The New Default WordPress Theme: TwentyTen

Very soon WordPress 3.0 will be released. And I believe that this will make WordPress a true contender for the title The King of Content Management Systems (a.k.a CMS.) Many people think of WordPress as a blogging platform, and while that is true it is so much more than that! Even prior to this release WordPress was being used by major corporations and small businesses as a website platform. But the release of WordPress 3.0 makes business use so much even easier.

One of the most visible changes is the new TwentyTen “theme” and it’s a great starting theme for the small business owner who needs to get their first or an improved website only. This is the new default theme — the one you get when you first load WordPress — and it offers many new features including:

• Custom headers
• Drop-down menus
• Custom backgrounds
• One and two-columns styled “templates”
• Site-wide content areas in the sidebar and footer (via “widgets“)

This is just one of the many new features of WordPress 3.0; we’ll be covering more of them soon.