Help customising :)

  • rivmedia

    (@rivmedia)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Lester

    I’m trying to customise how the plugin displays, but I’ve ran into a bit a problem I don’t know how to fix 🙂

    In the comments template instead of using :

    <?php if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); } ?>

    I want to use this :

    <?php global $current_user, $post;
 $user_comment_count = get_comments(array('user_id' => $current_user->ID, 'post_id'=>$post->ID) ); ?>

<?php if($user_comment_count) { 
	echo '<h2>Thank you for your review,  please leave a star rating.</h2>';
   the_ratings();  
} else {
	echo' <h2>Leave a review first you may then give a star rating.</h2>'; 
    comment_form(array('class_submit'=>'button'));
} 
?>

    Which basically hides the rating, until a comment has been made. This works just fine and as expected, however when doing this, the JSON-LD doesnt output and so when using the https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/

    It doesnt show any schema, if i revert back to the original code it works fine.

    Please could you advise where im going wrong.

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  • Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Yes, it is by design, the plugin only outputs the markup when in a loop and not in the comment section/template.

    There are just too many possibilities on where to place the code, I need to make the plugin as generic as possible and hence the decision.

    You can manually output the markup if you wish. Feel free to refer to how I do here it https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/blob/master/wp-postratings.php#L1160-L1221

    This is the furthest I can help you with as I don’t provide support for plugin customization =)

    Thread Starter rivmedia

    (@rivmedia)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for that reply Lester,

    I did see it was designed for the main loop. But I can’t understand why your code :

    <?php if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); } ?>

    Works exactly how we want it to, in exactly the same location. But our code :

    <?php global $current_user, $post;
 $user_comment_count = get_comments(array('user_id' => $current_user->ID, 'post_id'=>$post->ID) ); ?>

<?php if($user_comment_count) { 
	echo '<h2>Thank you for your review,  please leave a star rating.</h2>';
   the_ratings();  
} else {
	echo' <h2>Leave a review first you may then give a star rating.</h2>'; 
    comment_form(array('class_submit'=>'button'));
} 
?>

    Doesn’t work, I actually think its something in our code which is missing rather than being a loop problem ? We’ve also tested our code in the main loop and have the same problem. I was hoping you could see something obvious as to why its not working.

    Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    You can check the condition here https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/blob/master/wp-postratings.php#L1159

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