GeneratePress Review: Why All WordPress Pros Like it?

I was using MyThemeShop's Spike theme from the very beginning of starting this blog. It was stylish and beautiful. MTS has user-friendly customer support who helped me a lot in customizing the theme. But still I changed the theme. 

Do you know why?

Even though Spike is still my favorite, its speed and lack of additional features prompted me to look for the alternative options. Spike has good speed. But I want to make my theme code light-weight again to reduce its loading time. I also want to get some additional options like secondary navigation, page builder support, code insertion (without editing the theme or using any plugins), etc. Unfortunately, Spike was incompatible for doing these things. 

I searched a lot to find a theme of my needs. But later, I came to know that GeneratePress is the sole option that can do what I need. It's highly customizable regarding layouts, typography, colors, backgrounds, navigation, spacing, and anythingelse. It also allows you to insert AdSense or similar advertisement codes in particular part of the contents using hooks. Moreover, the default theme weighs less than 30kb as I mentioned earlier. 

Here's my blog's statistics on Google PageSpeed Insights before installing GeneratePress. 

It will be interesting to know what Google PageSpeed says after migrating to the GeneratePress. This is the result,

The theme change brought significant improvements in page speed and rated it 99 out of 100. 

Now we can check the same page with Pingdom tools. Here's how my blog appeared in Pingdom with the previous theme,

This is the same page data with GeneratePress,

After migrating to GeneratePress Premium, page size and requests are reduced by 45% with the same page loading time. 

GeneratePress will supercharge your website not only in speed but in every way. It gives you a free hand to design and customize pages as you like. 

Here're a few samples. 

Want to display or hide certain fields from home, single posts, and pages? Open GeneratePress Premium settings and select what fields you want to show in corresponding pages. They include post date, author name, categories, tags, comment counts, read more button, etc. 

Featured image control is another notable feature of GeneratePress Premium. You can choose a display location, set an alignment and size for your featured blog post images through the theme customizer. There are many more things GeneratePress can do on your WordPress website. We'll explain them in another post very soon.  

The clean, light-weight code and flexibility make GeneratePress the favorite theme for WordPress Pros. Being fast, it will boost your search engine rankings and page visits. The versatility feature empowers you to adapt the theme for different business types and projects with a unique look and style. 

It has a built in tiny page builder to organize your contents into sections. It's also compatible with popular page builder plugins like Elementor, Beaver, and Thrive Architect to create professional-quality landing pages and thereby convert your page visitors to the customers easily.