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
josh – February 5, 2009
Simplish 2.1.5 spruces up support for WordPress version 2.7 features, and is only compatible with WordPress versions ≥ 2.7. The changes are focused on complete support for features, removing compatibility code for older WordPress versions, and fixing a few bugs.
- Auto-generated post classes (and “sticky” post support): Use
post_class() everywhere but the page template
- Fix a dangling
</a> that slipped into the 2.1.4 release (validation)
- Fix excess vertical spacing in content area
ol / ul li elements (thanks Demetris @ op111.net)
- Eliminate some redundant or over-specified CSS rules for
ol / ul li elements
- Switch to new table styling, derived from Gesso, and eliminate code adopted from Blueprint. Remove Blueprint license file and
NOTICE note.
- Use new
wp_logout_url() in sidebar logout link
- Replace manual includes with new
get_search_form()
- Remove the
ocomments.php file, and much compatibility code from functions.php (removes support for wp < 2.7)
- Replace
wp_list_pages() calls with new wp_page_menu() to allow in-function “Home” link
Download Simplish version 2.1.5 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
josh – December 12, 2008
Simplish 2.1.4 is an update to support WordPress 2.7, including the new threaded comments feature.
- Support WordPress 2.7’s threaded comments.1
- Add compatibility comments template for WordPress ≤ 2.6.5.
- Link to comments goes to heading of comments list (instead of to first comment in list).
- Fix silly
feed:// typo in (default) sidebar syndication links (thanks eighty4.se).
- Fix “comments”
id and class to not have same name (introduce “commentslist”).
- Use smaller 32×32 gravatar for comment author.
Download Simplish version 2.1.4 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
1 – Threaded comment support has not yet been added to WordPress-mu, the software this blog and the Simplish Demo run atop. Until it is, you can check out Simplish’s rendition of threaded comments at a test site.
Posted by
josh – November 27, 2008
Another little gift for the holiday: Here’s a new production edition of Simplish. This is the one you should be using on your real site, you know, where you don’t run pre-release software like Simplish 2.1.4RC, or WordPress 2.7-beta…
Version 2.1.3 is a tiny update that contains just one change: a contributed header background graphic (thanks to both Anonymous and Demetris) that’s 10x smaller than the original, down from ~2.7 Kilobytes to a super-slender 256 Bytes.
In other words, this update is definitely not a big deal. But it does trim the theme’s only image down to a size smaller than… most of your blog posts, and might help (a very little bit) with bandwidth or page load times if you’re using Simplish on a very-busy site.
Download Simplish version 2.1.3 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.
Posted by
josh – November 17, 2008
We have a very-roughly monthly release schedule, and as our infrequently-honored date of the 20th approaches, the fix I have is a good one, but the only one: Anonymous contributed to the sibling sp theme a new background header image in PNG form at just 10% of the original’s size.
If there are other corners we could tidy, let us know with a comment here – that includes providing specific examples for the reported issue with some AJAX sidebar widgets and Simplish v2.1.2, as well as the question about the importance of threaded comment support -vs- the simplicity of loading no JavaScript.
Posted by
josh – November 16, 2008
Very nifty rework of the simple Simplish base into the theme on Inte en jävla blogg. I don’t read Swedish, but I know cupcakes make me happy, too!
From what I can make out from systrans and Briannatrans, the author had a good day at work. Good for her, and nice work on that theme, too.
Posted by
josh – October 25, 2008
I like working with the Habari publishing software, and even moved my personal site to a Habari base recently. In that process, I created a sorta-port of Simplish — more of a sibling version, really — for Habari blogs. It’s called sp, and takes its moniker from the function prefix used in Simplish: sp_. You can check out a demo of sp, or download the theme for either the release, or the svn, versions of Habari, but I haven’t put together a slick theme site like this one yet.
Sp has the usual suspects from Simplish, like microformats (hAtom posts and hCards for their authors), clean and terse styling that loosely imitates the design of Jeffrey Hardy’s Scribbish “theme for stuff”, wrapped in valid markup output to the browser. It’s just implemented in the leaner, more perspicuous idioms of the Habari RawPHPEngine.
Posted by
josh – August 20, 2008
Simplish made an appearance on op111.net’s 5-theme shortlist for WordPress. I almost missed the trackback because I was moving the demo blog to make way for this space.
In the end, op111’s demetris chose to apply his own styling to Scott Wallick’s excellent Sandbox theme. I came close to doing the same thing when I went looking for a snazzy ‘default’-kinda theme for Utopian.net’s use – and for my own blog at the Labs. I decided to adopt and update Kenny/Jeffrey’s ScribbishWP, but since I started changing and departing from both ScribbishWP (in code) and Scribbish itself (in style), the plaintxt.org themes like Sandbox and blog.txt have inspired choices for Simplish. We even copy their code: the two basic hCard producer functions used in Simplish 2.0 are derived from blog.txt source (closely enough that Scott’s copyright has joined the NOTICE.)
op111’s list has some references to the many uses folks make of the Sandbox plus some chameleon CSS – Sandbox comes out of the box looking like 1995, but can be made into anything you can tweak into and copy out of Firebug. My favorite is still Sandbox co-creator Andy Skelton’s re-implementation of WordPress’s default/kubrick theme atop Sandbox.
Simplish version 2.1.5
Simplish 2.1.5 spruces up support for WordPress version 2.7 features, and is only compatible with WordPress versions ≥ 2.7. The changes are focused on complete support for features, removing compatibility code for older WordPress versions, and fixing a few bugs.
post_class()everywhere but the page template</a>that slipped into the 2.1.4 release (validation)ol/ullielements (thanks Demetris @ op111.net)ol/ullielementsNOTICEnote.wp_logout_url()in sidebar logout linkget_search_form()ocomments.phpfile, and much compatibility code fromfunctions.php(removes support for wp < 2.7)wp_list_pages()calls with newwp_page_menu()to allow in-function “Home” linkDownload Simplish version 2.1.5 here, or see it soon in the WordPress themes directory.