Extravote is a very popular and useful 5 star rating plugin to rate an article. So, if a page contains multiple content items, it will display mulitple times on a page and works great. We can also use this plugin in third party extensions. But, there is a major issue with this plugin which has not been considered by developers.
About the issue : Just click on a star to give your rating for an article. Your vote will be counted and system will display message "Thanks for voting". If you try to vote again, system will display message "You have already voted". But, with this message, total vote will be decreased by 1. It will be corrected only when you refresh the page. If you are the first one to vote an article, you will notice that, after repeating the vote second time, you will get the message "You have already voted" and total vote become 0. I have consider the issue and debug the code. Since, this plugin is using AJAX for whole functionality, value passed to the javascript function don't change. Finally, I have change the way of implementation and it woks without any issue.
I have not only fix this issue, also enhanced its functionality.
About the issue : Just click on a star to give your rating for an article. Your vote will be counted and system will display message "Thanks for voting". If you try to vote again, system will display message "You have already voted". But, with this message, total vote will be decreased by 1. It will be corrected only when you refresh the page. If you are the first one to vote an article, you will notice that, after repeating the vote second time, you will get the message "You have already voted" and total vote become 0. I have consider the issue and debug the code. Since, this plugin is using AJAX for whole functionality, value passed to the javascript function don't change. Finally, I have change the way of implementation and it woks without any issue.
I have not only fix this issue, also enhanced its functionality.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious, about the way you cahnged it.
Can you explain how you did it?
Thanks!
Joana
Sure, I will update this post with the full description of my change in extravote plugin.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joana.
Where can I get your changed plugin ?
ReplyDeletePlease tell about the plugin where would i got it....
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