All of you who have been learning to blog or are blogging for the last few days, they must be well aware that how much does its loading time matter for each site. One of those 200 ranking factors of Google is that your site should be mobile friendly and secondly, the speed of your site should also be good.
There are many ways to improve the speed of your site that you should use a good web hosting such as- FastComet. And images should also be optimized well.
There are some similar ways by which we can improve the speed of our site. And the Generatepress Theme we are talking about is a Light Weight Theme.
That is, this theme has already been optimized. So when you install this theme on your blog, you will get very good speed. So you will get all the information related to GeneratePress Theme to read in this article.
GeneratePress theme is the most popular fast loading, lightweight & mobile responsive WordPress theme in WordPress theme directory with 100,000+ active installations.
GeneratePress is developed by a Canadian developer Tom Usborne. Its free version provides basic design to your blog or website and if you want to add more advanced feature to your site then you can use its modular addon plugins which cost $39 or buy separately then each For this you have to pay 7-8$. So let’s start the GeneratePress Review…..
GeneratePress WordPress theme review
GeneratePress theme is very simple, lightweight, and free responsive WordPress theme. It has been developed keeping in mind the speed, SEO and usability. Being a responsive theme, it fits very well on any screen and is compatible with all popular browsers and Internet Explorer 8.
Features of GeneratePress WordPress theme
- Lightweight & Fast loading
- SEO ready
- Mobile Responsive
- Easy Customization
- Developer Friendly
- Secure & Stable
- Translation & RTL Ready
- Awesome Font
- Compatible with all major browsers
Let us understand its features in a little detail…..
 Fast loading, Lightweight & SEO Ready
GeneratePress is well-coded and designed with Lightweight. Which helps your blog to be fast loading.
Its free version only gives a beautiful look to your blog. But you can use its modular addon plugins to provide a great look or add extra feature to your blog or website.
Responsive & Browser Compatible
Being mobile responsive, it fits easily on any screen and supports all major browsers and Internet Explorer 8.
Premium Features :-
As you must now know that both Free and Paid versions of GeneratePress Theme are available. Where we get to see a lot of features in Paid Version.
The same free version does not have features and if we want to remove the credits from the footer of the theme, then we cannot do this.
So if you want to use GeneratePress Premium now, then before that let me also tell you about all its features. So that you can get complete information about it.
1) Site Library
GeneratePress Theme is a MultiPurpose Theme, it is not necessary that you can use this theme only for your blog. If you want to make a website for any company, then you can do that too. Such as :- Shopping Website, News Website .Etc
So you can use this feature named Site Library in some way that if you do not know how to design a website right now, then you have already given some templates in it. Whichever of these you like best.
To go to the Site Library option, you have to go to Appearance > GeneratePress, there will be 3 options, out of which the third one will be Site Library.
You just have to install the demo of that template and then your site will be ready with a completely new design. Just wherever you have to write any other text or change the images.
For that, you can open the WordPress Dashboard, then go to Appearance > Customize and do whatever you want to change.
So this Site Library is used in this way.
2) Colors
Perhaps you must have understood that this feature is used in a similar way. If you do not like the color of the theme after the theme is installed, then you can also change it.
So for this you have to go Appearance > Customize > Colors, now here you can change the color wherever the colors have been used on the whole website.
For example, if you want to change the color of all the headings of your site, then go to the heading section and save it by selecting the color of your choice from there.
Similarly, you can change the color of each place (Navbar, Background, Link or Link Hover, Footer.Etc).
If still you want to change the color of any element, then you can find out its class and you can also do these things with custom CSS. But for this you must have knowledge of CSS.
3) Typography
With the help of this, we can make any changes in any text of the site. For example, if the font-size of a heading is to be increased or its font-weight means to make the text bold. Such changes can be made.
It is also necessary for a blog, from which font all the text is written in that site. If a font has been used in which you do not understand what is written, then you can also change its font.
While writing a paragraph, many times the text is written very close to each other, which is also very difficult to read, so to change it, you can change the line-height according to your own.
4) Elements
If you want to give a better look to your site, then you must use Elements, with the help of this, if you want to make small changes in your site, then all those things can be done.
For example, if you want to create a hero section on the homepage, it can be created using Block Editor or, if you want to create a Call to Action.
So you can easily make such things using Elements and if you know Coding then you can make your own Elements using Coding. such as Author Box.
5) Woocommerce
If you have created a shopping website with the help of WooCommerce, you can further customize your store after enabling this option.
If you want to make any changes in the layout or change the typography or color in the store, after it is activated, such minor changes can be done easily.
6) Menu Plus
If you want to put a good navigation bar on your own, then you can use this feature of your Generate Premium. In some themes, it is a bit difficult to install the Navbar, but a Responsive Navbar can be installed in it.
Which is well supported in all devices like mobile, computer and tablet. And if you want to put Sticky Navigation in Desktop Mode, then that too can be activated in just one click.
7) Blog
With the help of this feature, we customize our blog even more, we can make many changes in the latest posts in the blog section.
For example, if we want to show the title of the post at the top or thumbnail, we can do such things and Infinite Scroll and Mansonry such layout can be added.
In the blog, if you want to add Navbar anywhere other than Top-Navbar, then that can also be done.
For example, if you want to add a Navbar to the Sidebar as well, then you can do it using this feature.
9) Copyright
Although WordPress will get many themes, one of them is GeneratePress, but you cannot remove Footer Credits from its free version.
But when you use the premium version of this theme, you can easily remove Footer Credits. Instead you are whatever you want.
10) Import/Export
This feature will come in handy when you have more than one website and have designed your website well and better than when you have to re-design the theme to make your second website,
You can export the theme of your old one and then import in the new theme.
How to Install GeneratePress Theme?
So let’s first know that those people who want to install the free version of GeneratePress Theme, then they only have to go to Appearance > Themes > Add New Theme after opening the WordPress Dashboard.
Then in the search box of that page, you have to search by typing GeneratePress and install the first numbered theme.
And after that whatever customization you want to do, you can do that in the theme, but as much as we are given in a free theme, then this is the process of installing GeneratePress Free Version, hope you have understood well.
Now let’s know how to install Paid Version of this Theme. So after you buy the theme from the official site of GeneratePress, you have to download a ZIP there.
In that ZIP file you will get 1 Theme and 1 Plugin, so like I told you to install Theme, you first install the Theme in that way.
After that, you have to go to Plugin > Add New Plugin and upload the plugin containing the ZIP file to it. Then after activating the plugin, you have to log in to your account with GeneratePress Theme.
Then you will get a key there by copying it and going to Appearance > GeneratePress, there you will be asked for the key to fully activate the theme, then that copied key will have to be pasted in it.
After doing this, you can completely install the GeneratePress Theme on your blog.
Conclusion
GeneratePress is one of the best WordPress themes for users who are looking for a lightweight and flexible responsive theme. There is not much feature available in its free version but for those who are looking for well-developed free WordPress themes, then GeneratePress is the right choice.
If you want to provide an attractive look to your site, then you can provide the best look to your site by buying its GP Premium addon, that too without the help of any developer.
You can buy GeneratePress Theme from this website in Indian Rupees and at a very low cost.
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