Starburst

Release time!

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 | 8:04 pm

Starburst (no relation to the candy) is finally ready for the masses! To get it, simply click on the “Download” link under “Pages” to your left. Any support questions may be left as comments on this post.

—Claire
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8 Responses to “Release time!”

Mathy says:
Sunday, May 1, 2005 | 7:10 am
Hi!

Thanks for a wonderful theme. I am using in a group blog - http://cinema.weblogs.us

Have customized your theme to suite my/our needs.

I am facing a problem.

if I do a search in my blog, with an apostrophe in it, the search is not working properly.

demo:

string searched: this boy’s life

the string changes into: this boy’s life

but that movie review is available at

http://cinema.weblogs.us/archives/5

thanks in advance for your help
Claire says:
Sunday, May 1, 2005 | 8:08 pm
Hi Mathy, as far as I know, your problem is a bug in WordPress (it happens on my site too). Haven’t been able to find a fix yet, but when I do, I’ll write a post and update the theme.
Mathy says:
Sunday, May 1, 2005 | 10:04 pm
Thanks Claire.
Elle says:
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 | 9:10 am
I like this theme a lot. I’m just starting a blog of my own and this is the first theme I’d like. I have some… questions/comments? I hope that this is ok.

I would like just a little more sparkle to the starburst. Add a little punch? Nothing over the top, but a little more pizzaz. Other then that, it’s lovely.
K says:
Thursday, August 18, 2005 | 6:49 am
Hi Claire! I really enjoy the look of the Starburst theme here. It’s classy and I like the color combinations. However, there’s a problem in the design that renders it virtually useless in terms of my own site. I’ve tried all the fixes I could find in the Wordpress support forums and archives and none of them have worked so I thought I’d appeal to you for any fixes you can think of! (Html and CSS I’m good with, php, though, is a little beyond me!)

The problem I keep having is that I tend to write very long posts. Most, if not all, are over 10,000 words long each. You can imagine that this makes me rely on the Next Page/paging feature built into Wordpress quite a bit! But with the Starburst design I discovered that the next page feature is non-functional and thus readers miss out on at least two thirds of the content on every entry. Do you have a fix for this I could try?

Thanks!
K
Claire says:
Thursday, August 18, 2005 | 2:50 pm
K: are you talking about the “more” link that some blogs use with long posts, or the “next page” and “previous page” links that usually appear at the very end of a blog’s main page? Also, what’s your URL? The “next” and “previous” page links work fine on the main Starburst page, but I haven’t tested the “more” function. Let me know — thanks.
K says:
Saturday, August 20, 2005 | 12:31 pm
The “more” function works fine, which is what gives you an excerpt and hides the rest of the post. Wordpress also gives you the option, in addition to using the “more” function is the “page” function, in which you can break a single post into multiple pages (for example, a 12,000 word post could be broken into three posts of 4,000 words and becomes a little quicker loading that way). The next/previous page links, which take you from post to post work fine, it’s getting the “page” function *within* a post that I’m having trouble with.
Claire says:
Monday, August 22, 2005 | 10:38 am
K: now that I know what you’re talking about, it’s fixed If you don’t want to overwrite all your files, just add the following lines in place of <?php the_content(); ?> in single.php:

<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?><?php link_pages('Pages: ', '', 'number'); ?>

Thanks for letting me know about the missing code!