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!
I can’t tell you how excited I am about all the fantastic features of this new theme, and the fact that it will be the default. I teach beginning WordPress classes, and between the new features of WordPress 3.0 and this wonderful theme, my students are going to find it a lot quicker and easier to make their sites look like they want. This is HUGE.
I haven’t helped in any way, but I am deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to this new level of ease of use.
Thanks Jessi; that’s awfully nice of you. I can’t wait to see how people use the theme to create their own designs.
I’ve been running the twentyten Theme for awhile now and have to say I’m delighted with it
How do you start testing the theme, where is the download?
You can download a nightly build of WordPress 3.0, or check out the code with SVN.
Is it wise at this point to base new themes on twenty ten or should we wait until 3.0 matures from beta to release?
With 3.0 right around the corner, the safest bet is to wait. But realistically, I don’t anticipate many more changes to Twenty Ten before 3.0 is released.
The page just reloaded, what is this 2005? Where’s the AJAX?
In this, the new default theme, I’ve managed to include no Javascript at all. I think that’s helpful for a beginning theme developer. As I’m sure you’re aware, what you’re requesting is easy to add, and I imagine the users who care will do so.
Can you please consider adding some important elements for the sake of advertising development. Awhile back I was considering developing a “Universal Media Theme” for WordPress. I mocked it up but never figured out how to make a WP theme.
Anyways, the important parts were including at least 2 of the 4 display ad sizes as defined by the IAB.net Universal Ad Package, details here: http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/508676/508767/UAP
Please, at the very least include a sidebar with a minimum of 300 px wide (for inclusion of the Medium Rectangle – Universal Ad Package). The 125 x 125 square is nice but major media buyers are not into that so much.
Also, if you can devise a way to explain how to include the Leaderboard (Universal Ad Package) just above the header that would be sweet as well.
If you have no clue what I am talking about just read the link above and educate yourself. However, many will already know what I am speaking of. IAB is the trade group for online advertisers and very influential in this space with media buyers.
One of the main problems with WordPress themes is they are not designed for media buyers, people who buy media inventory on mainstream websites like Yahoo, Politico, etc.
By incorporating these four (or at least 2 of the 4) Universal Ad Package display ad sizes into this new default theme I think it will open up a new opportunity for newbies and theme developers to hit the ground running and secure some ads and sponsorships that help monetize their WordPress installations.
Thanks for consideration. Happy TwentyTen!
Dante Hamilton
organizer
Chicago WordPress Meetup Group
Development on Twenty Ten has all but wrapped up — we’re only making behind-the-scenes changes now. It’s easy to make a child theme of Twenty Ten that’ll do just what you’d like, though. Check out Ian Stewart’s article on child themes.
I like the theme !
Just translated it to spanish, where may I upload it to?
Thanks, Sergio! Twenty Ten is now part of WordPress core, and the WordPress developers will make it available at translate.wordpress.org. I see it’s started here: http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev but doesn’t have translations available yet. You might check in with the WordPress developer blog: http://wpdevel.wordpress.com
how change to onecolumn? thank you
When you’re writing a page, in the “Attributes” section, choose the “Template” dropdown and choose “One column, no sidebar.”
thanks,I want all the index, page, single, archive, search page are onecolumn,how can I do?
Which program you are using on the picture at the top, looks like an FTP?
That’s Coda, where I do all my development work.
I’ve noticed in the functions.php file, it is stated that the
twentyten_setupfunction is hooked into theafter_setup_theme. Then it is stated that this is because some features, like indicating post thumbnails, would be called to late if they were called using the init hook.Is this init hook what calls everything else that is not hooked into another function in the functions.php file? Is this new to WordPress 3.0? I was calling
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' )without using a wrapping function, just calling it from functions itself and it was working fine for me in WordPress 2.9 and up.Thanks, btw, for this wonderful theme and also lighting the way with the new features with excellent examples. Cheers!
The best place for technical questions about Twenty Ten is WordPress Trac, as I’m just the designer of the theme, and I’m the only one who keeps an eye on this blog. File a ticket in Trac and it’ll get in front of the eyes of WordPress developers.
When would this theme be available at wordpress.com?
Very soon, Rahul — stay tuned to http://en.blog.wordpress.com.
Hi Matt.
The good stuff…
I love the TwentyTen theme!
The bad stuff…
I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong here or if it’s just how the new menu system works in 3.0 beta 1. I made up a new custom menu in the menu control panel and selected the pages I wanted and dragged them in the order I wanted them. I then went and renamed one of my pages (from the page control panel) that appeared in this new menu, but when I refreshed my site the twentyten theme still displayed the old page name I originally selected in my new menu. Sure enough when I went back to the menu panel the page wasn’t automatically renamed to what I had renamed it to in the page control panel, but I could change the page name in the menu panel manually… keeping up so far?
My dilemma/query? I’d like the page names in my custom menu I made in the menu panel to be automatically updated if I update those specific pages in my page control panel… is this possible? I really hope it is.
Thanks, Pete
Hi Pete — you’ll need to direct any questions regarding the new menu system to WordPress Trac. The developers who built the new features monitor tickets there and can help you with your problem.
Hello Matt,
Can we install this theme if we are using WordPress v.2.9.2? I am getting an error when i activate the theme.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: home_url() in html/wp-content/themes/2010/header.php on line 46
Thanks, Malcolm
Sorry Malcolm — Twenty Ten relies on new features in WordPress 3.0, and can’t be installed on earlier versions. Yet another reason to upgrade.
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I’m enjoying playing with this theme – Its very powerful and creating a child theme enables it to be customised very easily.
Unfortunately most of my customers still expect sites to look OK in Internet Explorer 6. Will the theme support the poor people who are still using that awful browser?
Pretty much everything in twentyten is working fine in IE6, however when testing , I see some issues with the drop-down menu where (1)the menu bar is slightly longer than the pic above it and the drop-down menu doesn’t drop-down.
I can probably put some targeted fixes into my child theme, but is there a plan 201o theme likely to be fixed for this before WP3.0 is released?
Unless there’s someone interested in submitting patches, I don’t plan to include any hacks for IE6 bugs. I understand the need for backwards compatibility, but it’s been almost four years since Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer 6 with version 7. Twenty Ten should work fine in IE7 or higher.