Published: 12-05-2022
Related Category: WordPress Themes & Page Builders
Type of Content: WordPress Articles
Creator: DCP Web Designers
Blocksy is a powerful lightweight WordPress theme designed for super-fast loading websites.
As you can see from the stats below, Blocksy achieves great stats on all the main website performance testing platforms.
The Blocksy flexible theme is 100% compatible with the WordPress Gutenberg page editor.
This means you do not need to install a page builder plugin like Elementor.
The theme is fully compatible with the WooCommece shop plugin and mobile responsive which is essential for modern web development.
Blocksy also works with popular page builders such as:
The theme allows you to customise many common features of a website which include:
Blocksy has easy to use drag-and-drop header builder, this allows you to build different header styles for your website.
There is a total of 9 header elements that you can add and customise as required.
You can also customise a specific header for mobile devices to improve usability.
Blocksy allows you to choose from a range of premade colour palettes or create your own colour palette to match your company branding.
You can also apply colour schemes across your website assets to speed up your web design workflow.
You have access to over 900 Google fonts allowing you to implement beautiful typography.
You can select from 5 different layouts for the archive pages.
You can use a different archive page layout for each custom post type registered on your WordPress website.
Blocksy is fully integrated with WooCommece and has useful features like:
The Blocksy theme is SEO optimised which is essential when building a business website that you want to rank in Google search results.
The theme is also GDPR compliant.
Blocksy has out-of-the-box schema and Google structured data markup which you normally need to install a plugin to have these website features.
Blocksy also supports lazing loading of images to improve the website loading speed, this simply loads images when they are needed.
There is a range of built-in widgets to enhance your visitor's experience.
Just like Flatsome, Blocksy also supports live search, this allows results to display instantly when a visitor is searching for a specific product on your website shop.
Why not add some flair to your website by utilising the built-in page hero section with parallax effects?
You can also improve visitor engagement by auto-displaying related posts.
You can apply a sticky sidebar that will follow you as you scroll down a website page, this is especially useful for the WooCommerce product catalogue and filter option on a shop category page view.
The above are only a few of the features of the Blocksy theme!
Blocksy supports all the latest web technologies such as React, Webpack, Babel, PHP7 and ECMAScript7.
You can use the free version of Blocksy or purchase the Pro version for more advanced custom features.
Blocksy also has some nice starter sites to help you quickly build website projects.
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