Saturday, March 30, 2013

Subscriptions

Graddit is launching paid subscriptions for ratings widget: http://www.graddit.com/eng/prices.

What are the plans and what is the difference

  • Free. Fully functional widget, ratings popup can display ads. Ratings popup looks like this:
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  • Basic. 5 000 displays without ads daily; after that ads will be enabled; price is $3 per month;
  • Pro. 50 000 displays without ads daily; after that ads will be enabled; price is $10 per month;
  • Ultimate. 500 000 displays without ads daily; after that ads will be enabled; price is $25 per month;

There also will be functionality enabled for subscribers only.

Currently subscriptions can only be paid with Paypal. If you would like pay some other way or need higher limits please send your offers to sales@graddit.com.

"I like" widget for blogs

    Now you can get heart "I like" widget for your blog? Open Graddit widgets, select Like widget on the left hand side and Platform on the right. "Generic" code would be good for single post, for example: I like
or:
    Actually, you can use any symbols and images with this widget.
    If you want it to show on each post automatically you need to select Blogger platform and follow instructions here. Instructions for Tumblr can be found here.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Non-blocking ratings widget load

    Sometimes ratings widget can take significant time to load, up to several seconds depending on connection speed and performance of the servers handling request. That leads to bad user experience, site looks stuck. And while battle over Graddit servers performce is not over you can still help your blog yourself. You can load widgets without blocking the whole page, in order to do that go to http://www.graddit.com/ratings-widget, tick "Non-blocking" checkbox and replace your old code with a new one. As stated in the hint there don't forget that it relies on jQuery, so this library should be included (preferably in <head> section of your template).