Luxeritas Recommendations and Disadvantages

2018/12/212021/6/20

Luxeritas felt the strongest with a free domestic Wordpress theme

We are currently using Luxeritas as our WordPress theme.
So far, I changed the free theme about XNUMX times and settled on Luxeritas.

Author's official pageHowever, various features are introduced, but I will summarize the recommended points and weaknesses that I thought "this is ..." by using or investigating.

If you are looking for a good free theme on WordPress, I hope it will be helpful for your selection.

What I liked about Luxeritas

Mimicking the structure of SEO's strongest theme "Genesis Framework"

"Genesis Framework" is SEO's strongest WordPress theme used by "Matt Cutts", who was the mainstay of Google search engine development, for his blog.

Since the Genesis Framework is mainly in English-speaking countries, there are few users in Japan, but it seems that most of the top search pages overseas are made with this theme.

Luxeritas analyzes this "Genesis Framework" and extracts only the parts that are strong against SEO.In other words, it can be said that the theme has SEO measures equal to or better than the strongest theme in the world.

In fact, even in this blog at the beginning of development, which was less than 10 articles, some articles were properly displayed at the top of Google search.

reference:Paid WordPress themes recommended by Luxeritas developers

Fastest level display speed

The official pages using Luxeritas have scores from Google Pagespeed Insights and GTmetrix, both of which are 99-100 points, which is almost a perfect score.I've used overseas-made themes that claim to be lightweight and high-speed, but I still couldn't go that far.

When I measured the speed of some other themes with PageSpeed ​​Insights, the following points were problems.

• Resources that interfere with rendering
  • Delay due to HTML / CSS loading
  • Delay due to Javascript loading
    (Jquery.js, jquery-migrate.min.js, etc.)
• Heavy image

Luxeritas speeds up the display by taking the following measures to address these issues.

• HTML / CSS / Javascript compression / combination
• Asynchronous read

Actually, even in this blog, the score was about 60-70 points in another theme, but in Luxeritas it was a good score of 90 points or more without any special setting.

Fully responsive, AMP compatible

Responsive design with Bootstrap

You can display the created site on your smartphone, tablet, or PC in a unified manner without being aware of anything.

This is based on Bootstrap, a framework for responsive design, but Bootstrap has the disadvantage of heavy file size.Luxeritas has reduced its functionality to the bare minimum, making it lighter and faster (of course you can also choose to use Bootstrap's full functionality).

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)

AMP is a mechanism for displaying pages at high speed on mobile.It seems that the display will be about 4 times faster, which is also advantageous for SEO.

However, with AMP, the page design may be corrupted at the cost of speeding up, or an error may occur in the Google search console.In such a case, disable AMP only for the relevant page and proceed.

AMP compatible (multifunctional AMP that cannot be realized by plug-ins)

You can customize the design freely

The design customizability and functions are so fulfilling that it cannot be mentioned.On the design side, you can freely edit the sidebar composition, column composition, header & footer from the text color and link color.In terms of functionality, it has a full range of features such as a high-performance editor, short code registration function, and high-speed settings that do not require a plug-in.

The editing function of the child theme is easy to use, and you can edit the following files directly from the wordpress dashboard.

• style.css
• Head tag / footer
• For access analysis (head, body)
• functions.php

Being able to write to the head and body for access analysis was convenient for pasting codes such as google search console, google analytics, and google adsense.
Plugin"Insert Headers and FootersIt is an image that the high-performance version of "" is attached as standard.

What Luxeritas is not good at

I understand that it is very unpleasant to say the drawbacks to such a highly functional theme (honestly, the impression that it is superior to the domestic paid theme) for free.If you dare to mention ...

Simple standard design

For paid themes, you can quickly create a cool-looking site without having to mess with it yourself.Luxeritas, on the other hand, has a simple design that is easy for users to customize.Therefore, if you want to create a fashionable blog, you need the effort and sense to create it from scratch.

If you want to make a simple blog, you can handle this point by yourself, so I think you should be concerned about this point.Also, there are a lot of css code examples on the net now, so even beginners can edit style.css enough if it is not quite elaborate.

By the way, recently, a function called "Design file function" has been added to "change the blog design in a dress-up manner based on Luxeritas". As of December 2018, there are 12 design files of 6 types.

The provider is displayed in the footer

In the Luxeritas theme, the footer always contains the words "WordPress Luxeritas Theme is provided by" Thought is free "."The SEO you try to force out may worsen, or the theme itself may become unusable.Regarding this, the developer Luna sells the provider display erase plug-in for 5230 yen.

Considering that many paid themes cost less than 1 yen, this price is quite reasonable because of the paid theme-class functions.

The above is my impression of actually using Luxeritas.I hope it will be helpful in selecting a theme.