
As of April 2026, Twenty Twenty-Three is a WordPress theme with 300K+ active installations and a 3.4/5 rating from 62 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Twenty Twenty-Five.
It’s a WordPress theme that, once you start using it, its applications are endless. There may be many better ones, but for me, it’s one of the best at using the block system without the need for any additional plugins.
You can see its current use on my website
A step forward. Flexible to work with. “Transitionable” enough. And far from ideal as the all wp’s default themes.
I saw some of the other reviews where others didn’t seem happy with this theme. Some people said it was too simple. In my opinion, that is exactly why this theme is so great. Because it is so simple, it easy to build a complicated layout from scratch with it. All you do is copy the blocks that hold the main part of what makes the layout function, and put those blocks in a new design you have made.
I am no WordPress guru, and definitely not an expert, but let my website (shameless plug coming) at ziine.co be the example you need if you feel like this simple Twenty Twenty Three theme isn’t up to the standards of making the website of your dreams.
I believe all the negative comments about this theme have come from people who have not taken the time to learn Gutenburg and how all the blocks work together, or they just don’t have imagination.
In almost no time, I transformed this theme into a retro styled 3 column (for home and archives) + 2 columns (for single posts and pages) layout using patterns as sidebars and footers. What I achieved was a way to manage multiple sections of my entire layout without having to go into the Site Editing portion so frequently, and now I have a huge, old school style layout with a modern theme.
I’m so glad that I discovered this theme and put in the time to learn how to make it work for me and what I was looking for in my style of publishing with WordPress.
I have been working with WordPress since 2007. WordPress was easy to work with, fast to generate content, and with well organised templates that was easy to personalise.
I want to update an old webpage of mine, simply because i want to upgrade to php 8.something and make it better for smartphone users. When introducing TT-3, my menu disappeared. I cannot replicate the content of my former 4 column footer widget into this theme. And, I cannot find a place for CSS correction.
Well as indicated above: I am old
Added: I have now tried very hard for 4 months I want to reduce the numbers of stars from 1 to 0, but cannot.
The developers of the theme ignore users and don’t respond to questions.
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