The long-awaited WordPress theme for our wedding vendors is here - introducing the new wedding Ultra skin! This skin provides a perfect template for wedding websites, wedding photographers, as well as, hand craft artists to showcase their work. It offers an elegant and floral look with lots of opportunities and room for information and photos. Experience the Ultra Wedding demo now.
With wedding sites and hand craft artist sites being photo-heavy, this skin provides a dedicated page for portfolios and blog posts where you can showcase all your work in a stunning gallery of photos. Moreover, with the layout being both easy-to-navigate and responsive, your site can be easily viewed on any device without compromising the layout and appearance.
Lightweight & High Pagespeed Score
Even with a lot of images and content on the demo, the Wedding skin is super lightweight and load very fast with a 95 pagespeed score (see report). With Themify's built-in performance features, we managed to make the demo home page size within 1mb. That means the site loads within 200-300ms on most high speed connections. Google indicated pagespeed is a SEO ranking factor now. If your WordPress site doesn't score 90+ on Google Pagespeed Insights, consider to switch to Ultra now to boost your site's pagespeed and SEO performance.
We are excited to start the new year by introducing a new Ultra skin that any online furniture store and interior design store needs. Create the finest online storefront for your furniture products and launch it in a snap — all made easy with the new furniture skin. The skin is available in Ultra, Shoppe and Builder Pro, you are well on your way on creating a top-notch website.
With an air of sophistication and freshness, the furniture skin has everything a modern online furniture website can ever need. It offers a unique layout that brings out the best in your products.
Try the new Furniture skin and custom create just about any website in the same day. Experience the Furniture Skin now.
Guest post by Tom Fanelli, CEO and founder of Convesio
The best thing you can do for your WordPress website in 2021 is to tune up its performance, but that's not always as simple as it sounds. Generally, you can sum up performance as 50% site speed and 50% user experience, otherwise known as UX. Unfortunately, UX improvements often lead to lower site speed, which means you may be faced with a difficult challenge when optimizing your site.
It takes a delicate balance, but it's possible to fine-tune your WordPress performance by enhancing both UX and site speed when you choose the right techniques and technology.
My name is Tom Fanelli and I'm the co-founder of Convesio, a next-generation managed WordPress host. With two decades of digital experience, I've gone from owning my own agency to taking on multiple senior executive roles at large public companies.
In this post, I'll cover the most common issues I see with WordPress performance while considering the perspective and impact of both speed and UX, as well as what you can do about them. Let's get to it!
Bringing back our series of customer stories showcasing and highlighting our clients and their journey towards success, with the help of Themify. For this month’s Customer Story, we read into the journey of Ramshid whose eagerness and determination to find effective solutions in web design made him fall in love with WordPress.
About Me
We meet Ramshid, CEO at OPENTUTOR, a Hub of offline trainers hosting hands-on workshops, training and sessions for students and learners. He is also a Digital Marketing Manager at Fenix Advertising, providing complete advertising and branding solutions for all kinds of businesses.
OPENTUTOR was founded in August of 2018 with an aim at bringing technical skills through WordPress training to students and businesses. All of their WordPress training were done using Themify Ultra which they continue to find success in, for both their trainers and their students.
We are excited to announce that the long anticipating Pagespeed framework is close to final. We are going through the final round of testing and ironing the fine details. The project has been taking a long time as we have to re-code some components due to Google Pagespeed Insight algorithm changes. After the previous beta release, we were not satisfied with the pagespeed score, so we further enhanced the lazy load feature to get a better score. Now most Ultra and Shoppe demos score over 90 on Google Pagespeed Insights. The time invested was well worth it. We have the final beta version available if you are interested to give it a try. You can see the new versions being used across all live demos. If you spot any errors, please report them to us. If everything goes well, we will release the official version in a week or two. Another newsletter will be sent on the final release. For now, please enjoy our lightning fast demos below.
We would like to update you on the Pagespeed framework that was announced a few months ago. There has been a long delay because Google Pagespeed Insights changed their metrics when we were close to completion. So we ended up re-coding a lot of stuff to comply with the new metrics. Before, Google just evaluated the page size, HTTP requests, scripts, code practices, etc., but now they also audit user experience as part of the pagespeed score. They implemented some new metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) to determine how user friendly your page is rendered on user's screen. For example, if you have a large element (whether it is a text, image, video, map, or slider) that takes a long time to load, it will trigger a long LCP. Or if you have an element that causes layout shift during page render (eg. inline popup, ad, social embeds, etc.), it will trigger the CLS issue. The long loading LCP and CLS will result in lower pagespeed score. For more information, read Google's Web Vitals.
The new changes have made it harder to score 95+ on Google Pagespeed Insights for everyone (including our new framework). If you refer to our previous post, the demos used to score 97 to 99 but are now down to 90 to 92 due to the new changes. The good news is we've tackled the new metrics pretty well. Most demos (even with heavy content) can still score 90 and up. In this post, we will share the Ultra and Shoppe beta version and show a few pagespeed comparisions between the old vs new version.
