Good(ish) WordPress themes vs Bad WordPress themes

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Thank you, Are these metrics with SSL?

No those were plain http, I should probably get ssl on there and update the thread.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

@Rackzar

Had to do some cleaning up on the db after changing site url to https but the results are in and impressive, although waterfall could be slightly better. For what it is worth, ie an extremely bloated theme these results are impressive. AMD EPYC Genoa & NVMe ftw

 

[bradleyk]

The theme you use makes a huge difference to performance, and also administrative ease of use and risk of plugin issues. In the last decade I can list one theme I’ve come across that made me think, damn that’s actually really good:

GeneratePress Premium. Godlike code quality, support, community and a focus on doing a few basic things very well. Pairs well with GenerateBlocks Pro, its sister product.

I do custom themes for clients but if I had to use something off the shelf, GP Premium no question.

Thanks for the recommendation. What do you think about Divi, seems some other people mention it?

 

[Bryn]

Thanks for the recommendation. What do you think about Divi, seems some other people mention it?

Absolutely godawful. Elegant Themes (the developer behind Divi) is a meme in most of the dev circles I run in.

If you want a page builder, use Bricks (bricksbuilder.io). It is the only one I'd consider personally if I wasn't going custom or partial custom with GeneratePress.

Loads of excellent WP devs use Bricks, the code output is basically flawless, the community is amazing, the pace of development is blistering and there are some really sweet addons for it. Like BricksExtras.