After hours and hours of searching, reading, shouting, tweaking, and breaking code, I’ve taken matters into my own hands and managed to fix the Starred Review plugin that appears on the right hand side of the site. Usually this is something that the developer of the plugin would do. After much complaining to him to update his plugin to address new security issues with WordPress, he went ahead and released an upgrade from version 1.3 to 1.4.
Unfortunately, the upgrade didn’t resolve the problem. So I gave myself the frustrating assignment to follow in the long line of people who take open source code from others, and modify it to make it better (or work at all), and then share it with the others who were just as frustrated with their broken plugin as I was.
So for now, enjoy the condensed and updated starred reviews on the side of this site, along with links to my full length reviews. Now I suppose my next task is to add a feature to the plugin that allows for randomization of the starred reviews, rather than just the 5 most recent reviews.
#1 by adam rrrrrrr on September 10, 2009 - 4:01 pm
there is no way you can give FD43D half a star and yet Transformers ROTF 3 stars. It just doesn’t make sense on any kind of practical level
#2 by prince john b on September 10, 2009 - 5:48 pm
“blogging while working i see?”