Try out our new rating widget!
We have been playing around with a new rating widget for the past few weeks here at PollDaddy HQ and we reckon its time to give it a public showing. Before I continue, this is very much a beta feature and there will be the inevitable few bugs cropping up so its not just ready for prime time yet. When you log into your PollDaddy account you should see a new option in the account menu for ‘Ratings’. Here you can create a couple of different types of rating widgets as shown below…
You can create a star rating…
and you can also create a nero style rating…
As with all of our widgets, the ratings will be fully customizable to suit your needs. You can find a full low down on how all of this is going to work over on…
http://support.polldaddy.com/2009/07/01/rating-widgets/
We really need your help in making this a useful tool so please send any comments, suggestions or bugs to our support folks.
Lenny
PollDaddy.com
I like this widget. The only thing is that if we wanted to use this, say on every post in one of our blogs, we’d have to create a new widget every time. It would be nice if you could easily create instances of the same widget just by copying and pasting code.
Anyhow, keep up the good work!
David
Hi David,
No problem. You can use the same rating widget for all of your blog posts. Just ensure that you give each instance a different unique_id in the embed code. If you are using WordPress then we have a plugin coming in the next week or so that will manage all of this for you.
What kind of blog do you have? Is it WordPress? Can you send me a link to a page you tried to get it running on?
I’m thrilled to see this feature. I know PollDaddy will do a great job with this. Before I implement this on my site, can you give me an idea of if there will be costs involved, maybe in the future? Are there plans to impose limitations or include PollDaddy branding on the ratings widget?
Lenny,
Any chance you’ll do it for anything else like Drupal or Joomla, or just WP?
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@Chris. We dont have any plans for Joomla at the moment but we do have an API. You could build your own plugin for Joomla?
@Scott the basic featureset you see there will remain free.
I run a WPMU+Buddypress community. I believe that there are free plugins available (like Wp-Postratings) that work well with this setup. Can you mention what additional features your rating plugin for wordpress would provide?
@kunal Wp-Postratings is a super plugin, and has some different features to ours. I think ours might be visually more customizable and we will be working to add more new features over time.
Are you going to release a Flash method besides Javascript and WordPress?
hi…it’s great..but…
It does not support Greek language…
is there any way to bypass this problem?
I like and would use it. But I think you should give an option to not show how many times something was rating and maybe just show a percentage if you want…