Title: Recommend a fast, simple, responsive theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Recommend a fast, simple, responsive theme

 *  [Eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1968eric/)
 * (@1968eric)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommend-a-fast-simple-responsive-theme/)
 * My suspicion is that a child theme based on twentytwelve will be my solution,
   but I wanted to run my preferences past the community and get your opinions.
 * I am fairly comfortable with creating child themes to re-style the appearance
   with CSS but I’m not that comfortable mucking around with the php files, though
   I can usually figure it out eventually. The point is, I’d rather not have to.
 * The site is very simple – nothing more than a blog with standard articles and
   pictures. I don’t need all the fancy wiz-bang sliders and such.
 * My main goal is I want the site to load quickly. I have been using some popular
   themes from the Extend section and they often load slow. I suspect that is due
   partly to the complexities involved being they are drag and drop, etc.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommend-a-fast-simple-responsive-theme/#post-3500727)
 * I think it’s a bit hard to make predictions about site load times – since there
   are many variables. But, yes, a theme that has lots of features can be slower.
   Why not put a bunch of content in your site in a twentytwelve child theme and
   see how it works for you. You could also switch to a few other themes as a comparison
   once you have some content in the site.
 * But photos, videos, photo size and hosting/server factors are all significant
   and outside of the theme per se, so those would be a consideration too.
 *  Thread Starter [Eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1968eric/)
 * (@1968eric)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommend-a-fast-simple-responsive-theme/#post-3500753)
 * Thank you WPyogi, would you say that the theme choice doesn’t weigh very heavily
   compared to other things like using W3 Total Cache, image optimization, etc?

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