Vote It Up 1.2.2 (emergency update)

by multippt on June 26, 2009

Sev­eral issues have been found with a revi­sion of Vote It Up (ver­sion 1.2.0). A new ver­sion of the plu­gin has been released at Wordpress.org. Ver­sion 1.2.2 patches some of these exist­ing problems.

Note: This plu­gin is NOT yet com­pat­i­ble with auto-update. Updat­ing this plu­gin with the auto-update in Word­press may cause some issues.

Ver­sion 1.2.2 specif­i­cally addresses the fol­low­ing issues:

1. Guest vot­ing problem

A prob­lem has been iden­ti­fied that will pre­vent guests from vot­ing once another per­son has casted a vote. This affects users using ver­sion 1.2.0 and the new data­base ver­sion (3000). Ver­sion 1.2.2 fixes this prob­lem and guests can now cast votes normally.

2. Loss of votes when using plu­gin auto-update

Vote It Up does not sup­port the auto-update fea­ture from Word­press yet. For­tu­nately, Vote It Up pro­vides a back up sys­tem for votes in the event that the data­base upgrade failed, hence no votes were lost. Ver­sion 1.2.2 adds a roll-back but­ton (acces­si­ble via plu­gin options) that forces the plu­gin to use the older data­base instead of the new and blank one gen­er­ated by auto-update. You will obtain your orig­i­nal votes by click­ing on the roll back link.

Using an older ver­sion of Vote It Up may restore your votes as well.

3. User reg­is­ter notice

The plu­gin no longer embeds a hid­den layer in a page’s footer if the user chose to enable guest voting.

I apol­o­gize for any incon­ve­nienced caused as a result of the lat­est update to the plugin.

Regards,

Nicholas Kwan

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

Dan Coulter July 3, 2009 at 11:04 pm

I just upgraded to this from an older ver­sion (with the old DB schema) and things stopped work­ing. After some hunt­ing I found these issues:

In votingfunctions.php:
Line 53: “wp_voteiu_data” is explic­itly used. Using a dif­fer­ent table pre­fix breaks the query.
Lines 427, 428, 437, 438: Each query in those lines are miss­ing an “AND” in the WHERE clause.

Also, in the SortVotes func­tion, you’re using a bunch of calls to mysql_connect, when you have the $wpdb object right there that you could call through.

The line num­bers are in the released ver­sion of 1.2.2.

ivery July 16, 2009 at 3:47 am

Thank you for update but I want to known how I can use my old data in pre­vi­ous ver­sion.
becuase I upgrade to 1.2.2 and I lost all vote (reset to 0)

dmackerman July 26, 2009 at 4:49 pm

How do I enable 2-way vot­ing? I can’t find it any­where in the settings!

Thanks,
Dave

Heidi July 27, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Thanks so much for mak­ing these changes. I was tear­ing my hair out!

Rien August 2, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Hi, I’ve just upgraded to 1.2.2 from 1.1.1. Some posts seem to have much less votes than before. Did the upgrade remove any dupli­cate votes?

sdshoppe August 12, 2009 at 4:22 pm

What’s the ver­sion 1.2.3 listed on word­press? That ver­sion is not men­tioned on this site.

joy August 13, 2009 at 6:09 am

thanks nicholas for this update

Joy Phillip August 21, 2009 at 12:35 am

Okay, I’ve moved my site twice and changed all the lit­tle tags all over my site to point to the cor­rect loca­tion, except for Vote It Up. It seems to want to pull URLs from two moves ago. I have the wid­get in the footer to show you what I mean. The first one is pulled from my most recent URL, the ones below that how­ever are all from two moves ago.

I have this also on the admin page for the era­sure of the votes. I’ve updated to 1.2.2 and this is still hap­pen­ing. Help.

Zack August 24, 2009 at 6:38 pm

won­der­ing if my ques­tion will ever get answered! lol…
Thanks for the plugin.…

What im try­ing to do is rather than have the posts voted on, i installed this plu­gin…
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/alkivia/

and am try­ing to hae the vote counter on the pro­file page for each per­son…
when u out the code into the pro­file page it counts 1 vote for all the users… how cna i change it so that each user is a dif­fer­ent id?

scott August 25, 2009 at 1:58 am

How do I remove the vote box from my “Pages” ? I only want it on my posts.

Ben S September 8, 2009 at 10:29 am

Hi,

I sent an email to your address: Ready725 @ gmail.com — regard­ing the IE7 error — when using the per­cent option.

Are you able to get back to me please if it’s not too much trouble.

Thank you.

juani September 11, 2009 at 8:51 pm

hey man, i can’t get this plu­gin to work at all. i’m run­ning word­press ver­sion 2.8.4 and vote-it-up ver­sion 1.2.2

i place this tag on the single.php file, and when i click either of the but­tons, i get no reponse nor notice…

tried plac­ing the plu­gin files on folder “vote-it-up” and “voteitup”, and still can’t get it to work…

dropfood October 12, 2009 at 4:34 pm

tricker theme dosen’t work in ie.
the posts blow are hid­den after voted

Robbie October 18, 2009 at 9:44 pm

PLEASE HELP:
I’ve down­loaded Vote it Up, but am hav­ing some issues. Please see my dev site: http://www.robbietilton.com

Cur­rently, I can NOT cast a vote. An error is occur­ring and the page isn’t rec­og­niz­ing that guests are ALLOWED to vote.

If you scroll to the bot­tom of the page you can see the error message.

Please let me know if you can help. I’ve down­loaded the most recent ver­sion found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vote-it-up/ –but this says ver­sion 1.1.1 instead of 1.2.2 which many of you men­tioned you were able to download.

I really want to get this ver­sion work­ing. I also checked my php­MyAd­min and all the SQL is work­ing properly.

R November 13, 2009 at 4:28 am

Hi,

This fea­ture is not working:

It give me this error:
You have an error in your SQL syn­tax; check the man­ual that cor­re­sponds to your MySQL server ver­sion for the right syn­tax to use near ’ ”, ”, ”, ”)’ at line 1

How can I get this to sim­ply dis­play the vote count for a post?

Thanks!

Tak November 13, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Fresh install 2.8.6 and fresh 1.2.2 plug-in

or

Returns:
Notice: Unde­fined vari­able: post_ID in /home/public_html/classipress/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 28
Notice: Unde­fined vari­able: post_ID in /home/public_html/classipress/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 29

Every time this plug in is updated some­thing else breaks or no longer func­tions. Time I paid for it to be done prop­erly, as it stands, this is just get­ting worse and worse, your forums dead and the doc­u­men­ta­tion for this plu­gin seems to be use­less now. You even have 1.2.3 on wordpress.org yet this is the lat­est? dude wtf.

Tak November 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm

GetVotes($post_ID) etc does not work, errors above.

Damien November 14, 2009 at 11:06 am

Using lat­est ver­sion cant get the vote count to show with GetVotes($post_ID) I just have 0 or what­ever I add in the admin for the Ini­tial vote count. Doubt the other calls will work then either, only the vote but­ton works.

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