We are happy to announce that the Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme is now available as a free Frontity theme! ?

The popular Twenty Nineteen theme has been ported over to Frontity by Imran Sayed and Smit Patadiya, both active contributors to the WordPress and Frontity community.

This ready-made theme allows you to get your site running on Frontity easily. It primarily suits blogs, but can be adaptable to a wide range of websites.

You can see the Twenty Nineteen for Frontity theme demo in action here.

A speed and performance comparison between the Twenty Nineteen default WordPress theme in PHP (left) and the Frontity theme in React (right).

⚙️ Installation

You can follow the instructions below, check out the GitHub repo, or watch this video tutorial made by Imran to help you get started.

1. For a new project: by cloning this project

1. git clone https://github.com/imranhsayed/frontity-twentynineteen

2. cd frontity-twentynineteen

3. npm install && npx frontity dev (from the project's root directory)

4. Your site will now be available at http://localhost:3000/

2. For a new/existing project using npm

1. npx frontity create my-app && cd my-app

2. npm install @frontity/twentynineteen-theme

3. Update the package name to the frontity-settings.js
   
   "packages": [
   
   {
   
   "name": "@frontity/twentynineteen-theme",

4. npx frontity dev (from project's root directory)

5. Your site will be available at http://localhost:3000/

6. Set the featured images to true to display them on the Home page and single post page.
   
   "featured": {
   
   "showOnList": true,
   
   "showOnPost": true
   
   }

? Learn more

If you’re interested in learning more about the Twenty Nineteen Frontity Theme, please refer to the following resources:

• GitHub repo for Twenty Nineteen Frontity Theme.
• Live Demo of the Twenty Nineteen Frontity Theme.
• Video tutorial on how to setup and customize the theme by Imran Sayed.
• Video tutorial in Spanish on how to setup the theme by Domini Code.

As always, if you need a hand to use Frontity for your project or have any questions, please let us know. We will be happy to help!

Other useful links:

• Frontity Docs: Getting Started
• Learning Frontity Guide

A huge thank you to Smit and Imran for their amazing work! ?

Frontity is a free and open source framework for building headless WordPress sites using React. Check out our introductory post here!