New WordPress theme: Twenty Twenty-Five

This week I was playing around with my old theme — Neve — and made some tweaks.

For posterity, it looked like this:

This site has low volume posts, so I was trying to get a list of posts as my frontpage. But it didn’t really look like I wanted, so I left it.

Yesterday WordPress 6.7 was released with the new Twenty Twenty-Five theme, so I thought: why not try this theme.

After all, this site is my playground, I can try out new things.

And the newer WordPress themes use the block-editor for editing themes, which is a new way of doing things. Something to learn!

Twenty Twenty-Five theme

So you are now looking at the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme with a few minor tweaks:

• Search bar at the top
• List view: all posts are visible from the homepage
• I disabled the Related Posts plugin
• I removed header images for posts
• I changed the favicon
• I added two small pieces of CSS. One to show the fan favorites with a ⭐ and show book posts with a 📖.
  

li[class="category-favorites"] .wp-block-post-title a::before { 
content: "⭐ "; color: gold; /* Change the color if needed */ 
font-size: 1.2em; /* Adjust size if necessary */ 
margin-right: 5px; /* Adds spacing between the star and the title */
}

Overall I wanted a clean, tight look.

• I made no changes to the Typography (Manrope / Fira Code)
• I use the default color palette
• I removed all menus, except the About page. Every (old menu) link is accessible from this page.

The things I need to figure out:

• The space between the header and the post: but this seems more a problem on the desktop than mobile
• The search returns complete posts: I would like to return just post titles.

Overall, it is fast and clean. I like it.