Twenty Sixteen (2016) Default Theme

Why limit yourself to the default WordPress themes? There are literally thousands of other themes in the WordPress theme repository, many of which I think are much better than the default ones. And while the default layout might nicer than the others, I’ve found the TwentyFourteen theme much harder to customize than the other default themes.

I don’t limit myself but nothing caps off my year should be a wp theme that looks great. Plus 2014 is the easiest theme from wordpress since 2011 to tweak. I’ve used it longer and more than any other wp theme ever. Time to make something awesome again. I hope it’s just a slump.

Mobile-first design is a big thing, so to speak.

One concern I have with themes in general is I have no way of knowing how well they are coded or how good the CSS really is. I’ve been using (here and there) since twenty twelve. Haven’t had much in the way of problems at all. They seem to be really solid.

First of all, i have seen the default theme for Twenty Sixteen and it’s a joke to me. Even 2015, which is a boring theme, is better than 2016. I was looking forward to a combo of 2014 and 2015 but this isn’t happening, not so far.

I hope WordPress will change course and add better font like the one we saw in 2014’s theme and a menu bar to the top and the left side but with a great and unique spot for a header.

Please WordPress, what’s with the white themes? Can’t you find a new colour. Maybe a gold and black or a red and silver. Jesus Christ man, This is unfair! Plus it’s not like I can test it out to at least gain an ounce of respect for it completely or here and there.

Release a beta version please!!

I am previewing Twenty Sixteen but none of my photos are showing? Can anyone help me with this?

Just to be clear, when your existing theme is enabled, you can see the images. When you preview twenty sixteen, there are no images?

This is probably a plugin problem. If you deactivate all your plugins and then re-enable them one at a time, you’ll see if that’s the problem. I had some difficulty with a plugin myself but don’t remember which one.

I’m using twenty sixteen on my site (slightly modified) and like it a lot.

Mike

I am having a simple difficulty with this theme and the default WordPress 4.4.2 installation. I have selected “Allow people to post comments on new articles” ( controlled by https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/options-discussion.php ) and when I write a new page, the comment form is simply missing unless I manually select it and quick edit it. The regular edit does not have the option (that I can find at least) to show the comment form.

It seems to me that options-discussion.php is not working some how, but I cannot seem to debug it and I am doing it manually for now with a quick edit on every page (that is frustrating).

The heart (“active ingredient”) of the plugin is:

//For now only showing show comments-twenty-sixteen
//Adapted from https://wp-time.com/disable-comment-in-wordpress/
global $wpdb;
$wpdb->query(” UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET comment_status = ‘open’ WHERE comment_status = ‘closed’ “);
update_option(‘comment_status’, ‘open’);

$wpdb->query(” UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET default_comment_status = ‘open’ WHERE default_comment_status = ‘closed’ “);
update_option(‘default_comment_status’, ‘open’);

Why is this not working completely? Right now, only when the plugin is in place does it allow the comment field to show on the page on reload. But it does not set it globally.