I’ve been using Amedeo for about a year and I can say that it is a beautiful theme with a ton of options. It is relatively easy to create a website, especially when starting with a demo. The design is just gorgeous, but there are a few things that need improvement:

1. The theme is not optimized for speed. This is must now if one hopes to rank well in Google. I use several plugins to speed up my website, such as wp-optimize premium, caching, gzip, image optimization and caching and I cannot get a score higher than 65 for desktop and 40 for mobile in Goggle Page Speed Insights (lots of red warnings due to coding). Code needs to be much leaner and the theme has to be optimized for speed.

2. The theme is marketed as being for creatives. Creative people usually use a lot of imagery. This means that in the portfolio section, the images opening in the lightbox must include options to display a title, a short description, play button and social media. These features are not included and they are essential for any creative person: designers, photographers, illustrators, etc. Other themes for creatives include these features. Again, the design is beautiful, but these features are missing.

3. In the portfolio section, when selecting portfolio gallery or portfolio masonry, the images do not align properly. Most creatives have a mixture of vertical, horizontal and square format images in the same gallery. Images need to be confined to a certain crop (for example square) to align better.

4. Packaged plugins such as WPBakery and Revolution Slider have not been updated since December 2019. Wordpress is seeing outdated plugins as potential back doors for hackers and is showing warnings.

If the creators could address these issues, this theme would be perfect!