Changelog

Author

What changed in Author: updates, fixes, and improvements to the theme.

14 releases

Contents
  1. October 14, 2026
  2. September 3, 2026
  3. August 15, 2026
  4. August 7, 2026
  5. June 23, 2026
  6. June 11, 2026
  7. March 29, 2026
  8. January 18, 2026
  9. January 17, 2026
  10. January 05, 2026
  11. December 31, 2025
  12. March 5, 2025
  13. January 16, 2025
  14. August 22, 2023

October 14, 2026 — Redesign

  • Author is redesigned from the ground up as a calm, photo led theme for independent hotels, inns and guesthouses, written for a family hotel on an island in Helgeland, Norway.
  • Rooms show their size, beds, view, price and amenities as icons; seasonal offers show their dates, nights and what they include.
  • New pages: the house (story, host, team), restaurant with sample menus, hours and table reservations, booking enquiry, practical info and FAQ, gift vouchers, and contact with directions.
  • New collections: rooms, offers, surroundings and events, each with an index and a detail page, plus redesigned legal pages.
  • A floating drawer menu with the local time, expanding room cards in the hero, view transitions between pages and Lenis smooth scroll.
  • Four colour tokens on a white ground, Switzer type, a twelve column grid with a rail line, and every page built from section components.
  • Rewritten README.md, AGENTS.md, Cursor rules and design skill for the redesign.
  • The blog, authors, tags, search, paywall, subscription and sign in pages are gone.

September 3, 2026 — Update

  • Expanded the design system skill at .cursor/skills/author-design/SKILL.md: typography, color usage, spacing rhythm, component conventions, and do/don’t rules extracted from the theme’s own code, so AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) build UI that matches the theme.
  • AGENTS.md links the design rules in every variant.

August 15, 2026 — Update

  • Refreshed Astro + Tailwind CSS dependencies to latest stable releases.
  • Refreshed Astro + Sanity CMS variant dependencies (astro@7.2.2, Tailwind v4.3.3, Sanity v6.9.x, and related packages).
  • Updated integrations and related packages (@lexingtonthemes/seo, @astrojs/*, Tailwind).
  • Refreshed Astro + EmDash CMS variant dependencies (astro@7.2.2, Tailwind v4.3.3, EmDash v0.33.x, and related packages).

August 7, 2026 — Update

  • Added a new Astro + EmDash CMS variant: built-in admin at /_emdash/admin, Portable Text content for posts, authors, and legal pages, CMS menus, LiveSearch, and Cloudflare Workers deploy (D1 + R2).
  • Includes buyer docs (STARTING-UP.md, SEO.md, AGENTS.md), Cursor rules, and a local SQLite + npm run setup workflow.
  • The Astro + Tailwind CSS and Astro + Sanity CMS variants are unchanged in this release.

June 23, 2026 — Update

  • Upgraded to Astro v7 stable (7.0.0) — no longer on beta.
  • The Astro + Sanity CMS variant front-end has also been updated to Astro v7 stable.
  • Refreshed integrations and dependencies (@lexingtonthemes/seo, @astrojs/*, Tailwind).

June 11, 2026 — Update

  • Upgraded to Astro v7 and Tailwind CSS v4.
  • The Astro + Sanity CMS variant has been upgraded to Astro v7, Tailwind CSS v4, and Sanity v6.
  • Updated integrations and dependencies for v7 compatibility.

March 29, 2026 — Update

  • Added AGENTS.md and Cursor rules (.cursor/rules) for AI-assisted development, on both the Astro + Tailwind CSS and Astro + Sanity CMS versions, each adapted to its repo layout.

January 18, 2026 — Update

  • Upgraded to Sanity v5.0.0

January 17, 2026 — Update

  • Added a new variant with Sanity CMS integration with a ready-to-use Sanity Studio and full Astro front-end support.
  • Introduced CMS-powered content types for editorial workflows.
  • Now available as part of the new Full Access and Agency tiers.

January 05, 2026 — Update

  • Installed Reading Time package to calculate reading time for blog posts.

December 31, 2025 — Update

Breaking changes

  • Replaced the icon set (Tabler → Phosphor).
  • Introduced a new navigation structure.

Improvements

  • Updated the Button component to support link behavior and configurable icon sizes.
  • General refactor and internal cleanup.
  • New color accent color

March 5, 2025 — Reset

  • Added client-side search using Fuse.js.

January 16, 2025 — Reset

  • Complete rebuild of the theme from scratch.
  • New UI, layout, and component architecture.
  • Introduced a reusable component system.
    Documentation: Components

This release replaces all previous versions and establishes a new baseline.

August 22, 2023 — Release

  • Initial release