Strange.

I suppose if you changed the order of the plugin it would show up under it.

Please try the attached plugin and let me know if that works for you.

how to i change the order of the plugins?

i've tried your attachment but it does not load into vbulletin (maybe because now i have 3.8?)

thanks

Hello Helpful Answers users!

Version 1.5.3 has been released which adds two new features:

First you will now have the option to disable ratings in the first post of a thread as they are often questions and rating does not make sense.

Secondly thanks to contributions by two Maidos and Simon Lloyd I've added thumbs up & down AND positive or negative rating images. By default the thumbs icons will now be used but you can change back to text through your options settings.

To upgrade:

Simply upload the files in the folder upload/images/button to your site and install the new plugin file. No changes have been made to the php files.

thnx for the good work

I have released version 1.5.5 which fixes a very small bug with the extensions for plus & minus icons. To upgrade simply upload the new plugin file. No other changes have been made.

Users not using plus and minus images do not need to upgrade.

What would it take to allow guests to vote on threads?

There's a fair amount involved in allowing guest voting as the tracking methodology all has to change. Right now we use the userid to see who voted; with guest voting you have to consider IPs, Cookies and possibly the user agent. This has to be updated in a few places (adding a vote, checking for a dup vote, showing the vote link, etc...). Beyond that there's just a few tweaks to let guests get access to the feature and in reporting.

This is definitely not something I see adding to the addon in the near future as an option (options require everything to be turned on and off which adds to more statements and more code to process) but if you were adding this directly it wouldn't be too difficult.

Today I released 1.7.0 stable.

This update incorporates two small changes adding a last vote column to the top helpful posts page and linking top helpful posts to their full thread to put them in context.

More importantly however 1.7.0 marks the end of the 1.6.x beta series which has been up for a few weeks.

With 1.7 there's a complete change in how post vote summaries are stored (summaries contain the total votes, good votes and last vote time). This change moves away from using the main post table and adds a new table just for helpful answers. For most sites this won't mark a notable difference but for larger sites it will reduce load and limit the number of edits to the post table.

1.7.0 is designed to convert anyone from 1.5.x without notable impact but if you do find yourself missing votes simply run the script ha_revote.php as found in the tools & samples post and your vote history will be resynced.

I look forward to hearing all of your suggestions and comments for 1.8!

Hi Ted

I finally got around to installing this on my 3.7 board.

Just a quickie, is it possible to simply change the rating system so that all it shows is the thumbs up/down buttons, along with the number of thumbs ups or downs the post has had next to them?

At the mo it takes up too much space and all that text is not needed as most people know thumbs rating systems these days. If I can do this via template edits - great! Just let me know which templates I need to change :)

Thanks for a cool plug-in!