The theme I found is designed for CosmoWP and I went with WP Bakery in the past because that’s the framework the previous webdesigner used for my customer. Heavy in size but also in terms of loading so you’ll need a fast hosting to run this smooth especially when your site gets a lot of visitors. Pro’s about WPbakery are that is does have some beautifull design options included and looks very modern but like I said it’s heavy weight (so on a normal hosting plan it won’t get you high in SEO even with caching and a CDN (=Content Delivery Network) like CloudFlare activated.

The nice thing about WPbakery is that it also comes with as a GPL license (without the mail support) so this way you won’t need a subscription to get a legal working version. And it’s perfect to start with (€1,50) later you can maybe get the deal with support service if it’s necessary but if you are good with coding most of the stuff is fixable with your own brains.

Used AstraPro in the past for a very minimal site and now combining it with another plug-in so I can give the homepage header some animations with quotes: Smart Slider 3 (free version).

But I’m going to test out the total mb loading size if it’s too big I’m going tot test the CosmoWP template that does have a slider build in (so hopefully less mb). If think I’m going with the template for CosmoWP because my feeling says it’s more lightweight and it does have a slider already build in.

Maybe i’ll add Spectra Pro for micro-animations (if it’s not making it too bloated).

I’ll keep you guys updated in my journy for most lightweight but advanced framework with speed and design both packed inside of it!

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