Feb 24

Rate My Stuff

Author: s1n
Category: 01100011, Zero-blog

I’ve been surfing around a few plugins that will hopefully enhance zero-blog. The first one that caught my eye was Rate My Stuff. It provides a quick and easy way to give a graphical rating. It’s actually pretty decent. I had to modify the images to work better with non-white backgrounds (apparently, this has become the in-thing). I changed the empty, half, and solid images to have transparent backgrounds. I also had to add support in the core file for the “Final Verdict” image that I yanked from the example page.

You can check out my Katamari review with the new star rating system.


3 comments

3 Comments so far

  1. Dave February 25th, 2006 10:14 am

    Glad you like the plugin. :)

    The “Final Verdict” text, along with the other images of the same style, are actually <h3> elements that are parsed at display time by WordPress and dynamically created using GDFont Renderer. It’s actually a really cool tool. The post titles are rendered the same way.

    Thanks again for the kudos. I’m glad people find it useful.

    Take care,
    -dave

  2. s1n February 25th, 2006 3:58 pm

    I’m working on a change to better fit my tastes, and perhaps you can work this into your PHP core code. I’ll post an update to this blog with more details when I get it done.

  3. Dave February 27th, 2006 8:07 pm

    Sure, the more eyes the better! Just shoot me an e-mail or ping me when it’s published and I’ll take a look at it.

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