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New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve

109 points by superchink 14y ago

viraj_shah 14y ago
They are moving in the right direction. Responsive and minimalistic. I like it. I'm glad they removed that banner picture from the top.
niels_olson 14y ago
I was just shopping for quotes on a custom theme along these lines. Really hard to pay for the default...
- jschuur 14y ago
  http://wordpressfoundation.org/donate/ http://wordpressfoundation.org/donate/ ?
latchkey 14y ago
I was totally expecting to see bootstrap ... heh.
- homosaur 14y ago
  Oh man, I'm pretty sure I would have had an aneurysm if that were true.
spicyj 14y ago
Isn't it a bit late in the year to be introducing the "theme of 2012"?
- jblz 14y ago
  It was worth the wait if you ask me :)
- saurik 14y ago
  In just three short months it is going to feel horribly dated.
- chrisguitarguy 14y ago
  It will be packaged with WordPress 3.5, which is slated to be released around early December. It's probably called Twenty Twelve because (1) they're trying to be optimistic about the 3.5 release date and (2) the theme was meant to be included with 3.4, but didn't get done in time.
  - westi 14y ago
    It's called Twenty Twelve because it's the default theme that was released this year. Next year we will have Twenty Thirteen and so on ...
- sageikosa 14y ago
  I would be more concerned that the Olympics might call and demand their number back.
homosaur 14y ago
This theme is really, really good. I like the elimination of the stupid header images that no one used and the greater focus on type and large images. This theme, more than the other twenties is really a good starter. It comes with all the support you'd expect and not a ton of layout-related styling. I could actually see myself using this as a base to edit in the future.
- megablast 14y ago
  Is it really good, or is it just not bad like the last one, with a header image that took up a huge area of the screen.
  - __chrismc 14y ago
    It is really good. I switched to it late last night, from one of the "premium" themes. I still need to tweak/optimize a bit (particularly the sidebar), but I'm really happy so far. There are a lot of little details I keep finding which were a big improvement for me (author pages in particular).
calvinlough 14y ago
Demo site: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/
DigitalSea 14y ago
Finally. I've been waiting ages for Wordpress to come to their senses and remove the header images because nobody used them anyway. Easily one of the nicest and best Twenty-something Wordpress themes by far, really aesthetically pleasing.
zhihonglin 14y ago
when it's available for download? I search it in my wordpress blog dashboard but not found.
- jblz 14y ago
  right now if you don't mind pre-release code: browse source: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve check it out: svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve /path/to/your/themes/dir/twentytwelve
MikeKusold 14y ago
I'm not certain if this is ready for the public. When I visited the demo site with Chrome for ICS there were rendering errors with the bottom bar. http://www.imgur.com/WVKzi.png http://www.imgur.com/WVKzi.png
- X-Istence 14y ago
  Chrome for ICS and the standard browser on Android 3.x never rendered my site correctly [1][2], especially segments containing code (they were completely misplaced) I wasn't able to reproduce the error on any other platform, iOS, Opera for iOS, Chrome on the desktop, and off course not on FireFox, Safari, and IE... At that point I just gave up. [1]: https://plus.google.com/photos/113979921696834019350/albums/5714292989238022593#photos/113979921696834019350/albums/5714292989238022593 https://plus.google.com/photos/113979921696834019350/albums/... [2]: http://funcptr.net/ http://funcptr.net/
sharkweek 14y ago
the homepage template concept is brilliant -- kudos to wordpress for a HUGE improvement over their last default template
zach 14y ago
I'm interested to see the designer for this theme is none other than Drew Strojny, founder of the company behind The Theme Foundry. His backstory is remarkable — he was an offensive tackle selected in the 2004 NFL Draft. Really. You can hear him tell the story in an episode of Founders Talk: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/22 http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/22
chrisguitarguy 14y ago
Looks really good, but is strikingly similar to another of Drew Strojny's themes: http://demo.thethemefoundry.com/linen-theme/ http://demo.thethemefoundry.com/linen-theme/
lilbear 14y ago
I wonder what the nested drop down menus look like on mobile formatted size...
lilbear 14y ago
I wonder what the nested drop down menus look like on mobile formatted size...
dochtman 14y ago
Is it just me, or does it seem inspired by MS' Metro/Modern UI looks?
josscrowcroft 14y ago
Live Demo: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com Very nice, but not quite enough distinction between different post types for my liking. Reading the blog page[1] I couldn't help but feel the Quote and Image post types blended into the full post above... I'd darken the separator lines slightly. Love it otherwise, will definitely use on projects! #edit: Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer. Sold! [2] #edit 2: Gallery viewer screws up on latest Chrome/mac when scrolling the page up and down to view comments. Bummer. [1] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ [2] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/fall-in-luxembourg/ http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/fall-in-lux...
- westi 14y ago
  > Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer Actually the kickass gallery viewer works on all WordPress.com blogs regardless of the theme. We call it "Carousel" [1] and it is also available for self-hosted WordPress installs in Jetpack [2] [1] http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/around-the-carousel-again/ http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/around-the-carousel-... [2] http://jetpack.me/2012/07/13/jetpack-1-5-with-carousel/ http://jetpack.me/2012/07/13/jetpack-1-5-with-carousel/
huskyr 14y ago
It's better than the old theme, but the PHP code is still a mess, like the whole codebase of WP in general. For example, there's lots of duplication in the HTML in many templates. The functions.php still uses lots of global functions with long_underscored_functions_with_prefixes instead of a simple class with short method names.
Kiro 14y ago
I like Twenty Eleven better to be honest.

109 points by superchink 14y ago

They are moving in the right direction. Responsive and minimalistic. I like it. I'm glad they removed that banner picture from the top.

niels_olson 14y ago

I was just shopping for quotes on a custom theme along these lines. Really hard to pay for the default...

jschuur 14y ago
http://wordpressfoundation.org/donate/ http://wordpressfoundation.org/donate/ ?

latchkey 14y ago

I was totally expecting to see bootstrap ... heh.

homosaur 14y ago
Oh man, I'm pretty sure I would have had an aneurysm if that were true.

spicyj 14y ago

Isn't it a bit late in the year to be introducing the "theme of 2012"?

jblz 14y ago
It was worth the wait if you ask me :)
saurik 14y ago
In just three short months it is going to feel horribly dated.
chrisguitarguy 14y ago
It will be packaged with WordPress 3.5, which is slated to be released around early December. It's probably called Twenty Twelve because (1) they're trying to be optimistic about the 3.5 release date and (2) the theme was meant to be included with 3.4, but didn't get done in time.
- westi 14y ago
  It's called Twenty Twelve because it's the default theme that was released this year. Next year we will have Twenty Thirteen and so on ...
sageikosa 14y ago
I would be more concerned that the Olympics might call and demand their number back.

homosaur 14y ago

This theme is really, really good. I like the elimination of the stupid header images that no one used and the greater focus on type and large images. This theme, more than the other twenties is really a good starter. It comes with all the support you'd expect and not a ton of layout-related styling. I could actually see myself using this as a base to edit in the future.

megablast 14y ago
Is it really good, or is it just not bad like the last one, with a header image that took up a huge area of the screen.
- __chrismc 14y ago
  It is really good. I switched to it late last night, from one of the "premium" themes. I still need to tweak/optimize a bit (particularly the sidebar), but I'm really happy so far. There are a lot of little details I keep finding which were a big improvement for me (author pages in particular).

calvinlough 14y ago

Demo site: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/

DigitalSea 14y ago

Finally. I've been waiting ages for Wordpress to come to their senses and remove the header images because nobody used them anyway. Easily one of the nicest and best Twenty-something Wordpress themes by far, really aesthetically pleasing.

zhihonglin 14y ago

when it's available for download? I search it in my wordpress blog dashboard but not found.

jblz 14y ago
right now if you don't mind pre-release code: browse source: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve check it out: svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve /path/to/your/themes/dir/twentytwelve

MikeKusold 14y ago

I'm not certain if this is ready for the public. When I visited the demo site with Chrome for ICS there were rendering errors with the bottom bar. http://www.imgur.com/WVKzi.png http://www.imgur.com/WVKzi.png

X-Istence 14y ago
Chrome for ICS and the standard browser on Android 3.x never rendered my site correctly [1][2], especially segments containing code (they were completely misplaced) I wasn't able to reproduce the error on any other platform, iOS, Opera for iOS, Chrome on the desktop, and off course not on FireFox, Safari, and IE... At that point I just gave up. [1]: https://plus.google.com/photos/113979921696834019350/albums/5714292989238022593#photos/113979921696834019350/albums/5714292989238022593 https://plus.google.com/photos/113979921696834019350/albums/... [2]: http://funcptr.net/ http://funcptr.net/

sharkweek 14y ago

the homepage template concept is brilliant -- kudos to wordpress for a HUGE improvement over their last default template

zach 14y ago

I'm interested to see the designer for this theme is none other than Drew Strojny, founder of the company behind The Theme Foundry. His backstory is remarkable — he was an offensive tackle selected in the 2004 NFL Draft. Really. You can hear him tell the story in an episode of Founders Talk: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/22 http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/22

chrisguitarguy 14y ago

Looks really good, but is strikingly similar to another of Drew Strojny's themes: http://demo.thethemefoundry.com/linen-theme/ http://demo.thethemefoundry.com/linen-theme/

lilbear 14y ago

I wonder what the nested drop down menus look like on mobile formatted size...

lilbear 14y ago

I wonder what the nested drop down menus look like on mobile formatted size...

dochtman 14y ago

Is it just me, or does it seem inspired by MS' Metro/Modern UI looks?

josscrowcroft 14y ago

Live Demo: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com Very nice, but not quite enough distinction between different post types for my liking. Reading the blog page[1] I couldn't help but feel the Quote and Image post types blended into the full post above... I'd darken the separator lines slightly. Love it otherwise, will definitely use on projects! #edit: Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer. Sold! [2] #edit 2: Gallery viewer screws up on latest Chrome/mac when scrolling the page up and down to view comments. Bummer. [1] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/ [2] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/fall-in-luxembourg/ http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/fall-in-lux...

westi 14y ago
> Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer Actually the kickass gallery viewer works on all WordPress.com blogs regardless of the theme. We call it "Carousel" [1] and it is also available for self-hosted WordPress installs in Jetpack [2] [1] http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/around-the-carousel-again/ http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/around-the-carousel-... [2] http://jetpack.me/2012/07/13/jetpack-1-5-with-carousel/ http://jetpack.me/2012/07/13/jetpack-1-5-with-carousel/

huskyr 14y ago

It's better than the old theme, but the PHP code is still a mess, like the whole codebase of WP in general. For example, there's lots of duplication in the HTML in many templates. The functions.php still uses lots of global functions with long_underscored_functions_with_prefixes instead of a simple class with short method names.

Kiro 14y ago

I like Twenty Eleven better to be honest.