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Five Star Reviews

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Since I have begun listing some of the books I have read or am reading on the site I thought it would be fun to add review "stars" to the site but without wanting to really put the code in to do reviews. So I went hunting for a "review" plugin for wordpress and of course I found one

However, there were two problems with it that I felt needed to be addressed. First, the images didn't have any kind of alt text and secondly the plugin pointed at some lame ratings images that come with wordpress. The alt text issue was pretty easy to fix once I had decided on some decent ratings graphics. Now, since all of my books reviews point to the books at amazon.com I didn't figure they would care if I used their "star" images. With that decision in place I made the minor alterations to the plugin, uploaded it, tested it out, and BAM! everything seems to be working fine.

Download the plugin and read the about.txt file for installation instructions. All credit remains with Roy Tanck of http://www.this-play.nl who created the plugin that I just modified.