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.

Couple a months ago I had plans for creating new Starscape theme from scratch, with much more features than current Starscape has. But for the past few months I have less free time and much more work, so most of the plans are now abandoned. Most of my free time now goes into GD Star Rating plugin.

But, a week or so ago, I have decided to continue working on Starscape. This will not include completly new theme, but rather cleaned up and partially rewritten version of the current version. This work will end up in releasing Starscape 2.0 in the next few months. Also, if time permits I will also work on two more themes called Starscape 3 and xScape.

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I have finally got a little time to update Starscape theme. This new version brings few small bugs fixed, and two new features. I have added direct integration support for GD Star Rating comment review rating, and support for upcoming WordPress 2.7 thread comment model. Also, I have made some changes to CSS and added classes for rendering image captions.

Next version will be released with WordPress 2.7, and will have more GD Star Rating features integrated, and also will improve on comment threading.

Small update to fix a potential problem with FavIcon noticed by the people at WordPress.org testing themes for theme directory.

I have added new option allowing display of Add Comment button along site comment counter with posts on front page, search results page, authors and archives pages.