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Kadence vs Neve Theme comparison [2023] 💥

Kadence vs Neve


KADENCE vs NEVE

Neve vs Kadence, here we give you an overview of the best features of these two popular multipurpose themes. Both Kadence and Neve have both a free and a paid version. Kadence or Neve, which is the better Wordpress theme?



KADENCE THEME (Neve vs Kadence)

Kadence Theme review


In this comparison between Kadence and Neve, we start with the Kadence theme, which doesn't automatically mean it would be better . In this Kadence Theme review we take a look at the main features of this theme. It has recently made rapid progress to a high ranking on Wordpress.org. This suggests that we are dealing with a very good theme here.


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Kadence theme review: Rating

Kadence theme review rating


If we check on Wordpress.org Kadence's rating, we see that practically all raters gave 5 stars except for a few haters. The image above also shows that the theme has now been installed on more than 200.002+ websites. This is a very high number for a relatively new theme.

Kadence theme review: Demos

Kadence Theme review demos


The Kadence theme offers a series of beautiful demos that can be installed with 1 click. The choice is not too large, but since the theme is still very new, this will probably be expanded soon. The theme also has a few special Woocommerce demos, which is always nice.

The nice thing about demos is that you can make a quick start with them. In principle, the website is already showing the wrong photos and texts. So place your logo in it, adjust texts and photos and you are well on your way to having your own site.


Kadence theme review: Webshops

I only count 2 demos for web shops in total. The theme is 100% compatible with Woocommerce but if you are going to build a webshop choose a theme like Astra or another theme from my top 10 for webshop themes. With the Kadence theme you can certainly build a good webshop, but there is simply better than this.


Kadence Theme review webshops


Kadence theme review: Speed

Kadence Theme review loading times


The Kadence theme is one of the fastest themes out there for Wordpress and should actually be in my list for fastest WP themes. The bare theme with no additional plugins using only a well-configured cache plugin produced the result presented above. Of course you can optimize your website yourself on loading time. Follow this tutorial here.


Kadence theme review: Page builders

Kadence Theme review Elementor pagebuilder


The Kadence theme uses the Gutenberg page builder by default, but is compatible with Beaverbuilder and Elementor Pro page builder, one of the best in the field. I also recommend installing Elementor for free, but much better of course the pro version.


Kadence theme review: Colors

Kadence offers 12 professional looking color palettes but you can create any color you want as shown below. Kadence also offers special options for fonts such as the choice of 12 font pairs that are used site-wide.



Kadence theme review: Header Builder

Kadence offers something that has so far only been seen with top themes like Divi, a real HeaderBuilder with which you have practically no limits with regard to the structure of your header. Technical knowledge such as HTML or PHP is not necessary for this.



Kadence: More features

Kadence also offers the following features that I will not go into more detail: Transparent backgrounds, a very good SEO with Schema MarkUp, 100% Responsive on all devices, Sticky Header, CSS Pre-loading, and a good Footer Builder.

Kadence theme review: Conclusion

I think the Kadence theme is a very good theme. The demo layouts are great, the theme set up is quick and easy, and it has an antisocial loading time. The theme is also very suitable for building shops with it, although it only offers 2 demos. There is of course more to say about Kadence, but I want to keep it short and sweet. If you want to know more, take a look at their site from the links below.

The price for the pro version is a bit on the expensive side, which is a shame, but everyone is free to ask what they want for their theme. The pro version certainly offers value for money, although I would rather spend that money on one of the themes in my top 10 for this year's WP themes.



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NEVE THEME (Neve vs Kadence)

Neve Theme review


NEVE THEME REVIEW

Today in this Neve Theme review for [2023] we will take a look at why the theme is so popular. There are currently more than 100,000 active installations and in its rating, the theme practically only gets 5 out of 5 stars. It doesn't get much better. Neve was built by ThemeIsle, a company that builds elite WP themes and WP plug-ins.

NEVE RATINGS

Below you can see the rating and active installation where I have placed arrows.


Neve Theme review ratings


NEVE INSTALL

Installing Neve is very easy. You can download the free version from Wordpress.org. Upload the theme file via the standard Wordpress install. Install and activate it as shown in below screenshot.


Neve Theme review installation


It is recommended to install one of the many ready themes that Neve offers as shown below. If you click on that button, you will receive a message that you must first install 1 of the approximately 10 plug-ins that come with the theme. So do that here "Neve options" >> "Plug-ins" and activate the plug-in.


Neve Theme installation ready theme


You can now select and install one of the hundreds of ready-made themes via the offered import function. Multiple demos are available for each niche. Neve offers a lot of demos, and of very good quality. You are sure to find something to your liking. This all works flawlessly and super fast and in this neve review we give the full points for ease of installation.

There is practically no theme better prepared for the installation of the top page builders. At the moment there are 92 demos available for Gutenberg, 122 for Elementor, 48 for Brizy, 99 for BeaverBuilder, even 10 for DiviBuilder and 10 for Thrive Architect but these last 2 only in the pro version. See image below.


Neve Theme starter-sites for page builders



NEVE SPEEDTEST

Let's run a speed test. It is important to know that with a good cache plug-in every website becomes much faster. I therefore run the test right away with the best cache plugin installed, called WP-Rocket. The plugin is set to optimize everything so css and js combined & minified. The results without optimized images and with optimized images are shown below and these are very good results. There are faster themes such as Genesis-Framework which is recommended by Google and Wordpress themselves. Ultimately, all themes in the top 5 for speed are blazing fast.

Special about Neve is that no jQuery is used in their theme, but instead Vanilla Javascript. This form of JS is a lot faster and websites made with this theme will load faster.


without optimized images

Neve Theme gtmetrix speedtest with wp-rocket


with optimized images

Neve Theme gtmetrix speedtest with wp-rocket


NEVE FREE VS NEVE PRO

Below you can see what the PRO version offers extra compared to the free version.


Neve Free vs Neve Pro


In this Neve theme review we now discuss some of the PRO functions, all BOOSTER add-ons belong to the PRO version. It is immediately clear that Neve PRO has a lot to offer.

NEVE HEADER BOOSTER

It more or less goes without saying what you can do with the Header Booster. Create beautiful Headers with incredible freedom, even for mobile. Advanced styling options and multiple HTML elements.


Neve theme review header booster


NEVE WOOCOMMERCE BOOSTER

This Booster makes your web shops much more professional with the many extra options. This certainly also results in a higher turnover.


Neve theme review Woocommerce booster


Neve theme review Woocommerce booster


NEVE BLOG BOOSTER

Increase the ease of use for visitors to your blog with the Blog Booster which offers a multitude of additional options.


Neve theme review Blog booster


NEVE ELEMENTOR BOOSTER

The Elementor Booster add-on gives you 9 extra widgets in your Elementor pagebuilder, provided you are using Elementor and not another page builder. It concerns the following widgets: Review Box, Flipcard, Typed Headline, Share Buttons, Progress Circle, Team Member, Banner, Content Switcher and Custom Field.


Neve theme review Elementor booster


NEVE CUSTOM LAY-OUTS

With the add-on Custom Lay-Outs you can add your own content or custom code at all hook locations. You can also easily create special footers and headers with it.


Neve theme review custom lay-outs


NEVE THEME REVIEW: PRICING

Where other themes give licenses for 1 website, with Neve you always have the right to use the theme on as many sites as you want. For normal websites the Personal version is sufficient, if you own web shops I would opt for the slightly more expensive Bussiness version. Neve offers very reasonable prices and is well worth the money, this is a top theme.


Neve theme review pricing


NEVE THEME REVIEW: CONCLUSION

Neve is a great theme for both sites and shops with a huge variety of demo sites that can be installed with 1 click. The installation of the whole runs very smoothly and is very clear. The theme is written with great code, it cannot be more professional and is therefore one of the fastest themes on the market. The theme works with the best page builder I know, Elementor. As a result, Neve quickly builds top websites with the greatest of ease. It can be used on an unlimited number of websites and so you no longer need any other themes with Neve. Neve offers good support and you have 200+ videos and 300+ pages with tutorials available.

Kadence vs Neve conclusion

There are no major differences between Neve and Kadence, they are both very good themes. But even though both Kadence and Neve are worth their money, I have to advise against both because there are much better themes available for the same money. My tip is buy Divi, best sold and appreciated theme in the world or possibly Astra if you want to work with a super-fast theme.





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