Please forgive my ignorance on this—where do I place/insert your 3 columns code?

Thanks Jeffikus!

Hi Iqbal

> I really like the design of the themes created by Automattic.

Thank you for the kind words! 🙂

> I would like to know, is there a plan to fix the CLS score?

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I’ll bring this up with our team and we’ll do our best to improve this in the future.

Hi Jim,

> Do Gutenberg themes work with a three column layout?

Yes they do! 🙂 You don’t necessarily need to take a theme that is designed to have 3 columns to get that result. You can use the “columns” block in the editor to achieve that, I made an example here https://3columnexample.wordpress.com/ where you can get the code from the 3rd column by clicking the “Get the Code” button. I split the 3 columns 25% 50% 25%

> I would love to use the editor with a dark theme.

The full site editing experience is designed to be like you are editing your live site, rather than just the content. What this means is that if your theme is white, or dark, or another color, then the editing experience will be in those colors.

A good example is 2 in of our themes, Videomaker and Videomaker White. Videomaker will have a dark editor like what you are wanting, as the theme design is dark, but the Videomaker White theme would be a white editing experience as the theme design is white 🙂

You can change this by editing your sites global styles, here’s a screenshot of where you can edit the colors for your theme: https://cloudup.com/cMrgWtdOni4

I hope that answers your questions!

Thanks Jeffikus!

Of the above, I do like Quadrat, Geologist, Ona and Frost. I will download them and give them a try.

Do Gutenberg themes work with a three column layout? Something like: http://nically.tech

One other question, if I may: is there a way to theme the Gutenberg editor?

I would love to use the editor with a dark theme. Right now, the editor is glaringly white. I’ve tried a few dark mode plugins, but they don’t work with the editor, or they look bad. Any ideas?

The tiniest of blog: Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday & just B Yours11.

Don’t worry it will be done soon. I find it so hard to get excited about blogging with a boring theme. Blogging is such a personal thing, it’s a physical representation of your soul. A clean & minimal theme with boring typography is like living in a house with white walls with nothing on them.

Normally I would say don’t wait for a theme, but for SMB3 it may be worth it. 🙂

Hi Jeffikus, I really like the design of the themes created by Automattic. However I found that some of the newer themes have a bigger Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) score (on GTmetrix and Pagespeed Insight) than the older themes. I would like to know, is there a plan to fix the CLS score? thanks.

This comment makes me happy. So glad that you’re the leader of the organization that runs these lovely pieces of software.

Hi Jim, we’ve released a number of free themes from Automattic that are focused on blogging/writing, I’ve linked them below;

– Quadrat https://wordpress.org/themes/quadrat/
– Geologist https://wordpress.org/themes/geologist/
– Videomaker https://wordpress.org/themes/videomaker/
– Zoologist https://wordpress.org/themes/zoologist/
– Seedlet Blocks https://wordpress.org/themes/seedlet-blocks/

These are all ready for the next WordPress release (5.9), but another one you should consider will be released with 5.9 as the default theme;

– Twenty Twenty Two https://2022.wordpress.net/

There are also some really good themes from other theme authors that I like;

– Tove https://wordpress.org/themes/tove/
– Aino https://wordpress.org/themes/aino/
– Ona https://wordpress.org/themes/ona/
– Clove https://wordpress.org/themes/clove/
– Frost https://github.com/wpengine/themes/tree/trunk/frost

Hope that helps, let me know which ones you like!

I would love for Tumblr and Day One to be open source in the future. Taking something proprietary and opening it is 100x harder than just being open from the beginning, so it’s not going to happen overnight, but in the meantime we are making sure both products have super open APIs, privacy, and user ownership of data so your content is as free as in WordPress even if the software isn’t (yet).

No need to apologize! Excited for you to check it out.