What’s old is what’s new, so let’s put the Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme to the test.

In 2014, our default theme lets you create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design. Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider. Use the three widget areas to customize your website, and change your content’s layout with a full-width page template and a contributor page to show off your authors.

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Using a decade old default theme as an intentional aesthetic choice feels liberating. No added bloat (and cost) from a framework, no choice paralysis from alternate versions of templates.

Up and running right away, with the added bonus of Gutenberg, aka the block editor.