Building a WordPress site does not need brainstorming because of popular themes like GeneratePress.
You can kick-start building your WordPress site with GeneratePress free. But for more power and control, you need the GeneratePress premium.
GeneratePress combines pre-made theme templates and a plugin. The plugin is lightweight and incredibly powerful allowing you to customize your site ferociously.
You can use GeneratePress to create any kind of website. This could be affiliate marketing, cryptocurrency, foodie, and many other niches.
The GeneratePress free can be installed and used for a lifetime free. For advanced features, you need to purchase GeneratePress premium.
The premium version is a plugin that needs to be installed & activated along with the GeneratePress free theme.
With the GeneratePress premium plugin, you get professionally-designed site templates and block-based theme building.
The paid plugin runs alongside the GeneratePress theme. Without the GeneratePress theme installed, the GP premium plugin won’t work.
When installed and activated, the GP premium plugin gives access to the customizer. The customizer comprises of a set of the following features:
Background, Blog, Colors, Copyright, Disable Elements, Elements, Menu Plus, Secondary Nav, Sections, Sections, Site Library, Spacing, Typography, and WooCommerce.
Let’s take a look at all the modules of GeneratePress premium.
- Background: Using this module, you can add background images wherever you want by importing the images and setting their size.
- Blog: The blog module is specifically for customizing the blog section consisting of posts. Using this feature, you can customize the author, archive, categories, tags, post data, and not to forget featured images.
- Color: The color module lets you edit the color of any section on your site including the header, footer, links, widgets, and backgrounds.
- Typography: Using the typography module, you can choose from over 70 different styles across your site.
- Copyright: When you install and activate the GeneratePress theme, it comes with a copyright footer but you can’t edit it. To edit the copyright footer, you need a GP premium plugin. With this module, you can change the copyright text as you want. You can also insert your affiliate link like ‘Built with GeneratePress’.
- Disable Elements: With GeneratePress free, you cannot disable every element. But GP premium plugin allows you to enable or disable elements on pages or posts.
- Elements: The most important and astounding module of GeneratePress premium is Elements. This module allows you to use premium plugins with advanced features. It has three sections including Header, Hook, and Layout. The elements module is used by developers to make changes to any part of the website.
- Header: With the header feature, you can customize the header with colors, texts, images, and style it just like you want.
- Hook: With this feature, you can add content to the site hook. This way, there is no need for Child themes.
- Layout: To customize the complete layout for your site, this module comes in handy. You can edit the site archives, categories, pages, or posts.
- Block: Instead of HTML customizations, you can use the blog element for advanced customizations using the block editor. By combining with the GenerateBlocks plugin, you can create customized sidebars, headers, and footers.
- Menu Plus: Whether you want a sticky header, mobile headers that open up clean on a mobile phone, or off-canvas navigation, this module can do it all.
- Secondary Nav: Along with the primary navigation in the free version, you can add secondary navigation in the premium version. You have all the same options as primary and can change its color, layout, and typography.
- Sections: The sections module is pretty useful when you are using a classic editor. But, if you have page builder plugins like Elementor or Divi, then you don’t need that. For Gutenberg, you need to use the GenerateBlocks plugin that is compatible with Gutenberg for full customization.
- Site library: To set up your site quickly and get up and running in no time, you can access the site library. It has pre-made professional templates to save hours of time on-site development. There are many templates compatible with Elementor and Beaver Builder. You simply need to import the template by activating the site library.
- Spacing: To manage margin size and padding secondary menus, widgets, sidebars, and more, you can use the spacing feature.
- WooCommerce: First, you need to install the WooCommerce plugin. Once you have done that, using this feature, you can customize the checkout and product pages. You can change the typography, color, and layout.
- Import/Export: In a click, you can export or import theme settings.
