Comments on: Voting Record

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:52:39 +0000

Interestingly some of the changes that you made (like adding abstained and absent) were things I had considered doing myself. As for helping with the search issue – I’m happy to help, but I think I need more information – if I had a URL to see what you were talking about it would help.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:48:33 +0000

PERFECT Thanks!

I wanted to change the language a bit because the site I run is for a school board trustee and they don’t use terms like “bill” or “yea”/”nay”. So I changed “Bill” to “Motion”, “yea” to “Voted in Favour”, “nay” to “Voted Against”, I added “Abstained” and “Absent” because on occasion the trustee will do either of those. Finally, I changed “pass” and “fail” to passed tense (“passed” and “failed” so it made a bit more sense.

I LOVE this plugin and think its great you created it, it is the only one I’ve seen out there. And I also like the flexibility of the display output.

One last question I had is, I am trying to put the search on the same page as the static info (if that makes sense) but when I do that the search doesn’t work. Well actually I’ not sure the search is working at all… can you please help?

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:45:45 +0000

The problem is in the database structure – I limited that field to 10 characters (never considered “Voted in Favor” or “Voted Against”). The solution is to change the “create table” statement in the “install_vr” function. Just change the size of the varchar on the vote column to whatever size you need. You will also have to comment out two lines (they normally prevent the function from running if the table already exists) One is “if($wpdb->get_var(“show tables like ‘$table_name’”) != $table_name) {” and the other closes that if statement (it’s a “}” on the line after “add_option(“vr_db_version”, $vr_db_version);”). (If this is not clear enough just let me know and I will email you “before” and “after” screen shots.)

Thanks for using the plugin and making it better.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:27:32 +0000

I too think this is a great Plugin. It works fine for me, my only problem is I needed to make manual changes to the titles. “Nay” to “Voted Against” and “Yea” to “Voted in Favour”, etc…

The problem I am having is getting it to display more then “Voted in F”… it cuts of “Favour”. I tried searching the php document to see if there were size restrictions and couldn’t find any.

Any advice?

By: David

David — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:05:05 +0000

I’ll bet that you have to open the “screen options” and check the box to display “Record Votes”

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:49 +0000

Thanks David for such a quick reply. When I go there it says “Manage Recorded Votes” and the rest is empty. I use the Atahualpa 3.3.3 theme. Isn’t there also a widget where visitors can record votes?

Thanks again!

By: David

David — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:51:05 +0000

The form to record votes is in your Wordpress Admin panel.

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:34:27 +0000

I like very much the concept of your plugin, but I cannot find how to record votes. Is it there a widget? After installing the plugin I do not see any new widget on my widget list.

Help is appreciated!

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:26:08 +0000

I’m happy to share.

By: baron

baron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:04:35 +0000

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards