Twenty Ten: what is the future of this theme

  • When WP 3.0 came out everyone was excited about new default theme and I as many other WP developers started to use 2010 as mini framework for the child theme development of new projects. There is very big advantage to use default theme as a parent theme, because you always know that it will be updated frequently, introducing all the latest and greatest WP features and it will be always fast and secure.

    But, nobody ever suspected, that 2010 will be default theme for such a short time ??

    Questions to WP devs:

    1. Will you continue to support TwentyTen at the same or similar level as Twenty Eleven?

    2. Will you introduce new features and tweaks to TwentyTen, like the once Twenty Eleven got introduced?

    3. It was nice, that Matt Thomas was dedicated to dev. of this team. Is he still working on it? Or perhaps other people will inherit this theme?

    I think it would be nice if WP team would value all the time investment of WP developers and would continue to support Twenty Ten at least as Semi-Default theme ??

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  • But nothing would go wrong if WP would change its plans giving a helping hand and putting more stability for semi-pro WP developers ??

    You’re welcome to take it up with the core development team, but I highly doubt that you’ll present a compelling enough argument to get them to change their current philosophy with respect to providing a new default Theme every year. ??

    I tend to agree with most of what Tomas said in this thread.

    The idea that a new theme each year will highlight the newest WP coding is good, but just dumping the year old theme (2010) is not good.

    This new theme each year, sort of throws any one who isn’t doing WP full time into a place of having to buy a custom theme that will be updated or learning a new theme each year. That seems to go against the idea of customization for non-pros. As it was even with 2010, we had to add lots to the functions.php file in child to make even core functions work.

    I guess I would like to know just what is supported in wp core package and not theme dependent.

    Just my 2cents..

    I tend to agree with most of what Tomas said in this thread.

    The idea that a new theme each year will highlight the newest WP coding is good, but just dumping the year old theme (2010) is not good.

    Anyone is welcome to contribute to maintaining Twenty Ten or any other core-bundled Theme.

    Patches Welcome!

    This new theme each year, sort of throws any one who isn’t doing WP full time into a place of having to buy a custom theme that will be updated or learning a new theme each year. That seems to go against the idea of customization for non-pros. As it was even with 2010, we had to add lots to the functions.php file in child to make even core functions work.

    I guess I would like to know just what is supported in wp core package and not theme dependent.

    What do you mean? Any given front-end feature must be implemented by the Theme; thus, every such feature is entirely Theme-dependent.

    Anyone is welcome to contribute to maintaining Twenty Ten or any other core-bundled Theme.

    Patches Welcome!

    The point being that is beyond my skill set.. and many others who use the default theme as a starting point for customizations.

    The point being that is beyond my skill set.. and many others who use the default theme as a starting point for customizations.

    In some regards, welcome to the Open-Source world. ??

    There are many, many options regarding Themes – including Themes that are designed to serve as a Parent Theme suitable for Child Theming, or as a framework for Theme development.

    Such Themes would likely be far more suitable for your purposes than the default Theme, because acting as a development base is not the primary, intended purpose of the core-bundled, default Theme, which instead is to provide a showcase for the latest, greatest, and best that WordPress has to offer.

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