Watch this before you try Twenty Twenty-Four theme for WordPress 🫣

Great video. I really enjoyed it. Things I would like to see would be better control over the navigation. The customizer was better for the navigation in my opinion. They should add more style controls for the blocks going forward so that we don't need premium at all.

Great introduction to the core WordPress editor.

Could you do a video or a series of videos, where you teach ‘designing a simple but nice-looking blog.’ The subject for the blog could be anything.

Thanks

@wpminute So glad to find your video as I'm trying to use this very theme on WP and getting lost. I started to customize it under Appearance and Theme that's twenty twenty four but when I looked under pages none of those changes showed up on the home page. I can see the page I edited under Appearance-Theme-Customize but that's not showing anywhere. Where did this mystery page go?

Can you also do more basic videos like how to make a logo the home page button? Thanks in advance.

If you create a page called "Home" and select it as your static page in Settings/Reading, It appears as a huge block just below the header. How do you do anything to this block? I can't resize it. I can't even delete it.

Great content! Thanks!

Are there still any widgets, customizer and menu under appearance? It seems to have disappeared when I added this theme, is that related to the theme or is it an update with WP? Also, when selecting blog home, I don't like the full blog at teh bottom of my home page, I prefer a home page and my blog separate. can I change the template?

Extremely well explained so that even newbies can understand it. Thanks

Why are buttons not working in mobile view?

Misleading video title and introduction... I don't know what Cadence is but this seems more like a comparison video than an introduction to 2024 theme.

Thank you so much for this video! I have been playing around for two days with TT4 after some experience with classical themes from years ago and already had a lot of Ahaaaa moments, understanding things slowly and the hard way. Your explanations really helped me to get a grip on the logical structure of this theme and of block themes in general. Thanks again and keep it up!

hello, I chose the Twenty Twenty-Four theme, I can't publish the pages I prepared online.

what about the builded in MAIN PAGE which is not listed in pages... gives me crackers....

I’m old and have bad eyesight. Seeing what you were doing was difficult in many instances. We need bigger curser and slower to show what you’re teaching.

I see this is the direction we’re going. I will learn the basics and then hire a graphic artist/Techy to stay busy with the looks side. I’ll have my hands full working through advertising writing, reworking and writing articles.

I think it will all work out. For a non-technician like myself it’s going to require that I find a technician to help me. That’s good for the industry that has developed. Not so good for those of us who don’t have big money to invest. That’s modern life.

Thanks for the help. SN

Core WordPress is evolving really fast this year. I think it will be on par with many of the likes of Kadence very soon.

Great video but how to call a template that I save to a page?

I mostly really enjoy the video. I’m relatively new to WordPress however, and the back and forth with Kadence very confusing. I kept looking for Kadence in Twenty Twenty-Four. It took me a while to understand that these were different themes and that you were contrasting paid things with core WordPress features. That was kind of distracting, and didn’t add any value for me.

Is there a child theme available for 2024? I'd create one, but I think the block editor needs a JSON file.

Thanks for this video. Is there any way to have a link for each section of the homepage ? In my case, I want a one page website and want the menu to point to each section of the homepage. Thank you.

If only we could get rid on these nuclear bright white background colors, that kills modern LED monitors and our eyes. And it is just out-right ugly.

Definitely better to have one theme with more patterns in my opinion! However, from what you've shown I'm getting the impression that the controls and settings throughout different WordPress themes are identical, the only thing that changes with the new annual designs is the homepage out of the box? Plus I guess you can copy stuff from different themes and just paste it in? One feature I'm really missing is different menus for desktop and mobile and more customisations in the mobile menu - what if I don't want it aligned on the same side as the desktop or want it transparent? I guess the way to achieve those things is through adding some custom code to the header through the HTML editor?

Superb explanation, thank you. So many well-intentioned "how-tos" just go through a bunch of the commands without showing the bigger picture and how it all fits together. This was exactly what I was looking for, as I am considering using the WP 2024 theme rather than one of the featured ones. I am still a bit fuzzy on just how the header works, so maybe I will give Kadence a try.

Your video confirmed what I had suspected, that the built-in WP themes are getting considerably more complete and capable. Worth keeping an eye on in the future. Thanks again!

thank you, It is beneficial for me as a new WP user as well!

Thanks for all the info. Tutorial is done well, a little fast for us geezers, but good nontheless.

where do you add custom sitewide CSS ? Where do you add header code?

I have a "blog" page (homepage showing a static page, and in my readings setting, I chose a blog page). When I activate 2024, it shows its own bullshit content instead of my blog posts (a commitment to innovation...). How can I fix this?

Good WP tutorial. Thanks.

Thank you Matt. This is exactly what I need and at the right time. Your presentation is great and right to the point. I look forward to exploring more of your work as I create a new website. For years I have been paying for themes and last year opted for free versions. But the free theme versions are restricting me with regular features offered in Twenty twenty-four. Thanks for your efforts Matt.

Why did they move away from **whatever it was that was so much more intuitive that I used few years back**? Nothing about this editor feels intuitive at all.

Thanks for the clear tutorial. I return to WP to try it out after watching your video. I guess I don’t need to use a child-theme for customisation any more.
Will all of the changes and patterns that are created directly in Wordpress stay intact with the up and coming updates including the major branch updates? Will the styling and patterns work and remain intact with the 2025 theme if I update to it from the 2024 theme?
Thanks?

I'm ashamed to say I'm struggling with customising twenty twenty-four. I want to eliminate all the page builders, the elementors, and full fledged theme framework packages etc... A lean Wordpress is a healthy Wordpress is how I feel. It was so easy working with PHP directly and creating tag.php (or any of it's parent pages)... as it stands, I can't even manage to get my Tag pages to display the description of the tag 😂. I thought it would be under Templates in the editor, where you can customize Search Results, Single Page, Page No Title etc.. etc.. - but alas, failing miserably. I'm tempted to just go ahead and make tag.php but then I'm going against the point of this theme paradigm!

This was a great tutorial. A+++ 🛟

Hello Matt. Great explanation and thank you for all your job. Probably, you have mentioned, but I can't get it out as english isn't my mother tongue and also I'm pretty new to these issues: One editor is Kadence (understood that), but the other, is it Gutenberg that comes natively with WP6.4? And, apart of Gutenberg, does WP6.4 brings natively any other way of editing sites? Thank you. All the best. Duarte Lisboa

"Thanks for your clear and helpful content – you're a lifesaver!"

Matt, this is an excellent introduction to the new ways of building pages directly in WP rather than other themes or page builders. I'm glad you started with how to build boxes, using Groups and columns and other things. That's very much in the same style as making any post or page with Gutenberg, and it makes a lot of sense. But the site editor is still quite confusing to me! Hopefully they will "Gutenberg" it one day... Thanks for the demo.

Hi how can j change pattern in articles?

Great video. It was a good idea to also show Kadence. The issue is that while you built Groups from scratch in the regular builder for some reason you skimmed that in Kadence and started showing prebuilt patterns. That's where you could have been guilty of going off topic.
I did like the video though. Kadence is amazing by the way. It's a good next step from the default theme.

Thank you for this. It helped clear up a lot of comparison confusion for me.

Does this theme allow a menu navigation bar on top and one on the left-hand side? (Sorry, I know I should be able to find out for myself, but I am so tired of activating one theme after another only to find that they don't).

This video was very helpful as I adjust to the changes in WordPress over the past few years.Thank you! I have been on classic editor and finally switching over now. I am running a multi-site install with a few sites. If I make template edits to Twenty Twenty Four on one site, is there a way to make that available on other sites? (I want my header, footer, some style changes, etc. available to multiple sites. Thanks!!

Thanks Matt. I've been tinkering in Twenty Twenty-Four and this video helped shine some light. I miss straight forward nav, what am I missing, with how menus are built?

why the hell does kadence call columns 'sections'? i've not heard of kadence until now... generatepress/generateblocks developer here

Dude, you eventually lost me by switching between explaining WP 4 and Cadence. I don't care about Cadence and don't want to know how it's different from WP 4, because I have never used it, I don't want to use it. And trying to remember how to work 4 at the same time that I'm trying to not get confused by your endless talk about Cadence, is ridiculously cumbersome. You should warn viewers that half of your talk is going to be about something completely irrelevant to WP 4.

Like this direction & I like the idea of updating the patterns instead of a whole new Theme... Great job, thanks

Thank you so much for this great video.

Thank you. This was very helpful. I would appreciate some more content focussing on responsive design with theme2024 - what's your thoughts on this? Thx

What is the url to the blog home template when you are using a front page template.

Great tutorial, one thing I don't think you covered that I was trying to figure out is, how does it know that the "Blog Home" template should display as the site home page? How would I design a new template and use that one instead?

Is there a way to create a hero page in 2024 that uses a full page video like in Inspiro? Thanks!

I understand what you were doing to also explain Cadnace but all it did was confuse me. I had no idea what Cadance is so it did not clarifiy anything for me. It would be like me trying to explain to a aircraft mechanic how to overhaul an engine in a piston plane by comparing it to overhauling a jet engine. I just blanked out any reference to Cadence in my mind when it is mentioned. I'll never use Cadenance. Thanks for the video.

Over the years, I went through using the initial old-style themes, modifying child themes, designing my own themes (too much work), to GeneratePress (I have the full license), and have now decided to go all in on WP block designs starting with the 2024 theme. It looks to me like this theme can actually create any look you want if you put the effort in. Thank you for the tutorial! I didn't quite get it until you ran through the comparisons to Kadence.