July 9th, 2011 by Mike

With the release of WP 3.2 came the release of twentyeleven. Heck, I was just getting twentyten under the belt. So, I figured no time like the present to try it out. I didn’t do it here however. I used it first on a clients site and then on my main bread-winner imaSupport. Whereas that required more work in that I was converting from an old ‘theme’ to twentyeleven.
Unfortunately, even the new site did not have its issues as I quickly found that moving my default core twentyten child theme to twentyelven requires some tweaking. Twentyeleven has a slightly different structure, and from a overview look, the #wrapper in twentyten is replaced with #page in twentyelven. Also, twentyeleven has adopted a new page size, 1000px (max) and a header of 1000px x 240px. Too Big. So, with a few css style changes, and some quick changes to the child functions.php file I was ready to use the new theme.
I quickly found another problem…. The default page template, does NOT include the sidebar. Simple fix, wrong! Simply adding the get_sidebar to page.php adds the sidebar, but all formatting is whacked. I spent the better part of the day trying to work through this and find a solution.
That, along with the other tweaks, I will leave for another post.