First and foremost: This release is not compatible with earlier versions of WordPress. Use it only with WP3.0 and up.

Only minor refinements are apparent to the eye: You won’t see the word “Trackback” in the comments area anymore, and the former “Pages” list in the default sidebar is now labeled “Navigation” to accommodate the optional custom menu. Just beneath the surface, the theme now outputs HTML5 where once there was XHTML 1.0.

Highlighted Changes

• HTML5 output
• Support new custom menus
• New CSS reset
• Suppress the inline gallery style — remove a validation stumbling block
• CSS updates for gallery styling, efficiency
• Use automatic feed links for uniform & dynamic header metadata
• Rewrite and modernize functions.php — better child theme override support
• Replace/remove deprecated WordPress function calls

Check out the change log for a complete list.

Download Simplish version 2.4 here (.zip, sha1:65dcb73e219d6ea20a3363554e76e2033a5b4db0), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

The various *border-radius CSS techniques for turning corners don’t command the obedience of wayward Internet Explorer. While we tested some special border-radius techniques for IE, corners there remain square. Level 2.1 CSS validators will squawk at bits of the new CSS, while browser-specific mutations of same add typographical insult to standards-abandoning injury. Still, we feel those bevels are pretty sporty.

Another appearance tweak removes the bottom border that formerly underlined h4 headings.

Download Simplish version 2.3 here (.zip, sha1:3f8255653b4215c82f704700185f04f806c73c83), or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

Download Simplish version 2.1.11 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

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.

• Add a page template for a page allowing comments.
• Rename page template files with tpl prefix.
• Restore Wallick/Sandbox credit oops.

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.