Reco WordPress Theme Review. Speed Freebie Theme

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Reco WordPress Theme Cangelog
Reco Theme Profile
Reco WordPress Theme Features
- 3.1 Reco WordPress Theme Main Freatures
Reco WordPress Theme Speed Test

Creating a website is getting more and more popular; there are websites for everything. Have you ever thought of creating one for your business or hobby? So if you are, in today’s article, we will review one of the fastest and innovative WordPress themes – Reco WordPress theme.

Reco WordPress Theme is a super lightweight and fast WordPress theme perfectly designed for magazines, blogs, and digital freebies. The theme has a great bunch of amazing features, and the speed that provides is fantastic. Now let’s review Reco WordPress theme features.

Reco WordPress Theme Cangelog

Last Update – v4.5.0 (29 June 2020)

Here in the changelog section, you can see the latest fixes, additions, and improvements of the theme.

Summary: Core Web Vital (CWB) improvements.
TTI: Time to interactive.
LCP: Largest Contentful Paint
CSL: Cumulative Layout Shift

View Last Version Improvements

Improved: Passive listener warning for CWB.
– Improved: Image size for grid articles.
– Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on the Articles list.
– Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Single Post Content.
– Improved: Now secondary CSS files will be loaded with Preload to reduce the priority of not critical CSS files.
– Improved: Now fonts icons are loaded in a separate file, to reduce the load of other critical CSS.
– Improved: Now Slider scripts will be loaded only if needed on every page.
– Improved: Now Code Prettify (prism) will be loaded only if needed on every page.
– Improved: Lazy Load function for PHP 7.4
– Improved: Now subscribe background image will use lazy load by default.
– Improved: Renamed functions/reco-functions.php to theme-functions.php
– Improved: Now functions/sidebars.php, post-formats.php, and theme-functions.php can be used inside the child theme, to override any function of these files.

– Improved: Now Mobile users can use Zoom (max: 5).
– Improved: Now subscribe form will open a new window, this will reduce bounce rate.

– Added: Rel noopener and nofollow to several external links (social) and main download button.
– Added: New optimization section (advanced settings).
– Added: New option to select theme font icons method (standard, javascript or in footer), this will improve TTI and reduce a little the LCP from CWB.
– Added: New option to add a delay to the font icons load (only available for Javascript method).
– Added: New option on Optimization -> adv settings, now low priority CSS can use Prefetch, Preload or Standard methods.
– Added: * New Speed Option, Async Scripts inside Theme options -> Optimization -> advanced.
– Added: * AMP Compatibility (Transitional mode) for Posts, Home, Pages and Archives (categories, tags and author), except Woocommerce pages or single.
– Added: * AMP Theme Options section.
– Added: New how to enable AMP documentation
– Added: * New Subscribe extra parameters (this will help to avoid the Mailchimp redirection and subscribe visitors immediately).

View Last Version Additions

– Added: Rel noopener and nofollow to several external links (social) and main download button.
– Added: New optimization section (advanced settings).
– Added: New option to select theme font icons method (standard, javascript or in the footer), this will improve TTI and reduce a little the LCP from CWB.
– Added: New option to add a delay to the font icons load (only available for Javascript method).
– Added: New option on Optimization -> adv settings, now low priority CSS can use Prefetch, Preload or Standard methods.
– Added: * New Speed Option, Async Scripts inside Theme options -> Optimization -> advanced.
– Added: * AMP Compatibility (Transitional mode) for Posts, Home, Pages and Archives (categories, tags and author), except Woocommerce pages or single.
– Added: * AMP Theme Options section.
– Added: New how to enable AMP documentation
– Added: * New Subscribe extra parameters (this will help to avoid the Mailchimp redirection and subscribe visitors immediately).

Reco Theme Profile

Name	Reco
Price	$44
Suitable for	Blog, Magazine, Freebies
Support	24/7 support, future updates, plugins, WordPress
Browsers It Works With	IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge

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Reco WordPress Theme Features

Reco WordPress theme has 3 different layouts that you can choose for your website. You have pre-made demos through which you can review the styles and the features of each.

The theme has “Translation Ready,” and you can translate your website into almost every language. It supports the i18n version.

The responsiveness of the theme is not missed, it is fully responsive and give you full access to your website from any mobile device.

Reco WordPress Theme Main Freatures

Custom Pages
Reco Theme provides a great bunch of different custom pages and styles.
You can take advantage of 5 custom pages, 3 different post styles, custom pages for authors, tags 404 error page, and much more.

Custom Widgets
Another amazing feature is the custom widgets free-included in the theme. Some of the widgets are:
Latest Tweets
Flickr
Featured Post
Advertising Sections
The premium Support is also included if you have some sort of question.

5 Post Formats
Reco WordPress theme supports most of the post formats, which means that you can upload standard, video, image, gallery, and audio content.
This opportunity allows your public to see different quality content on your website.

Reco WordPress Theme Speed Test

The Reco theme is said to be a very speedy WordPress theme and gives its users the ability to create a very fast Google Friendly Website.

Speed Test – Mobile Results

As you can see on the mobile test the Reco theme scores the amazing 95/100 speed. For a mobile result, this is a tremendous result.

Speed Test – Desktop Results

Just for a little, it doesn’t score the max but 99 of 100 is really hard to achieve, and a very little part of the themes available can praise with similar results. So from the results, we got, our team can say that the Reco WordPress theme is amongst the fastest ones on the market.

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