It’s confirmed.
In recent WordCamp SF a few weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg announced that the upcoming Twenty Fourteen will be a magazine-style theme, different from any previous themes. The theme probably won’t be released until WordPress 3.8 which is expected to be released this December.
Here is some sneak peeks of this upcoming Twenty Fourteen theme:
Twenty Fourteen was formerly known as Further and was designed by Takashi Irie, code Wrangler at Automattic and few of his teammates. If you’re interested in behind the scene of this theme, you may find them here.
The default theme for 2014 which will be released with WordPress 3.8 will be based on the magazine theme I designed–Further.
As a WordPress theme designer, it was absolutely incredible news for me personally and I’m ridiculously stoked.
Here’s the demo site of Twenty Fourteen theme.
If you’re a developer and would like to contribute and see the progress of this upcoming Twenty Fourteen theme, here are some resources for you:
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