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ergophobe

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Re: Fast Wordpress theme
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2020, 12:10:50 AM »
>>Slightly Off Topic ...

In the best of traditions...

>eBook vs Paperbooks (pBooks).

Well, there's no question that if you walk to the library and borrow your books, that's going to be the hands down winner. And there is nothing that can replace the smell of three-hundred-year-old library books :-)

But if all you care about is carbon footprint and you're comparing buying paper books vs Kindle or iPad, the e-readers will win after 18-23 books. And that doesn't count if you are buying a book from Amazon and having is shipped to you on a UPS truck in a disposable envelope.
https://slate.com/technology/2010/08/are-ipads-and-kindles-better-for-the-environment-than-books.html
https://gowageningen.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/co2-footprints-of-kindle-vs-ipad-vs-books.pdf

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Re: Fast Wordpress theme
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2020, 06:58:07 PM »
Oxygen is very good. As in the theme builder

Have you used it personally? Or just people you collaborate with?

I've been playing around with a demo and it's pretty dizzying. It's like a whole new ecosystem and mentality. My impression is that if you really know Oxygen well, you would be super productive and the code it turns out seems to be pretty reasonable in general. But getting up to speed with it might take a long time and I'm not sure I want to invest that time.

Thoughts?

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Re: Fast Wordpress theme
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2020, 05:16:05 PM »
Just FYI, I demoed Oxygen. It's a whole other way of doing things. On the one hand, it's amazing. On the other it's intimidating. Once you wrap your head around it, you can do things quite quickly, but I decided I'm more comfortable with traditional themes.

Among other things, with a traditional theme, I make my key changes in themes and plugins, which means they are in version control. There's probably a way to export Oxygen settings and do version control.

Currently, I'm mostly working with Generatepress. Two sites in the last few months with GP and about to do another one. It's quite fast unless you start adding things to slow it down. I hear Astra is also very fast, but I have not tested it and in most tests I saw, Generatepress ended up faster and lighter, and they have a much more attractive pricing model on their premium version.