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GD Rating System · Version history

GD Rating System changelog and version history

Latest version
3.7.2
Oct 1, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
45
since 2015
In the last year
3
about one every 79 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.2
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20154 releases
  • 20168 releases
  • 20176 releases
  • 20184 releases
  • 20193 releases
  • 202011 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20231 release
  • 20243 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. GD Rating System 3.7.2Latest

  2. GD Rating System 3.7.1

  3. GD Rating System 3.7

20243 releases

  1. GD Rating System 3.6.2

  2. GD Rating System 3.6.1

  3. GD Rating System 3.6

20231 release

  1. GD Rating System 3.5.1

    • New: fully tested and compatible with WordPress up to 6.4
    • New: plugin is tested and compatible with the PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3
    • Edit: escaping IP for display in a votes list and dashboard widget
    • Edit: rewritten functions for getting and validating IP
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.16
    • Fix: stored script vulnerability related to IP field

20221 release

  1. GD Rating System 3.5

    • New: tested with WordPress 6.0
    • New: rich snippets: added missing microdata code for Software Application
    • Edit: rich snippets: some minor optimization in the snippets code
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.14
    • Fix: rich snippets: minor issue with the snippet engine loading

20211 release

  1. GD Rating System 3.4

    • New: system requirements: PHP 7.0 or newer
    • New: system requirements: WordPress 5.0 or newer
    • New: shortcodes builder: option to change the displayed rating value
    • New: all shortcodes expanded with the ‘rating’ attribute
    • New: all widgets expanded with the ‘rating’ attribute
    • New: additional class to handle admin grids loading
    • Removed: addon with support for Shortcake UI plugin
    • Removed: few more unused/obsolete functions or methods
    • Fix: items per page not saving for the admin grids
    • Fix: problem with the admin database grid listing
    • Fix: issue with the function used to get quick items stats
    • Fix: minor issue in the dashboard votes widget listing

202011 releases

  1. GD Rating System 3.3.1

    • New: font icons class has conversion of the char formats
    • New: call to action rendering added to many default templates
    • Fix: in some cases single rating block max value not valid
    • Fix: distribution not properly initialized for new items
    • Fix: distribution division by zero when item has no votes
    • Fix: distribution for stars rating not properly saved
    • Fix: quick database query for counts calculation issue
    • Fix: stars badge rendering fails for the default font icons

  2. GD Rating System 3.3

    • New: rebuilt the default font icons with the woff2 support
    • New: generate the embedded version of the default font
    • New: default font now has font-display property set to auto
    • New: full code refactoring for the WordPress coding style
    • New: all methods include item type based args/calc filters
    • Edit: improvements to some of the admin side interface elements
    • Edit: few improvements to the votes handling for all methods
    • Edit: various updates to the code organization and structure
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.13
    • Fix: rich snippets: minor issue with the application based snippets
    • Fix: votes log: missing meta data for log items breaking some addons
    • Fix: maintenance: problem with saving stars rating distribution
    • Fix: new install shows the upgrade notice with maintenance mode

  3. GD Rating System 3.2

    • New: fully tested and compatible with WordPress 5.5
    • New: class for handling of preloading for rating data
    • New: huge performance improvements for plugin dashboard
    • New: huge performance improvements with loop based rating integrations
    • New: preload: support for comments loop
    • New: preload: preload posts from the supplied or global WP_Query
    • New: preload: preload posts from the list of post ids
    • New: preload: preload items from the list of item ids
    • New: preload: preload items for item types and real ids
    • New: comments addon: option to control preload
    • New: dashboard widget: show item title and link if available
    • Edit: plugin dashboard: optimized loading of the votes widget
    • Edit: rewritten several of the database class methods
    • Edit: few minor changes to the database tables schema
    • Edit: various small quality of code improvements
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.12
    • Fix: rating items retrieval doesn’t check if rating method is loaded
    • Fix: transfer panel script was not loading due to bad URL used

  4. GD Rating System 3.1.3

    • Fix: rich snippets: product offer not saved properly if price is 0
    • Fix: rich snippets: product offer with price 0 not properly displayed

  5. GD Rating System 3.1.2

    • Fix: rich snippets: metabox JavaScript not loaded
    • Fix: rich snippets: metabox selections not working
    • Fix: few issues with metabox elements styling

  6. GD Rating System 3.1.1

    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.10
    • Fix: problem with using cookie validation values for anonymous visitors

  7. GD Rating System 3.1

    • New: shortcodes builder
    • New: rich snippets: custom snippet type (JSON-LD format)
    • New: rich snippets: expanded default settings for post types
    • New: rich snippets: option to use GMT based dates if available
    • New: rich snippets: tools to remove and reset default settings for posts
    • New: posts: rewritten detection method for use of the_content filter
    • New: posts: includes excerpt detection logic to avoid excerpt related issues
    • New: function to properly handle mysql date conversion with or without GMT
    • Edit: rich snippets: updated context help and removed some outdated information
    • Edit: shortcodes: improvements to the attributes values cleanup
    • Edit: few minor changes to the frontend styling and rendering
    • Edit: various small styling improvements and changes
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.9
    • Fix: posts: in some cases output rendered inside the head area
    • Fix: posts: conflicts related to some SEO plugins
    • Fix: shortcodes: few issues with conditional shortcodes
    • Fix: widgets: showing options for the features that are not available in Lite edition
    • Fix: small issues with cleaning up the shortcode object attributes
    • Fix: in some cases results for comments based queries can be empty
    • Fix: various small styling issues with the rating lists results
    • Fix: like this balloon theme styling in the results list
    • Fix: few instances of using wrong method call signature

  8. GD Rating System 3.0.3

    • Edit: rich snippets: product snippet not rendered if rating is missing
    • Fix: rich snippets: rendering empty snippet in some cases
    • Fix: stars rating: display of rating blocks with RTL orientation
    • Fix: import tool not showing proper failed import message
    • Fix: broken tool for exporting plugin settings
    • Fix: few potential PHP warnings related to some of the tools

  9. GD Rating System 3.0.2

    • Fix: rich snippets: not showing rating for some snippet types
    • Fix: rich snippets: setting the review option value in meta table

  10. GD Rating System 3.0.1

    • Edit: db columns for method, series and ip set to 64 characters
    • Edit: db columns for action and status set to 32 characters
    • Edit: db columns for module set to 16 characters

  11. GD Rating System 3.0

    • New: various new features transferred from the Pro version
    • New: like this rating method transferred from the Pro version
    • New: rich snippets addon: transferred from the Pro version
    • New: database table: for storing item basic rating data
    • New: database queries: largely rewritten for the new database schema
    • New: performance: improvements due to the new database schema
    • New: performance: more in memory temporary cache for various operations
    • New: rating item object: mostly rewritten and expanded
    • New: rating methods: additional registration features arguments
    • New: rating templates: show only own rating for stars rating
    • New: js and css files: enqueue expanded with the registration of files
    • New: js and css files: additional improvements to registration and queue use
    • New: js and css files: big improvements in the way files are loaded on request
    • New: voting security: throttle voting requests protection method
    • New: ajax request handler: unified and expanded error processing
    • New: shortcodes: has_voted to, has_voted_auto, has_not_voted, has_not_voted_auto
    • New: shortcake addon: support for new shortcodes
    • New: rich snippets addon: tool to mass update some snippets settings
    • New: rich snippets addon: tool to remove legacy snippets data
    • Edit: posts and comments addons: expanded with features from Pro version
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.8.8
    • Fix: various fixes transferred and applied from the Pro version

20193 releases

  1. GD Rating System 2.7.1

    • Edit: d4pLib 2.7.7
    • Fix: problem with rendering of the user vote in rating block
    • Fix: issue with language initialization on plugin load
    • Fix: few minor issues with undefined variables
    • Fix: votes log potential error when the post type is not registered
    • Fix: small problem with the method to find and load template

  2. GD Rating System 2.7

    • New: all items operations now check for entity/name validity
    • New: all metaboxes handling now check for entity/name validity
    • New: database: adding items now check for entity/name validity
    • New: database: prevent outside code from adding new rating items
    • Edit: database: method for adding new item set changed to private
    • Edit: database: additional sanitation of the input numeric arrays
    • Edit: database: additional absint() conversion for ID based queries
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.6.1
    • Fix: potential vector for injecting bogus rating items in database
    • Fix: missing sanitation for some input data expected as arrays
    • Fix: database object internal calls not use $this in every case

  3. GD Rating System 2.6

    • New: stars rating method: quick revote option
    • New: stars rating method: option to disable rating
    • New: shortcodes: option to disable rating for stars rating method
    • New: shortcodes: rating value for method and any item
    • New: shortcodes: rating value for method and current item
    • New: shortcake addon: option to disable rating for stars rating method
    • New: shortcake addon: support for rating value shortcodes
    • Edit: rating javascript: replaced jQuery .bind with .on
    • Edit: improved minification of all CSS stylesheets
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.5.4
    • Fix: template path debug information not using debug on/off check

20184 releases

  1. GD Rating System 2.5

    • New: widget: special unique Developer ID option
    • New: feeds addon: skip ratings for the XMLRPC requests
    • New: rating item data objects now have method to get author ID
    • Edit: minor updates to the metabox handler functions
    • Edit: few updates to widget settings organization
    • Edit: various improvements to the plugin core classes
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.3.4
    • Fix: posts sorting: problem with negative ratings order
    • Fix: comments sorting: problem with negative ratings order
    • Fix: problem with the rating labels translations
    • Fix: several strings missing from the POT translations file

  2. GD Rating System 2.4

    • New: dynamic load: visitor and user loading settings
    • New: tools: convert all votes log IP’s into MD5 hashed strings
    • New: stars rating: filter inside the calculation methods before save
    • New: stars rating: args/calc filters for each item in the list loop
    • New: stars rating: completely rewritten single default templates
    • New: stars rating: new list loop default templates – list and table
    • New: stars rating: new render classes methods and filters
    • New: stars rating: more settings for the rendering methods
    • New: stars rating: new list loop default templates – list and table
    • New: list templates now display item thumbnails if available
    • New: posts addon: filter for the priority for the_content
    • New: comments addon: filter for the priority for comment_text
    • New: centralized method for setting user agent for votes
    • New: store IP’s in votes log as MD5 hashed strings
    • New: dedicated function to get user agent if it is set
    • New: all item objects now have thumbnails functions
    • New: all item objects use filters to modify returned data
    • New: all widgets are logging currently used widget
    • New: all shortcodes are logging currently used shortcodes
    • New: render process is logging currently used template
    • New: completely rewritten template loading process
    • New: render process is logging currently used template
    • New: completely rewritten default templates for all methods
    • New: function to get current rendering template
    • New: function to get current plugin widget
    • New: function to get current plugin shortcode
    • Edit: dynamic load: various improvements and optimizations
    • Edit: various improvements to single and list engines
    • Edit: few improvements to the rating item objects
    • Edit: old Default templates are now Classic templates

  3. GD Rating System 2.3.2

    • Fix: missing proper sanitation for some grid filters variables

  4. GD Rating System 2.3.1

    • New Translation: German (de_DE) language
    • New: ajax handler actions for various processing errors
    • New: ajax handler uses improved validation for request data
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.2.4
    • Fix: xss vulnerability: query string panel was not sanitized
    • Fix: xss vulnerability: panel variable for some pages was not verified

20176 releases

  1. GD Rating System 2.3

    • New: core loop object for easier templates control
    • New: additional abstract classes for some plugin objects
    • New: dynamic load addon: performance optimizations
    • New: dynamic load addon: render multiple blocks at once
    • New: transfer: option to control records to process per call
    • New: transfer: various improvements to the transfer script
    • New: stars rating: accessibility for the rating block
    • New: additional abstract classes for some plugin objects
    • New: all templates modified to use new loop object
    • New: base widget class with improved code sharing
    • New: database table: for storing cached data
    • New: database cache handling object
    • New: posts sorting: added parameter for minimal rating
    • New: comments sorting: added parameter for minimal rating
    • Edit: stars rating: various rendering improvements
    • Edit: stars rating: various JavaScript improvements
    • Edit: changed order of the plugin initialization on admin side
    • Edit: posts sorting: various minor updates
    • Edit: comments sorting: various minor updates
    • Edit: improvements to the rating method load classes
    • Edit: various improvements to the votes and rating logs
    • Edit: d4pLib 2.2.1
    • Fix: dynamic load addon: problems with addon initialization
    • Fix: posts sorting: problem with the ASC sort order
    • Fix: lists rendering: missing default query elements
    • Fix: lists rendering: shows ratings for deleted posts
    • Fix: user rating object: init problem for non-logged visitors
    • Fix: query object: problem with limit and offset arguments
    • Fix: query object: problem with filtering the taxonomy entities

  2. GD Rating System 2.2

    • New: dynamic load: filter to control loading
    • New: admin interface is now fully accessible
    • New: widgets tabbed interface using ARIA markup
    • Edit: widgets interface using proper HTML input types
    • Edit: main rating query object perfromance improvements
    • Edit: improvements with the font handling widget settings
    • Edit: various improvements to the plugin core
    • Edit: d4pLib 1.9.6
    • Fix: stars rating: division by zero error when removing votes
    • Fix: widgets font settings problems with some rating methods
    • Fix: problem with custom settings rule loading
    • Fix: small issue with the global post set to null

  3. GD Rating System 2.1.1

    • Edit: d4pLib 1.9.0.1
    • Fix: custom settings rules get deleted on plugin update
    • Fix: minor issue in the function to load templates

  4. GD Rating System 2.1

    • New: stars rating: hidden input field and passive mode
    • New: rating item: method to get all data for a method
    • New: filter to register additional widgets
    • New: filter to provide extra templates storage locations
    • New: filters for getting external methods templates
    • New: font base class updated to support new rating methods
    • New: more actions and filters in the main JavaScript file
    • Edit: posts: improved inserting of the rating block
    • Edit: all main form files preventing direct loading
    • Edit: improved rating item data validation
    • Edit: improved validation for the post rating rendering function
    • Edit: minor improvements to data validation for all methods
    • Edit: additional optimization for main JavaScript file
    • Edit: code optimization for several core classes
    • Edit: many improvements to the main CSS stylesheet
    • Edit: various small improvements to admin side panels
    • Edit: d4pLib 1.9
    • Fix: XSS security issue with the log.php form file
    • Fix: posts addon: triggered by home page queries in some cases
    • Fix: main log item meta database method missing unserialization
    • Fix: few problems with badge/symbol rendering
    • Fix: php warning in the rich snippet addon

  5. GD Rating System 2.0.2

  6. GD Rating System 2.0.1

20168 releases

  1. GD Rating System 2.0

  2. GD Rating System 1.4

  3. GD Rating System 1.3.1

  4. GD Rating System 1.3

  5. GD Rating System 1.2

  6. GD Rating System 1.1.1

  7. GD Rating System 1.1

  8. GD Rating System 1.0.3

20154 releases

  1. GD Rating System 1.0.2.1

  2. GD Rating System 1.0.2

  3. GD Rating System 1.0.1

  4. GD Rating System 1.0

Questions about GD Rating System’s releases

What is the latest version of GD Rating System?

3.7.2, released on Oct 1, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.2 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is GD Rating System updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 79 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2015.

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