I purchased the Audioman Pro theme, and noticed a few issues after installing it and importing the demo content:
There are a few noticeable difference between the Audioman Pro demo on the Catch Themes site, and what you get out of the box after installing the theme, activating all necessary plugins, and importing the demo content:
1. The page footer on the Audioman Pro demo on the Catch Themes site is different than what you get out of the box after installing/activating the theme, activating all the necessary plugins, and importing the demo site content – examples:
Audioman Pro Catch Themes Demo footer:
https://imgur.com/a/46Rztoa
Actual theme footer after install:
https://imgur.com/a/B5Fi1x7
It would be nice to get the same footer that is on the Audioman Pro demo on the Catch Themes site – it’s much cleaner.
2. The Audioman Pro demo on the Catch Themes site includes a “Newsletter” section right above the footer section. This is completely missing from the actual theme once installed + importing demo content. I read in a different post that the newsletter functionality is actually a widget that’s only available in a paid “Essential Widgets Pro” version of the plugin. It’s a bit misleading to show this functionality in the Audioman Pro demo, but then require someone to buy an additional pro version of Essential Widgets plugin to actually get it.
Screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/1VhistM
3. The Audioman Pro theme loaded super slow after I imported the demo content. I ran some tests on Google’s Pagespeed Insights tool to do some debugging, and this is what I found:
– The overall performance score for the theme alone on a fresh WordPress install was 99 for “Desktop” and 91 for “Mobile”, which is great.
– Once you import the demo content, the performance scores dropped significantly to 65 for “Desktop” and 34 for “Mobile”. This is pretty terrible, so I did some looking at the analysis and found a few components to be contributing to the performance degradation. Namely, the “Events” component, and the “Featured Video” component.
– I disabled the “Events” component, and the performance scores improved to 75 for “Desktop” and 38 for “Mobile”, still pretty bad.
– I disabled the “Featured Video” component, and the performance scopes improved to 98 for “Desktop” and 88 for “Mobile”. This is acceptable, so I left it configured that way.
I’d recommend the Catch Themes team do the same analysis on the theme and see if there are opportunities to improve it out of the box.
3. It should be made a little clearer that the “Products” section and related features in the demo require you to install the WooCommerce plugin, which is pretty heavy. It would be nice if the theme provided some static pages for product listings, product pages, etc, so someone could adapt them to whatever solution they use to enable a shop on the site.
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