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.

I have made a lot of changes in the plugin, and most of the things are fully rewritten. Last two weeks I got a lot of emails, and there were also few forum posts with feature requests and suggestions, so I have decided to compile a list of things that needs to be done. And that’s the reason for so much changes from previous release version.

I did some experimenting on the way to render stars better so it will work in every theme with every browser. There could still be some problems with some themes, so if you find such a problem or even better a solution, please leave a post in the forum.

Also, note that this is still in development and NOT stable version so I don’t recommend to use it on the production blog. Many of the features are not finished, and in the next 2-3 weeks I expect to have stable 1.0.0 version. So, test this one, report bugs and help me to create the best rating plugin for WordPress. And if you are curious about what’s new continue reading this post.

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New version of Pages Navigator is available. Now you can set if you want widget to be shown or hidden on some WordPress special pages like 404 error page, search results page, archive, single posts, page or archive. This way you can create special widget instance that will be shown only if the page is not found (404).

If you have any suggestion, or you want to report a bug with the widget, leave a comment or make a post in the forum.