theme Theme customization: showing number of likes and / or dislikes

[Tech Support]

Rating in KVS is a number from 0 to 5 due to historical reasons. Initially it was a 5-star rating where users could vote not just as "like" or "dislike", but also use other rating values.

In modern themes almost everybody is using likes or dislikes. So do KVS themes. However internally the rating is still calculated as a plain number, where "like" is a 5-star vote and "dislike" is a 0-star vote. By default rating is displayed as % amount of likes using this code:

Inside list block (means for each video / album / model / etc. in the list):

{{assign var="rating" value="`$item.rating/5*100`"}}
{{if $rating>100}}{{assign var="rating" value="100"}}{{/if}}
{{$rating}}%

 

Inside view block:

{{assign var="rating" value="`$data.rating/5*100`"}}
{{if $rating>100}}{{assign var="rating" value="100"}}{{/if}}
{{$rating}}%

 

If you want to change this with the number of likes and dislikes, or show them additionally to % rating, you can use this code:

Inside list block (means for each video / album / model / etc. in the list):

{{assign var="likes" value=0}}
{{assign var="dislikes" value=0}}
{{if $item.rating>0}}
{{assign var="likes" value=$item.rating*$item.rating_amount/5|replace:",":"."|round}}
{{assign var="dislikes" value=$item.rating_amount-$likes}}
{{/if}}
{{$likes}} likes and {{$dislikes}} dislikes

 

Inside view block:

{{assign var="likes" value=0}}
{{assign var="dislikes" value=0}}
{{if $data.rating>0}}
{{assign var="likes" value=$data.rating*$data.rating_amount/5|replace:",":"."|round}}
{{assign var="dislikes" value=$data.rating_amount-$likes}}
{{/if}}
{{$likes}} likes and {{$dislikes}} dislikes

 

[Tanjiro]

I see user can't change like or dislike once they chose, it's said "IP already voted" . How to fix that ?

Edited March 19 by Tanjiro

[Tech Support]

5 hours ago, Tanjiro said:

I see user can't change like or dislike once they chose, it's said "IP already voted" . How to fix that ?

This is not possible in KVS. We will probably fix that when come to migrating rating to the nextgen architecture, for now it is still using the old code.

[Tanjiro]

On 3/19/2023 at 6:48 PM, Tech Support said:

This is not possible in KVS. We will probably fix that when come to migrating rating to the nextgen architecture, for now it is still using the old code.

I hope you can include feature that can change up vote/down vote in comment section too in next update

Edited March 21 by Tanjiro

[Tech Support]

5 hours ago, Tanjiro said:

I hope you can include feature that can change up vote/down vote in comment section too in next update

For now it is not about the next update, but yes, when we come to moving rating \ comments to the nextgen API, we will solve all questions and issues that have been collected during the long time for these topics.