Posted by
utopian – December 22, 2009
The latest minor update to Simplish bumps it to version 2.2.3, and it brings a little change to the handling of Categories in the post meta box, spearheaded by Demetris. The theme now specifically checks for the category name Uncategorized, so if you’ve renamed your cat ID #1, it will be displayed on posts in only that category. Previously such posts would show no categories, as though the post were “Uncategorized”.
This change is tiny, but more details can be found in Issue #19 at the Simplish project site.
Download Simplish version 2.2.3 here (.zip, sha1:ac92c5a8d1168d69aafd94fa43c1dd880cac01ce), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
utopian – November 22, 2009
Version 2.2.2 replaces calls to a few deprecated WordPress functions with their current cousins. No visible differences are introduced. This update ensures compatibility and maintainability atop the latest (read: recommended) and future versions of WordPress.
Many thanks to Demetris for the bulk of the patches included, and vigorous testing with the WP_DEBUG setting, which now gives Simplish the all-clear.
Download Simplish version 2.2.2 here (.zip, sha1:ce3e147c277cdcb2aac934fd9f0ec2bd20b8f6af), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
utopian – October 30, 2009
Changes in version 2.2.1:
- Synchronized French and Swedish translations
- Decreased vertical space below the byline on each post
- Switch back to Verdana font on Windows (from Calibri)
Download Simplish version 2.2.1 here (.zip, sha1:ac7b527fce64c8f40c2556fef9caa18098b2ceb0), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
utopian – October 18, 2009
Version 2.2 introduces the largest set of changes in several months, including new translations for French and Portuguese, minor styling enhancements, and a CSS rewrite that makes things more efficient without changing Simplish’s good looks.
On a display, there is only a single visible change in this release, but the numerous changes to the theme’s CSS will affect customizers or child-themers and therefore prompt a minor version bump over the venerable 2.1[.x] series. Print styles, on the other hand, have changed both in code and in visual presentation.
In honor of translators’ contributions since version 2.1.17, the Simplish Demo is rotating through the supported localizations.
Highlighted Changes
- Add fr_FR localization for French, thanks to ttynixer.
- Add pt_PT localization for Portuguese, thanks to ttynixer.
- Optimize CSS according to Google Page Speed analysis.
- Rewrite CSS for simplicity and efficiency. Reduce over-specification.
- Trim dead selectors/rules. Merge some sharable selectors/rules.
- Add new archives-list CSS class for common multiple-post listing styles.
- Add underline on hover to author name in post byline.
- More precisely define font, color, layout rules for printed output.
For a very detailed record of the changes in this release, see the developer changelog.
Download Simplish version 2.2 here (.zip, sha1:876b61a43a5da2bf98dd6392d65f972008956495), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
utopian – October 7, 2009
Simplish 2.1.12 fixes two minor sidebar styling issues, and updates the URL pointing to this site.
Changes
- Spacing from sidebar element bottom to next element’s h2 consistent. (Noted especially on Search element.)
- Spacing below tag cloud widget, if any, matches normal element spacing.
- Footer links and blog info in style.css use new URL (http://simplish.pomfolio.com/).
Download version 2.1.12 (.zip, 95KB), or see it soon in the WordPress Themes Directory.
Posted by
utopian – September 21, 2009
We’ve been moving things around as Labs/Blogs reaches the end of its project. This means major changes for Simplish — we hope in the form of expanded collaboration and easier access. At any rate, the theme is moving, but not going away, and continues to be maintained by Utopian.net Labs.
Simplish is fairly stable these days, but if you had been following the git development branch, the source is now using the Mercurial DVCS and hosted at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/simplish/. We hope you’ll want to join the project as a contributor, and that you’ll find the code easier to access and issues, if any, easier to report.
The demo blog hopped over to our burgeoning hosted-solution service, and can now be found at http://simplish-demo.pomfolio.com. This blog will likely follow it there in the near future — or else will be entirely replaced by the wiki and other pages/documentation possibilities at Google Code.
Of some note to developers is the fact that during the git -> hg -> code.google.com import-export chain, we left out individual author names on past commits – they have the single author of our hg mirror repo. This leaves out some commit credit, not least for Demetris & Brianna. Individual authors will be there as usual on future commits pushed to the new project home.
Posted by
utopian – September 19, 2009
Simplish v2.1.11 applies a single CSS change to hide the “search for:” text on the default sidebar search.
Download Simplish version 2.1.11 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
utopian – September 4, 2009
Simplish v2.1.10 makes one change to the styling for pre elements, removing the outline border box.
This release simply serves to get the very-slightly-different code we’ve run since the 2.1.9 release out into daylight.
It has had the benefit of production use and testing up to the latest WordPress svn tip (inclusive of the current release, 2.8.4, of course).
Download Simplish version 2.1.10 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
josh – May 26, 2009
Simplish 2.1.9 is available, bringing just a few minor updates along on the roughly-monthly schedule:
Download Simplish version 2.1.9 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Deleting your existing Simplish install directory and replacing it wholesale, rather than overwriting it, will help prevent any possible template conflicts resulting from the file rename.
Posted by
josh – April 25, 2009
We created a Simplish mailing list/Google Group tonight, to help make developing, translating, or reporting issues with Simplish a little easier. We’ve largely conducted that with blog comments here (which are still quite welcome) & individual emails, but as a few more people outside utopian.net contribute to the theme, this should let us more conveniently keep in sync.
We realize the list will be of use and interest mostly to developers, translators, and bug-reporters, so we will of course continue to announce new features, any problems, and new versions of the theme here on the blog.
This is significant in another way, because we usually host our own services, including lists, but I was feeling both lazy and experimental enough to take advantage of an external service for this, for now. We’ll see how it goes.
You can join by sending mail to simplish+subscribe@googlegroups.com, or by visiting the web interface for a more forum-like experience at http://groups.google.com/group/simplish.
Simplish Mailing List
We created a Simplish mailing list/Google Group tonight, to help make developing, translating, or reporting issues with Simplish a little easier. We’ve largely conducted that with blog comments here (which are still quite welcome) & individual emails, but as a few more people outside utopian.net contribute to the theme, this should let us more conveniently keep in sync.
We realize the list will be of use and interest mostly to developers, translators, and bug-reporters, so we will of course continue to announce new features, any problems, and new versions of the theme here on the blog.
This is significant in another way, because we usually host our own services, including lists, but I was feeling both lazy and experimental enough to take advantage of an external service for this, for now. We’ll see how it goes.
You can join by sending mail to simplish+subscribe@googlegroups.com, or by visiting the web interface for a more forum-like experience at http://groups.google.com/group/simplish.