Recommended setup

1. Use a child theme

Put your customisations in a GeneratePress child theme. GeneratePerf checks it in Site Health, and features such as CSS overrides and custom shortcodes read their files from the child theme.

2. Define the site colors

In Appearance → Customize → Colors, define the GeneratePress global colors with these slugs: primary, secondary, lightest, light, medium, dark and darkest. Their names are free; GeneratePerf’s components use the slugs. Site Health tells you if one is missing.

3. Let the configurator set up your other plugins

If you use WP Rocket, Perfmatters, Imagify, Cache Enabler or ShortPixel, open 1 Clic Configurator and apply the recommended configuration: it sets their options for a GeneratePress site in one click.

4. Turn on the performance options for your content

In Web performance, enable for your posts and pages:

• Prioritize featured images (fetchpriority="high") and Early-load featured images (no lazy-loading);
• Early-load first content images on content without a featured image;
• Preload featured images where the featured image is the largest element of the page.

5. Choose self-hosted fonts

Pick your fonts in Appearance → Customize → Typography: GeneratePerf’s fonts are served from your own site, with fallbacks that avoid layout shifts. See Fonts.

6. Check Site Health

Open Settings → GeneratePerf → Site Health and fix what it reports: search engine visibility, plugin version, colors, child theme, editor and the size of autoloaded options.