Finally, new version is released. The list of changes and new features is very extensive, and you can read it on plugins changelog page. And again, important notice, this is still beta version, and bugs are to be expected. Some parts of the control panel are not fully tested, and there are some things still missing there.

Translation POT file is included. If you translate plugin to your language, please sent translation files (both DO and MO) to me, and I will include it with next version. Expect POT file to be updateded with every new version.

Some more important changes will follow. But I wanted to point out whatyou can expect to follow with next releases. I will improve on widget(s), control panel and most important, new rating stars rendering that should solve all the problems with different themes and browsers. And for the stable 1.0.0 release there will be ajax support and updated user guide, and I expect a lot bug fixes.

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Another day, and another release. I made mostly cosmetic chaneges to control panel and to the display of stars so I decided to release it right away. You can now control aligment of the rating block and the position of the text for the rating blog. Also, I have added one more text row with some sort of title or message that will be placed above the rating for all 3 types of ratings. For now only text is allowed, but I will work on adding the html in that header.

Control panel settings page is a reorganized because the number of options is grown and I like it more if I don’t need to scroll much to see most of the options.

Very important: This version will still have update database elements from previous versions. Next version 0.9.0 will have some important changes to the database for some new features I am planning. So 0.9.0 will be able to either update from this version, or install fresh.

Comments and suggests are welcome as always.

Here is the new version of rating plugin. Since I have completed all work I have planned on my Starscape theme, I will have more time for this plugin. And this new version adds few new things, introduces many changes and bug fixes.

Since this is still far from final stable release, database handling code is still not completed, and right now there are many uneeded calls made to the database when it comes to comments rating. Also, I had to change some things in database layout, and I have added upgrade code, so this should be working ok. In any case, after you upgrade, please check if the votes are recorded properly, and report any errors you find with that. I have tested upgrading on few test blog, and there were no problems.

And as always, mind that this is still in development, and is not recommended to use it on your production blog.

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I have just released new Starscape theme version 1.5.1 edition Scorpius. More details about it are available on theme blog as always: blog.starscapetheme.com.

And finally this blog has updated version of this theme and is using brand new design and has a new logo in the header. I hope you like it.