Five years ago, I was inspired to start Themify by a vision to build a tool which allows designers (like myself) to build WordPress themes without coding skills. Today, I’m proud to announce that my vision has come true. Say hello to Themify Flow, a free WordPress framework which allows you to build and customize themes without requiring any PHP or CSS coding. Everything is done within WordPress with an intuitive drag & drop interface.
What Is So Cool About Flow?
Flow has made it possible for designers, developers, and end users to create themes using frontend drag & drop interface with live preview. Flow themes are exactly like WordPress themes, in that you can activate, edit, import, export, delete, and create them from scratch. What makes Flow theme different is that you can customize the header, sidebar, footer, styling, and templates by yourself . No template editing or having to create a child theme.
Templates
Flow uses the same logic of WordPress template system. You can create templates based on the type of page view (archive, category, tag, post, page, homepage, and even custom post types) you’d like to use. Of course with Flow, you don’t have to write those complicated PHP template tags or interact with any code whatsoever.
Styling
For those who are no good with CSS, you will like Themify Flow’s Styling Panel. It allows you to style literally all elements with a live preview. The styling data will generate a CSS file on your server, for caching and fast page load purposes. If you have the CSS skills, design styling can be written in a child theme stylesheet.
Performance
Most people would probably think a powerful framework like Flow must be bloated with functions and resource files (like JavaScript and stylesheets). Don’t worry, we have taken a proactive approach regarding performance concerns. Flow is built with a modular coding system, and resource files are loaded only when necessary. The template queries and the generated CSS are both cached for faster performance. Check out our demo to see its load speed.
Rasto Lamos did a complete performance analysis of Flow and commented: "Theme builders are usually heavy, taking quite a lot of server resources (memory and CPU), thus slowing down the site. Not in the Flow’s case."
Try It Out!
Head over to ThemifyFlow.com to download Flow and try it on your WordPress. Let me know what do you think.
Maciej Blazejczyk
It looks interesting!
Ash
Awesome!
It will be one of great frameworks!
Arbaz
Looks really interesting and amazing!
Sergey Pedan
Seems like crazy amount of work has been done, great respect! But still
Gary Smith
Your ideas and concept is unique and can be beneficial for many designers like me. Keep spreading your knowledge with us, it is really inspiring.
Christian M. Grube
Great Idea and the generated code looks good.
Well done
Sarang
Is the builder free for designers to use or costs?
Nick La
The Flow framework is 100% free. Anyone can download and use it.
Sarang
Yeah, I just read about that on N. Design…
Now that’s something wonderful! I like the Flow concept.
Nick
There looks like a lot of thought and work has gone into this! Good Luck
Posicionamiento
Very interesting. Regards.
Posicionamiento
Very interesting. regards
Blackwall
Nice effects :) But Im more worried about the browser compatibility issue. Great job.
Dharne and Co
Nice Effort and looks as a great idea!
Colorado Web Designer
Is this kind of like Upfront that WPMU DEV is working on?
Gabriel Nwatarali
Wow this is a big game changer for web designers. I have been looking for a reliable framework for WordPress in order to avoid doing it all from scratch. Thanks for this information.
Fototapety
Ccomparing with Visual Composer is much much faster! New functions the rather only a matter of time? Respect.
jagan
the generated code looks good and great
Tina Jameson
The article is really great!The use of themes and templates cannot be underestimated as they introduce a huge range of opportunities to the user!
Integraff
Good structure & designs as well
Artsnet
Themify Flow is visual and easy to use tool to build WordPress theme.
jasa website
already check speed themify i , not bad
Litto James
Looks really interesting and learnt new things. Thanks
Sixo
Nothing beats coding a website for sure but excellent job on Themify Flow, when I get some free time I’m looking forward to checking it out. It definitely has a different feel then most other builders I’ve played around with.
Wilmer Mceneny
what a amazing!
I just bought my first Themify product (parallax theme) and love it. And then a day later there is an upgrade with a great builder included!! Color me happy.
shashwat
a very great effort and a great help to designers like me
Sarang
Nick,
I wanted to feature the Abstract Phoenix illustration and its design process on my blog. Of course, credits will be provided.
(I have also featured your work in the past! See: https://wallofwonders.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/nick-la/)
I just wanted to have permission of using the images and excerpts for this post.
It looks breathtakingly awesome.
Sam A
It’s nice information which helpful to me in Web Design. This one is awesome and informative blog which gives you basic idea of Website design.
Evonence
It seems very innovative. Anyone can give a try on Themify.
Netsource
This is fantastic and especially in terms of how light it runs.
Dave Mackey
What is the status of Themify Flow? Is it still actively under development/
Nick La
We are shifting focus back to core Themify Builder. No further development planned for Flow at the moment.
Sasha-Shae
That’s unfortunate as this was truly a promising product, I hope development will pick up on it again in the near future.