A block theme designed to take full advantage of full site editing capabilities, particularly the opportunities offered by patterns. Create new pages in a matter of moments by constructing them from the wide range of patterns that come bundled with the theme.
Twenty Twenty-Four is designed to support full site editing’s powerful features, including:
Like its predecessor Twenty Twenty-Three, this theme is designed to use WordPress site-editing features instead of the Customizer, which will be hidden by default. The Customizer may be automatically reactivated if you have plugins that require it.
In the past, default themes often centered around a specific topic or style. However, Twenty Twenty-Four breaks away from this tradition. This theme is thoughtfully designed to be your all-encompassing choice for any type of website, regardless of its specific focus.
The Twenty Twenty-Four theme allows users to change certain Templates to use alternative patterns designed for specific use-cases: Business (the default), Writer, and Portfolio.
Alternative patterns for the Writer and Portfolio types can be switched to for the following templates:
You can use the Replace Template functionality to select one of the alternative patterns for your current template.
Twenty Twenty-Four also includes a range of different layouts for the Header and Footer of your site. When editing your Templates you can replace the template part with one of the variants.
Twenty Twenty-Four includes several custom page templates for you to use:
Explore patterns to save time while crafting creative layouts. Patterns are collections of predesigned blocks whose text and media content can be quickly replaced by your own. Whether a call-to-action, an event announcement, or FAQ, patterns can help jump-start the creation of your page or post.
Twenty Twenty-Four’s comes with a minimalist, but versatile, palette in monochromatic greys.
Prefer a different look? Visit the Styles area in the Editor and choose from 9 additional style variations to instantly switch up the design, including colors and typography.
Twenty Twenty-Four comes with style variations for a number of blocks – allowing slightly different appearance from their defaults.
Headings in Twenty Twenty-Four come with a variation that includes an Asterix as a bullet point above the heading.
When editing your headings – you will see an option in the sidebar to switch to the variant style. Selecting the ‘With asterisk’ style will keep the size and font of your heading – but add the stylized asterix above it.
List items in Twenty Twenty Four come with a variation that uses a checkmark as bullet points instead of the default style.
When editing your list – you will see an option in the sidebar to switch to the variant style. Selecting the ‘Checkmark’ style will keep the swap the default bullet for a checkmark.
The Details block in Twenty Twenty Four come with a variation that uses an arrow to mark the summary instead of the default style.
When editing your Details block – you will see an option in the sidebar to switch to the variant style. Selecting the ‘Arrow icon’ style will keep the swap the default marker dor the summary section to use an arrow icon.
Links within Navigation blocks in Twenty Twenty Four come with a variation that adds an arrow to the right of the link text (sometimes used for indicating a link that leaves the main site).
When editing menu items – you will see an option in the sidebar (Style tab) to switch to the variant style. Selecting the ‘With arrow’ style will add the arrow to the right of the link text.
Category and Tag list blocks in Twenty Twenty Four come with a variation that styles each term as a ‘pill’ with a light background.
When the Category or Tag blocks within a Query Loop – you will see an option in the sidebar (Style tab) to switch to the variant style. Selecting the ‘Pill’ style will add a light background color (with rounded corners) to each term in the list..
Twenty Twenty-Four comes with the following defaults for style.
Should you wish – you can also view a more complete list of the spacing, color, and layout presets used by the theme. And remember, the Site Editor’s Styles tools give a wide range of options for customizing the style of your site beyond these defaults.
Get community help with Twenty Twenty-Four in its support forum.
Learn how to take full advantage of full site editing with the Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing course on Learn.www.ads-software.com.
Read more about the Twenty Twenty-Four theme in the introduction post.
]]>A minimalist block theme designed to take full advantage of full site editing capabilities, Twenty Twenty-Three includes a collection of ten community-submitted style variations. Explore the Styles panel and change the look-and-feel of your site in an instant – bold and bright, or soft and subtle, the choice is yours.
Twenty Twenty-Three is designed to support full site editing’s powerful features, including:
Like its predecessor Twenty Twenty-Two, this theme is designed to use WordPress site-editing features instead of the Customizer, which will be hidden by default. The Customizer may be automatically reactivated if you have plugins that require it.
Twenty Twenty-Three includes several custom templates for you to use:
Explore patterns to save time while crafting creative layouts. Patterns are collections of predesigned blocks whose text and media content can be quickly swapped out with your own. Whether a call-to-action, an event announcement, or a pricing table, patterns can help jump-start the creation of your page or post.
Twenty Twenty-Three’s default colour scheme consists of a minimalist black-and-white palette, along with green accents.
Prefer a different look? Visit the Styles area in the Editor and choose from ten additional style variations to instantly switch up the design, including colors and typography.
Twenty Twenty-Three takes advantage of fluid typography presets, so that each piece of text can adapt to any screen size, automatically. The theme also uses fluid spacing presets, to help maintain consistency in the spacing between blocks at all screen sizes. If you’re interested in learning more about the sizes, spacing, and font families in those presets, check out Twenty Twenty-Three’s design specification.
Get community help with Twenty Twenty-Three in its support forum.
Learn how to take full advantage of full site editing with the Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing Learn WordPress course.
Read more about the Twenty Twenty-Three theme in the introduction post.
]]>Everyone deserves a truly unique website, built on a solid, well-designed foundation. Twenty Twenty-Two aims to help you achieve that by offering a wide set of patterns, templates, headers, footers, and custom color palettes. As the first-ever default block theme, Twenty Twenty-Two invites you to explore full site editing and create a site that reflects your individual vision.
Twenty Twenty-Two is designed to support all of the features of full site editing. This includes the following:
Thanks to these options you should find that you won’t need to switch themes as often to create the desired look and feel of your site.
Keep in mind that Twenty Twenty-Two is designed to use the above features instead of the Customizer to edit your site. The Customizer will be hidden by default, though it may be reactivated if you have plugins installed that require it.
Twenty Twenty-Two has three custom templates for you to use with your posts and pages:
When exploring these templates and making them your own, be sure to take advantage of the Page patterns that you can use to build your templates. To learn more about templates and how to use them on your site, please read the Template Editor support article.
Twenty Twenty-Two comes with 64 patterns to create beautiful content from footers, headers, pages, and more. To learn more about block patterns and how to use them on your site, please read the Block Patterns support article.
Here are just a few examples to look forward to:
Subscribe callout
Layered images with duotone
List of events
The theme provides several recommended colors that work well with the design of the theme. You can use these colors throughout your site including when customizing your site with the Styles feature or when customizing individual blocks. Duotone filters are also included as part of the color palette options so you can easily have all aspects of your site embrace a shared palette:
Black
White
Dark Green
Beige
Light Grey
Get community help with Twenty Twenty-Two in its support forum.
Learn how to take full advantage of full site editing with the Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing Learn WordPress course.
Read more about the Twenty Twenty-Two theme in the introduction post.
]]>Twenty Twenty-One is a blank canvas for your ideas and it makes the block editor your best brush. With new block patterns, which allow you to create a beautiful layout in a matter of seconds, this theme’s soft colors and eye-catching — yet timeless — design will let your work shine. Take it for a spin! See how Twenty Twenty-One elevates your portfolio, business website, or personal blog.
Twenty Twenty-One comes with Starter Content that explains how to use the theme’s block patterns and styles. You can only activate starter content on freshly installed sites that do not have any pages or posts. To activate, please head over to the Customizer and click on Publish.
Twenty Twenty-One is designed and developed to take full advantage of the creative freedom enabled by the block editor. Extra care has been given to the Columns block so you can create impressive landing pages with intricate blocks layouts. Twenty Twenty-One includes styles for the block editor, so what you see in the editor will almost exactly match the end result.
Learn more about block patterns and how to add them
Block styles are selected in the block Settings sidebar in the editor.
Social links: In addition to the default styles, you can choose a dark grey icon color.
Separator: In addition to the default styles, you can choose an extra thick separator.
In Twenty Twenty-One, borders can be added to the following blocks:
The columns block has an optional style called overlap, where the content of every second column overlaps the previous:
The theme provides several recommended colors that works well with the design of the theme. Select the colors in the background color setting and in the editor. There are also matching gradients.
Black
White
Dark Grey
Grey
Green
Blue
Purple
Red
Orange
Yellow
Twenty Twenty includes the option to change your site’s background color.
To change the background color, navigate to Customizer
Colors & Dark Mode.Add your own custom color, or select a color from the palette.
The colors of the elements on your site are automatically calculated based on the background colors you pick. This ensures that the color contrast is always high enough to be accessible to all visitors.
Twenty Twenty-One includes a site logo setting which can be used to display the logo of your business or an image of yourself. You can set your site logo by going to Customizer
Site Identity.The recommended size of the logo is at least 300px wide, or at least 100px tall. The logo is visible in the header and footer.
The logo in the site header is centered. If you want to hide the Site Title and Tagline, the logo is placed to the left of the menu:
In the Customizer you will find a panel called Excerpt Settings:
Here you can choose if the blog and archive pages should show the full content or only the summary.
The default is summary. The search result page always shows the summary.
When the summary is selected, only text will be displayed.
Twenty Twenty-One includes two menu locations:
You can choose a menu location by going to Appearance
Menus, where you can assign a menu to the “Primary Navigation” or the “Footer Navigation”. You can also use both menu locations in combination, if you prefer.The primary navigation menu supports menu descriptions.
To enable menu descriptions, go to Appearance
Menus, and open the Screen Options tab at the top of the page.Under Show advanced menu properties, check the box for Description:
Add a description by selecting the menu item and filling out the Description textarea. Remember to save your changes.
There are two ways to add social icons in your site:
When you create a social menu, the text label you provide will be hidden, and an icon will be shown in its place. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, please check out the documentation from Twenty Fifteen.
Twenty Twenty-One provides icons for the following social media services:
Additional icons can be added following the steps under “Adding icons in Twenty Twenty” at Themes field guide: WordPress 5.5.
Twenty Twenty-One comes with support for one widget area, at the very bottom of each page. Each widget column is 33% of the site width, up to 380px.
Twenty Twenty-One has support for post formats.
Post formats are selected in the editors Settings sidebar Post Status & visibility.
Twenty Twenty-One includes styles for RTL languages.
The theme uses a native system font stack. This font stack provides support for a large number of languages.
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif
One of the accessibility features of the Twenty Twenty-One theme is support for the visitor’s color scheme preferences in their operating system or browser’s settings. The feature is opt-in and supported in most operating systems, including Android, iOS, OSX, Windows 10, as well as most Linux distributions.
If you have Dark Mode enabled, your site will be shown to visitors using a light or dark color scheme, respecting their operating system’s preferences. Depending on their lighting conditions or personal preferences they may choose to switch color schemes using a dedicated button on the bottom-right of their site (or bottom-left for RTL languages).
To activate Dark Mode Support, you can go to the Colors & Dark Mode section in your Customizer. If you have a light color selected for the site’s background, you will be able to see and activate the Dark Mode Support
setting. The background color you select will be applied to light mode, while Dark Mode colors are optimized automatically. You can use the Dark Mode On/Off button at the bottom of the preview screen to toggle between dark & light schemes in your preview.
The editor will by default respect your operating system’s color scheme settings. If on the front of your site you have chosen a different scheme (using the Dark Mode On/Off button), then the editor will use the preferred scheme.
Get community help with Twenty Twenty-One in its support forum.
You can also read the theme’s changelog.
]]>Twenty Twenty contains Starter Content that helps to set up the theme identical to the theme demo page. The Starter Content can only be activated on freshly installed sites that do not have any pages or posts yet. To activate, please head over to the Customizer and click on Publish
.
Twenty Twenty is designed and developed to take maximum advantage of the creative freedom enabled by the block editor. Extra care has been given to the Columns and Group blocks, which can be combined into impressive landing pages with intricate blocks layouts. Twenty Twenty includes full editor styles for the block editor, so what you see in the editor will almost exactly match the end result.
Twenty Twenty includes a site logo setting which can be used to display the logo of your business or an image of yourself. You can set your site logo by going to Customizer
Site Identity. The recommended resolution of the logo is 240px wide by 180px high.Twenty Twenty includes three color settings that make it easy to give your site a personal touch. To change the color settings, navigate to Customizer
Colors.The color settings included in Twenty Twenty are:
The colors of the elements on your site are automatically calculated based on the background colors you pick. This ensures that the color contrast is always high enough to be accessible to all visitors.
Twenty Twenty includes a page template called the “Cover Template” that displays the title of the post or page on top of the featured image.
You can set a post or page to use the cover template by editing the post or page, selecting the “Document” tab in the right sidebar, expanding the “Post/Page Attributes” tab, and selecting “Cover Template” in the “Template” dropdown.
Twenty Twenty includes a number of different options for the Cover Template, located in the “Cover Template” tab in the Customizer. Here, you can set the background color of the image overlay, the opacity of the image overlay, and the color of the text displayed on top of the overlay. You can also select whether the background image should have a fixed position when the visitor scrolls, which creates a gentle parallax effect.
Twenty Twenty includes optimal font styles for many languages, thanks to feedback from the WordPress community. The theme uses local system fonts by default and makes adjustments to the typography for the following alphabets:
There are two different desktop menus to choose from in Twenty Twenty:
You can choose which menu location to use by going to Appearance
Menus, where you can assign a menu to the “Desktop Horizontal Menu” or the “Desktop Expanded Menu”. You can also use both menu locations in combination, if you prefer.Twenty Twenty also includes a footer menu, which is displayed beneath the site content, and a mobile menu, which defaults to the menu set to either the desktop horizontal menu or the desktop expanded menu.
Twenty Twenty includes two widget areas below the site content and above the footer.
On screens larger than 699px wide, widgets in this area are automatically arranged into two columns.
Twenty Twenty includes a Social Icons Menu, where you can add links to your social media profiles that will be displayed as logos in the footer. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, please check out the documentation from Twenty Fifteen.
The following services are supported by Twenty Twenty’s Social Icons Menu:
Additional icons can be added following the steps under “Adding icons in Twenty Twenty” at Themes field guide: WordPress 5.5.
Get community help with Twenty Twenty in its forum.
You can also read the theme’s changelog.
]]>The block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0 grants users an unprecedented level of freedom to customize their site’s layout and design. In order to fully achieve their vision, users will need a new generation of flexible themes, built to take advantage of the creative freedom that the block editor offers. Twenty Nineteen is built with this in mind and includes both front-end and editor styles for all core blocks that ship with WordPress in 5.0. This means that what you see in the editor will look almost exactly like what you see on the front end.
Twenty Nineteen supports a Site Logo which works great as an avatar for a personal blog or an business logo or icon. To modify it on your site, navigate to Customizer > Site Identity.
Twenty Nineteen uses a blue accent color by default. That color can be customized using a color hue slider. To explore the color options, navigate to Customizer > Colors.
By default, Twenty Nineteen applies a color filter to featured images using the color selected here. This can be disabled by deselecting the “Apply a filter to featured images using the site’s primary color” checkbox. Please not that when this option is disabled, the theme will still apply a black overlay on the featured image on single pages, in order to preserve the readability of the text that sits on top of the image.
Twenty Nineteen includes optimal font styles for many languages, thanks to feedback from the WordPress community. The theme uses local system fonts by default and makes adjustments to the typography for the following alphabets:
Twenty Nineteen includes a widget area below the site’s content, just above the footer.
On screens larger than 1168px wide, widgets in this area are automatically arranged into two columns.
Twenty Nineteen includes a Social Icons Menu, where you can add links to your social media profiles that will be displayed as logos in the header. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, please check out the documentation from Twenty Fifteen.
The following services are supported by Twenty Nineteen’s Social Icons Menu:
Get community help with Twenty Nineteen in its forum.
You can also read the theme’s changelog.
]]>Twenty Seventeen supports both header images and header videos. To modify either type on your site, navigate to Customizer > Header Media.
For header videos, you can upload your own mp4
video or link to a video hosted on YouTube. Smaller file sizes will help make sure your site is loaded quickly.
A header image can be used on its own to display a large photograph at the top of your site. It can also be used as a video fallback: If both a video and image are added, the image will be used as a placeholder while the video loads, and it also acts as a fallback on smaller screens where videos may be harder to serve over mobile networks.
Twenty Seventeen allows you to build a striking front page composed of content from different pages on your site. Each page’s featured image is highlighted, displayed at full-screen size with a fixed position. Twenty Seventeen has four different sections you can assign pages to.
To set this up, first navigate to Customizer > Static Front Page, and set your site to use a static front page if you haven’t already.
Navigate to Customizer > Theme Options. Under each Front Page Section # Content
header, select a page you’d like to display for that section.
If you haven’t created any pages yet, you can do that from the Customizer by clicking + Add New Page
beneath any of the sections. This will allow you to create a new page from the Customizer that you can later add content to.
For the best appearance, make sure each page includes a featured image and some content.
You can also select your Blog Posts page, and the panel will display your three latest blog posts.
Once you’ve finished adding pages to the sections, click Save & Publish
.
If you’d like to change the number of sections you can add pages to, add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php
:
add_filter( 'twentyseventeen_front_page_sections', 'prefix_custom_front_page_sections' );
function prefix_custom_front_page_sections( $num_sections ) {
return 6;
}
This snippet changes the default four sections to six.
Twenty Seventeen includes three color options: the default light color scheme, a dark color scheme, and a Custom Colors scheme that can be adjusted to various hues using a slider.
To explore all the color options available, navigate to Customizer > Colors.
Twenty Seventeen includes optimal font styles for many languages, thanks to feedback from the WordPress community. The theme uses Libre Franklin by default and makes adjustments to the typography for the following alphabets:
To improve legibility, Twenty Seventeen also removes its letter-spacing styles for all non-Latin alphabets.
For pages, Twenty Seventeen allows you to choose between a one- and two-column layout. This can be changed via Customizer > Theme Options. The theme defaults to the two-column layout, which displays the page title in one column and the page content in the other.
Note: This feature only becomes available after setting a static front page.
When the one-column layout is selected, both the page title and content display in a wider single column, centered on the page.
Twenty Seventeen includes a footer widget area allowing widgets to be added below the site’s content.
The blog index, archive, and search pages and single blog posts also include a sidebar widget area. For each of these pages, the content is displayed in one center column if there is no sidebar. With the sidebar, the content is displayed in one column and the widgets are displayed in the other.
Pullquotes can be used to direct your readers’ attention to a particular passage or add visual interest to your posts and pages. In Twenty Seventeen, you can pair a pullquote with an alignleft
or alignright
class on the blockquote
element to further highlight it. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the support article for the Classic Editor. See the following example:
<blockquote class="alignleft">This is my fabulous left-aligned pullquote.</blockquote>
When a two-column layout is used (whether via the Customizer for pages, or by adding a sidebar widget for posts), the pullquote aligned to the same side will display fully outside of the content area and below the second column. Note: This will only work when the pullquote appears in the content below where the second column ends.
Twenty Seventeen supports the following post formats:
Twenty Seventeen includes a Social Icons Menu, allowing you to add links to your social media profiles that will be displayed as logos in the footer. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, please refer to the documentation from Twenty Fifteen.
The following services are supported by Twenty Seventeen’s Social Icons Menu:
Get community help with Twenty Seventeen on its forum.
Get tips for theming with Twenty Seventeen from this post on make.www.ads-software.com by one of Twenty Seventeen’s developers. You can also read the theme’s changelog.
]]>Twenty Sixteen is a modernized take on an ever-popular WordPress layout — the horizontal masthead with an optional right sidebar that works perfectly for blogs and websites. It has custom color options with beautiful default color schemes, a harmonious fluid grid using a mobile-first approach, and impeccable polish in every detail. Twenty Sixteen will make your WordPress look beautiful everywhere.
Quick Specs
If you’d like to keep your visitors’ focus squarely on your content, simply don’t add any widgets to the sidebar widget area. This also allows you to give your posts a powerful visual boost by adding a large Featured Image, up to 1200px wide.
Twenty Sixteen’s two Content Bottom Widget Areas are handy spots where you can place supplementary content. On single posts and pages, these widget areas display below your content. To add widgets to them, Click Appearance > Widgets from the Administration Screen and add your favorite widgets to Content Bottom 1 or Content Bottom 2 or both.
Twenty Sixteen has a small but nifty intro feature. Also known as a “deck” or “kicker,” the intro area is displayed between the headline and body copy. Your intro can provide important information and act as a link between the title and the rest of your post. A carefully crafted deck grabs readers’ attention, giving them an idea of what to expect in the full post.
Add your intro in the Excerpt option in your Post panel.
Have you ever wanted to show off your large images without sacrificing the post’s readability? On a large screen, full-size images wider than or equal to 840px overhang the column.
Pull quotes are a great way to refocus your readers’ attention — just add a class of alignleft
or alignright
to a blockquote
element. Here are some examples of how to do that in the Classic Editor.
<blockquote class="alignleft">A bolder pull blockquote that aligns to the lef</blockquote> <blockquote class="alignright">A bolder pull blockquote that aligns to the right</blockquote>
On a large monitor, the left-aligned pull quote overhangs the main column to maintain the readability of the text wrapped around it.
Open the Customizer to check out the four featured color schemes you can use to instantly change the look of your website.
Personalize the design even further by adding a Custom Header Image or/and Site Logo.
With Twenty Sixteen, you can display links to your social media profiles with perfectly sized icons in the footer, using the Social Links menu. You can manage menus under Appearance > Menus.
Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your menu:
Twenty Fifteen looks great on devices of all sizes, from desktop to mobile and everything in between. The theme adapts to any screen without sacrificing usability or design integrity.
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
There are a few ways that you can customize Twenty Fifteen, all from WordPress’ Customizer. This short guide will show you how to:
Twenty Fifteen has six color schemes you can use to change the look of your blog. The Default color scheme is a light gray, but you can also choose from Dark, Yellow, Pink, Purple, and Blue.
To choose your color scheme, go to Appearance > Customize.
Under “Colors”, select your preferred color scheme from the drop down:
You’ll see the color scheme change in the preview pane to the right.
When you’re done, click Save and Publish.
Twenty Fifteen has a menu design that’s easy to navigate, especially when you add menu descriptions.
To start adding descriptions to your menus, go to Appearance > Menus and click the Screen Options tab in the upper right of the screen.
In the “Show advanced menu properties” section, check the box next to Description.
Now you can begin adding descriptions to any link in a menu.
When you’re done, click Save Menu.
Twenty Fifteen also allows you to display links to your social media profiles with crisp, perfectly-sized icons.
You can see these icons at the bottom of the menu displayed in the previous section.
The first step is to go to Appearance > Menus and create a new menu – you can name your menu anything you like.
You will then add the URL for each social profile to your menu as a custom link.
When you have added all desired links, click Save Menu.
Now that you have created your menu and added your social links, go to the Manage Locations tab and next to “Social Links Menu”, select the social icons menu you just created from the drop down.
Click Save Changes when you’re done.
Available icons
Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your menu:
Twenty Fifteen comes bundled with a set of block patterns.
You can access the block patterns from the Block Editor.
You can also use the Customizer to make the following changes to your website:
You can also select a gradient option for certain blocks that fit the theme color scheme:
The 2012 theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device. Features include a front page template with its own widgets, styling for post formats on both index and single views, and an optional no-sidebar page template. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background.
The theme has three patterns and three widget areas: Two on the front page and one sidebar.
Twenty Twelve uses the following color palette:
Blue #21759b
Dark Gray #444
Medium Gray #9f9f9f
Light Gray #e6e6e6
White #ffffff
You can change the header text color and the background color in the Colors panel in the Customizer:
Twenty Twelve has two optional page templates: A front page template and a full width page template with no sidebar.
Both templates hide the sidebar, and the front page template also hides the comments area.
You can set the page template by editing the page, opening the Page panel, and clicking on the template name.
The templates are available for pages, not for posts.
Twenty Twelve supports standard, aside, image, link, quote, and status post formats.
The theme has three custom patterns: Floating images gallery, left-aligned large quote, and left-aligned image and paragraph.
You can access the patterns from the Block Editor.
Floating images gallery
Left-aligned large quote
Left-aligned image and paragraph
Get community help with Twenty Twelve in its forum.
You can also read the theme’s changelog.
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