Tag: microformats

Simplish version 2.1.1

Posted by Josh – September 22, 2008

We focused on cleaner, more orderly CSS and some code factoring in this release. Visual changes are minor, but post metadata display is tighter, while line heights have been widened ever-so-slightly for easier readability in long text passages.

  • Fix spacing below Tag Cloud sidebar widget above certain elements (thanks op111.net).
  • Rename hCard generator functions more rationally.
  • Uncompress line heights.
  • Remove explicit permalink from entry meta display; entry title now serves uniformly.
  • Remove the Meta label from entry meta section; unnecessary.
  • Add per-comment permalink on comment date.
  • Style more basic elements: table and dl styles improved/added (adopted bits of Blueprint CSS).
  • Removed remaining uses of visual alignright/alignleft convenience classes in favor of more-semantic class names in the template markup.
  • Add entry meta display to image attachment template.
  • Improve fall-back fonts in CSS (thanks op111.net).
  • Split entry title/byline and meta into include files that produce the main hAtom microformatting.

Download Simplish version 2.1.1 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

Simplish version 2.1

Posted by Josh – September 1, 2008

What began as a couple patches for a minor 2.0.1 bump grew into more extensive 2.1 improvements:

  • Trackback URI and Comments: combine display into a single element.
  • Don’t display Category in post meta box for Uncategorized posts.
  • Fix empty li element by displaying nothing on posts without tags. (Thanks Tim Hamilton.)
  • Display dates on posts and comments now honor date format settings in wp-admin -> Settings -> General. (Thanks demetris from op111.net.)
  • Remove header_shadow.gif. Alignment changes by a few pixels; the blog title underline is now a CSS border, not an image.
  • Fix bug in sp_vallery() gallery shortcode override to handle links and HTML in gallery image captions.
  • Fix bug in sp_vallery() that created extra empty gallery div. (See this issue in upstream Sandbox code.)
  • Standardize and simplify use of text symbols:
    • [ ] (logged-in user UI elements)
    • | (element separation)
    • - (title element separation)
    • « » (chronological traversal)
  • Adopt rel=home in header and footer links to blog’s home page.
  • Replace all remaining comments_popup_link() calls with comments_link()/comments_number().
  • Don’t show post counts in default sidebar’s Archives and Categories lists.
  • A little more prep for gettext internationalization.
  • CSS cleanups and simplifications for some double-definitions. (Thanks threesomehour.com.)
  • PHP code cleanups.
  • (Continued) Re-verification of posts and page templates for hAtom/hCard and XHMTL/CSS validity.

Download 2.1 right here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

Simplish version 2.0

Posted by Josh – August 19, 2008

Major overhaul and hCard departures

  • Complete hcard/hatom microformatting for posts, authors, even the theme itself.
  • Blog.txt/Sandbox-inspired hCard producer functions
  • Author’s posts page `extended’ author hCard, with Gravatar
  • Improved Archive page (monthly, category, tag, etc) with Archive-level title
  • Implemented hAtom hfeed classes around Archives lists as appropriate
  • Add single post prev/next post links near footer
  • Standardize presentation of prev/next ^(page post), read more, and edit links, respectively, at bottom of content
  • Change to simple “Google Style” Subject – Sitename title elements
  • Add search term feedback in search results page title and content
  • Extensive validation and testing against: WordPress 2.6.1, WordPress 2.7-bleeding, WordPress-µ 2.6 and µ svn HEAD
  • Override default gallery shortcode to make output visually identical, but valid XHTML
  • New Sitemap template page
  • (Minor) code cleanup of Links and Archives page templates
  • Sidebar [ol ul] lists styling fixes, and show page hierarchy with indents
  • Bare beginnings of gettext internationalization

Get the latest Simplish right here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.

Simplish version 1.9.3

Posted by Josh – August 8, 2008

Microformats Macrofix

Simplish version 1.4.3

Posted by Josh – July 23, 2008

Increase hCard coverage

  • Add microformatting for commenter name/link
  • Drop non-CSS2.1-compatible elements from wp-caption* styles (Compliance fix)
  • Removed unused compatibility code
  • Simplify post/comment date stamp code