Okay, so you may be a bit sick of seeing Twenty Ten every time you install WordPress and be itching to install your own custom theme. But this year it was very exciting to see the back of the default Kubrick theme and the introduction of the new Twenty Ten theme.
Features
Custom Menu
Custom header
Custom background
6 widget areas
Featured images
Special post styles
Optional one column template
Our Mini Review
The move from Kubrick to Twenty Ten showed just how far WordPress had come along. It was a big deal, and before you go on to installing themes from the directory it’s useful to reflect on how flexible Twenty Ten actually is. For a default theme it lets you do a lot – with loads of design customizations and six widget areas. You can even use the featured images to easily change the header image for each of your posts – that’s flexible! When I’m teaching WordPress to beginners I find Twenty Ten a great theme to work with as it allows users to get their hands dirty with some customizations in a user-friendly way.
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Hi Siobhan, I have chosen to use Twenty Ten, really like the clean design. Two questions for you:
1. I would like to change the header image on various pages. I have used a custom header in the theme, and can’t force a change per page, even though that option is available as Featured Image, bottom right of dashboard. I have tried resetting the default image on the theme, but that doesn’t help either. Ideas?
2. Do you know of any widget that will fetch the feedburner email subscribers (found under Publicize/email subscriptions) and display them on my dashboard?
Great that I found this site. I’m new to wordpress and would like to start off by using 2010 for a website. I have several questions:
1. how can I install a “subscribe now” section so that viewers can sign up to receive a newsletter?
2. How do you make fonts bigger? Like in the widget areas if you put in text instead of links and in the “describe your blog section” on the top right side of the header image.
3. Can you install a video on this template and if so, how?
4. Can you add an on-line store page with this template?
Hi Siobhan
Love the look of twenty ten – I’m tempted to install it on a local server and start playing with it.
BTW – I can’t find a “subscribe by email” section on your site.
I prefer email to RSS.
Don’t you have one or am I going blind?
Hi Keith,
I’ve been building a Twenty Ten Child theme this month. It’s really fun to work with. Very easy.
Is this what you’re looking for? It’s for month updates.
http://screencast.com/t/YeVszFiCww
Are you after updates via email each time someone posts or by day/week? I can look into it.
Hi Siobhan
I was looking for an email notification when a new post is published on this site – save me visiting to check for new posts.
You know the one, the Feedburner email subscription.
Keith
Hi Siobhan, I have chosen to use Twenty Ten, really like the clean design. Two questions for you:
1. I would like to change the header image on various pages. I have used a custom header in the theme, and can’t force a change per page, even though that option is available as Featured Image, bottom right of dashboard. I have tried resetting the default image on the theme, but that doesn’t help either. Ideas?
2. Do you know of any widget that will fetch the feedburner email subscribers (found under Publicize/email subscriptions) and display them on my dashboard?
Thanks, Ian
Nice article, I just made a spanish traslation for this theme Twenty Ten, ill leave you the link in case any of your readers could make use of it.
http://geektual.com/traduccion-del-tema-twenty-ten-para-wordpress-en-espanol/
Great that I found this site. I’m new to wordpress and would like to start off by using 2010 for a website. I have several questions:
1. how can I install a “subscribe now” section so that viewers can sign up to receive a newsletter?
2. How do you make fonts bigger? Like in the widget areas if you put in text instead of links and in the “describe your blog section” on the top right side of the header image.
3. Can you install a video on this template and if so, how?
4. Can you add an on-line store page with this template?
Thanks