Some ideas for the plugin

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Didn't want to create a separate thread for all of these, but I've been playing around for a couple days now (loving it). Here are a few ideas that I jotted down while tinkering;

1. When generating reviews, ability to select default/random male/female avatars.

2. Note somewhere in the instructions or in the config screens that you MUST give categories/create them before generating the random reviews.

3. I have seen some "too many open files" errors after installing this plugin, increasing the number of FCGI children with LigHTTPD, and changing the max childs from 1000 to 100 seemed to fix it right up. Just fyi.

4. Might be nice to have an "overall" rating template tag as well, that takes an average either of a category (passed as a template tag variable) or the average of the reviews on a given item. This could be used to create a super short and simple list "name rating: ****" kind of thing.

5. When posting new items from CSV, might be nice to also include a directory for random image selection. So, if you were doing a review site on toothpaste lets say, you'd have a directory with 100 random pictures of tooth paste related stuff, that'd be available as a template tag for wfreview, or just automagically inserted into the posts or something.

That's it for now, i'll be happy to elaborate or help with whatever I can.

[nickmattern]

These are some good suggestions. We'll look into the open files issue. What host are you with?

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I have my own colo'd box, running vmware.

If you'd like me to try anything in the VM let me know.

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Couple more after a few more days playing.

- The license file should probably be called "domain.lic" or "domain.txt" or something, when wordpress is upgraded, unless you change the permissions on license.txt it gets overwritten, causing the plugin to die.

- I noticed that I can create two templates of the same name (template1 and template1 both show up in the dropdown). Would be handy to have a delete option here. Or maybe even a rename theme option too so we could edit them later if required without using myadmin.

- I was thinking maybe in the left menu for the plugin, that the "Generate" should be the last item in the list, because it's last in the logical flow of the app (you have to add posts, before reviews).

That's it for now :p

thanks,
oa

[nickmattern]

Couple more after a few more days playing.

- The license file should probably be called "domain.lic" or "domain.txt" or something, when wordpress is upgraded, unless you change the permissions on license.txt it gets overwritten, causing the plugin to die.

- I noticed that I can create two templates of the same name (template1 and template1 both show up in the dropdown). Would be handy to have a delete option here. Or maybe even a rename theme option too so we could edit them later if required without using myadmin.

- I was thinking maybe in the left menu for the plugin, that the "Generate" should be the last item in the list, because it's last in the logical flow of the app (you have to add posts, before reviews).

That's it for now :p

thanks,
oa

Good catch on the license, we'll make that change in the next release.
The template name, yea, I know about that one, run into that myself. It's on the list of bugfixes for v.2
The order of items/operations isn't quite right, you're correct, we'll fix that in the next release.

Send me an I-9 and a W4, we'll put you on staff as a quality assurance guru! lol. Thanks for the input!

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haha, it's in the mail :p

seriously though, no problem, just keep me in mind when you guys win the wordpress plugin of the year award :>