New Theme: Twenty Nineteen

New Theme: Twenty Nineteen

The new default WordPress theme Twenty Nineteen was released on WordPress.com, and The WordPress.com Blog had a post about it called: New Theme: Twenty Nineteen.

I am glad that there is finally another default theme again, but currently I am disappointed in the Twenty Nineteen theme.

It is too minimalistic, less flexible, less colorful, and it has fewer features.

It lacks basic features like: header images, custom fonts and custom font sizes, the automatically display first image in a post option which is a must for me because I use the excerpt option so without that my home page / archives page looks bare and boring and the same without my hotlinked images showing for each post, preset color palletes, sidebar, and more, has more bugs, et cetera than maybe any previous default WordPress theme.

The Twenty Seventeen Theme Is Finally Available On WordPress.com 👏

flat-device-mock.jpg
New Theme: Twenty Seventeen

After what felt like half a year the free default WordPress theme Twenty Seventeen has finally been released on WordPress.com over Four (4) months late, which as far as I know is the longest that it has ever taken for a default WordPress theme to be released on WordPress.com after it had already been released on WordPress.org, but I could be wrong.

The Twenty Seventeen theme is probably the first free WordPress.com theme to ever have a video header option.

Your Stats Are Booming! | January 2 2017

Image Source: WordPress.com

Today I got this notification from WordPress.com:

Your blog, John Jr’s Dream Blog, appears to be getting more traffic than usual!

33 hourly views – 3 hourly views on average

A spike in your stats

Default WordPress Theme Twenty Seventeen Demo Has Been Released

Source: WordPress.org

Some of you may know that for several years in a row now I have tried to keep up with news on the default themes for WordPress each year, throughout each year I do random web (internet) searches, and I search through various official and unofficial Automattic/WordPress blogs and websites including some that belong to some staff members (employees) trying to get early news about the default themes for WordPress each year.

This is usually not easy and finding this information is usually hard because most of those blogs/websites do not talk about this usually, except some of the WordPress.org blogs/websites, which I usually do not look at or follow because I am only a WordPress.com user with a free account so that led to the Twenty Thirteen theme slipping under my radar even when I had tried to find information about it so I was surprised when it was released suddenly years ago without my knowledge of it even being worked on yet or discussed yet.