Twenty Twenty-One: A Deep Dive into the New Default WordPress Theme
If added to the Footer menu, social links are automatically detected and converted to SVG icons for the supported social media.
Twenty Twenty-One supports nine post formats: link, aside, gallery, image, quote, status, video, audio, chat. You can pick your post format in the Status & Visibility panel of the editor’s settings.
To have a look at how the Twenty Twenty-One theme handles post formats, navigate to the template-parts/excerpt folder and pick template. For example, open the excerpt-image.php file in your favorite code editor. In that file you’ll see the following code:
* Show the appropriate content for the Image post format.