I solved my problem. I needed to change the parameter “votes” to “thumbs”. I also found it worked better to show the results in a descending order. Here is the working URL: http://uhurusoftware.com/category/contest/?gdsr_sort=thumbs&gdsr_order=des
First 2 results on googling for “gd star rating sort posts by rating’ are: How to Sort Post by Gd Star Rating Mirror How to reorder posts Mirror Few examples: query_posts(“gdsr_sort=rating”); query_posts(“gdsr_sort=review&sort_order=asc”); query_posts(“gdsr_sort=rating&gdsr_multi=3”); query_posts(“gdsr_sort=votes&sort_order=asc&gdsr_multi=3”);
If you are talking about using GD star rating in a theme file like single.php or page.php you can use a shortcode like so: <div class=”rateit”><?php echo do_shortcode(‘[starrater tpl=10]’); ?></div> You can choose which shortcode to use in the panel of “create new post”… youll find it in the toolbar. . if you are talking … Read more
From this page, you can see that gdsr_vote_rating_article is the hook you need – it gets called when a post rating is saved.
add GD Star Rating’s to buddypress comments [closed]
There is an option for this in the article rating settings. I was using thumbs so hadn’t spotted it.