Twenty Ten now available with WordPress 3.0

Theme Name: Twenty Ten
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: The 2010 default theme for WordPress.
Author: the WordPress team
Version: 1.0


Just in case you haven’t already heard the news: this theme is now available with today’s arrival of WordPress 3.0. Twenty Ten is just one of many features in this major new version of WordPress. I’m both very proud of and very grateful for the efforts of the many developers who contributed their code and advice during the development of Twenty Ten. It’s a great foundation for new WordPress users, and I hope it makes developing powerful themes possible for more people.

Recent Developments

Things have been busy both with this theme and my other duties so I haven’t posted much here lately. If you’ve been following the Twenty Ten ticket over on WordPress trac, you know the latest. I probably should have linked to that earlier — sorry if you’ve been missing out lately. Since the theme was committed to trunk, members of the WordPress community have added custom background support (for all of WordPress; Twenty Ten is the first theme to use it), cleaned up code, added strings for translation, fixed CSS bugs, added a single-column alternate page template, begun implementing a new feature that lets you pick from a selection of preloaded custom header images, and last but not least: it’s gotten its own official screenshot.

Development is just about complete, and if you’re using the bleeding edge development version of WordPress 3.0, Twenty Ten is now the default theme on new blogs. The Trac ticket I linked to above is also your ticket to the latest news on Twenty Ten as it develops. I’ll be posting more here as all the loose ends are tied up and the final version is ready. Thanks for all the feedback and testing; it’s been a real help!

WYSIWYRG

What you see is what you really get. I stumbled upon this brilliant tip from Andrew Ozz today:

Things like typefaces, headings, image padding and borders, etc. can easily be set by the current theme making the visual editor… more WYSIWYG. All it takes is a stylesheet and a small function in the theme’s functions.php file.

Say what? I had no idea, so I decided I had to give this a try for 2010. The result?

Quebec

This post uses a post thumbnail to display its own custom header. Check out the permalink! Sed consequat sagittis dignissim. Suspendisse dolor velit, semper non vestibulum at, vestibulum quis risus. Vivamus adipiscing eleifend quam a mollis. Nullam sollicitudin dignissim ornare. Duis a purus risus. Vestibulum auctor libero commodo erat euismod viverra. Suspendisse malesuada, lectus in bibendum pretium, est libero hendrerit sapien, sit amet convallis dolor nunc ac massa.

The theme now passes validation as HTML5. The calendar widget and gallery shortcode generate HTML that do not validate and should be addressed in core — but a default install will now validate. (Updated, see comments.)