After few months I have finally managed to update Starscape theme. There were few bugs reported in this period, and they are fixed in this version. But the main reason for this update are the new integration features that are available in GD Star Rating plugin. Options panel is updated and new, separate tab for GD Star Rating is added.

This new tab will be visible only if the GD Star Rating is installed. You can use it to integrate comment review and/or standard and/or multi ratings. You can add all 3 blocks if you want. I have fixed few CSS problems, few rendering bugs and made few more changes.

As for the further updates, I can’t promise anything, but at least I will update as needed for GD Star Rating, so you can use it as an example of the integration features.

My first release in the new year, and it’s a new version of Starscape theme. This is mainly a bug fixing release. I cleaned up some more CSS, improved CSS styles used for threaded comments available in WordPress 2.7. There are also few improvements in comments form, new page template with no sidebars and few more things.

Theme is available at WordPress.org themes extend direcotory, but version uploaded there has no Google Analytics module because of the WordPress.org rules. If you use that module, download theme from this blog.

Just another regular maintanence release is here. Most important change is exapnding CSS classes to support tags for comments like blockquote and code (thanx goes to Anita for pointing this out). Also, some of the IE6 issues have been also fixed. And one very nasty bug in author module (thanx to Snider for discovering this bug).

Since I am still getting a lot of questions about customization of Starscape:

After you install and activate Starscape, in the Design WordPress menu you will get one more option called Starscape. This will open a new control panel page with a lot of options for customization of Starscape and blog. Also, read the user guide located in user_guide folder to find out what all the options are for. There are more then 15 diffrenen modules available that are built in the theme for DIGG, adjustable sidebars, menus, tags, gravatar… Read this user guide before asking any Starscape related questions to avoid repeating things.

Thank you for using Starscape.

And here it is, after 5 months of development, this is the last edition of Starscape. No more new features will be added, only one or two more bug fixing releases. This time, edition Scorpius comes with some very interesting features and improvements.

I have updated this blog, and also the demo blog with new versions. Demo blog can be used as a proof of XHTML and CSS validity since, many plugins tend to break that. So, the theme is 100% valid. Demo blog is on: demo.starscapetheme.com.

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I have created new blog as a demo and preview of Starscape theme. This offical blog will always feature latest stable version, and demo blog will feature demo versions and will be free of plugins.

So, the demo URL is:
demo.starscapetheme.com

Demo features WordPress 2.6.0 with preview of the next Starscape release 1.5.0 Scorpius. New version of Starscape will be released in the middle of next week.

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