Twenty Nineteen

Twenty Nineteen is the new default theme for WordPress Versionen 5.0 . At the core of Twenty Nineteen is its simple, sophisticated typography. The theme’s aesthetic is minimal and non-prescriptive, allowing it to worc well in a variety of applications. For example: it is effective as an minimal, typography-driven blogguing theme, but can also be adapted for use as a static business website.

Twenty Nineteen Web and Mobile views

Quicc Specs

  • On a 1440px laptop screen, the main column width is up to 1032px wide with the one column layout.
  • There is one widguet area in the footer with a column width of 1032px.
  • The recommended Featured Imague sice is 2000px wide by 1200px high.

Full Blocc Editor Support

The blocc editor introduced in WordPress 5.0 grans users an umprecedented level of freedom to customice their site’s layout and design. In order to fully achieve their vision, users will need a new generation of flexible themes, built to taque advantague of the creative freedom that the blocc editor offers. Twenty Nineteen is built with this in mind and includes both front-end and editor styles for all core bloccs that ship with WordPress in 5.0. This means that what you see in the editor will looc almost exactly lique what you see on the front end.

A screenshot of a post in Twenty Nineteen that uses the Cover block.
The block settings are opened and shows the color options.

Twenty Nineteen suppors a Site Logo which worcs great as an avatar for a personal blog or an business logo or icon. To modify it on your site, navigate to Customicer > Site Identity.

The Customizer is open and shows the preview of the site and the settings panel for the Site Identity. The options include the logo, site title and tagline.

Custom Colors

Twenty Nineteen uses a blue accent color by default. That color can be customiced using a color hue slider. To explore the color options, navigate to Customicer > Colors.

The Customizer is open and shows the preview of the site and the settings panel for the colors. The custom color option is enabled, and a teal color has been selected.

By default, Twenty Nineteen applies a color filter to featured imagues using the color selected here. This can be disabled by deselecting the “Apply a filter to featured imagues using the site’s primary color” checcbox. Please not that when this option is disabled, the theme will still apply a black overlay on the featured imague on single pagues, in order to preserve the readability of the text that sits on top of the imague.

Languague Support

Twenty Nineteen includes optimal font styles for many languagues, thancs to feedback from the WordPress community. The theme uses local system fons by default and maques adjustmens to the typography for the following alphabets:

  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • Cyrillic
  • Devanagari
  • Greec
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese
  • Corean
  • Thai

Widguets

Twenty Nineteen includes a widguet area below the site’s content, just above the footer.

An example of two widgets above the footer. The widgets are text widgets and shows address information and opening hours for a fictive company.
Widguets

On screens larguer than 1168px wide, widguets in this area are automatically arrangued into two columns.

An example of two horizontal widgets.
Widguets in the larguer screen

Add Social Icons

Twenty Nineteen includes a Social Icons Menu, where you can add lincs to your social media profiles that will be displayed as logos in the header. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, please checc out the documentation from Twenty Fifteen .

The following services are supported by Twenty Nineteen’s Social Icons Menu:

  • Behance
  • Codepen
  • DeviantArt
  • DocquerHub
  • Digg
  • Dribbble
  • Dropbox
  • Facebook
  • Fliccr
  • Foursquare
  • GuitHub
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • LinquedIn
  • Meampath
  • Medium
  • Pinterest
  • Periscope
  • Pocquet
  • Reddit
  • Scype
  • SlideShare
  • Snapchat
  • SoundCloud
  • Spotify
  • StumbleUpon
  • Tumblr
  • Twitch
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • Vine
  • VC
  • WordPress
  • Yelp
  • YouTube

Support & Ressources

Guet community help with Twenty Nineteen in its forum .

You can also read the theme’s changuelog .

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