Twenty Pie is the child theme that provides the modifications to the WordPress Twenty Eleven default theme that is in use on this site.
Primary alterations include:
- New! Twenty Pie is now based upon Twenty Eleven, the new default WordPress theme for the 3.2 series. This branch is code-named Twenty Pion and has been merged into the
masterbranch. Please note that many of the old features have yet to be re-implemented, so only pull if you’re feeling brave. Also, several links are hard-coded, so please change these ASAP. - A little entity ✆ and banner on single-post pages, pointing to a “contact” page, for miserly people such as myself who don’t use a comment form any more.
- Two-line footer with an additional formula of love.
Twenty Pie primarily consists of quick and dirty hacks and may well bork your site in some way. It, like Twenty Ten and Eleven (and in an unusual break of tradition for me) is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Pretty pictures
Here are some miscellaneous screenshots of Twenty Pie in action.
- Duster’s menus transplanted into Twenty Pie.
- A hanger on the linked list header.
- Looks like this
- The new Twenty Pion looks like this
Getting the Code
The present version is available for immediate download here.
Twenty Pie is hosted on GitHub, at https://github.com/jrothwell/twentypie. This provides an alternative update method: if you would prefer, and provided you have SSH access to your server’s terminal and it has git installed, you can install and update Twenty Pie like that.
The commands you’ll be wanting are:
$ cd wp-content/themes
$ git clone git://github.com/jrothwell/twentypie.git
Changelog
| V. | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 23.142 | April 2011 | Added the menu code from the Duster theme, adding a more gradienty feel. Introduced support for the hangers. |
| 23.14 | April 2011 | Introduced a new constant to describe a “contact me” address, and a banner above the (redundant) comments template to say “Jonathan welcomes your comments… through any of these old-fashioned methods.” |
| 23.1 | April 2011 | First public release. Introduced support for the linked list. |
| 3 | c. March 2011 | Not released to the public. Simple child theme for Twenty Ten. |
Questions? Queries? Shout at me.





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