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
@ovidiu: movie.class.php, function show() the code is under # Movie Title.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
perfect
thx for the help.
btw. by using a plugin called widget logic, I can make the sidebar movie ratings widget disappear on the page that holds the movie ratings archive itsself - just by adding something like this: !is_page(’551′) to my widget
May 16th, 2008 at 12:27 am
All I get is
[[wp_movie_ratings_page]]
On my page. I’ve tried the other ways you mentioned and it doesn’t work. I’ve disabled all plugins but this one and it STILL doesn’t work.
Any ideas?
May 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Thanks, this makes things ALOT easier for me, and more nice looking!
Think you should hurry doing the 2.0 version, it would be nice to have it as a widget.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
@ajemi: try the just released version 1.5. If that does not work try with a fresh wordpress install (or maybe first with another theme) and go from there.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Hi, been having a problem lately. I can add movies and it says the ratings have been saved but the movies aren’t in the lists and not on the manage page either. What could be wrong? Thanks for the help.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am
@Juice: hard to say. Try adding them via admin panel and via bookmarklet. Check if they are added to the database. Try deactivating/activating my plugin (be sure to use version 1.5). Maybe start a fresh wordpress installation (in a subdomain, for example) and go from there?
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I did a reset install and deleted all the tables in my MySQL which had something to do with the plugin and I got it to work again!
Thanks.
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
hi there.
I really like your plugin and I have been looking for something like this for quite a while.
Eventually, before finding your plugin, I found another one, which gave me an error, but when I went to the plugins page, it seems the author has recycled it. There is no mentioning of that plugin anywhere…
And it seemed to have a lot of features integrated that are also on your list for 2.0 so if you are interested, jsut send me an email, and I`ll mail you that one, maybe you can get some inspiration from its code.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
how can i change YYYY-MM-DD to DD-MM-YYYY ?
May 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
@Deniz:
movie.class.php,function get_movies()and search for variable$date_formatand change it any way you want it. Here’s some reference.June 5th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I am using a black background for my site and it’s making the plugin appear in the sidebar in a white box so that the writing in it is invisible…
Is there a spot in the file to change the colour of the text and background?
Thank you!
*huggles*
Tera
June 6th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
great work! useful and easy to use.
June 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am
@TeraS: You just need to mess with CSS a little. See how others did that. For example check those:
http://www.onkelandy.com/blog/inhalt/filmkritiken
http://d-fens.org/movies/
June 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: movie in /home/denizkar/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp_movie_ratings/wp_movie_ratings.php on line 289
Whats this error ?
I didnt change wp_movie_ratings.php .
I just changed movie.class.php for date .
Where is the problem ?
June 7th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Interested i reupload my movie.class.php with date change and now there’s no problem . Thank you
June 7th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
*huggles*
Thank you Paul!
Tera
June 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
There’s something wrong in list movies by date .
Here is the screen shot ;
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6204/screenhunter181vg0.jpg
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5081/screenhunter180rl0.jpg
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8128/screenhunter182zw7.jpg
Note : Date format is day-month-year .
June 7th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
@Deniz: Uhm, there are at least two ways to display such list and there are few ways to sort it. Now I don’t know what and how you do, but I kind point you in the right direction (despite the fact that you use customized version, which might be broken). One way to set the sorting options it via the function call, passing the appropriate arguments (see FAQ) but the preferred method is to set them via the settings panel.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
also found this IMDB plugin, have a look: http://www.fots.nl/index.php/imdb-tag
June 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I think you can add one more thing, “This DB has ### movies” or “### movies have been rated so far”
Great Job, Keep it up!
June 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am
One more thing, now when we click on the movie title, it opens on the same window, it could open in a new window. That would be great!
June 17th, 2008 at 10:57 am
@Omi Azad: Actually no, that would not be great. Quite the opposite. Still, you could easily add the necessary code yourself.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Paul –
This plug-in is awesome and a half. I watch a LOT of movies and this has made reviewing, quickly, a dream. While adding a new review takes a moment to get to (log-in -> manage -> movies), it is a small issue with such an awesome plug-in.
I can hardly wait to see the development grow with time. Great work.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Wow, sounds like 2.0 is exactly what I am looking for since I’m working on an Arnold Vs Sly website… if you need a beta tester - let me know…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Fantastic piece of code! Thanks!
For those of you who would like to add it to your WP 2.5 sidebar, check out Erik Rasmussen’s “Widgetize Anything” plugin, http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/11/30/widgetize-anything/
It works perfectly..
July 14th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Hi!
First thanks for the great plugin. Works like a charm. Actually there are only two issues: the site doesn’t validate, when movie ratings are shown in sidebar and on page at the same time, because the IDs are already taken by one or the other.. The other problem is that the parameter on how many movie reviews are shown in the sidebar doesn’t seem to work.
Maybe you can check these problems.
Thanks!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am
@Andy: if you want your site to validate just disable the plugin in the sidebar when viewing the movie reviews page. Now as for the number of movie reviews shown in the sidebar it works this way: first, you can set it in the options panel and it will work, but you can also override it using the wp_movie_ratings() function call and setting the first parameter.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Hi Paul: Thanks for the quick answer. The id-Problem isn’t that easy to solve without creating two alternating sidebars..
Anyhow, the bigger problem is the number of movie ratings. I’ve set it to “3″ in the options and also used the override with wp_movie_ratings_show(3,array..). The sidebar still shows all reviews 
Any idea? I’m using the sniplet-plugin and tabbed-widget, but that isn’t a problem with any other plugin so far..
July 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I figured out that the Sniplet plugin indeed was the problem with the number of shown reviews in the sidebar..
Sorry for worries.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
@andy: there’s lots of way to do that. One would be to alter the page’s template and use either
the_ID()function or$post->IDin the condition to check whether we are displaying a movie ratings page and put thewp_movie_ratings_page()call only if we are not.July 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Awesome update! Thanks!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hi again
Okay, I still got some problems.. I managed to validation-problems by using two different sidebars now. I couldn’t see any chance to implement your solution because I’m using the tabbed-widget Plugin inside my sidebar widgets.. Kinds complicated 
But the main problem still exists: no matter how I try to implement the wp_movie_ratings_show(3, array(..)) the number of shown reviews always gets ignored. I’ve tried the Sniplet-Widget, Samsarin-php-widget and now I even made my own function to register the code as a widget. It only works when I directly put the code in the sidebar without any widget-stuff. Could you please take a look? Because I’m quite sure most are using widgetized sidebars.. Thanks.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I’lll have a look at this, but I cannot promise anything.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Thanks Paul, great plugin that suits my needs. 2 features that I look forward to are:
1-the RSS updates that you have planned for the next version.
2-slightly more information pulled from imdb such as the thumbnail and directors.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hmm.. Nice plugin. I try it on my blog. Thank you!
August 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Very cool plugin, thanks!
August 8th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Nice update. It’s cool that you wanted to make it XHTML compliant - but I get a “document type does not allow element “div” here…” error at “” when I try to validate my page. Maybe other parts of my page are messing this up but I don’t see what the problem is exactly and how I can fix it…
I have an idea for future versions: Automatically collect the movies you saw each month/week and post them on the blog (with the name of the movie, star rating, optionally the review and possibly the poster for each movie).
Another idea: You could look into enabling automatic upgrade through the WP admin area like so many plug-ins have now.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
it’s just what i want.
thanks…
August 14th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
@Hannes: it has to do with your template (the function call is put in the wrong place). The plugin produces valid html. TODO list updated.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Any news on the problem with the movie number limitation in the sidebar? My list is growing from week to week and I still couldn’t figure how to limit the number of shown reviews.. As I’ve stated before the number just gets ignored when I implement the code as a widget..
September 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Hey there Paul. I want to make a separate list for movies not yet seen. I’m not sure how I do that, I use only the [[wp_movie_ratings_page]] code. How do I make the list for the not rated films?
And, is there any chance to display the list in sidebar without changing the sidebar.php file, and only use the text-widget?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Oh, and I just got an idea. Would it be possible to somehow link it to the imdb Top 250 list? I mean, the list changes almost every day, but the plug-in would update once a day. You could put some ticker or something that shows the place the movie is on the 250 list.
It would also be pretty sweet if you could add the feature that you could have like a “imdb top 250 project” to see all the movies on the list. You know were I’m going?
October 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
@Maggi: to make the page listing only the unrated movies you need to edit the php code of the appropriate template and call the
wp_movie_ratings_show()function with:only_not_ratedand:page_modeparameters. Now as for other ideas, sure they sound good…October 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hi, sorry to bother again.. Just wondering if I’m the only one who doesn’t get the limit of the shown movie reviews in the sidebar right. I’ve used the correct implementation but when I want to use the sidebar as a widget it just ignores my limit and shows the complete list. Would be so great if someone could help. Thanks!
October 27th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I have installed it in my side bar, but the rating stars are covering the title of the film. Its a great idea - well done!
October 27th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
@Rick: you have to turn on the sidebar mode. Look in the settings.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Excellent plugin! I’m gonna use it with the new theme I’m building. Thanks.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
One of the best plugins for Wordpress.. Well done mate!
just a little problem;
I updated my wordpress to 2.7-beta 1 and now everytime I rate something using the bookmarklet it says I need to login.. is this because of the 2.7 beta? can it be resolved?
November 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
@Jase: it might have something to do with 2.7… I’ll fix it after 2.7 is released (if the problem still persists by then).
November 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Excellent, can’t wait!
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:13 am
I can only update the first 20 movies…. How can one edit all of them when needed?
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 am
Well I see that you can edit any movie from the movie review page one creates but that is very cumbersome. Just let us edit all the movies in the admin section. Anyway, this plug in could also be adapted to keep a list of funny thoughts. Almost like a twitter but listings only from you.
November 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
hi paul, any beta version where the bookmarklet is working?!
December 8th, 2008 at 10:29 am
hello.
I am trying to use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/footer-javascript/ but your plugin doesn’t comply. would you be interested in checking this article and maybe change your plugin slightly? http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/best-practice-for-adding-javascript-code-to-wordpress-plugin
December 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am
@ovidiu: I might take a look at that at some point (probably around WP2.7).
December 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Does this plugin work with wordpress 2.7?
December 9th, 2008 at 10:49 am
@Paul + Niklas: thx. am running wp 2.7 since the first betas, your plugin works just fine. Would really appreciate if you continue the development.
December 9th, 2008 at 10:57 am
for an example of it running on wp 2.7RC1 click on my name. Btw. woudl you mind sending out updates-info by email? i.e. with this plugin? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-commenters/ Its pretty hard to follow up, I have to come to this page, every month and check for a new version
December 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Thanks
December 11th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
btw. how is your progress? there is now a similar plugin, lacking the review function, but extracting more info from IMDB: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imdb-link-transformer/
December 15th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I’m having problems with 2.7:
Error: movie rating not added. Perhaps you are not logged in? although I am logged in. I can’t rate anything right now.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Fix for 2.7: The structure of the admin-pages is slightly changed in WP 2.7. To fix this, open the file ‘add_movie.js’, and on line #87 change this:
../../../wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp_movie_ratings.php
to:
../../../wp-admin/tools.php?page=wp_movie_ratings.php
That worked for me.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I haven’t been able to add a movie review through the bookmarklet since upgrading to WP 2.7
I tried Stian’s fix (edit.php -> tools.php) but I still get “Error: movie rating not added. Perhaps you are not logged in?” when I try to submit a review.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Hannes: You may have to force a refresh when you open the bookmarklet-window after the edit. I had to.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I ran into the same ‘not logged in’ error. The Stian workaround needed some modification for me.
Modification to the add_movie.js:
- Copied and commented line 87
// var myAjax = new Ajax.Request(’../../../wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp_movie_ratings_management’, { method: ‘post’, parameters: pars, onComplete: show_response })
Changed the copied line to:
var myAjax = new Ajax.Request(’../../../wp-admin/tools.php?page=wp_movie_ratings_management’, { method: ‘post’, parameters: pars, onComplete: show_response })
Basically changed the edit.php part to tools.php
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Hi Paul,
I got your (beta) update and installed it. It works, but:
In the old version the post (movie display), and page option of displaying movies worked correctly. In the new version both the page and post no. of entries are the same. So if you want 100 entries on your page AND you have a ‘post’ entry diplaying a couple of movies this will also result in a ‘post’ of 100 items.
Hope it makes sense.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:50 am
Hi Paul
I have a 2.7 problem I think. I use the plug-in to display only the films currently showing in my region which means manually deleting films from the database when they are no longer screening locally. Because of the 20 film limit on the “Manage Movies” admin page I used the edit option from the front page to get to the correct entry so I could delete it.
Now whenever I click edit I only get a blank “Add a new rating” option instead of the entry I am trying to delete - something isn’t being passed through.
Best option for me would be an option to show the full database at the “Manage Movies” screen (or a search function).
I hope you get to look at this after the holidays.
best regards,
DS
January 5th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I got pretty much the same problem as Dan ^^ but after i changed the “edit.php” in every file of the plugin, it passes everything through to the edit-page..
Problem though..
deleting files/movies doesn’t work..
Editing movies doesn’t work either :/
January 9th, 2009 at 8:12 am
What about double checking? I found this one doesn’t check the DB before posting a rating. You can post unlimited numbers of rating of the same movie. It should be there.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@Omi Azad: It’s intentional, so you could watch & rate the same movie twice and if you have a multi-user blog different users could rate the same movie.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
hello Paul,
I just noticed that this plugin, makes my site slow. I analized my blogs performance with this plugin: http://blogs.icta.net/plugins/wptuner
maybe, if you are interested, you could analize your own plugin with this wptuner and optimize it? It adds a noticeable amount of miliseconds to my blogs load time. Analize your blog with movie ratigns activated and then without and you’ll see the difference.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Thanks for the plugin. Its just what I was looking for!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
@Paul Goscicki
Then you can put an option on the control panel, if I like to check for duplicate entries or not.
While clicking on the movie titles from the front end, it should take me to IMDB page on a new window or tab, this function should be useful.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:03 am
movie ratings seems to add 9 db calls on any given page of my blog
- unfortunately I am no programmer so I can’t offer any solutions, just wanted to remark that here.
January 24th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
hey. just wanted to let you guys know that if you only want a simple showing of your latest ratings on IMDB you can use my dapper service, http://www.lasseman.se/2009/01/01/imdb-movie-ratings-in-wordpress/
January 25th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
This is a super plugin. But would it be too much to beg for it to be made blogspot-able? Or does anyone know of a similar plugin for blogger?
thanks
January 26th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Got the same ‘not logged in’ error. Tried every trick listed on this site. Can’t get it to work with bookmarklet, otherwise it’s working fine. Anyone have a solution?
January 30th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hi Paul - thank you for this plugin.
My question concerns editing entries.
I am using WP 2.7 and wp_movie_ratings 1.5.
1) I do not have a separate link/tab within my WP admin for managing/editing movies, only one link “Movies” under Tools for adding new movies and one link “Movies” under Settings which goes to the options/preferences page.
2) When I click on the Edit link for a specific movie in my list (in the generated list of movies), the href is
http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp_movie_ratings_management&action=edit&id=136or whatever movie entry number,but is redirected to
http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=wp_movie_ratings_management, which presents the Add new movie rating screen, not the editing entry screen.(This last URL is the one used while I’m in the Add new movie screen in WP admin, which gives a list of 20 most recently added movies to edit.)
Any thoughts on what to try to get the Edit link in the generated list to work, to actually go to the specific movie’s entry for editing?
Your help is very much appreciated!
February 1st, 2009 at 10:19 am
I too have the ‘not logged in’ error. Paul, you might be occupied by other work, but it would be greatly appreciated if you could put out a new version which is compatible with 2.7. If not for me, do it for your other hundreds of users. Thanks in advance.
February 13th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Hi: Thanks for this plug-in. This is probably a dumb question but it only allows reviews written by the blog owner. Is this correct? I am looking for one that allows my website visitors to post a review. Can someone let me know if this is possible with this plug-in? Thank you.
February 13th, 2009 at 11:49 am
@Maria: this is correct. If you’d like your users to be able to review movies you’d need to add them to wordpress and give them some kind of administration rights.
February 14th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
thanks for sending me the update, Paul. works great.
February 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
For everybody who likes to create a custom RSS feed for this plugin (before it officially becomes available by it) I managed to create a simple one. If you like, take a look at the code template I created (as a plugin which must be installed one level up of this plugin, probably inside wordpress plugins root directory). You can take a look at its code here:
http://www.gozir.com/1387/11/28/wp-movie-ratings/#more-1404
You should modify it and adapt it to your own weblog configurations.
February 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I too get the “not logged in” error and am using Wordpress 2.7.1.
Could you send me that update Josdigital was speaking about, please?
Would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
March 6th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Hello.
First of all thank for this great plugin.
How to i make the movie link to imdb open in a new window?
Thanks.
March 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Niklas,
you have to change line 389 in movie.class.php from
$o .= "<a class=\"url fn\" href=\"";to
$o .= "<a class=\"url fn\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"";March 9th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Paul –
Is there any sort of timeline on when 2.0 will be released?
March 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Joe: not really…
March 11th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
To anyone interested, you can find the latest version of the plugin in my github repository.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Hi Paul
First of all, awesome plugin. It’s excellent for people like me who love to watch any possible movie!
I had a question:
In my blog, where do I add the sidebar widget line so that it takes the CSS style of the widget? It’s not taking the style of the widgets and the text starts from the far left of the sidebar. Any way to get around that?
I am sure it’s very easy… I am not web-designing-literate enough to figure it out
March 24th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
@Kokonad: This plugin does not come as a widget and as such it can sometimes take some CSS styles from your theme. You just need to add some CSS rules to make it work with your theme.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hi!
I was wondering, is it possible to have more than one instance of your plugin?
What I would like to do is split the list by genre as in having a list for Horror movies and another one for SciFi instead of having one global list. I have over 1500 movies and having a single list sin’t really all that great.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Can only admin add movies?
April 21st, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@Alain: that’s not possible. On a side note so far I’ve rated 940 movies and see no problem with that.
@Kenneth: correct.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Hey Paul –
Still using and still loving the plugin. I’m using WP2.7.1 w/ WP MR 1.5.1 and it’s great. I’m eagerly awaiting 2.0 and looking forward to seeing a multi-user version.
Hope all is going well and I will continue to watch for updates.
Cheers –
– Joe
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:36 am
I have problem with date format in the plugin. It display month in english, not Swedish as rest of WordPress does. I’m not shure on what to change in the plugin so it displays month in Swedish. What exactly do I change and to what?
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
With good help from Asbjørn I have fixed the problem with translating the name of the month to any local language. In the version 1.5 just open “wp_movie_ratings.php” and change line 354 - 374, see http://www.kennethjansson.net/movierate.htm for the code
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 am
An idea, just if you can do it:
It would be excellent if in description mode you could add a small version of the movie poster [from IMDB of course]. What do you say?
Thanks for the plugin. Here is mine - I added few modifications myself
http://www.iamchris.info/filme-vazute/ [romanian language]
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:19 am
@Cristian: it’s in the TODO list…
June 4th, 2009 at 8:39 am
@Paul - great
June 6th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Hey Paul, Artem here again.
Upgraded to the latest git version just now - everything is working but the saving process takes ages - like a minute for some reason, even though the movie appears in the db instantly. Bad Ajax somewhere?
June 6th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@Artem: Yeah, I’m seeing it too. I blamed my host, but it seems that I need to blame Wordpress now.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Paul, also re: ” # DROP THE UNIQUE INDEX (imdb_url_short) created in versions prior to 1.4 of this plugin so we have no problems while adding titles without imdb link”.
That is a pretty bad idea - I just found that I rated 3 movies twice. All you need to do to ensure titles without imdb_url_short get added and not duped is to allow NULL default value on that column. NULLs are not considered dupes in MySQL.
June 7th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@Artem: I want to rate my movies twice. Triple times too. For those movies that I watch more than once I really like to know how I rated them before and now.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
OK, Paul, makes sense kind of. In that case, it should warn you that you’ve already rated that movie. Does that sound fair?
June 7th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
@Artem: hmm… maybe. But it would probably only worked from the admin panel. I’ll write it down to do it some time.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Paul, you can send off an ajax request as soon as the user fills out the imdb info, then you can show the movie name right away, as well as do the check. Would make the plugin sleeker too.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
@Artem: Truth is the admin panel is not really the right way to use the plugin. Bookmarklet is the way to go. Anyway, let’s move to email if you’d like to continue the discussion.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:01 am
I noticed one comment about the translation of the name of months to any local language. However here suggested solution is not perfect. It’s would be better to use Wodpress localization functionality. The code would be something like that:
__(date(”F”), mktime(…));
June 11th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@Artem: the deplay when adding a new movie rating or editing existing one has been eliminated (it was pinging the pingerati.net which is no more). Latest version on github.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:03 am
hello Paul,
which is not a complaint, please don’t take offense.
I just wanted to ask how the development of your plugin is coming along? I have been using it for more than 1 year, and I see no progress on your to-do list
I jsut wanted to suggest another feature, as I found in the “now reading” plugin which deals with books as your plugin deals with movies. Its a feature to link a book/review to a post. this way, you wouldn’t have to incorporate that many features into your plugin, we could just link to a post that has a ful review of the movie including pictures and trailers?
Btw. is the reason for the slowness of the development the lack of time? I mean could we speed up things by donating?
July 1st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
@ovidiu: the problem is a little bit more complicated. The plugin in its current form satisfies my needs. PHP is ‘not my thing’ any more. I despise it. Same goes for Wordpress as I find it way too bloated (and limited when it comes to plugins). Some $$ could help, but the userbase is too small to make any real $$ out of it, I think. I was (and still am) thinking about some hosted solution as a natural upgrade from wp_movie_ratings. It would allow you to have widget on your blog (like twitter/last.fm/etc.), listing your latest ratings, but your movies database would be kept on my server (just as it happens for last.fm/twitter). But there are existing solutions like this already out, plus I don’t see it as a viable business, so the development is kind of stalled.
I will maintain it to keep compatibility, though, so no worries here.
On the other hand you can always fork on github and send patches.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:32 pm
@Paul: thanks for the statement, at least we know roughly what is happening
offtopic: if you don’t like WP and PHP anymore, what have you moved to? just out of curiosity…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
@ovidiu: Ruby/Rails, of course.
July 1st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
@paul:
btw. is there any cms or blogging system out there that runs on ruby/rails? Haven’t got much experience with that, just asking 
and I am not asking from a developer’s perspective but from a consumer’s perspective 
should have thought about that
July 1st, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@ovidiu: There’s Typo, but from customer’s perspective Wordpress is the best, so I would stay with that. If you don’t mind, let’s switch to email, it’s offtopic now.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
ok, no problem, and jsut on a side note, here is a how-to generate a movie database without a special plugin: excellent results! http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/04/using-custom-taxonomies-to-create-a-movie-database