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@oey
I generally recommend against the specialty themes that you linked to. In my experience those cause more problems than they solve due to feature bloat, poor code quality, lack of updates to remain compatible with the roadmap of WordPress, etc...
In my opinion, it's much better to start with a more minimalist theme with a vetted codebase from a trusted vendor and layer in the additional functionality that you need through plugins (which is where that stuff belongs).
I recommend http://beaverbuilder.com/ to a lot of folks in your situation. It's a page builder plugin, but they also offer their own theme which plays nicely with it. It's really flexible and you can get a ton of mileage out of it. It also has a huge user base and a good development/support team behind their product. In short, they're not going anywhere. (And no, they don't pay me to promote their stuff.)
- ah! thanks nocomply! i understand what you mean. still I would prefer to modify the html and css by myself and not use drag and drop page builders.oey
- checking the beaver right now.oey
- I was thinking that maybe it's just better to use a minimal theme as well but with high customizing possibilities .oey
- You can still do a lot of manual customization to your theme even when using Beaver Builder. I do that all the time.nocomply
- But if you're going to use a minimalist theme and customize it yourself, I like working with Genesis - http://my.studiopres…nocomply
- It's got a bit of a learning curve though. If you want to avoid that I'd go with a child theme based on the default twentysixeen, twentyseventeen, etc.. themes.nocomply
- Or for super-minimal try http://components.un… or http://underscores.m…. When I build completely custom themes I start with underscoresnocomply
- i was checking on the genesis framework yesterday.oey