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New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve

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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.

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.

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).

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

Live Demo: 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/

[2] http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/fall-in-lux...

> 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-... [2] http://jetpack.me/2012/07/13/jetpack-1-5-with-carousel/

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

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

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

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.

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

It was worth the wait if you ask me :)

In just three short months it is going to feel horribly dated.

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.

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 ...

I would be more concerned that the Olympics might call and demand their number back.

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

http://wordpressfoundation.org/donate/ ?

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

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.

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

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/... [2]: http://funcptr.net/

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like Twenty Eleven better to be honest.

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