Reply To: An update on what happened during the past year

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Daniel Tara
Keymaster

I’m going to do my best not to turn this into a rant. What happened was personal issues have prevented me from reaching the April deadline. The reality of the matter is that for non-commercial projects such as this website setbacks like this are always bound to happen. This wouldn’t be such a major issue if people would treat the themes provided on this website as what they are: a hobby side project. Instead people downloaded the themes, used them for their business website and then relied on commercial support from me which was never available.

Rest assured, Enlightenment v2.0 is still in the works. In fact, support for WooCommerce is already complete and all that remains are fixing some issues with the theme customizer, writing a script that imports the demo content and a plugin that migrates the old version of the theme. These tasks are more difficult than they sound.

Since demand for premium support high I have decided to give the commercial theme market a chance. My first premium theme is under development in parallel with Enlightenment. The good part is that revenue from that theme may allow me to focus more on existing users of my themes and maybe even hire a dedicated support team. The not so good part means that working on both themes will likely delay the release of Enlightenment v2.0 a tad further.

For the moment I’m back answering requests in the support forums.