Rating: 5 stars
I’ve been using WP for years. I’ve also been suffering through frustration with another theme, which I’d purchased.
Somehow, the theme gods intervened and I stumbled upon Metrolo by WPHoot…I clung to my former theme till my knuckles went white. One day, after yet another frustration, I installed Metrolo. I groused about the styling differences, a menu here, a font there (yes, that damned ex-theme made me grown-up pout…) but once I let Metrolo love me, it made me feel safe.
Let’s talk turkey:
Load time – I’m in a competitive business. I use Pingdom to test. If your site is taking more than TWELVE seconds to load – cough, cough, old theme – you’re S.O.L. no one is going to wait around for your site to load. Switched to WPHoot, boom! reduced my load time more than 70% ! (To be fair, there were things with both themes I needed to do, like leverage browser caching etc. but out of the box, 12 seconds. cut more than 70%. That.)
SERPS – My site was still under development, but a quick site:domain search on big G gave me surprising and pleasing results…Indexed. Here’s the kicker, because I was/am still developing the site, I have done zero SEO. So before I’ve even added my meta, Metrolo’s showing love. Google loves Metrolo.
I believe I’ll continue to have quality results after SEO.
Mobile-dom – Old theme gave me fits on desktop…Friggin updates and custom css. Metrolo was like, hey girl, you know what I’m made of? Boyfriend material.
Styling – WPHoot offers a premium package what includes bells, whistles and fonts. Truth be told, after my last experience, I’m a little gun shy. I want to keep my speed and headache-free site. (old theme would get font error codes from pingdom…including load issues with some random woff/wolf/woof file that I couldn’t find on my host with a magnifying glass.) While some of the features were standard with my other theme, I think their package is a good value. Why?
Service – I am not a subscribed customer of WPHoot, but they didn’t let that stop them from giving me quality service. With ex-bf theme, days could pass in some cases. Days. Who has time for that? Not a bootstrapping solopreneur, I can tell you that.
Dad Bod – You know how you linger too long on a break up that you know had to happen months before? That was ex-theme.
Spare yourself the time, headache, money, and effort and install and use, Metrolo.
Oh, did I mention this theme was ecommerce ready? Yeah, that too.
I gotta make these guys a pot roast.
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Great template that suits my needs. Support is very quick to respond and help resolve any issues at hand.
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One of the best free themes I’ve run into ever. I’m currently using it for a Real Estate website with the Estatik plugin and it looks great, I can customize so much, and it’s a professional way to represent a brand.
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