Okay, so the theme reached more than 10.000 downloads in a year. That’s certainly something and it made me think about the future of LQ more than once.

Many people have requested new features such as a sidebar, gallery, widgets and often stuff that Linquist just wasn’t built for. While it is possible to include most of this in a future version, making these features work via an options page is just something I don’t have the time (or will) to do. While I was working on the patch (with me being a designer, not a programmer type), trying to add new things broke the old things and it all became a horrible mess. It eventually made me give up on the “superpatch” altogether.

So here’s the deal: if there will be a new, bugfixed and improved Linquist theme, it will most likely be just the dark one (which is far more popular), with little to no options to set up, probably incompatible with the old version. Instead, an extensive walkthrough on how to easily change or add features will be written.
How does that sound?

Oh and there will be a brand new theme released soon. You’ll see :)

…and it was about time!

See, while most people update their sites by adding content, I do it by completely redesigning the whole thing, once a year or so. And that’s just plain stupid. So from now on, I’m going to try and make this a proper site, with actual updates.

Right now, there’s nothing really new on the site, apart from a bunch of new artworks in the  illustrations section. Expect interesting updates in the near future.