Velocity is a light-weight WordPress theme created for extreme performance, capable of loading around 200ms. It is crafted for blogging and online portfolios and features pages, posts and projects. It also has an built-in advertisment manager to dynamically add and place advertisements.
It uses a minimum of dependencies. For example, it does not require jQuery on the front-end. Because Velocity incorporates custom post types, it is unfortunately not available on the public WordPress theme repository.
A live website using the Velocity WordPress theme can be found here. This is the theme authors personal blog and portfolio. Velocity is maintained by Make it WorkPress
- Download the ZIP file for the latest release
- Rename the file to velocity
- Upload it to your WordPress themes directory in your WordPress install.
- The theme will automatically check GitHub for new releases.
Velocity requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP7 to run.
The velocity theme features extensive customizer settings for easily customizing fonts, layouts and colors. It also has built-in optimization options and support for Google Analytics. Needlessly to say, Microdata is baked into the theme.