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How do I insert a review box into my post/page?
Currently this plugin has no graphical assist, so you have to manually type the shortcode directly within your text as such:
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easyreview
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How do I create my own custom star icons?
Right now you have to add custom icons to the /icons folder in the "Easy Review" plugin. Its easy to do but be careful that downloading updates to this plugin may remove them.
To create an icon set called "myfav" you must create three .png files as follows:
myfav_full.png
myfav_half.png
myfav_empty.pngNow whenever you wish to use them, in your shortcut enter:
icon="myfav"If you make a good set and want to share them, please send them to us and we will include them in the default set!
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I get the following message in my posts: "EASY REVIEW BUILDER SHORTCODE ERROR"
Your shortcode has an illegal parameter, or perhaps a new line. Make sure the shortcode is in one single line. It can wrap of course, but sometimes editors place implicit breaks... these become HTML codes under the covers and confuses the shortcode parser.
This message was created to help identify when these situations were occuring. If your problems continue, please contact us.
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How can I support your plugin?
Right now there are three support options that would be much appreciated
1) Purchase our RSS news reader for the iphone: Flitter! app store link
2) Advertise our Flitter! iPhone app on your site. You can use the graphics right off of this site's main page or contact us if you want something custom.
3) Donate via PayPal. The sidebar on your right over there has a paypal donation button.
This list is in no particular order, whatever you choose would be wonderful to us!
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I still get the "EASY REVIEW BUILDER SHORTCODE ERROR" and I know I have entered everything correctly!
It is rare, but you also may have a plugin that replaces key phrases in your blog with HTML markup codes (such as a dictionary or ad plugin). The plugin in question MAY be performing this prior to wordpress shortcode parsing. If this is the case you can replace a single letter of the phrase you want in the shortcode with a percent character followed by the HEX ASCII code from this table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_characters
This will prevent the plugin from matching its keywords, and allow our shortcode to show the correct text.
If your problems continue, please contact us. Could be a bug in our stuff you know!
On November 14, 2009,
in Easy Review Builder,
by support
FAQ for the Easy Review Builder plugin
Hi!
I got really interested in the plugin that you have on this page with the hand rating on the side of each question. Can you tell me please wich plugin is this one or if that is a lugin at all?
Thank you,
Mathias
Well I certainly don’t mind giving them a plug:
http://faq-tastic.com/
Great plugin.
Hi,
i tried to use different icon set. but, where to insert this in the shortcode? icon=”star1″ etc?
Please provide a sample website containing all the sample short codes
Yes Jon you are correct. The main ERB page lists all of the provided icon sets. Ill repost it here for maintaining the conversation thread:
icon (optional)
Example : “star”
Description: Which star icon set to use. There are currently four icon sets: star, star2, gear, and bluestar. You can make your own but currently they must reside in the icons folder of the plugin. Email us any sets you make that you would like to be available in the default set.
So if you wanted to use a different icon set you specify the name of the set. Using the faq entry on this page you can create your own set. The set name comes from the prefix of the icon file names themselves. I.e. to make a set called “myset” you would place three png files called:
myset_empty.png
myset_half.png
myset_full.png
Just one more comment:
It does not matter where in the list of shortcode arguments you use icon=”bluestar” (or whatever icon set you are using). If you think you are experiencing a bug let me know.
In general you can specify the shortcode arguments in any order.
Hey, is it possible to just have these as numerical values, and is there a way to “upgrade” the maximum score from 5 to 10? Thanks for the awesome plugin. Also, are there any plans to database these for a review database?
You can change the number of stars by using the ratingmax argument (in this case, ratingmax=”10″).
Not sure what you mean by numerical values, you mean why you can’t do ratingmax=10?
The plans for erb are first to get a gui for entering/editing reviews. Then if I can work in lightweight database support, that is a good next step.
Is it possible to have a different picture show up depending on the rating… i.e. a person holding up one finger, two fingers, and so on…
Thanks!
No, but thats a good idea. How would you do a fraction though? 🙂
Lots of work on the plate right now, but an update to the plugin is planned. Ill think about some icon variations like that.
Thanks. I was just going to use whole number ratings and no fractions so I wasn’t even considering fractions.
any instructions on how to put directly into the template files?
I am trying to figure out how to make this so when I either pick a review category it will auto populate with the review fields I want or maybe when I pick a post template it would do the same. I am having some trouble. I don’t feel like copy and pasting the code every time I do a review. That would just be annoying.
how to add below my image box…on this website..
http://www.apartmentdesignco.com/2010/books/alchemy-arts-by-kate-mackay
just as on
http://www.designpublic.com/shop/inhabit/14520
product description..
Hi, thanks for a useful plugin.
Is it possible to style the output to not occupy the full width of the column it is in. I would like a smaller box that text could flow around – maybe even by conversion to a graphic – something similar to what you have at the top of the column.
Also wondering why catXdetail is required. I can set it to a blank string, but why force it if I just want something like Sound: 4 Video:4.5
Thanks
I am trying to use this plugin on a table. I would like to have an independent review for each row of the table. How can I do this?
Please use the forum for support questions (or suggestions). Please re-ask if we missed your question, this will make it easier to track:
http://www.dyerware.com/forum
-dyerware