Twenty Nineteen

A couple of days ago I enabled nightly builds on this blog to be able to test out WordPress 5.0 with the new Twenty Nineteen theme prior to its official release, which is supposed to be happening sometime today. Just in time for WordCamp US which starts tomorrow. I hope the State of the Word keynote by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will be streamed online. It will take place on Saturday, December 8 at 4:00 pm Nashville time, which should be 11:00 pm Zürich time if I’m not mistaken.

I never attended WordCamp US before and also skipped WordCamp Europe this year, but I’m already looking forward to attending WordCamp Europe 2019 which will be taking place in Berlin. I already have my ticket.

Today, I updated the de_CH (Deutsch/Schweiz) translation for Twenty Nineteen from de_DE (Deutsch/Deutschland), so for the informal version, the translation is now at 100% which means that you should see all text strings on this site which are part of the theme in German. Sort of funny that I’m writing this in English, but this blog is bilingual and I mainly choose the language based on the type of content I’m writing. And also depending on the current mood.

I already found one («Leave a comment») that is not being translated, but maybe I just have to wait a little longer for the next autoupdate to kick in and download the latest de_CH language pack for me.

I really like the new Gutenberg-enabled Twenty Nineteen theme, especially the blog post detail page with the full page background image. The header with the social media icons is also very pretty, although I haven’t found out yet how to add the commas after each main menu item.

How do you like Twenty Nineteen? Are you using a theme that will add Gutenberg support anytime soon?