VOTItaly Plugin

The "VOTItaly" Plugin by JOOMItaly is the evolution of the default Joomla! voting/rating system. The plugin is an eye-candy "star rater", which uses AJAX technology to seemlessly process your visitor votes on your articles (content items) without reloading the page. It's probably the coolest way to add voting functionality to your Joomla! website.


UPDATE 27/08/2009: released version 1.2. Some of the major changes:

* The plugin allow now to limit the rating submission to only registered users.
* The plugin can accept periodical rating submissions from registered users (the interval is configurable in the plugin preferences).
* New languages compatibility added (da-DK, el-GR, pt-BR, sv-SE).


UPDATE 06/01/2009: released version 1.1. Some of the major changes:

* The plugin makes now valid XHTML 1.1 content.
* Full customizable content rating description.
* Fixes an Internal Server Error (e500) problems with some servers.
* New languages compatibility added (de-DE, es-ES, fa-IR, nl-NL, pl-PL, ru-RU, zh-CN, zh-TW).


UPDATE 01/07/2009: released version 1.0:

* First stable version of the "VOTItaly" Plugin released.

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bysoylapinta on November 7, 2009
A simple plugin that beautifies and extends Joomla rating system.

There is a couple of solutions in the creators forum for positioning and controlling repeated votes.

Some other reviewers report that it doesn't work with JoomlaComment. It does have a little problem with one of the 6 templates (MT, from mootools) of JoomlaComment, but it is easy to solve turning off the "Include javascript library" in the comments backend or just using a different template.
byzed2009 on November 5, 2009
i loved this plugin.. but it conflicted with my Simple Image Gallery plugin & i have a whole section on my website dedicated to my galleries so it was quite disappointing.

nevertheless this is a beautiful plugin, it works flawlessly after installation, didn't even need to configure a thing!
This plugin beautifully replaces the stock Joomla ratings circles with stars - which is what you would EXPECT to see in a ratings system in the first place! In addition, the parameters you can set in this extension include making it so that an IP address can vote only once, or can vote once every 24 hours, or you can choose from several other intervals. The rating that appears includes not only stars, but shows the average of all of the votes thus far ("1.7 out of 5", for example). And yes, the AJAX is very cool looking, too. I rate this extension five STARS. And to the developer: thank you VERY much for an excellent contribution to the Joomla community - you are to be commended.
byp30CodeNevis on September 21, 2009
A great component. Ajax, Cool and Fast.
Special thanks to the developer.
byveector on August 13, 2009
I wanted a replacement for Joomla's rating system. This is exactly the kind of plugin that will get used on any site I enable ratings on.

Extremely well done.
bymarkp17 on August 12, 2009
excellent

would be nice to be able to add a break between the ratings and the main text on page, mine seems to be very close..

other than that excellent ...easy to use and install
bykaeldaven on July 14, 2009
Very impressed with this module, simple but perfect. It does in fact replace the ugly standard joomla bubbles and replaces it with the beautiful stars. It is ajax and updates in real time. Love the module thanks!
byhackberry on July 13, 2009
1 minute install, great documentation, no problems, no questions and it looks great.

Nice job
byRoway on July 5, 2009
Works great! No Problems, and great documentation.
byDaydah on June 15, 2009
This does what it says it does. straight out of the box. Great!
Keep up the good work people!
byfacaptain on May 22, 2009
I downloaded, installed, configured and got this plugin working in under 3 minutes!

It was easy to setup and configure - nothing to configure really except disable the default content rating system.

I was worried that it would not work because I was using !JoomlaComment, and someone else commented that the combination did not work for them. Well, it worked for me. No problems.

Nice work guys!!
Great work, guys! The ajax-based star ratings are a nice improvement to the little bubble things that the J! core uses...classy. ;)
byhamanaka on March 18, 2009
wish there was more abilities to make adjustments
Hello there, i am currently trying to use the VOTItaly plugin and it has been installed and everything yet i am unsure of how to get it to display on my frontend. I am having the same problem with every vote/rating plugin i try to install to the page. Should it automatically be visible to the content? or is there something else that needs to be set in order for it to be seen on specific content?

Your help is much appreciated.
byteomant on December 29, 2008
Great little plugin, but it lacks to show zero votes as stars. So on category, section or front pages some articles shows voting stars but no stars if there are no votes. I wish you can customize it like on plugin "extravote"
byanjaanaadmi on November 30, 2008
I had been scouring the web for a good star rating system. Even built myt own using JS+AJAX. But this one is smooth and good.

Keep up the good work, fellas!
byBonkster on November 8, 2008
I really like this plugin. Don't forget to disable the deafult joomla rating plugin called: Content - Rating, otherwise you will get the default rating + this rating plugin above your article!

If you would like to change the language, just edit the en-GB.plg_content_ji_votitaly.ini file in you admin/languages/en-gb folder!
bylightningbit on November 5, 2008
One of the nicest looking rating (or starring) plugins.
I would use this on all my joomlasites .... if it worked on all of them ...

But sadly there seems to be an issue or conflict with Joomlacomment?
On pages where the Joomlacomponent is active, it does not seem to work.

No issues at all on my sites without Joomlacomment!

I hope it gets fixed, because I would like to use this one over all other rating/starring plugins
byandrewlaird on November 4, 2008
Follow 3 simple steps and it works straight out of the box. Well done VOTItaly team! This definitely gets my vote of a 10/10
Toni
byAndrejaz on September 27, 2008
Best ratings plugin, but it misses some very important features. Like - how many stars to display, different stars templates. I hope we will see these features in the next release.
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