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Simpla theme released

Simpla Screenshot

The first offering in this "a theme a day" week is a nice, gentle affair. Simpla is a clean yet aesthetically pleasing theme that will allow you to showcase your words without distractions. Feel free to take a look at it on the demo site. If you fancy giving it a try, proceed to the theme page and download away:)

I've kept it pretty simple but I couldn't resist using the excellent FamFam mini icons by Mark James:)

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129 Responses to “Simpla theme released”

  1. Gravatar Jordan Arentsen February 21st, 2006 1:22 am

    Very nice. I like your style. Although sometimes it does seem a little too simple. Good work overall.

  2. Gravatar Phu February 21st, 2006 1:29 am

    Thanks; after all, simple is the new black:)
    Don’t forget to tune in tomorrow for another theme.

  3. Gravatar Jordan Arentsen February 21st, 2006 1:45 am

    How do your avatars work? Are they gravatars?

  4. Gravatar Phu February 21st, 2006 1:46 am

    Yep, they’re gravatars.

  5. Gravatar Andrew Hamann February 21st, 2006 2:23 am

    Very nice… :-D

  6. Gravatar Vkaryl February 21st, 2006 2:51 am

    Sooooo much better than all that “andreas” stuff. You’re a master, Phu!

  7. Gravatar Steve February 21st, 2006 5:24 am

    I like it. It is, indeed, simpla. But it’s classy, not just minimalist… and I like that. The bare minimum themes are an aberration… but the simple yet stylish themes are the gems.

    Of course… I always prefer the dark gray stuff. :-)

  8. Gravatar Weblog Tools Collection » WP Theme: Simpla February 21st, 2006 1:54 pm

    […] WP Theme: Simpla Phu has embarked on “A Theme a Day” week where he designs and offers for download a Wordpress theme every single day of the week. His offering for today happens to be Simpla, which is one of those themes that you look at and go…”I can see my blog in that skin”. Very nicely done, simple, two column, colorful, iconful, detailed theme for Wordpress. Thanks Phu. Technorati Tags: simpla templates themes wordpress theme   […]

  9. Gravatar ^aNi February 21st, 2006 2:57 pm

    Hey, thank so much for sharing, great theme indeed! I’ve installed it but seem to be having a problem with the sidebar, it looks out of place, what did I do wrong? Check out my blog to see it yourself.
    Thankyou so much :)

  10. Gravatar Phu February 21st, 2006 3:23 pm

    Thanks everyone for the kind comments:)

    …seem to be having a problem with the sidebar

    Hmm, that seems to appear sporadically i.e. it only appears on occasions in FF and if you do a refresh, it’s fine again.

    I’ll have to look into this one (though probably after ‘a theme a day’ week as it’ll be hectic this week).

  11. Gravatar anonymuis February 21st, 2006 3:47 pm

    finally~! someone made a simple and neat theme like this, thanks for sharing!

  12. Gravatar orangeguru February 21st, 2006 4:17 pm

    Excellent design! I love the minimalism, but also the sensitive typo. For my taste the basic text column and body type are not in perfect balance. I would prefer either a bigger type or smaller column. ;-)

    But once again - excellent work!

  13. Gravatar WordPress Theme: Simpla at Nerhood Weblog February 21st, 2006 4:59 pm

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  14. Gravatar nate February 21st, 2006 5:41 pm

    Aw, that’s just like my “Cleaner” theme. Ah well, we can always use less, can’t we? ;)

  15. Gravatar Patti February 21st, 2006 9:09 pm

    Excellent! I love the simplicity.

  16. Gravatar Dana February 22nd, 2006 1:03 am

    Again, hasn’t this theme been released already by you Phu? I love you Bro, I really do but you gotta come better than this.Stop throwing Wordpress your scraps and create a bad@ss theme for the Community that we know you are capable of creating.

    Dana :)

  17. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo February 22nd, 2006 6:26 am

    Hi:

    In FireFox, the Side Bar (Page, Home, About, Categories), collapses to the bottom of the page. Everything else is excellent, could you please look into this?

    Thanks

  18. Gravatar Phu February 22nd, 2006 12:21 pm

    Kingsley, as mentioned above, I’ll look into this one after ‘a theme a day’ week is over. It’s a FF only issue that appears sporadically (and is usually cured with a refresh) but the tight time constraints of this week long feature means I won’t be able to work on it just yet.

  19. Gravatar anonymuis February 22nd, 2006 2:13 pm

    i changed the width to percent and I hope it won’t appear on the bottom of the page. It’s weird, though.

  20. Gravatar Blogging Pro China » Blog Archive » WordPress Theme: Simpla February 22nd, 2006 3:20 pm

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  21. Gravatar dtm February 22nd, 2006 7:31 pm

    The side bar problem is not FF problem it’s a coding problem on your part. Fix it.

  22. Gravatar Antenore February 22nd, 2006 10:28 pm

    Wow!
    I love these kind of “simple” templates!!!!
    I’m moving from antenore.blospot.com to antenore.blogsome.com that it uses mediatype… So I’m going to try it!

    Thanks a lot!
    Antenore.

  23. Gravatar Antenore February 22nd, 2006 10:32 pm

    \(°o°)/

    Mediatype=Wordpress

  24. Gravatar Vinny Carpenter February 23rd, 2006 1:11 am

    Hi Phu - Great theme. Love how simple yet elegant the theme is. Are you creating a version 2 of this theme with some of the changes people are requesting? I’ve made some mods and would like to submit them, if you are interested. Thanks and great job.

  25. Gravatar Jauhari February 23rd, 2006 4:46 am

    I love the simplicity of this theme, thanks

  26. Gravatar NixNod February 23rd, 2006 8:26 pm

    Realy Nice .. very simple but beautiful.
    Great job.

  27. Gravatar Dewang Mistry February 24th, 2006 12:12 am

    WOW! After searching and searching for a theme that I really like, I finally found it.. I really love this simple, minimal design.

    Thanks!

  28. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo February 24th, 2006 2:26 am

    This is definitely one of the best themes I have seen.

    I am waiting for the FireFox issues to be resolved before I start using it.

    I hope the Theme Developer, will come baqck to this Theme and spend some more time developing it. I believe it has a great potential.

    [Edit by Phu: I will, though it won’t be until after this feature]

  29. Gravatar Gerard McGarry February 24th, 2006 1:57 pm

    Beautiful design Phu. Great work!

  30. Gravatar Ron February 24th, 2006 8:17 pm

    Very nice theme Phu…

    Its too simple for me, but I’ll just have to tweak it around to suite me. Keep up the good work Phu, and can’t wait to see your now work…

  31. Gravatar Greg Balanko-Dickson February 25th, 2006 6:23 am

    Nice simple, compliant theme. Thanks.

    Are there plans for a ’search’ function?

  32. Gravatar Venkat February 25th, 2006 7:54 am

    Really cool theme. Downloaded. Please update more themes. The way CSS also so good.

    Thanks
    Venkat

  33. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo February 25th, 2006 2:59 pm

    Hey Phu:
    I was looking at Simpla again in the download page and it looks as if the FireFox issue is resolved.
    Do you resolve it and does the theme download contain the resolved theme or is this a ghost problem?

    [Edit by Phu: I haven’t taken a look at it yet but as mentioned earlier, it’s one that only occurs sporadically; I’ll look at it next week. If I make any updates, I’ll add a change log to the theme page and update the version number]

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  36. Gravatar Prome February 28th, 2006 8:07 pm

    Dear Phu, I resolved about the sidebar issues…

    Simply, you have to create a new div (I called it “main”) which include the div content and sidebar.
    In the CSS, I just declared the width: the content widht plus the sidebar one.

    Bye! :)

  37. Gravatar Phu February 28th, 2006 11:14 pm

    Part of the problem is that because of the inconsistent nature of this bug (it doesn’t always appear), it’s difficult to test and fix.

    I’ve made an update; could everyone give this one a try?

  38. Gravatar dalton March 1st, 2006 12:52 am

    Hi Phu,
    Thanks for the beautiful template and the sidebar fix. Still showing up for me in my version of FFX 1.5.1 on Mac at home. Looks OK in FFX 1.5 on Mac at work. Weird, I know.

  39. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo [Web Analytics Blog] March 1st, 2006 6:41 pm

    Prome:

    Can you post your updated code? The problem seems to appear consistently in the front page of the blog or in category page.

    I will also test PHU’s new release.

    Thanks Folks!

  40. Gravatar Prome March 1st, 2006 8:50 pm

    Of course!
    Here it is:
    http://prome.altervista.org/simpla/simpla.zip

    Regards :)

  41. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo [Web Analytics Blog] March 2nd, 2006 2:49 am

    Thanks Prome

  42. Gravatar claudio March 3rd, 2006 5:26 am

    thanks, Phu, it’s my new theme.

  43. Gravatar rabsteen March 3rd, 2006 5:12 pm

    wonderful theme. i’ve added a few things, like ajax comments and some plugins. but it really is simple but pleasing and not to mention functional. your code is well organized. thanks!

  44. Gravatar Kenn March 3rd, 2006 11:52 pm

    Thanks, Phu. I am new to blogging. The number of themes was overwhelming at first — and then I saw your new theme. I love its elegant simplicity. However, I am not crazy about the colors in blog name and blog entries. Are there options for changing them in future releases? Also, wondering if the problems loading my blog this afternoon were theme or WP related.

  45. Gravatar Osman March 5th, 2006 6:18 pm

    The theme is wonderful! Its simplicity is so useful, I was really getting tired of complicated unnecessary details. And the code is very easy to manipulate too.

    Maybe someday you would consider a three column layout. Just for the same simplicity.

    Thank you very much, very good job!

  46. Gravatar Stew March 5th, 2006 7:24 pm

    Well, I have to say that after trying out a few themes, this is the one I settled on for the long haul.

    I’ve made some minor modifications to the font families, text sizes and core files for my own purposes.

    There are still a few changes that I would like to make, but I am so far pleased with the overall look and feel of the site.

    Thanks for all the hard work, this theme is hot!

    ATB,
    Stew
    www.blog.stewdio.net

  47. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo [Web Analytics Blog] March 6th, 2006 5:22 pm

    Hi:
    I do agree with Osman. It would b enice to see a 3 column theme based on the Simpla Theme.

    You should look up the theme labelled ProBlogger by Tim Yang

  48. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo [Web Analytics Blog] March 6th, 2006 6:37 pm

    I just tested the latest Simpla release and the problem with the SideBar is still there in FireFox.

    Thanks

  49. Gravatar Kingsley Tagbo [Web Analytics Blog] March 6th, 2006 6:53 pm

    Latest Update!
    The FireFox isue with the SideBar is gone. Please disregard my last post. I was testing the theme on the wrong website.

    Thanks Phu for an excellent Job!

  50. Gravatar Stew March 7th, 2006 12:54 pm

    I do have one request for this theme so far, and that would be the addition of a page.php without the datestamp.

    I tried making one myself, but don’t have the time to make sure all the css and other page includes are working seamlessly.

    Having the date plastered on About pages and other static pages doesn’t look very professional and my feeble attempts to remove or edit the existing codebase has been futile.

    Still loving this theme!

  51. Gravatar bt March 7th, 2006 10:48 pm

    Woah, you made that theme? Nice. I use that theme on my wordpress.com blog.

  52. Gravatar QTI March 8th, 2006 6:59 am

    Hi! I love this theme.

    Is there a one column simpla available?

  53. Gravatar Robin March 9th, 2006 1:57 am

    It seems at least on firefox when I click pages on my website or archives the side panel moves down to the bottom.

  54. Gravatar mini March 10th, 2006 3:42 am

    Wow I like it this theme.

  55. Gravatar Oompa March 13th, 2006 12:13 am

    I’ve modded this theme and started using it. It’s really nice. Great Job.
    www.TheOompa.com

  56. Gravatar ‘The’ March 13th, 2006 12:19 am

    Yet again…

    Boredom struck and I modded the Simpla theme by Phu Ly, provided by his Theme a day week. I intergrated some plugins, and added some icons. I’ve broken the long time I’ve used a k2 theme or mod. I’ll release my old theme if enough peo…

  57. Gravatar gimster March 13th, 2006 12:59 am

    Hi Phu Ly,

    Thanks for all these freebies you’ve made available. I really like Simpla, but the version the wordpress.com has is not your latest one. So the sidebar has that problem rectified in the lastest release (on this site) when I try to use it.

    I’m using wordpress.com’s hosting because I’m new to blogging and not much of a techie. Could you please update your Simpla contribution to wordpress.com?

    Thanks again.

  58. Gravatar NoTV » Blog Archive » Szimplába öltözött NoTV March 14th, 2006 3:35 pm

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  59. Gravatar Angelica March 15th, 2006 2:13 am

    Hi,
    This Simpla is really wonderfull!! I love it because it is clear and simple! But I am having the same problem with Firefox too. I hope in the next update this could be resolved :)
    Congratulations for this nice work, Phu!!

  60. Gravatar pivu March 17th, 2006 5:17 pm

    ok, I tested the sidebar issue at Firefox. These are my findings: error occurs with more than 3 postings; if the sidebar does not appear push reload and it’s there.

  61. Gravatar Astereo March 17th, 2006 11:40 pm

    I’m modding the theme and it’s looking great, one quick question, what’s the best way to put gravatars in the comment box without screwing up how each comment looks? Everytime i get the user comments turning to a while bg and out of line when i insert the gravatar code. Any ideas?

  62. Gravatar whatsonyourbrain March 19th, 2006 11:16 am

    Phu Ly has indeed “Ful-ly” mastered it, hasn’t he? This guy is amazing!!

  63. Gravatar Thought Mechanics » Blog Archive » Live Redesign March 23rd, 2006 6:20 pm

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  64. Gravatar Ralph March 24th, 2006 11:09 am

    After Ambiru, i also localized and translated (German) the beautyful Simpla - it can be found here

  65. Gravatar mans March 26th, 2006 1:03 am

    see a mashup at

    http://www.manstham.com

    thanks for the blog theme!

  66. Gravatar Ste March 26th, 2006 11:31 am

    At last! a simple, minimal theme that just oooozes class and style. Thank you!!

  67. Gravatar gimster March 28th, 2006 3:05 pm

    The updated version (1.01) on wordpress.com’s selection has eliminated the problem of the pushed-down sidebar with Firefox. Still have that problem with Internet Explorer though.

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  69. Gravatar akash March 31st, 2006 3:52 am

    really nice theme, made this my default in wordpress.com

    thanks

  70. Gravatar jennad April 4th, 2006 6:47 pm

    Hi, Simpla is fantastic, just what I was looking for. Will you update it to work with Automattic’s new sidebar tool, widgets:

    http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/

    Pretty please?

  71. Gravatar Jim April 6th, 2006 1:55 pm

    I really like you theme. I’ve added a left sidebar and a little zen-garden look.
    Thanks again.

  72. Gravatar e9 April 6th, 2006 8:35 pm

    Phu, thanks so much for creating and sharing your beautiful work with us. Simpla looks awesome.

    On a sidenote, I’m also having the same problem as gimster with the sidebar error on IE. If anyone can help, thanks in advance!

  73. Gravatar dalton April 12th, 2006 9:22 pm

    Whoa…it’s impressive to see all the different ways this theme has morphed as people have adopted it. I’m currently using a modified version of Simpla too.

  74. Gravatar Melanie April 14th, 2006 12:40 am

    Fantastic theme! I was looking for a pretty, but minimalist, theme for my site and this is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for your beautiful design work.

  75. Gravatar Terence April 14th, 2006 6:29 am

    So I think your Simpla theme is the best I’ve seen. And yet, It just doesn’t show up at my themes area. As also every single theme from the A theme a day. All the others are fine (Gentle Calm, for instance). Why would that be? I’m sorry to bother you, but nobody answered me at WP Forum. Would Simpla be 1.5 only?

  76. Gravatar Undr! » Blog Archive » Opdatering om opdatering April 17th, 2006 1:38 pm

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  77. Gravatar Arfeen Arif April 23rd, 2006 9:33 am

    well i using advance and customized version of theme at
    http://www.meripasand.com/

  78. Gravatar Sherwin Techico April 30th, 2006 7:06 am

    Just got started experimenting with WP for the very first time. Great theme Phu.

    @Arfeen: Do you mind sharing where and how you got that tweaked-simpla version for 2.0.2? TIA

  79. Gravatar Aparna May 3rd, 2006 1:53 pm

    hi Phu,

    I hope you could help me. I am really tired of finding out themes for my blog. The one i really liked is simpla theme of yours available in wordpress.com themes.

    The only hitch is i am not able to uplaod the photos. HAven’t you give provision in this theme to post photos? if not is there any way you can help me out.

    Pleeeease..!!

    thnks

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  81. Gravatar Aparna May 5th, 2006 11:09 pm

    hi thanks,

    i could upload photos now. One more issue.. i am not able to post the timestamp. Else its a great simple theme..

    thnks
    aparna

  82. Gravatar pimentel May 8th, 2006 5:38 pm

    can i use this theme with blogger?

  83. Gravatar Cem Basman May 16th, 2006 3:25 pm

    (1) The links in light blue are too similar in colour of the continuous text. They should have more contrast because they are difficult to recognize in the text.

    (2) There should be also a 3-column version of Simpla. First main text column and two sidebars at the right side.

    Very good work, Phu. Keep it going …

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  85. Gravatar Alex Wang June 2nd, 2006 8:59 am

    Hmmm, there’s no paginate link. I’ve translated this into Traditional Chinese (with appropriate modifications), available at http://moonfire.twbbs.org/20

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  87. Gravatar David June 8th, 2006 9:58 pm

    I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but when I upload Simpla and try and activate it somethings goes wrong because when viewing my blog all I see is the unformatted text of my blog (ie the blog without a theme). I tried redownloading but I get the same thing. I don’t experience this with other themes, so I’m not sure what’s up.

  88. Gravatar tecniart June 13th, 2006 8:02 am

    Thank you, it’s all i needed. You can see it in my spanish blog. It’s one of the cleanest themes i saw. Thank u again, nice work!!

  89. Gravatar ConTexto » Blog Archive » Nuevo blog sobre investigación: Somia June 14th, 2006 9:59 am

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  90. Gravatar Victor June 20th, 2006 12:48 am

    Where is the search box for this? How bout the archives?

  91. Gravatar Kevin Lippert June 22nd, 2006 9:46 pm

    Hi,
    I love and downloaded your Simpla theme; is there are way to add a banner graphic at the top of the page? And if so, to have it show only on the home page? And/or to rotate from, say, a folder of possible banner images for some variety?
    Great work, thanks for sharing it.

  92. Gravatar Jenny June 26th, 2006 9:01 am

    Very nice, and simplistic, theme! I am editing it a little to my liking, and I have encountered a “problem”. How would I go about to add the sidebar to the pages?

    With the PHP include the sidebar is pushed below the page content.

    Best regards,
    Jenny

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  94. Gravatar Robert Day June 29th, 2006 6:25 pm

    Nice Theme. Just one thing bugging me.
    I have installed it and made some changes but my background is all white, it does not have the grey cascading into white as on all the other Simpla Themes I see, any idea on how to fix this?

    Thanks,

    Robert Day

  95. Gravatar Tchakra July 23rd, 2006 3:38 pm

    You have to but to love this, elegance in simplicity is what this all about. Great work Phu.

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  99. Gravatar James Maskell’s Blog September 5th, 2006 8:37 pm

    Design Changes…

    I’ve made some changes to the design of the site, noticeably a new WordPress template.
    I started to design my own template but it was a half arsed attempt and I kept picking holes in it, so I scrapped that idea and ended up with the Simpla theme …

  100. Gravatar James Maskell’s Blog September 5th, 2006 8:37 pm

    Design Changes…

    I’ve made some changes to the design of the site, noticeably a new WordPress template.
    I started to design my own template but it was a half arsed attempt and I kept picking holes in it, so I scrapped that idea and ended up with the Simpla theme …

  101. Gravatar add September 8th, 2006 9:40 am

    love it. but i really need RSS so i’ll hack into it a little…
    aaa… and for future, you can put some text formating for de comments textarea. ;)

  102. Gravatar cheekturner » Blog Archive » moved and reskinned September 12th, 2006 10:50 am

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  103. Gravatar Dave Riley September 15th, 2006 12:41 am

    Saw it! Loved it! My passion was immediate. I’m a Simpla person because of it. After a few hacks it’s so darn good to use.–although it played havoc with my archive as Simpla demands clean script.

    Us Simpla folk should get together and share our hacks and tweaks? In the meantime I’ll tour the home pages/blogs of the posts here.

    10/10. Love at first site(huh!)!

  104. Gravatar David Kern September 15th, 2006 8:55 pm

    Has anyone resolved the sidebar issue in IE? I’d love to use this theme as its fantastic but after hacking away at a couple of other themes the last couple of days I’m about worn out.

  105. Gravatar dave riley September 16th, 2006 2:03 am

    Well, I’m not sure that it’s so big an issue.e demands clean script with no extender sideways like long url in RICH TEXT mode. If you go to my site in IE(click on my name) you’ll see it working fine –and I’ve installed it across my network of 6 sites. It ghels I guess that I have also installed a post extender hack.

    If you review your most recent posts one by one — say those on your top page — you’ll find at least one post that is exploded with add on script such as , in Blogger, massive long lines of

    or

    will get activated or imported especially if you copy paste into the Blogger window from another text source. This is the culprit which pushed the side margin down and stops its locating itself..

    So look to your posts as the problem isn’t likely to be in your sidebar script. in this template. It’s a standard issue with formatting in IE as it doesn’t accommodate as well as Firefox does to wide posts.

  106. Gravatar David Kern September 16th, 2006 5:13 pm

    Dave,

    Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, you’re dead on–my practice posts have been a bit on the wide side because of the images post–I’m a photographer. I guess I’ll have to watch the size more carefully. Say, can you tell me more about the pos extender hack?

  107. Gravatar Dave Riley September 17th, 2006 12:25 am

    You’ll find that Simpla is ideal for importing images — I import flash media players and I like the focus the embedded item receives with Simpla.

    But in Blogger and (I think) in Picasa which works so well with Blogger you get imaging options — small/medium/large — so you should interact fine that way. Also if positioning an image and it won’t with the standard formating options in Blogger you can use this script:

    before the image and

    at the end. Where “center” can be replaced by “left” or “right”. I use that on flash players as Blogger won’t move them with its standard formatting options.

    The extend post hack is described here. The one problem with it is embedding each of your posts with and — but persevere it is easy to do routinely after a time.

    http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42215&topic=8932