Twenty Twenty-One is the new WordPress default theme coming with WordPress 5.6. If you are waiting for a fully featured WordPress theme you may be a little disappointed.

Twenty Twenty-One is a minimalist theme that looks and acts as a highly customizable blank canvas. Like its predecessors, the new default theme will mostly rely on the Block Editor for page building.

In this post, we’ll go through the most interesting features of the Twenty Twenty-One theme and we’ll show you how to customize the look and feel of a WordPress website with a simple Twenty Twenty-One child theme.

Like Twenty Twenty, the new default theme coming with WordPress 5.6 isn’t built from scratch, but it’s based on a theme coming from the community.