The theme for this blog was once based on the excellent Quentin 1.0, which was developed by Mike Purdy. Unfortunately (for me), Mike stopped development on Quentin a couple of years ago. Development on WordPress, on the other hand, has not stopped, and as a consequence, Quentin (beautiful though it may be), has been teetering on the brink of obsolescence for awhile, and it makes me sad.
The other day, feeling rather industrious, I decided to look into exactly how hard it would be to modify Quentin to make it play nice with WordPress 2.3 and its myriad of new features – those features mainly just being one feature - support for sidebar widgets. It turns out that if you know a little bit (and I emphasize little) and you’re using a theme that was thoughtfully designed (thanks, Mike!), it’s not too terribly difficult. In fact, it’s like 15 minutes difficult.
The result is here.
A lot of people (and I would be remiss if I were not to include myself on this list) manage to convince themselves that the only reason they don’t update their blogs is because they find their theme lacking in one way or another. At various points, I have also blamed my lack of updating on my desk, my keyboard, my computer, a head cold, a football game, a light breeze and the aligning of the planets. If we’re being honest with ourselves (and please, lets), I think we can agree that this is possibly (and probably) a bunch of bunk. Bunk, says I. If you entertain fantasies of there lurking somewhere, somewhere, a theme, widget, or addon that will spontaneously uncork the fountain of wisdom you’ve been waiting to pour out onto the internet – well, please don’t stop fantasizing on my account – but the only thing that’s going to uncork that fountain is you.
