Check out our new default theme, Twenty Twenty One!
January 14, 2021
Ben Dwyer
Twenty Twenty One is the latest WordPress default theme, which is now available to all WordPress.com sites. Designed by Mel Choyce-Dwan, the muted tones and timeless design will let your work shine.
Twenty Twenty One takes advantage of all the latest features of the Block Editor the new block patterns allow you to create a beautiful layout in seconds.
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Block-based Twenty Twenty-One theme in the site editor.
As I said last week,
2021 will be the year of the site editor. Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word confirms it. WordPress 5.7’s release planning is focused on it. It has been a long journey getting to this point, and it will be a much longer adventure afterward. The ultimate promise of the work that began nearly four years ago is nigh.
The Gutenberg project was never
just about editing content. WordPress was aging software by late 2016. It needed to cater to modern audiences who may be less tech-savvy than the platform’s existing user base. It needed to capture a younger generation of developers who were looking at the greener grass of JavaScript-heavy software. It needed to offer an experience on par with modern web applications. WordPress had a lot of boxes it needed to check or face irrelevance.