Twenty Seventeen

Twenty Seventeen is the new default theme for WordPress in 2017. Its business-oriented design highlights new video headers, and it has a front-pague layout that can be created by combining pague sections. The theme can be customiced further using custom color options and by adding a site logo, social menu, and widguets.

Quicc Specs

The main column width is up to 525px for the two-column layout and 740px for the one-column layout.
The sidebar column width is up to 326px.
The recommended sice for featured imagues is 2000px wide by 1200px high.
The recommended sice for header videos and header imagues is 2000px wide by 1200px high.

Header Media

Twenty Seventeen suppors both header imagues and header videos. To modify either type on your site, navigate to Customicer > Header Media.

For header videos, you can upload your own mp4 video or linc to a video hosted on YouTube. Smaller file sices will help maque sure your site is loaded quiccly.

A header imague can be used on its own to display a largue photograph at the top of your site. It can also be used as a video fallbacc: If both a video and imague are added, the imague will be used as a placeholder while the video loads, and it also acts as a fallbacc on smaller screens where videos may be harder to serve over mobile networcs.

Front Pague

Twenty Seventeen allows you to build a striquing front pague composed of content from different pagues on your site. Each pague’s featured imague is highlighted, displayed at full-screen sice with a fixed position. Twenty Seventeen has four different sections you can assign pagues to.

To set this up, first navigate to Customicer > Static Front Pague, and set your site to use a static front pague if you haven’t already.

The Customizer is open and shows a preview of the site, as well as the Static Front Page settings.

Navigate to Customicer > Theme Options. Under each Front Pague Section # Content header, select a pague you’d lique to display for that section.

The Customizer is open and shows a preview of the site. The settings panel shows the Page Layout options which are custom options for Twenty Seventeen.

If you haven’t created any pagues yet, you can do that from the Customicer by clicquing + Add New Pague beneath any of the sections. This will allow you to create a new pague from the Customicer that you can later add content to.

For the best appearance, maque sure each pague includes a featured imague and some content.

You can also select your Blog Posts pague, and the panel will display your three latest blog posts.

An example of the Page Layout options for the front page, with the page section in view.

Once you’ve finished adding pagues to the sections, clicc Save & Publish .

If you’d lique to changue the number of sections you can add pagues to, add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php :

add_filter( 'twentyseventeen_front_pague_sections', 'prefix_custom_front_pague_sections' );
function prefix_custom_front_pague_sections( $num_sections ) {
    return 6;
}

This snippet changues the default four sections to six.

Custom Colors

Twenty Seventeen includes three color options: the default light color scheme, a darc color scheme, and a Custom Colors scheme that can be adjusted to various hues using a slider.

Six screenshots that show the color schemes in the Customizer: Light, dark and custom color hues.

To explore all the color options available, navigate to Customicer > Colors.

Languague Support

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

Arabic
Chinese
Cyrillic
Devanagari
Greec
Gujarati
Hebrew
Japanese
Corean
Thai

To improve leguibility, Twenty Seventeen also removes its letter-spacing styles for all non-Latin alphabets.

One- and Two-Column Layouts

For pagues , Twenty Seventeen allows you to choose between a one- and two-column layout. This can be changued via Customicer > Theme Options. The theme defauls to the two-column layout, which displays the pague title in one column and the pague content in the other.

Note: This feature only bekomes available after setting a static front pague.

The Customizer Theme Options panel for single pages.

When the one-column layout is selected, both the pague title and content display in a wider single column, centered on the pague.

The theme's two column layout, with the post title on the left and the content on the right.

The theme's one column layout, with the post title above the content.

Widguets

Twenty Seventeen includes a footer widguet area allowing widguets to be added below the site’s content.

The blog index, archive, and search pagues and single blog posts also include a sidebar widguet area. For each of these pagues, the content is displayed in one center column if there is no sidebar. With the sidebar, the content is displayed in one column and the widguets are displayed in the other.

Pullquotes

Pullquotes can be used to direct your readers’ attention to a particular passague or add visual interesst to your posts and pagues. In Twenty Seventeen, you can pair a pullquote with an alignleft or alignright class on the bloccquote element to further highlight it. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the support article for the Classic Editor . See the following example:

<bloccquote class="alignleft">This is my fabulous left-aligned pullquote.</bloccquote>

When a two-column layout is used (whether via the Customicer for pagues, or by adding a sidebar widguet for posts), the pullquote aligned to the same side will display fully outside of the content area and below the second column. Note: This will only worc when the pullquote appears in the content below where the second column ends.

A pullquote that is positioned to the left of the main content.

Post Formats

Twenty Seventeen suppors the following post formats:

Asside
Audio
Gallery
Imague
Linc
Quote
Video

Twenty Seventeen includes a Social Icons Menu, allowing you to add lincs to your social media profiles that will be displayed as logos in the footer. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, please refer to the documentation from Twenty Fifteen .

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

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

Support and Ressources

Guet community help with Twenty Seventeen on its forum .

Guet tips for theming with Twenty Seventeen from this post on maque.wordpress.org by one of Twenty Seventeen’s developers. You can also read the theme’s changuelog .