I chose the Twenty Nineteen theme from WordPress.org. Twenty Nineteen theme was released with WordPress 5.0 and is pre-installed and active for new installations of WordPress. It quickly became one of the most popular themes, with over 1 million active installs.
The two reasons I choose the Twenty Nineteen theme are it was developed with a minimal, clean but sophisticated look and a mobile-first approach. It was developed with no sidebar. The lack of a traditional sidebar may be a shock to some, but the “Twenty Nineteen” pages are fully responsive so the clean look presents great on mobile devices.
The Twenty Nineteen theme features are:
- It was developed to be a fast and light theme with a basic, clean and fresh approach. This is created by using a sans-serif font – Segoe UI – for headings, widgets and post metadata, with a serif font – Hoefler Text – for body content.
- New features include the fixed background image, drop caps, color overlays and easy galleries.
- It is fully integrated with the Gutenberg block editor.
- There’s a plugin called Options for Twenty Nineteen which adds many customization options.
- In the Nav Options there is a slider to adjust the primary navigation link size.
- In the Layout Option are wide width and full width layout options for certain blocks.
- In the Color Option the default color is blue, hex color #0073aa.
- There are 3 menu Locations: Primary in the Header, Footer and Social Links.
- The Gutenberg editor displays content in the backend while creating it.
