Comments on: I Spent 20 Hours Testing 60+ Niche WordPress Themes, and There Are Some Elephants in the Repo

By: Martin Dubovic

Martin Dubovic — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:31:10 +0000

In reply to Daniel. Couldn't agree more. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. Happy WordPress-ing!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:36:05 +0000

Thanks Martin. For me it is Astra most of the time. Could be Neve or any other well-built and lightweight theme. And Gutenberg, maybe pop it up with some block-plugin like Spectra or Stackable.
And forget about all the other crap.

By: Martin Dubovic

Martin Dubovic — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:30:30 +0000

In reply to Frank Gomez.

Thanks for reading Frank and for sharing your experience. I was honestly surprised that the problem was as big as I found it to be. I knew it was an issue, I just didn’t realize the extent of it. But the fact that I went through a little over 30 fitness themes and couldn’t even make a top 10 list because I couldn’t find 10 good ones out of 30 is pretty bad to say the least. Then to find the same type of situation in the travel themes niche only confirmed it.

I’m also with you on Gutenberg. When I first started using WordPress years ago, I actually began with Elementor but these days I actually dislike it quite a bit and am much more of a “Gutenberger.”

By: Frank Gomez

Frank Gomez — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:09:16 +0000

Thank you for pointing out that most themes are garbage. I’m a Neve / Neve Pro user but I do not use “starter sites”. I use Gutenberg. Never would use Elementor.