Absolutely not suitable for photographers I had a great experience with the support team; they are truly fantastic people. However, my experience with the management and decision-makers, the founders of the theme, was extremely disappointing. The management of galleries slows down the backend also increase the DOM, and there have been ongoing issues that hinder the styling work of the website because the theme triggers JavaScript calls to the server, which the support team cannot replicate, but my team, Rank Math, and my host's team and Codeable team can see. They deny the problem exists simply because they can't replicate it on their computers, leaving you on your own with hours and days of extra work due to the slowness. The theme owner acknowledges that they can see the warnings clearly displayed in the Chrome console. However, they are unable to replicate the slowness on their computer due to the high number of warnings, which are calls triggered by JavaScript when the Kadence plugin is activated. Their testing is limited to a few blocks on their computer, rather than using reusable blocks or the approximately 10 blocks that many photographers might have on their pages. Consequently, backend work will be exceedingly challenging. Making even simple adjustments such as modifying tests, inserting images, or changing prices in packages can take hours. Despite being aware of the JavaScript calls to the server caused by their code, they claim they cannot replicate the slowness on their backend. Trust me, this situation is incredulous and far from amusing. I reached out to Codeable, and they confirmed that the issue stems from Kadence, as RanK Math team and my host already stated it. Codeable quoted me a price of at least $3000 to fix the problem, but this is something that the Kadence team should take responsibility for and invest in rectifying, as it is clearly an issue with their code. I can substantiate this claim by disabling all other plugins except Kadence, and when Kadence is deactivated, no issues arise. Remember that many calls to the server can be interpretated by your host as dos attack and not only slow your on backend. If your host have some dos protection you need to disable when you work your backend. Thanks to Kadence. With Kadence, incorporating a lightbox with arrows into block images is not possible. This feature is unlikely to be implemented in the future. While you can have it for gallery images using their advanced Kadence images, the same functionality with arrows is not available for images within blocks. Therefore, resorting to a third-party plugin becomes necessary, as I have been doing. However, integrating YouTube videos into an embed pop-up is problematic because they are opened using Kadence JavaScript, which must be disabled to enable such a basic feature. Currently, I prefer to forget video embedding until I find a solution, rather than compromising the user experience by abandoning the option to open images in blocks via a lightbox. They blame you to temporary disable some of their lightbox js so you don't have the right to ask a solution to embed the video. In their opinion you have to stay without lighbox for your block images. Yet, this is now a basic feature on every themes If you encounter numerous issues with margin, padding, and spacings, you may be criticized for opening too many tickets. However, the fact that you're compelled to open multiple tickets is a consequence of the theme's deficiencies in terms of customization, optimization, and speed. Another example is the Largest Contentful Paint. When navigating from one page to another on mobile by selecting a menu item, it takes over 3 seconds (bad for google and users), not due to images, but because of the incorrect way the plugin loads fonts. They are loaded before the initial content paint, causing delays each time you transition between URLs. They may attribute this delay to unoptimized images, but I can demonstrate otherwise. This issue doesn't occur in the live theme I still possess (where i have exact same images), but it persists in Kadence, which is still a work in progress on my staged website. A part the google metrix (good with rocket and perfmatters) the pages and urls are opened after 3 seconds on mobile and in less than 1 second in my actual website (where I still have flothemes). A Codeable dev confirmed the problem is related to the way Kadence loads the fonts in local. Very bad for your seo. Opening 46 tickets (many are bugs of the theme they refuse to fix like the call to server) clearly shows how bad is the theme even to supply to the very basic things. Everybody should know that be aware about Kadence. The refund they gave me was a blackmail as I haven't removed the review and they discontinued my licence, rather than fix things. Stay away form Kadence!

Great customer service in my experience I've opened tickets numerous times for website fixes and have always had prompt and helpful replies.

KadenceWP is the best theme I can… KadenceWP is the best theme I can imagine. Since WP went to FSE and Block Themes, this has revitalized my business. Design and getting all the things right like responsive mode, margins, site wide changes and making it all look good and most importantly fast, was a bane of my business. It slowed my business development down. I'm a small business and resources are important, so when a Theme, blocks, cloud share, dynamic data, starter themes and more are so well crafted that it is actually fun to design sites, I found I had a lot more time for making progress on my sites. Real progress. I can make awesome blocks on one site, put them in my own Kadence Cloud and share them with all my other sites. Talk about a time and headache saver. Not to mention one of the most important factors, speed. Everything is fast and optimized for speed. I don't go outside the Kadence ecosystem, I don't need a dozen other plugins. I have social shares, the reading time, price tables, the info boxes, and so much more and they are all running the same scripts and css and code and the sites are super optimized. And customer support is magnificent. It usually takes a day. But if you are set up for that expectation, you'll be fine. I ask a lot of technical questions and they are always quick and with full responses and they come with code suggestions and screenshots. So, for an example of fast, here is a site I am developing with 5,000 pages, soon to be 10,000: psychologyonlinedegrees.org Without any caching plugin, the Performance is 89% and the Structure is 91% When I add simple caching WP Super Cache and do nothing but the simplest thing, turn it on, my Performance is 94% to 100% and Structure is 92% to 99%. Since I am still in development mode, I keep caching off and the site is plenty fast. Before Kadence, I had all my sites on Divi and it was a nightmare to update and the theme is slow. I am moving everything from Divi to Kadence. I could barely get enough server resources when using Divi to edit on the front end. Half the time, the editing timed out. I had to pay developers to make them fast and to tweak what plugins and scripts went live on what pages and templates. It was a nightmare. The two things that I've learned over 20+ years publishing site is that a well constructed, programmed and optimized theme along with excellent hosting will make your sites fast and worry free. If you follow me here, you'll get my pick for the best WP Managed Hosting as well.

I love it I love it. Been using it for a year. It’s fast and reliable, and has really nice blocks and stylish features (like their dividers!). I have the Pro plan, and to me it’s definitely worth it. The customer service is excellent, which is super important for me (who had to learn Gutenberg quickly with no technical expertise). Definitely recommend Kadence!

Kadence a complete success ... At the moment I have the Full Bundle from Kadence and I am very excited about it. Blazing fast theme, endless amount of blocks for Gutenberg, absolutely no problems with other plugins I use. I've tested many themes and plugins for Gutenberg from other vendors and always found some incompatibility. In the interest of fairness, I won't mention any names. I may switch to the lifetime bundle soon, as I will be sticking with Kadence for the long term. Many thanks to the team at Kadence for this excellent work and quick response time if you ever have a question. To all a successful and healthy year 2023 Banchon de la Rosa