New version of Starscape is available. And again, long changelog. This is most likelty the most important edition of Starscape so far. Mainly becasue I have planned for this to be last edition of Starscape theme, but I have decided to add some more things. So, the next edition will be called Scorpius, and it will be available in the next two or three weeks. Before that, you can expect one or two minor revisions of Draco.

I have also started working on Starscape 2, with first preview version hopefully ready for the end of september.

As for the Draco, there are a lot of new things here. If you want to know more, please continue reading this post.

New features

I have added some new modules for Google Analytics tracking, DiGG button, post and page author. Also I have added Author page, made changes to 404 and archives templates, fixed all validation errors. A lot of things are reorganized, so if you update from previous versions, please delete starscape folder and then unpack new version (settings will be kept).

Also, to make theme user friendly, I have added some default sidebars content. This ways if you install theme, and you still didn’t set sidebars, they are not going to be empty, they will show some default content (recent posts, authors, categories…).

WordPress 2.6 issues

WordPress 2.6 is release last week, and this site is already using it. Starscape is compatible with WP 2.6 but only if you don’t change location of wp-content folder. Right now there is no easy solution for the problem of moving this folder out of main WordPress folder, so if you want to use this theme, don’t move this folder. I hope that I will find some solution soon for this new feature. Other then that theme works great with WP 2.6, as you can see on this blog.

License page is updated, and theme is now under GPLv3 license, since it was the requirement for inclusion on WordPress website. So, download new version and try it for yourself. As always, all comments and suggestions are welcome.