2015
Feb
05
WordPress Theme Bloat: Premium Themes and Layout Builders
(originally posted on Bring Your Own Design)
Inspired by a thread on Reddit, let’s look at one of the main complaints about WordPress these days: bloated installations that run slow.
One of WordPress’s greatest strengths is the fact that anyone can purchase or download a premade theme and have a “custom” website up in a short span of time. It’s also one of the things that can cause the most headache for more experienced users. Many theme developers are obsessed with cramming as much functionality into a theme as possible in order to attract the greatest number of potential users. The byproduct of that is a theme that causes the site to load slowly, causes conflicts with plugins, or is simply difficult to arrange the content the way you want.