Rating: 1 star
Used this theme for all my builds. They’ve taken away the ability to edit anything except for the home page in some weird money grab forcing you to purchase the pro version. Do not recommend. Completely useless theme now. Terrible business people.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I have been using this theme for probably 7 years, I have the pro version along with Nimble Builder Pro page builder and I love it. It is fast – I score A on GTMetrix for almost every page of my site (the ones I have optimised) and I find the flexibility offered with the theme and page builder combination is excellent. I can never understand people moaning about the free version of themes and plugins, they aren’t particularly expensive and they take a lot of time to create, update and maintain. The support from these guys is very good too. Every time I’ve raised a ticket they have responded quickly and helpfully. Put you hand in your pocket and get the Pro versions, they are worth every penny.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
SO GREAT ! THE BEST THEME FOR WORDPRESS AND WOOCOMMERCE !
Thank you !
]]>Rating: 3 stars
It’s a shame that WP gives 100 or so themes as “popular,” when some have zero reviews. Maybe, you can buy inclusion in that list. So I tried several, and it’s clear why they’re free – maybe, each one’s PRO version is commendable, but what you get for free is a lot like the trailer for a movie – a taste, a tease.
Little thought or testing appears to have gone into this release – far from a 1.0, too. RSS feeds and a search icon are both default ON. Dubious, but it’s only possible to turn the RSS guy off. People have asked how to get rid of the search icon. Someone’s old working hack no longer works. The developers KNOW that if you provide a check box in connection with this, it makes for happy users. Not possible, … and the support forum neither WORKS … nor is really equal to the task. WP – allow the 50%+ of your input which is theme-related to be replaced by a “suggestion box.” That WOULD allow the themers who care to improve their products enormously over time.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I had questions about theme setup and wrote to support. I was attended by Michael from the Support Team @presscustomizr and he was fantastic. He helped me, was attentive and very fast in his service. The support really has 5 stars.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I use this theme in various projects this theme is awesome.
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Rating: 4 stars
it’s a good theme but I wish it supports amp too
]]>Rating: 5 stars
WOOCOMMERCE BEST THEME ! Why wasting your time with anything else ?
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Remember the first day you were made aware that PHP 8.0 had been launched, or that WordPress 5.8 was finally out? Each of us got the news from different sources, possibly by signing up to all sorts of geeky, techy e-zines. In my case, it was when I got a new update of Customizr Pro and it said on the release notes: ‘Now fully supports PHP 8.0 and WordPress 5.8!’.
Obviously, many themes did the same, too (free ones or paid ones). But not all of them did that immediately — some promised such support at a later date (a promise that they eventually kept), some simply ignored, hoping that the billions of errors thrown by PHP 8.0 (as opposed to earlier versions, which just threw warnings that everybody silently ignored) would not be noticed, and expecting that the shiny, brand new features of WP 5.8 wouldn’t be used so much (at least at the beginning). They also relied on WP’s legendary backwards compatibility to keep outdated themes and plugins still working for a long time after they have been rendered obsolete.
Not so with Customizr (and Customizr Pro). It’s not a ‘new’ theme, but one that has been constantly been evolving to adapt to ever-changing conditions. This is a tough job on the theme developers, which have to be constantly up-to-date with those changes, and tweak their themes to support them without breaking content. That’s the commitment of the Customizr developers; that’s a commitment they have kept for many, many years.
At some point in the past, Customizr used to be voted the ‘most popular’ or even ‘the best’ WordPress theme around — and that was mostly because you could configure it so easily. Almost all the customisation options are in the built-in WordPress Appearance Customizer section, which makes everything familiar (even if WordPress changes how this backend functionality works — which they do!) and, to a degree, future-proof. Oh yes, Customizr also includes its own templating system to do further customisation, but the truth is that you don’t need to rely upon that to change the look & feel of your site considerably. In fact, on all my sites that run Customizr (and they’re the vast majority!), I don’t even bother with those ‘extra’ tools, but simply use what is available from the Appearance Customizer section. Obviously that’s a question of personal choice — and you have it if you wish.
Customizr pretty much works out of the box and I haven’t yet found an incompatibility with any of my plugins — even those that I still use, years after WordPress has retired them from the Plugin Library. That said, some features, such as explicit support for WooCommerce, comes out of the box and has been integrated by the developers a long, long time ago.
As for the licensing — it’s hard to beat Customizr Pro (the commercial version of Customizr). The vast majority of paid/freemium themes have reasonable prices (competition works to drive prices down!), but usually these are for a single license only. Sure, everybody does discounts if you buy multiple licenses; some even offer a monthly (or yearly) subscription and you can have as many licenses as you wish so long as you’ve paid for at least a month or so. Companies get creative in the way they handle multiple licenses, but PressCustomizr, the company that developed Customizr, has a very simple licensing scheme: you either do a yearly payment for a license for an unlimited number of websites, or — even better! — for about twice that price, you just buy a lifetime license: all the sites you want, in perpetuity, with full access to product updates and technical support for as long as you wish. It’s hard to beat that on a commercial offering that has some 100K+ happy customers. And you even can get your money back within 15 days of activation — if you think that the price is not worth the extra goodies that come with Customizr Pro.
This sounds like a sales pitch, but it isn’t. You might even imagine that with such generous offerings, there would be a catch somewhere — like getting an outdated theme, or one that lacked features popular in contemporary themes, or something like that. The truth is that neither is the case. I do own a handful of licenses for commercial themes. Most of those licenses are from companies long gone — I got a handful of upgrades, and after a year or two, the company would shut down, and leave me with an unsupported product. Don’t get me wrong: those themes I bought were actually quite good when I bought them, and product support was outstanding. It was good while it lasted, but, ultimately, those companies figured out that a great theme needs constant maintenance to keep up with the insanely fast obsolescence of Web technologies, and it wasn’t simply worth the trouble to remain in the market any longer.
Obviously, there are lots of those small companies around that have survived the test of time, are doing great business, and keep updating their themes all the time. In fact, I’ve also bought licenses from at least two other direct competitors to PressCustomizr. Their themes are great, but not overwhelmingly so; I picked them mostly based on reviews and functionality, as well as the customer’s personal taste. At the end of the day, these themes were insanely hard to configure just to get equivalent functionality that Customizr Pro handles out of the box. All of these themes include their own ‘site builder’ as a separate plugin — each working slightly differently, and none are perfectly integrated into Gutenberg. It becomes a pain to get used to one system of updating the look & feel of one site, and then have to switch to something completely different. PressCustomizr also has their own site builder, similar in functionality to whatever else is out there, but the truth is that you won’t need to use it much, even if you want to do a heavily customised site — at least, that’s my experience. With a few tweaks, I can get Customizr doing pretty much everything that I need, and that often means emulating the look & functionality of existing sites requiring an update to modern Web technologies. That works so well with Customizr that I’m personally frustrated with the high cost of the ‘competing’ products, which promise a lot, but, at the end of the day, offer little more than what Customizr can do.
No review would be serious if I didn’t address the shortcomings of Customizr and the pet peeves I’ve got with it. First of everything, it’s slow. Not unbearably slow — I have bought much slower themes! — but slow nevertheless. The developers assume that you’ll be running everything from a good cache plugin in combination with a reverse proxy and a CDN — which is basically par for the course these days, even with much faster themes. It’s still slow, and you’ll notice it when you do a fresh install and try it out.
There has been a tremendous effort put in handling annoying ‘shifts’ in the many elements as the browser renders all theme elements, but sometimes you can still briefly notice them. Not all come from Customizr itself — one plugin I’ve installed has a CSS file with 10,000 lines (!) and that will inevitably take a long time to render, no matter what. Still, there are optimisations that could (and should) be done. Customizr Pro loads unnecessary fonts even if you don’t use them, for instance. There is quite a bit of redundancy in both the styling and the JavaScript here and there — possibly in order to support a lot of different ways of doing similar things, and letting the WP admin pick the one they like most (such as the choice of slideshow plugin, for instance). There is also an annoying issue when you’re overriding some styles in a child theme: in one of the sites I did with Customizr, I had to basically change the main styles to keep the overall look & feel of this website, which went through several incarnations since 1997 (!), all of which used a dark theme with a background image. There is no problem in overriding the default light theme with your own CSS, but there is a catch: for some unfathomable reason, Customizr will first load a white background page with black Times New Roman characters, while it waits for the background image and the Google Fonts to load. These will not come ‘instantly’, but, with the cache turned off, it’s quite obvious that the whole site gets drawn first in black-over-white without custom fonts, and then, as further elements are available to the browser, the page gets redrawn and redrawn, over and over again, and this causes an annoying flicker plus some styling shifts. Granted, this is something that Customizr shares with a gazillion themes out there and one of the oldest questions of Web design: what should you show while information is loading and you have no content to display to the user? (An empty page taking a few seconds to load will be brutally penalised by the Google page ranking algorithm.) There is no easy answer to that, but there are some tricks that can be made: for instance, thumbnail images in Customizr can have a ‘temporary’ image being displayed while the actual image is loading. The same, however, is not true for background images: in my scenario, instead of having a white background while the image is not loading, I’d rather prefer having a black background — and my CSS actually provides that, but, alas, Customizr doesn’t care much about my settings, and, essentially, when my own custom CSS loads, the background image has already been transferred anyway. Again, these are pet peeves of mine, that will be only noticeable with the cache turned off (such as when you’re logged in and using the Appearance Customiser on the WP backend to make changes and preview them in real-time).
One issue that particularly bothered me (to the point of reaching out to customer support) is the way how Customizr Pro handles custom fonts. You get not one, but two different ways of choosing them. Customizr offers a simple, yet comprehensive, tool: Font picker and font size, available from inside the WP Appearance Customiser. With those, you get a pre-selection of Google fonts, as well as web-safe fonts, some of which apply to the whole content, others which are properly paired (one font for titles and such, the other for the body of the content items). So far, so good, and it all works flawlessly out of the box. Except that you cannot add your own choices; all you have is the selection that the Customizr developers thought would look nice, and, as you can imagine, it’s necessarily limited.
Customizr Pro not only includes that font & size picker but it also includes a license for their WordPress Font Customizer. This is a much more extensive plugin, which can basically assign all kinds of font properties to every HTML tag out there — you’re just limited to your imagination, the thousand or so available Google fonts, and a lot of time and patience. The idea is to be able to configure every aspect of font typography visually, without the need of understanding CSS at all. And it does its job.
But there’s a catch. Customizr and Customizr Pro are not very consistent in the way they apply fonts to the various HTML tags. Although the many possible options are grouped together in easy-to-understand blocks, which ought to change font properties for everything related to those blocks, in practice, there is always the odd header or title or label that uses a slightly different convention to apply the font, and you get some fallback font instead. Thus, it’s not unusual to be forced to apply fonts to all tags — one by one! — in the hope to catch the culprit. And no, it’s not as easy as opening the page in the Code Inspector and see what class it belongs to — often, due to inheritance rules, it’s not immediately obvious what has to be changed and where. And even if it were, it would require a thorough understanding of CSS and how it’s applied to HTML — and if you already know that, why bother with a visual tool anyway? A few searches & replacements are way, way faster than configuring every HTML tag manually & visually…
In the end, for one particular site I’ve got, where the title font is unique, I had to manually insert an option on the ‘simple’ Font picker (the one that comes with Customizr), because it was so much easier to do so and make sure that I’d covered all possible cases. It’s just one line of code inside a file, deep inside the core of Customizr. Sadly, though, this is the kind of thing that cannot be overridden easily, even in a child theme, or with hooks & filters; doing it manually is faster, but it requires doing it every time a new version of Customizr comes out (about every other month, sometimes even oftener), or else all your lovely fonts will disappear (at least, until the cache gets purged).
So, sure, Customizr does have its shortfallings, here and there. No theme is ‘perfect’ or bug-free! All that PressCustomizr can offer is continuous support, constant tinkering, and keeping up-to-date both with the environment (WordPress, PHP…) as well as with the wishes and needs of their customers. PressCustomizr is rather good at doing that, and I have no doubt that they will continue to do so, continuing to surprise and delight us along the way — without breaking our carefully crafted content.
]]>Rating: 2 stars
In many cases a chosen font isn’t displayed right away on a page refresh….instead another one is shown first…causing shifts in your design due to font/size changes…really annoying when navigating between pages…
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I’ve been using the Customizr theme for years – it met all of my website business requirements and more! The support team for it is also very good, as they keep it current for security and upgrade it for WordPress base changes in an accurate, complete and timely fashion. I been using the free version, and I saw that they recently had a sale for a lifetime license for under 100 bucks! So, I decided it was time to pay them for the years of free usage and stop being so cheap. Additionally, I got another 10ish features that I didn’t have with the free version, many of which I have incorporated in an upgrade to my website. I have been using WordPress to implement websites for over 10 years now, and I have seen my share of themes, and I think Customizr Pro is the way to go. This is a very nicely developed theme.
]]>Rating: 3 stars
hola.
tengo la versión 4.4.3 del tema, y hace unos dias visito mi web y encuentro que no tiene cabecera, solo se ve un código. Todavia no he actualizado a la versión reciente hasta solucionar este problema del tema.Según mi programador le falta el tag de apertura de codigo php en la plantilla de header`
Por Favor necesito darle solución a esto. Le ha pasado a alguien mas?
Saludos y muchas gracias
Rating: 1 star
When adding, for example, a section with just rich text, and editing text with umlauts, such as ü, ? or other special characters, then the text is displayed in Nimble Editor, however, when opening the published page in an browser (Firefox) the text ist not displayed any more.
I’ve deactivated all plugins (I’m using only a few), still text is lost. I had to rebuild all texts in block editor (which works) – nimble+customizr is just not usable to build pages containing text with characters as used in German.
Rating: 4 stars
I like Customizr a lot and use it for years already. It is good that it is regularly updated.
The latest update should have improved the pageSpeed but for the fonts that I use in Customizr nothing changed.
Could you please also add font-display:swap to the other font-families that customizr offers? I still get the diagnosis from pagespeed for these fonts:
“Darauf achten, dass der Text w?hrend der Webfont-Ladevorg?nge sichtbar bleibt:
Verwenden Sie die CSS-Funktion font-display, damit der Text für Nutzer sichtbar ist, w?hrend Webfonts geladen werden. Weitere Informationen….
…webfonts/fa-brands-400.woff2?v=5.12.1
…fonts/cantarell-v7-latin-regular.woff2
…fonts/fjalla-one-v5-latin-regular.woff2
…fonts/cantarell-v7-latin-700.woff2
…fonts/cantarell-v7-latin-italic.woff2
…fonts/cantarell-v7-latin-700italic.woff2
…webfonts/fa-solid-900.woff2?v=5.12.1
…webfonts/fa-regular-400.woff2?v=5.12.1 “
Rating: 5 stars
I am amazed by this theme. It met all my needs. Thank you theme managers.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Wonderful, well done
]]>Rating: 5 stars
The best of any wordpress theme, free or paid, no need to think, use this one and congratulate the author ! Thanks again !
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Best theme for most kind of sites
]]>Rating: 3 stars
Customizr Pro was a great theme that continued to get better even though there are some basic features missing but most can easily be fixed with CSS customizations. It’s inability to to display posts in chronological order when in grid view (which is all I use) has been a source of irritation ever since I started using the theme years ago.
The Pro version offers web performance tools that are useful but recently several of these minified pages are no longer being deferred or loaded asynchronously. In fact, “infinite scroll” is being loaded even though I don’t use it at all.
Collectively, there are four of these (the rest coming from the font customizr in the pro version or the free Nimble builder recommended by the developer as a supplement to the theme).
There had been an ongoing issue with the “mouse over” effect” in Nimble which the developer blamed on me or other plugins. Months later, subsequent updates lead to a collapse of the structure of pages built with Nimble that effected more users. Only then did the developer acknowledge the issue and fixed it, which also corrected the “mouse over” issue. Who woulda thunk?
Since then, resource blocking issues popped-up in Lighthouse that were never there before and my page speed has dropped from 96 to 87 as a result. Yet again, when you bring these issues up – the developer is non-responsive.
I plan on switching to WP Engine after the first of the year and switching to one of their themes so I no longer have to tolerate a developer who refuses to acknowledge the issues created by their own work by passing the buck onto other plugins or the coding skills of administrators. Extensive testing before reaching out is always suggested – in fact – required but it matters not the person responsible for the actual theme that’s causing these issues.
As mentioned above, this is a really good theme overall and the support is understandably limited to just theme issues (not coding) but when the default answer is “I tested the issue in my own staging environment and cannot duplicate the problem so it’s something you did” or no response at all – it’s time to move on.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Clean, simple and easy to customize. I’ve been using this theme since 2015 with no issues.
Edit: I never really needed any of the pro features and forgot there was a pro version but I will be supporting this developer by buying the pro version today.
Rating: 5 stars
HAMBURGER THEME ! Best of the best of any theme for wordpress and woocommerce
if you need a website that offers the same menu on computers or mobile, with hamburger menu (weirdly hard to find on other themes), this theme is the best.
Thank you so much !
Please just reduce the size of ads please…
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Atendeu todas as minhas expectativas!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I recommended this themes +++
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Very beautiful .. I wish you more success
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This is one of the greatest themes I’ve ever used. It allows you to reach 98% of Google page speed. Great mobile performance.
]]>Rating: 1 star
For something so basic, I had to spend a lot of time just to alter the footer. None of these worked ( Templates > Parts > Footer_colophon or, Templates > Parts > Footer_credits ). Still there was an override.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I’ve been using this theme for a few years. This theme is consistently updated, and when there’s a problem and I post on the support page, the maintainers look at it and fix the bugs. Plus it looks great!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Unglaublich wie gut das Theme. Es bietet so viele Funktionen und alles so gut erkl?rt.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
All i needed ever is in Customizr
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Like the basic simplicity (enabled by good tech) but the simple act of trying to get the featured image to show, OR basic inline images to appear is just way too hard… Seriously, bizarrely hard.
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