There is an update available for the Hellish Simplicity theme. Due to the hassles involved with updating themes on WordPress.org, I will not be updating the main download page for the theme until I have a few more updates ready.

Download Hellish Simplicity version 1.6.3

Some of these updates were added courtesy of Henrik Schack who is using Hellish Simplicity on his blog. Henrik discovered an HTML validation bug in the searchform.php file and a problem with the translation of the comments area.

Update: Henrik has also provided a Danish translation for version 1.5.9.

Free plug for Henrik: If you haven’t already, you should check out Henrik’s Google Authenticator which is an excellent way to add security to your WordPress website.

Character rendering

Whilst browsing Henrik’s website, I noticed that the Danish characters æ, ø and å were very poorly rendered. I checked on my own blog in Bokmål and discovered that my own site suffered the same problem. I found a solution by downloading fresh copies of the Droid Serif and Droid Sans-Serif fonts from the Google Font directory and parsing them through the Font Squirrel webfont generator tool.

The character errors present before the update.

The character errors present before the update.

Now the characters appear correctly.

Now the characters appear correctly.