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figma12 · 08-02-2009, 04:35 PM

Greetings!

I am significantly new in the area and thus am experiencing some problems. Basically, what I want to do is develop a plugin, whihc combines the following features.

Voting/rating comments, along with viewing thresholds.
I would also like to add votes for anons and if possible for it to be server-friendly.

I have located some Wrdpress plugins, but so far to no avail. Help is very much appreciated.

elven_rangers · 08-02-2009, 06:25 PM

Unfortunately here the best help you can expect are some pointers, so I will give you some:

1. Study the wordpress website. There are a couple of links there to a thorough documentation of the Wordpress API. Learn the API and practice your PHP skills with it.

2. Study any voting/rating plugin you can find, there are quite a few out there. You can start from the concepts you find in them about how they treat votes and comments, mysql table structures, etc. There's no 'recipe' for a plugin, just try to design it as a user would (eg: I come on a page, I would like to be able to click here, give a comment and 5 stars, then enter a captcha text and save - so design a html template with these elements, then the php script to treat and save the input, it's not that hard)

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figma12 Status: Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1	Help with Wordpress Plugins? Greetings! I am significantly new in the area and thus am experiencing some problems. Basically, what I want to do is develop a plugin, whihc combines the following features. Voting/rating comments, along with viewing thresholds. I would also like to add votes for anons and if possible for it to be server-friendly. I have located some Wrdpress plugins, but so far to no avail. Help is very much appreciated.

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08-02-2009, 06:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
elven_rangers Status: Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2	Unfortunately here the best help you can expect are some pointers, so I will give you some: 1. Study the wordpress website. There are a couple of links there to a thorough documentation of the Wordpress API. Learn the API and practice your PHP skills with it. 2. Study any voting/rating plugin you can find, there are quite a few out there. You can start from the concepts you find in them about how they treat votes and comments, mysql table structures, etc. There's no 'recipe' for a plugin, just try to design it as a user would (eg: I come on a page, I would like to be able to click here, give a comment and 5 stars, then enter a captcha text and save - so design a html template with these elements, then the php script to treat and save the input, it's not that hard)