In no particular order, some things Simplish does for your WordPress site:
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional output, styled with Valid CSS 2.1.
- Title elements are Google-friendly out of the box, using the Pagename - Sitename convention.
- Microformats support: Entries are hAtom microformatted, including ISO published date, author hCard.
- Author archive bio pages with author URL and bio from profile, author Gravatar, wrapped in an hCard. Rather handy on multi-author blogs.
- Threaded comments (aka nested replies) (WP 2.7+).
- Commenter Gravatars.
- Individual permalinks for Comments.
- Nifty Sitemap page template.
- Standard-issue and valid Archives and Links (aka Blogroll) page templates.
- Sensible styling for base elements, often courtesy the Blueprint CSS framework (e.g., tables, lists).
- Simple CSS for print media type, and your readers’ printers.
- Only one image, 256 Bytes (the header shadow gradient).
- Built-in custom image Galleries filter WordPress’s gallery shortcode to output valid XHTML, styled with the theme stylesheet.
- Image Captions styles.
- Stylesheet includes
.alignleft|.aligncenter|.alignrightconvenience classes for content image alignment. - Tags Taxonomy.
- Choose-your-taxonomy: Use categories, tags, both, or none. Simplish shows what exists; gracefully suppresses Category/Tags display if they don’t exist, per-post.
- Sidebar widgets supported.
- Honors your date format settings.
- Prev/Next post links on single-post views.
- Source is available and free, licensed under the GPL. You can use, modify, and even redistribute your own version of Simplish.
- Listed in (and meets the requirements of) the Official WordPress Themes Directory.



