Something similar to the Amazon feedback system? I vote for this too, it's very helpful for future buyers know they're purchasing from trusted sellers.
I will see if I can get some information from the development team during our meeting next week as to whether or not they have considered doing something like this, and perhaps if we will see anything in the future.. Will update the thread when I have more info. Thanks.
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I just implemented this on my site (although it's in a basic version right now). Essentially as it stands, you can leave feedback for a user in comment form only, and there is a link to the user's feedback from each post. I'm hoping to add more abilities this weekend : positive/negative ratings, and make sure that only people who have traded (it's a barter site) with each user can leave feedback.
You have to do a few things, but it works well.
1. Install the plugin CMS Press and create a "feedback" custom post type. No extra taxonomies needed. Change the Permalink Structure to "%identifier%/%postname%/".
2. Unzip the attached .zip file.
3. Put member_fb_post.php into your /wp-content/plugins folder and activate it.
4. Put feedback.php into your /themes/classipress/ folder.
5. Put comments-feedback.php into your /themes/classipress/ folder.
Unfortunately, for each user that you already have you will have to manually add a new Feedback post with the title of the user needing feedback. From there, just add a link wherever you want to the get to the feedback.
For example, I the following code to the sidebar-ad.php to add a link:
<li><span><?php _e('View or write feedback for:','cp');?></span>
<a href="<?php echo get_option( 'siteurl' ). "/feedback/" . strtolower(get_the_author_meta('user_login')); ?>"><?php the_author_meta('display_name'); ?></a>
</li>
If i had a user already sign up with the name "example" I'd have to go add a "feedback" post with the postname "example."
Thats a great start and really look forward to seeing how you develop this functionality over the weekend. Only giving users that have actually traded the ability to leave feedback is essential. As is positive / negative reviews that visitors can see at a glance. My site is the standard CP site where the users would have to arrange and enact a transaction outside of the website (no in built payment system). I wonder if that'll be a problem getting this to work on my website....
Look forward to your development of this! Wish I could code and pitch in
sounds cool, i like the idea, gotta tell you its not gonna be in 3.1, there is just only so much we can cram into the release, i'll tag a ticket for this feature, but your going to need to get more people to vote in this thread, 10 people asking for a feature doesn't warrant a feature compared to 100 people who have asked for others.
~ Seth Carstens, Sethmatics Inc.
