GeneratePress is a lightweight theme that can be extended with a premium pack of extensions. It will work with all page builders and has the most extensive documentation of any theme.
GeneratePress is easy to use but the options could be modernized and better organized.
The free version is more of a demo with limited options, but the Pro has most of what you would need.
GeneratePress is very cognizant of supporting their customers and users and people seem to love it.
There are currently no active GeneratePress Coupon or GeneratePress Discounts available.
GeneratePress is a rock-solid choice for you to build your website on. Many highly experienced developers use GeneratePress for all of their projects.
Now the free version is not that great. I am not trying to knock the theme, but the options are very limited, I don’t think anyone would argue on that point. You could make a very basic site with the free version, but most use GeneratePress for their Pro version.
Above I stated that the developer is opinionated. This is good, but if you are wanting a theme that evolves its feature set, you might be disappointed with GeneratePress. That’s not a bad thing, and some people prefer it.
People speak very highly of the support.
GeneratePress Review
In this video I’m going to do a review and
walk-through of one of the best WordPress
themes that are available today and is called
GeneratePress hi my name is Adam from WPCrafter.com
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this video is going to be all about this theme
right here called GeneratePress now GeneratePress
is a free theme let’s just put that out there
but this review I mean obviously everything
I say that’s complementary goes towards a
theme but this is really good to be about
the premium package that they offer and it’s
a suite of add-ons that you can activate that
extend the functionality of GeneratePress
now if you followed along my video series
about how to create an online course website
this is the design we ended up with and for
the theme I use GeneratePress and part of
that was it’s not a requirement to get the
premium package and there are different things
that would be probably a lot easier if you
did have the premium add on package so for
example changing out fonts changing out colors
and these are some of the primary things that
your theme does is set your colors and set
your fonts and create your headers and crater
footers and everything else I did sandwiched
in between on here was with Elementor I will
video series on this link down below and I
include all the video temp not video template
the page templates are all included okay so
this is what GeneratePress looks like by default
when you install the theme on a vanilla WordPress
website and it’s good at a lot of features
that were in essentially have full control
over everything and I do have a special treat
even though it’s not officially released I
do have the development version of the GeneratePress
premium package that includes the WooCommerce
integration and were a look at that as well
in this video but if you head over to GeneratePress’s
website now I will have a link down below
in the pin comment section and also the video
description box down below takes you over
there that is an affiliate link up Tom the
developer GeneratePress will give me a cup
of coffee if you did purchase this premium
package now first off I want to tell you you
don’t need the premium package what it does
is it makes things here for you and actually
now does actually do some things that would
be hard to pull off on your own but that’s
the trade-off with a lot of things that you’re
in a purchase for WordPress it’s I can spend
a little bit of money and save a ton of time
or I can spend a ton of time to save a little
bit of money so GeneratePress is 40 bucks
right now let me click on premium right here
I believe it’s only 40 box where is that price
Tom there it is 40 bucks and it comes with
its essentially a plug-in that you would add
to your website and you would just enable
what you wanted the features that you want
let me just give you quick overview here of
some of those so for example your to be able
to control pretty much all the colors of your
website your topography this sections I encouraged
actually let me back this up a little bit
the reason why dinner Ray Perez is so stinking
awesome is the developer his name is Tom you
can connect with him in the GeneratePress
Facebook group there’s also support form here
he is the hardest working developer in WordPress
that I’ve ever come across he provides the
most fantastic support and honestly if you
would ask 10 to 10 people why you purchased
GeneratePress I’m sure nine of them would
say because of Tom because you have direct
connection to the guy because he’s on top
of supporting it implementing things that
people want but he’s very disciplined with
that he won’t implement something that would
bog down or slow down his theme because his
theme is so it’s like a well oiled machine
I tell you this thing is coded very very well
so anyways back to this stuff. So sections
I was telling Tommy should drop that because
essentially it’s kind like a page builder
kind of but is not as vigilant visual and
nowadays you would just use a page builder
with GeneratePress you can use Elementor which
is free you can use Beaver Builder and also
GeneratePress perfectly integrates with the
the new Beaver Themer package that was recently
released okay and so there’s also some additional
options here with the menu system and this
is very powerful the page header one that’s
actually really nice feature as well I’m in
have to show you that you have very good options
with the blog index page and how your blog
posts will be laid out backgrounds I usually
just use a solid color I never use an image
for the background spacing is actually very
important and I like the flexibility that
that’s can add to cover this all like in in
an actual website secondary nap don’t use
that copyright he actually makes it very easy
to change the clock rate even if you don’t
purchase this I really like that about him
disable elements is super useful you can disable
elements on a post or a page basis on an individual
basis it makes it very easy hooks is actually
very powerful as well although I would like
him Tom taken out I would like some improvements
in the hooks area to make it little more easy
to throw in saved rose or sections from Elementor
or Beaver Builder anyways what this doesn’t
include is the brand-new not even on the website
yet WooCommerce integration and he took all
of the feedback from all of the people that
have GeneratePress premium now and he implemented
it on this beautiful WooCommerce integration
them and to be able to show you as well in
this video now if you wanted to see any of
these features in action you can come here
there’s a video overview for each one and
you can also click on the details, in move
through each of these pretty quick myself
as you can see what they do but you can also
come here to get more information one of things
that is really nice about GeneratePress is
there’s a great support community here you
can click on the support forms and I got to
say I give GeneratePress and A+ on the documentation
side if you haven’t notice a lot of times
themes and plug-ins for WordPress their biggest
weaknesses is the documentation there just
isn’t good documentation or it’s not complete
they might tell you how to do something but
the instructions don’t make sense not so with
Tom he has invested so much effort and energy
time and money into having the best documentation
that I have probably ever seen for WordPress
are probably right up there with Beaver Builder
because they have put a big investment into
their documentation as well Tom is amazing
in the support department so for example he
has the support forms here and he is so quick
to respond there’s also a Facebook group he
is so quick to respond and he is very approachable
he’s a great guy Nina did not get sidetracked
I like to spend my money with the local guy
I so I feel Tom is I mean it’s a rocksolid
business it’s very well-established this isn’t
wet behind the ears type of theme but I I
really like it that I know when I’m buying
it it’s going to a guy like me the money is
going to a guy like me it’s not going to a
big corporation are big business or whatever
I’m up and the guy that has a kid at home
and his hustle and working hard has provided
something rocksolid’s going to be there for
me when I need him and that’s one of the selling
points of GeneratePress for me not that it’s
God you know so many download so many customers
of so many people using it were talking tens
of thousands of people websites using his
amazing theme but I like to know that I’m
given the money to a guy that’s going to be
there for me that he’s gonna listen to me
and you know anyways I don’t need to beat
a dead horse on that issue so anyways this
right here is our default GeneratePress now
let me go into the back and here so what can
happen is your canoe when you purchase the
GeneratePress add-ons is going to be a plug-in
right here called GP premium to go ahead and
activate it right now so there it is it’s
activated and then what you want to do is
you want to go to appearance and then GeneratePress
now just keep in mind I’m using a beta version
of it because this is the first anyone seeing
of the newly added WooCommerce integration
so once you add it here you popping your license
key of course and then here are all those
modules that I was talking to you about so
you can either activate them all or just activate
what you want in that’s what I really like
about it from a performance standpoint because
one of the most important responsibilities
of a theme is for to be well coded and for
it to also beat fast and on that well coded
note this is just a random side note with
Thompson being GeneratePress he has spent
a significant amount of money to have one
of the most well-known WordPress developers
do a very tight security audit not just how
much he prides himself on this theme most
theme developers would never do that because
quite frankly they don’t make any money on
their theme or maybe it’s not a high priority
but for Tom it is a very high priority to
provide the most tight security possible and
he’s gone ahead and put the money in for a
in-depth security audit and it’s of course
secure but he is going through the audit anyways
anyway so here we go actually I sorry that’s
why you want to be careful the theme you choose
to use because that is where there are security
holes introduced into your website so you
might see a theme that looks really exciting
and it’s all sexy on the front end and all
that but you don’t know when you look at the
code if there’s going to be performance issues
but more importantly security issues and that’s
why it’s smart to go with a reputable team
for your website and that’s what were getting
here in GeneratePress so you can just click
on the checkbox and then for bulk actions
go ahead and activate everything, to uncheck
that sections because I don’t use it but everything
else is cool now if you are watching this
today the day that I upload the video you
and I can have this WooCommerce option because
it’s can be coming out in a few days so I’m
just gonna activate what I have there and
here we go so also right here the only time
you can come back to this pages if you want
to disable a new add-on or new add-on comes
out you want to enable it but you should also
come here for the import export options so
essentially every aspect of your GeneratePress
site is modular you can move it around which
is very nice I know a lot of people that are
making child themes are using GeneratePress
because it’s so easy to give you settings
to install in order to get the site looking
the way that you want it now we have a new
option here which is GP hook some knock and
talk about that right now where their real
meat and potatoes is going to be is right
here where it says customize someone to go
ahead and click on customize and your to see
all of the setting so let me just preface
pretty much anything that you could want to
change colors fonts header layouts footer
layouts are to be able to do it now with this
premium add on a package so the first thing
is your to come here to the layout and its
setting after setting each element the layout
for those elements in this right here is new
the WooCommerce so we can change our container
with this actually very good because the theme
I’m using right now I can’t make it wider
or more narrow I wanted wider actually us
you can come in here and change your container
with and here’s already some spacing and padding
that you can start changing around oh I like
this this is new you can lock them together
and start decreasing them right that’s pretty
good that this is the spacing from inside
the box right here the content padding the
padding to the top left bottom and right and
then here it is for a mobile device so there’s
our container we do have a lot of header options
here which is really knifes we got alignment
options we’ve got the width we can adjust
and what’s really nice is he’s also including
options for your mobile header and I really
like that because a lot of themes when you
look at on a mobile device I I just don’t
like the way the header portion looks it either
takes up too much space or just just doesn’t
look really that good so here is our primary
navigation right here we can choose the let’s
see where is it okay this is nice right here
where the navigation is good to be so by default
with GeneratePress it’s on the bottom but
here more typical place to have it would be
maybe on the float right and it would move
it right there member we can change these
colors I don’t I don’t like these default
colors at all actually so we have that right
there in theirs like I said all of these options
right here what else is were over the note
I can add a secondary navigation if I wanted
to we can have a top bar we can have a second
dairy one here on the bottom we have sticky
navigation options which some themes they
charge you extra just to have this sticky
navigation anyways I can have slide out navigation
actually this is kind of new and see the slide
out navigation is usually there’s like a like
a hamburger icon here and you click on it
and it slides out so I don’t actually see
that so I’m not probably doing it right but
that’s okay alright so we have a page header
options anyways you can see we have all of
these awesome layout options but let’s take
a look at WooCommerce so right here it’s really
nice you can display the cart finally in the
menu this was one of the things I asked for
this is when someone adds a product to the
cart it’s gonna show the cart on the menu
area there I think that’s pretty huge we have
breadcrumbs right there here is our product
page layout actually let me jump into that
someone click on shop and I did throw in a
default product here called the fidget cube
to start an e-commerce store with my son selling
some of these fidgety things alright so you
can see now we have options for the layout
here for WooCommerce product page so right
now it is actually let’s see that that sidebar
layout let’s see if it affects it I’m this
might just be the shop page let’s see content
no sidebar that might not do it all right
will do it okay so there you go so if you
didn’t want to show sidebar you can do tears
and I have these options were you didn’t have
these options before you have image alignment
and how many products per page on the shop
page in the have these controls of what you
want to show and what you don’t want to show
in if you notice here it is actually really
deep the options that it gives you I really
like that okay so it’s get out of layout in
the morning to the same thing for colors and
now everything segmented out in the colors
so I said I don’t like that of the black background
here that is my primary navigation colors
so I can change the background to let’s just
clear it out and then I need to actually give
the font to color in their ego so this is
kind of what you would expect to see a background
that’s the same color background as the rest
of the header and then a contrasting color
for the font so there we have it was that
easy let me also change my text however it’s
go white their ego right in here to I should
have made white okay there you go that’s what
I wanted to do and said let’s see so we still
have that hover we connect to get rid of that
on the hover as well is right here it’s the
background hovers so we would just make that
whites and now we just have the text changing
and so the text however we will make that
dark as well there we go so you see how easy
that is the change that would be a big pain
in the rear end if you’re doing it with custom
code even though he will tell you exactly
how to do that that’s one of things I like
about Tom even though he’s wants to have you
buy the premium package so he can eat he’ll
tell you how to do something without you buying
it which is a very refreshing that he’s willing
to help you even if there’s nothing really
financial in it for him and you can control
all of these colors right here one of the
things that is actually very unique is he
has the option here for forms so whenever
you go to like a contact form it inherits
the style from your theme but in this premium
package he gives you the option to cheat to
configure what those will be when you see
a form on your page so if I click on add to
cart right here let’s see if that’s gonna
work in the customizer it doesn’t look like
it’s going to work in the customizer I show
you actually get them to show you right now
I’m to go here to go to shop to go to fidget
cube added to the carts in the number to view
all these colors can be completely customizable
minima to go to the checkout every color so
here’s like your typical form Juergen to be
able to control the sizes and colors you know
how the color changes when you when you click
into the field you actually get those options
right here in the customizer this is unique
I haven’t really seen this anywhere anyways
so now are in our WooCommerce colors and Juergen
be thrilled to know you have pretty much control
over all the colors so I mean we obviously
we’ve got this button here if I wanted to
make it something vibrant like that and then
I change my holler hover color to that you
can see how easy that was to change and they
go you got literally it and it actually goes
deeper in colors customizations of these colors
than I’ve seen in other themes so this is
really going to set generate pad press ahead
of the pack when it comes to WooCommerce and
e-commerce integration and I really like this
you see there’s another thing called Genesis
now Genesis is so linking any change you want
to make you have to do it with custom code
and argument there is that because of that
it’s gonna run faster but it it’s not necessarily
as so accurate today because GeneratePress
I bet if you put it side-by-side isn’t gonna
run any slower than a Genesis theme but you
still get these customizer options which I
want even though I can sit there and crank
out CSS I don’t want to do that I rather just
come in here click around change of color
and be off to what and what the next thing
I want to do that day so anyways there is
your WooCommerce colors right there same thing
for topography were to be able to change the
fonts of everything in the weight and all
that stuff I didn’t like my primary navigation
font right there I can go here and just choose
something different so let’s just use this
comic sans I think that will be noticeable
just like that and I can inclusively decrease
the size there to 18 you see how easy it is
and then I can make it all I will not capitalize
all uppercase like this you can see how easy
that is actually that made it too big let
me come back down okay scenario so it work
and control over all the fonts that you would
need in your website RK so we have the blog
options here and this could be how the blog
content is laid out you got the Manson re-options
I like your traditional one where you’ve got
the title the image an excerpt and some can
click on and go in but to each his own by
default just you know this is kind of this
layout you see how everything is kind of in
its own little separate container and then
we have this color here on the edges some
people like that some people don’t let me
actually show you how to change that real
quick so that would be your background color
I’m pretty sure so are the body right here
so let me change that to white and there you
go that was much all you needed to do to change
that or if you wanted to be a different color
altogether you could go there I mean that’s
how simple this really was to now it doesn’t
look all containerized but is completely up
to you how you wanted and what you want to
do there so that is our colors that was our
topography or blog background images you can
actually put a background instead of just
the color you can have an image in the background
I don’t typically like that but I mean for
some creative types you might want to put
a pattern in the background and I totally
understand that okay here’s the option for
your copyright you can pop in whatever you
want if you scroll down by default this is
what it’s gonna say but you can put in whatever
you want their menus that’s a typical WordPress
widget additional CSS this is all WordPress
stuff right here so you can see how it’s all
kind of a logically organized if it’s a layout
it’s can be found under layout of its color
it’s gonna be under colors and if it’s the
font to the topography you’re gonna find that
in topography so if I didn’t like the layout
of this footer ding ding ding I noted going
to the customizer click on layout oops not
site identity click on layout and go to footer
and now I’ve got control over my footer area
if I didn’t want three footer widgets I can
just go like this and kinda get rid of the
the footer altogether if I didn’t want to
do that there is color so here is this like
copyright areas got that black if I don’t
want that there I go home that’s probably
in colors so let me go to colors and let’s
find that so that would probably be under
my guess is maybe footer widget no footer
that would be footer the area where the witches
were would be the footer widgets this is just
gonna be the footer so there you go now I
can go here and I can lighten up the color
and make it to be whatever I want he does
have it all organized and grouped in a logical
way if it’s a layout it’s going to be in layouts
if it is a color color topography topography
it’s as simple as that so for instance if
I wanted to change some of the header exit
let’s take a look at this a secondary navigation
right here so let’s see navigation location
above header below header is where you can
place a second navigation here’s the different
locations that you can place it on if I did
like no navigation actually I’m missing this
right here above header I wonder if I have
to assign a menu and that’s wire where I would
get it up there on the top but you also have
in each of these layout options is the padding
and spacing options which is really nice so
let’s change us around so for navigation right
now it’s on the flow right I’m going to put
it up below the header but instead of on the
left I’m going to center it so now that’s
centered and so this is the header right here
I’m in a go ahead and put that in the center
and now everything’s just kind of centered
actually like this kind of a layout it looks
a little more friendly and easier to navigate
and I’m sure looks great on all devices and
here’s your padding and everything like that
so let’s do a quick save and publish and take
a look at it on the front and someone ago
here and there it is him a click on shop you
can see how I’ve already changed a whole bunch
of things when doing add to cart and let’s
see where we not get in our add to cart in
there let me figure that out like me because
it and added to cart okay there go view cart
okay so I’m on the card I have three of them
in the cart and were not getting it showing
there’s let’s just see what we need to do
to make that work colors let’s see someone
to go back to colors WooCommerce and let’s
see if that’s how I need to enable it darn
and I can’t find it off the top of my head
while you’re just going to have to trust me
that it works I had a working the other day
I reset all my settings and instead of making
this video any longer than it needs to be,
to go ahead and just click on save and publish
and try to explain the hook areas which is
a very powerful feature so well it just took
me right to the hooks that’s right because
I was on Hunt’s when I got into the customizer
so what hooks are is these different areas
and locations on a page so there’s above header
below header above navigation below navigation
above post content below post content there’s
these hook areas and what you can do is you
can drop a short code in here and it will
take whatever that chart could generate source
and PHP that going a little on the technical
side or just a short code and it will put
it in that location and this is actually really
good if you’re using one of these modern page
builders like Elementor or Beaver Builder
because you can create a rower section and
you can save it and then you’ll get a little
short code that you can play someplace so
where you’d want to use this type of feature
is say you have a lot of blog posts and you
want to maybe have a call to action about
the content but below the navigation on a
blog post asking for someone’s email address
that’s how you could do something like that
or maybe you wanted a sitewide notice you
know when you go to a website and they might
be having a sale or there some something that
they want to help help you to to notice and
recognize in the have a bar at the very top
these are things you can do in these hook
areas so you would be able to create it in
your page builder of choice though give you
little short code and you can just paste it
wherever you want to pop that information
in and that is one of the really nice things
that you can do here and there’s all these
different hook locations right here I don’t
see a real easy way to see what is aware but
there might be in the documentation a list
of what these hook areas are and where they
are so you would know when you place your
circle and it is easy if you put it someplace
is wrong wrong spot you just move it to the
perfect spot and be very easy to get dialed
in so anyways guys that is been my quick review
of GeneratePress I fully will leave fully
stand behind a GeneratePress I love what Tom
is doing you will be in good hands in using
this theme and as a matter of fact you would
not be alone if you started using GeneratePress
a lot if developers are using this theme and
basing all of their website builds on this
theme and I think the reason why I like getting
a theme from a different company that I get
my page builder from is because Batesville
the company they can focus on improving the
page builder the theme company they can focus
on making it the best theme that there is
and they can have these as separate focuses
I find that if your using that company for
the page builder and the theme they might
have a split focus or split passion Tom passionate
about GeneratePress this theme and these different
page builder plug-ins like Elementor Beaver
Builder they’re just passionate about that
but if they’re also selling a theme I find
that the passion is in there for the theme
and that’s why it’s good to go with Tom a
separate company for your theme it’s kind
like when you go to that restaurant that has
a menu with all kinds of different items on
it and they’re all just okay they’re not fantastic
but if you go to a restaurant that just serves
this in a restaurant that just serves that
there’s a good chance that it’s going to be
better for you better for you but it’s good
to be a better better meal because that’s
what they focus on that is there thing that
is what they do that is what they’re the best
that that’s what they’re the experts at that’s
all that I was trying to make with that points
up anyways like I said I’ve got a link down
below to GeneratePress now if you use GeneratePress
and you like it wanted to put your reasons
down below in the comment section or if there’s
a another WordPress theme that you use in
and you use it for a particular reason and
I wanted to share that with everyone down
below as well thanks for watching this video
34 Comments
Hey Adam,
Thanks for the review. I’m currently using Astra Pro with Elementor Pro. While I’ve been happy with that combo, I’m trying to improve performance as I think Elementor has gotten a bit bloated lately and Astra might not be keeping up with other themes (maybe?).
Assuming I can do the design I have in mind without Elementor, I’m considering switching to GeneratePress or Kadence with Kadence Blocks or another comprehensive/good performance blocks plugin.
I know you’re giving some love to Kadence lately (and the Kadence Pro version is yet to be released), but how would you compare/recommend between Astra, GeneratePress, and Kadence? (assuming premium on all three).
And, which blocks plugin do you think “assimilates” the most to what Elementor is capable of?
If you are after performance, all 3 perform virtually the same and use the same performance techniques. If you are after features, Astra and GeneratePress are getting crushed by Kadence Theme. All one has to do is try the header/footer builder in Kadence, the global linked color palette, not to mention the added compatibility and features added to Woo and various other plugins. If you are going to go the Gutenberg route, then things get really amazing with copy/paste styles, draggable margins, globally linked color palette, etc. All without a negative performance impact.
When Kadence Pro comes out, it will have those essential developer features like conditional hooks, more menu items, more special WooCommerce stuff etc. Where Kadence will be lacking for a few months is in the pre-designed templates. It would be virtually impossible to catch up to Astra, but I could see them catching up to GeneratePress by the end of 2020. Also the current state of documentation for Astra and GeneratePress is pretty awesome and it will take months for them to catch up.
Adam, how would you compare GeneratePress premium to the Thesis theme for ease of use?
Thesis Theme is an old dinosaur that nobody uses anymore. I would have never even considered Thesis Theme as easy to use, it was insanely overly complicated.
Hi, your video has been extremely helpful! I just downloaded GP premium but I can’t seem to find the “GP Hooks” on my wordpress dashboard. Do you have any insight on this?
With GeneratePress you have to enable all the modules you want to use in the settings panel.
I’m looking to change my Blog theme and stumbled upon your GP review. I know nothing about coding, would I be able to build my site using this theme?
Yep, GeneratePress is good, you would want to go with the paid version though. If your only budget is free then check out the Kadence Theme.
Hey about Rehub what you think
Very interesting theme, but it has too much going on.
How do you think GeneratePress compares with Make, by Theme Foundry?
I’ve been using Make free version for ages. Love it, but thinking about a premium theme that I can use on more than one site.
I would be cautious with the Make theme. If it’s working for you then great, but it’s not modern or embracing the way things are done today. It was interesting 4 years ago but it never really caught on.
Great review.. I am an Indian blogger.. and generatepress perfectly fit my blog.. Thanks for this amazing review..
Awesome, you won’t regret it.
Awesome Generatepress review…! You have mentioned everything that needs to know before buying a theme.
By the way, I used the Elementor Page builder with GP to build my homepage, they both work great together.
And personally, I recommended GeneratePress them too.
Hey Adam,
Very well reviewed post. I had come here almost 2 months searchings for GeneratePress reviews & impressed with the features you explained here. It looks promising and bought it instantly.
Today I want to a million thank you for making the best decision for choosing the right WordPress theme.
Thanks again.
Harpreet Kumar
GeneratePress is really an excellent and super-fast theme. I’m using it from last 1 year on my 3-4 sites. The cost of GeneratePress theme is also not high, and one can easily buy the pro version. Unfortunately, They don’t provide any coupon code. 🙂 Thanks for reviewing the GeneratePress theme.
Yea it’s a great theme and at a great price. Its a top 3 theme for me.
Generatepress doesn’t have any CON. It’s blessed with all about PROS. I know you added the con just to fulfill all rightousness, but the users of generatepres are not equally fans of page builders.
And with that in mind, generatepress is likely to exist longer with wordpress no matter the changes WP-team might want to bring up into their CMS frameworked platform in future.
Thanks for the review though, but checkout my blog and see the power of generatepress
Here is Tom’s reply to your concern about page builders
“I don’t dislike page builders. In fact, I appreciate that they allow people to create really nice websites who otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
One of the rules we follow is to not add plugin-specific code to the theme. Who knows if Page Builder XYZ will still be popular in a year or two from now? It would be a shame to bloat the theme with a bunch of code that will be unnecessary in the future. It’s easy to add options, but it’s not easy to remove them if you care about backward compatibility.
One thing I’m really proud of is the themes ability to integrate with any page builder seamlessly, even though it’s not aware of their existence. It speaks to the overall flexibility of GP ?”
And that’s fine. But there is a balance, right? If 2 lines of code add a ton of value for the user experience, is that a worthy tradeoff? Look at the Astra theme which does have this and still is equally as fast if not faster.
Adam, very good review and yes its best WordPress theme that I have been using since year. Super fast, SEO friendly, highly customizable. Love it.
Absolutely great review. Great.
I have got one question to clarify. Is it a good idea to use elementor pro with free version of generate press?
And in doing do so, can we remove the Generate Press copyrights section in the footer so that the whole website would look premium rather than a powered by website.
I was thinking of purchasing Elementor Pro and use it with free version of Generate Press. I would like to pay only for one product.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
You certainly can do that if you want. And you can change the copyright in GeneratePress quite easily, they have instructions on their website.
Hey Adam,
Thank you for the quick review of Generate Press. I’m thinking of this theme. Does this also have a landing page layout too?
The Elementor plugin will work well this?
Also, what do you think of the Authority Pro theme (Studio Press)?
Great review!
Monica
Yes it does, you can disable the header and footer. And it will work great with Elementor.
I am not really a fan of any of the Studio Press themes. They have very few customization options, you are pretty much stuck with what they give you.
Hi Ads
Can I ask how come you using an old May/2017 vid on good ole late November 2018 post when things may have changed since ? Just curious.
Do you want to make a new video for me? Just curious.
As one who uses generate press premium, I can tell you the support is tremendous. I am not a coder, and they have helped answer the most basic questions and even given me occasional help with some custom css. They also author a css plugin that is great.
I think you got it all wrong there 🙂
GeneratePress support is BEYOND amazing!!!
Hi Adam,
Thanks very much for your Generate Press review. Yesterday (February 16th 2018) I purchased the paid for version – Generate Press Premium. I am exceptionally impressed with it. It’s like a breath of fresh air compared with the other theme I was using. It’s easy to use and there’s loads of documentation, videos and help blogs about this theme. What I say to people is don’t be fooled by GP’s less sophisticated appearance and the sales hype of other themes: This really IS an easy to use, top notch theme – la creme de la creme!!
Yea it is one of the better themes out there.
Hi,
Thanks for the Generatepress review. I also checked your comparison to it vs Ocean WP.
I am currently using Divi.
I am considering switching to a full redesign using the paid version of the WP Types suite. they have a starter theme, but also recommended starting with GeneratePress or Ocean WP.
So have you used WP Types with either of the themes? any feedback?
Also, is GeneratePress “RTL” compatible?
Thanks
Actually the recommended Astra, GeneratePress, and OceanWP. All 3 will meet your requirements.