A Wordpress Theme Idea – Good or Bad?

Recently I wanted to find some sort of application or service that would allow me to save things like quotes, sermon notes, and images that I found thought-provoking or worthwhile–almost a personal database of cool stuff. I went through a mental list of all the options I could think of, including but not limited to Evernote, TiddlyWiki, MediaWiki, and even plain-ole Microsoft Word. I ruled each of them out for various reasons, and I settled on building a Wordpress theme.

With that, I created a pretty basic theme based off Brian Purkiss’s Whiteboard* theme framework, and I’m pretty proud of it. It’s awfully basic at this point, but it definitely does the job. Here are some of the unique features I’ve included:

• With the functionality of Search Everything and Addicted to Live Search built in, has a powerful live search widget.
• Has special functionality for posts in the “Links” category. Turns the post titles into links to URL specified in a custom field, and it formats them to noticeably differ from other posts.
• Has custom options built in to the Add Post page to allow for specification of the author, source, and even the type of speaker (author, speaker, pastor, etc.). These appear at the bottom of every post. (Unfortunately, they’re not searchable at this point. I’m working on that.)

That’s basically what I’ve got so far. Like I said, it’s pretty simple at this point, but I have some ideas to make it a bit more powerful.

My question is: is there an interest for this? That is, I’m obviously using it (and I like it a lot!), but would it be worth my time to release something like this to the public? Give me your thoughts, and here’s a few screenshots:

*If you’re into Wordpress and developing themes, you really should check this out. It’s basically a blank slate on which to build themes, but it’s got basic functionality built in so that you don’t have to re-type the same code every time.

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