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A comment on the problem "Outbrain rating only shows up at the first post" in outbrain:

Albert- while troubleshooting the problem we removed some of your blog settings. It’s fixed now and the rater is positioned correctly.
Sorry for the inconvenience. – DanielG, on May 06, 2009 04:30

DanielG set one of DanielG's replies as an official response to "Outbrain rating only shows up at the first post" in outbrain

DanielG replied on May 05, 2009 22:36 to the problem "Outbrain rating only shows up at the first post" in outbrain:

We had a System Upgrade on Sunday and apparently there was a “small” downgrade that caused up to only show at the first post in some situations.

We found the problem and published a fix.
To make sure you see the fix use CTRL+F5 to force browser refresh and you should see the rater on all posts.

Thanks for you patience and for letting us know the severity of the problem!

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG posted an update in outbrain on March 22, 2009 07:23:

System Upgrade- 22/03/09

We are in the process of upgrading our system.
The process might affect the system performance for a few hours, so please let us know if you encounter any problems.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team

DanielG posted an update in outbrain on February 18, 2009 07:09:

System Upgrade- 18/02/09

We are in the process of upgrading our system.
The process might affect the system performance for a few hours, so please let us know if you encounter any problems.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team

DanielG replied on February 01, 2009 07:15 to the question "Put rating under title" in outbrain:

HI looksfunny,

I am sorry it didn't do the trick...:(
It could be something to do with the settings you had before the code change.
We will do some more tests and get back to you, once we reach a conclusion.

Again, i am sorry for inconvenience.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG replied on January 29, 2009 06:06 to the question "Put rating under title" in outbrain:

Hi looksfunny,

The 'Ratings Position' setting in the site may be a little confusing because it has no affect on a wordpress blog.
To set the rater on top i suggest you try the following (requires editing the outbrain plug-in code):

1. Log in to your wordpress admin
2. Go to plugins page
3. Locate the outbrain plug-in, and click Edit (right side of the screen)
4. Replace this line:
add_filter('the_content' , 'outbrain_display');
with this one:
add_filter('the_title' , 'outbrain_display');
5. Click ‘Update file’.
6. Check the rater out!
Note: The outbrian plugin file must have write permissions, so In case you can't see Edit in the plugin page next to outbrain plugin OR the ‘Update file’ button isn’t visible then that would indicate that it's read-only.
To change it the actual outbrain plug-in file is located in wp-content/plugins/outbrain/outbrain.php under the wordpress directory.

I hope it solves your problem. Let me know how it goes.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG replied on January 28, 2009 13:02 to the question "I've changed my blogger URL to a .com domain but now all ratings have cleared." in outbrain:

Hi Chris,

Sorry for not answering you...:(

I have moved all your old rating to the new domain URL and fixed the titles for the posts.

Again, sorry for the late response and thanks for your patience.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team

DanielG replied on January 25, 2009 08:19 to the question "I've changed my blogger URL to a .com domain but now all ratings have cleared." in outbrain:

Hi Chris,

First congrats on the new domain...;-)
Second, Changing your domain name (from our perspective) mean that it’s different posts since we identify them by the post URL.
We do have a way to fix it by moving the rating from the previous posts URL to the new ones.

Drop me a mail to with the new blog url, to- danielg[at]outbrain[dot]com and we will continue from there.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

A comment on the question "'Most Popular Posts' has blog name besides the post name for one of the suggestions..." in outbrain:

No worries...;-) a feed usually contains the latest 10 posts. A post is no longer in the feed once there are newer posts to show, by that time we would have already crawled the feed! – DanielG, on January 12, 2009 06:06

DanielG replied to "remove rating widget for specific posts", but it was removed. see the change log

A comment on the question "'Most Popular Posts' has blog name besides the post name for one of the suggestions..." in outbrain:

Please excuse my spelling... obviously it's fixed and not foxed...;-) – DanielG, on January 11, 2009 07:27

DanielG replied on January 11, 2009 06:31 to the question "Outbrain Top Ratings Widget can't display on my blog" in outbrain:

Hi Cow,

We fixed it on our end, you and your readers can now enjoy the Top Rated posts!

Sorry for the inconvenience. Let me know if there is anything else you need.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG replied on January 11, 2009 05:41 to the question "To many empty place?!" in outbrain:

Hi luqe09,

I apologize for not responding in time...
Looking at your blog i see that you have removed outbrain widget ...:(

Anyway, if this was the reason for taking the widget off, it's something we can easily solve (which makes not answering you even worse).

Again I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Let me know if you want to the rater another shoot.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG set one of DanielG's replies as an official response to "'Most Popular Posts' has blog name besides the post name for one of the suggestions..." in outbrain

DanielG replied on January 11, 2009 05:20 to the question "'Most Popular Posts' has blog name besides the post name for one of the suggestions..." in outbrain:

Hi Komel,

Most Popular widget is now foxed in your blog.
The problem you encountered happens when our system is introduced with a post that's not present in the feed. In which case we taker the post title from the page title and the later one sometimes contains the Blog Name.
I fixed the title on all your older posts so you shouldn’t run in to this problem again.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Let me know if there is anything else you need.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team

DanielG posted an update in outbrain on December 24, 2008 07:26:

System Upgrade (24/12/08)

We are in the process of upgrading our system.
Let us know if you encounter any problems.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team

DanielG replied on December 14, 2008 06:24 to the question "Technical question for expandable summaries template" in outbrain:

Hi Jacko,

I have looked a little in to it, and i didn't find a way to disable a widget all together using the blogger API.
However it is possible to add an instruction for the rater not to work.

So combining the blogger conditional if (such as the ones you have already used) i managed disable the rater on certain posts.

To do it take the following steps:
1. Go to blogger dashboard.
2. Go to 'Layout-> Edit HTML'
3. Check the 'Expend Widget Templates'
4. Find the outbrain widget- it should look something like that:
<b:widget title="Ratings by outbrain" type="HTML">
<b:includable> <data:content> </data:content></b:includable>
</b:widget>
5. ADD the following after '<b:includable>':
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<script> var OB_stop_rater = true; </script>
</b:if>
6. Save the template!

That's it the rater will only be visible in the full post pages (item pages).
I hope that answers your question.

Let me know if there is anything else you need.

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG replied on November 02, 2008 15:43 to the question "Rating outside the post content ???" in outbrain:

Hi golojabs,

Triggering the function 'outbrain_display' (used for inserting the rater in to the page) is done by the following line:
add_filter('the_content' , 'outbrain_display');

To change it, you simply need to change the filter hook ('the_content') so it's relevant to your page rendering. What are you displaying in the page? (i.e. the_title ).

This is a list of possible hooks you can change- http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API...

We can take by mail- danielg[at]outbrain[dot]com.

Let me know if that answers your question, or maybe i am missing the point...;-)

Daniel
The Outbrain Team.

DanielG replied on October 19, 2008 13:47 to the question "Outbrain WP Admin Problem - Help Please" in outbrain:

Hi dannomatic,

We are currently looking in to this issue.
To resolve the problem for you (and for us) your help can be very helpful!!!

Any of the following information can help resolve this faster:
1. What is the name of your outbrain plug in directory?
2. Is it a soft link?
3. Is PHP your server configured to hide errors (usually located in the wp-config.php)?
4. What server OS are you using?
5. What PHP version are you running?

Under the assumption that the installation directory is different then ‘wp-content/plugins/outbrain’ and that your server is configured to hide the errors, we have a plug-in version that fixes those problems. If you like you can send me a mail with the page source and I will reply with the fixed beta plug-in.
My mail is danielg[at]outbrain[dot]com.

Thanks for your patience...

Daniel
The Outbrain Team