Today, I’m going to introduce you a slightly different article as I’m going to introduce you a theme…
Hey! what’s your theme?
The theme I wanted to talk to you about is none other than the one you see on thivinfo.com: Kawi by Vincent Dubroeucq
Why Kawi?
It’s quite simple, I’m not a front-end developer, I didn’t want to develop a theme from A to Z knowing that colleagues from the French WordPress community had already developed some good ones…
My friend Marie Comet simply made me discover Vincent’s theme by telling me:
- It’s light
- respectful of WordPress development best practices and accessibility (a11y)
- easy to customize
Bingo! I will use it!
Child theme VS starter theme?
I asked myself: are you going to use it as a starter theme or more classically by creating a child theme?
In addition to the official WordPress theme directory version, Vincent also offers his theme on Github. The advantage of this version is that it offers the SASS sources that composes the stylesheet. It is therefore a more oriented version for developers who would like to use it as a working base…
Ok, but do I want to cut myself off from the improvements that Vincent could bring to his theme? not really, so I opted to create a child theme to keep the possible future evolutions of the theme.
The version you see here is the child version of the theme available for free on the WordPress directory.
Why changing theme?
And why not?!
First of all because the previous one based on the Humescores theme by Morten Rand-Hendriksen had grown over the years. After 4 years or so, through tests, graphic and functional modifications… the theme had become heavy to manage and to load.
And then the desire to change a little too!
What changes were made?
Not a lot because as a great artist in front of the eternal, I took almost the same style and layout of the home page!
The difference is rather under the hood because the CSS of my child theme is created thanks to SASS which allowed me to discover the excellent Prepros tools avoiding me an installation of an additional tool like Gulp and its multiple dependencies never up to date when I want to use it.
Results
The result is a faster website, more accessible to people with disabilities or using adapted equipment. For me, it’s a lighter theme to maintain and ready to evolve according to my future ideas…
