[madry91]

Hi,

When I develop a new web site on WordPress from scratch I prefer to use the classic editor and create some metabox, through a plugin as ACF, to manage the others information that the pages need (es. images slider, text for a particular section ecc…).

This approach, in my opinion, has the pro that the assets code are lighter than use a page builder/visual composer, cons the layout is entirely managed by code on the theme.

I tried Gutenberg but it seemed to me “skinny”, in particular the columns/grids system.

For this reason I continue to use metabox as explained above.

What do you think about it? How do you develop themes from scratch? Is my approach totally wrong?

[timmyblob]

Try our starter theme that uses Gutenberg.

[https://c9.covertnine.com](https://c9.covertnine.com)

If you sign up for the beta, it sends you 3 themes based on the starter so you can see how it works, the core block for our system is a C9 Grid block–which helps with the issues you’ve described with columns and grids.

I’d never develop a site using tons of fields and metaboxes again–our clients are happier with their visual editing, and our support requests are down 90% from our old theme that had a tons of settings and meta boxes.

Happy to share anything since I helped make this beast.

-Tim

[timmyblob]

Yeah.

Run a few pagespeed tests on c9.covertnine.com. It’s usually in the 90s unless you start adding more imagery.

Depending on your server, cdn and image resizing plug-ins, you should be able to get a pretty decent score.

Good luck!
-Tim

[Rider7991]

I don’t get your question. You just described normal, professional process of theme development.
If someone use page builders then that person is not a webdev but just another person without any skills creating just another shit. Keep going with your code and remember: codex.wordpress.org is your friend! Have fun!

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