Blocksy Theme Tutorial: Build a Stunning Site for Free
A fast, free, genuinely good theme — set up from scratch with headers, footers and a blog that looks designed.
About this build
A fast site starts with the theme. Everything you do afterwards is either helped or hindered by that one choice.
This is a complete build on a lightweight theme, with performance treated as a design constraint rather than a cleanup task at the end.
What you'll be able to do afterwards
- Configure a lightweight theme for speed from the start
- Understand what actually makes pages slow
- Set up caching and a CDN correctly
- Hit good Core Web Vitals without dark arts
- Build a full site that stays fast as it grows
Before you start
- A WordPress install
- Blocksy (free version covers most of this)
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Measure before you optimise
Almost every slow WordPress site is slow for one or two specific reasons, usually images or one bad plugin. Find them with a real measurement before installing anything that promises to make things faster.
Chapters
- 0:00
Why the theme decides everything
A speed test, before and after.
- 10:00
Blocksy setup
The settings that matter.
- 26:30
Building the pages
Fast by default.
- 48:00
Images
Formats, sizing and lazy loading.
- 1:03:20
Caching and CDN
Setting both up properly.
- 1:18:00
Core Web Vitals
Measuring, then fixing what's actually broken.
Terms explained in the Knowledge Base
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