Updated Review
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I have to assume that most of these reviews come from non-technical web hobbyist, or through marketing paid “PR” efforts. I continue to work on a project with this theme for the first time. I come from Elementor and WPBakery pages, not blocks paradigm. There are things to like with blocks and easy of tweak and copying code between pages and sites. But in building a highly customized site I will have to return to Elementor, the product just is not there yet in depth, it seems like dev’s think they are their but I’m telling you in you do a delta against Elementor in functional depth you will find a lot of gaps. Can they be addressed manually, yes if you are handy with css and html they can, but it causes one to loose time in this scenario. I do think however it is far superior for less complicated sites, where a designer is simply collecting content from client, picks a theme, gives them a few revisions and Voila site is done. And it is much lighter and faster than anything built with WPBakery or Elementor, which is clearly because there has been a lot less development done for GP and the blocks product, it is a long way from being more than a good solution for entry level and mid-level sites. The other issue I have had is the lack of good responsive support in the seeded css of the templates, the project has accepted the WordPress projects 3 viewport paradigm which is somewhat nuts, completely ignoring laptop viewport, maybe this is because they believe it is so close the desktop it doesn’t matter, but again Elementor learned this lesson a long time ago and addresses it by default, saving many hours of tweaking pages. I will leave my 4 stars and hope for more. Project should focus on extending responsive support and style control depth, I will use it again but won’t be able to put it in the main stable with the other work horses.
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Thanks for the response, don’t take me wrong, I did see things that are superior to Elementor, especially better organization of UI components. I’d have to compare to the free version of Elementor to know the deltas on responsive management, personally I believe the responsive aspect of a site and especially to a designer is at the top of the list in deciding on which theme’s and builders to use.
For this reason alone, I would recommend to not make responsive management tools that are Pro or Premium featured freely available. This is how you can garner market share, even though a designer is using your free version now, he will likely have a project where he will require Premium features, don’t make him buy premium to design a good basic site for his or hers client.
Myself and my developer have had to do more hands-on tweaking than I would think is reasonable for a Premium theme, I don’t believe I should also be required to buy a Premium page builder on top of the theme as the theme is coming from the same financially benefited group. I installed the GB product because it seemed a reasonable thing to do as it was presented, and it has been helpful, but I never had the intent of buying a pro version after paying for a Premium theme license. You may technically have divided the project into two product areas, but the public will still see you as one.
I had thought about and looked at using Elementor with the GP premium theme but I could see that was not going to work well and they naturally did not play well together and I’m not sure who’s doing that was, my guess is Elementor team as I really have disdain for how they run their project, But they have all the free functionality needed to make a good responsive site and they have a strong 3rd party community extending their products, this is what has gotten them to the top, BUT they are ready to be toppled, and that will only happen with strong support of the designer community and designers many times need free software to build low cost sites, but would be within their reasonable expectation to have the site generate a full set for responsive viewports for desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile, which I don’t see here. So my recommendation is to make responsive generation and tweaking an easy and free experience, this will get you a larger following, yes we can tweak with hand coding but that is time consuming and causes us to loose in the end financially.
Thanks, just for this explanation I changed rating; that shows a support of customer and shows the roadmap understands the current state of project and how customers experience the product from a designer point of view, I will follow project and look forward to a unified approach that has customer buying pro blocks and getting full theme features or buying premium theme and getting pro block features, it won’t look good to customers who realize both are under one roof to double dip when they are willing to pay for a premium/pro license. If you can work that out and get deeper in UI controls of style elements and imo extend the responsive controls beyond gutenberg 3 viewport support, you will have a real winner that can draw away from projects like Elementor who are riddled with poor 3rd party partners who play their own games.
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