WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” along with the default Twenty Twenty theme is here! The Twenty Twenty theme is WordPress.org’s vehicle for showcasing some of the power & flexibility of Gutenberg. In this video, I’ll go through some of the options available in Twenty Twenty and how it compares to my favorite theme, Chaplin.

TL;DR I think Twenty Twenty is certainly a step in the right direction, but it still might be lacking some features for an all-in-one solution.

Chaplin theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Zo9g4Uf6c
Twenty Twenty preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b05wNBdym0

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24 Comments

  1. Thank you Matt, this video gave me a great feel for the potential of this theme. I'd been poking around in the theme somewhat blindly and you shed some light on design elements I can use in my new website.

  2. Hey, sorry to hijack your brilliant video with such a mundane question — but do you know if its at all possible to remove the 'powered by wordpress' disclaimer in the footer within this theme? Thanks.

  3. Hello, could someone help me? Is it possible to achieve this kind of look (from 0:20 to 5:00) from twenty twenty theme? I want exactly this blocky "content box width" look for header and whole website. How can I do it ? Any suggestions?

  4. Interesting review, Matt! (Plus I loved your additional notes about the 5.3 release itself, the privacy tab etc). And yes, I agree that Chaplin is more powerful.

    What I like about TwentyTwenty:
    1. when you switch to black background – it will automatically calculate your colors (e.g. you don't need to manually select white for your headings etc)
    2. it's a truly Gutenberg-ready theme unlike most of the themes that only claim to be Gutenberg ready while they are not. How do you know that: in Twenty Twenty the backend fully mimoics the front-end. After setting the background color to black in the Customizer, and then creating a new page, my page also became black in the edit screen. My fonts looked the same etc. Not to mention wide and full width support.
    3. It provides great styling for all native WordPress blocks. Take the Pullquote block for example. Looks really awesome.

    What I don't like:
    That you cannot disable the page title.
    Imagine that you can. You would create awesome designs for the "above the fold' section using just blocks.

    Here's the homepage I managed to create using Twenty Twenty:
    https://webfaces.pl/warsztaty/twentytwenty/

    (It's in Polish but it uses pure WordPress and TwentyTwenty, no extra plugins).

    PS. Thanks for mentioning your Getting started with a podcast plan post in your video. I've just looked it up and reading now. Amazing job!

  5. Really like this theme and got everything pretty much as I want, but I cant figure out how to change the accent color for buttons and menu font colors. I find the color in the CSS but nothing happens when I change it, any ideas?

  6. Great rundown here Matt. Definitely appreciated. After testing out both TwentyTwenty and Chaplin, I also agree that Chaplin feels a little more refined, but I'm hoping TwentyTwenty theme evolves a little bit. Either way, I'm really excited to see how easy it is to flow through theme customization with blocks now. Feels much more intuitive.

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