There is no question that PHP 8 provides a nice performance boost. However, themes and plugins have been slow to officially support it. That’s why it is good news that with version 3.6.6 Astra, the most widely used theme, officially supports PHP 8.0.
The same team that creates the Plus Addons recently released the first version of their NexterWP Theme. Nexter can be used with their Elementor add or their new Gutenberg plugin for creating content templates. This is another take on a theme builder. At this point is limited, but I am curious to see how this…
OceanWP 3 was a major code refactoring, moving to vanilla JavaScript, object oriented code, and fewer dependencies. This brings a nice speed increase to this popular theme, known for its good extensive features in the free version and WooCommerce support. This release came with 20 new demos to help users quickly get started with their…
Neve is one of only three themes that support global color palettes in the Customizer, Gutenberg and Elementor. You can read about that here. Version 3 was just released with new performance options and you can also give users the option to change the site’s color palette.
With version 3.6 Astra continues optimizing the theme for faster load times and a better user experience. The team has added the ability to self-host Google fonts as well as a number of other enhancements. They have also moved more color options from the pro version into the free version. It is good to see…
The Astra team made several accessibility improvements for screen readers and color choices. Astra now claims to be a 100% accessible theme with a default layout. They also made a number of optimizations on the loading of CSS assets to load only what is needed on the page and removed some unused code.