Skipping the Kadence starter templates

Kadence ships a library of starter templates, and the install flow pushes you toward them. We had a homepage design already, so the question was whether importing a template and reshaping it beats building from nothing.

It does not. A starter template arrives with its own section markup, its own colour assignments and a set of demo blocks that all have to be found and removed. Every one of those is a place where the imported opinion outlives the import.

What replaced it: the global palette set to the six brand colours, three Google Fonts, one snippet holding the brand CSS, and the homepage built as blocks against classes we control. The site went from blank to matching the design in a single sitting.

The tradeoff worth naming: this only works if you actually have a design. Without one, a starter template is a reasonable way to borrow someone else’s.