This is a warning for anyone looking at Kadence right now about what will be coming and we we all know it.

Liquid Web, after buying Kadence (or before I have never heard of them until this sale), seems to have fully embraced the AI build process from Claude Code. All tells are there. Its a clone of any other Claude website with the eyebrows and the numbers. They are going to sell "Kadence AI" soon, and I expect fully that Kadence is now a pile of shit owned by equity. I can't fault whoever built it for running with it and closing the sale. But as a "Founding" lifetime purchaser for Kadence, I can't recognise what I am looking at.

Kadence will be recommended a lot, and is here, because it's generally a good theme with great hooks and is good enough for a developer that needs to hand a site a customer wants a bit of control over.

But watch out. Don't invest today for something that might be milked for everything it can be by the new owners.

Liquid Webs website is absolute horse shit. Its a testament of the money hungry hype train of AI and if you think Kadence is safe now you are probably in for a surprise.

My suggestion:

Learn to FSE, learn to ACF Pro with Gravity Forms and CPT and templates. Learn to develop WP and don't settle for what's coming. Don't settle for a builder, or a theme or anything bundled and sold, especially if you are going to rely it for income.

We dropped Kadence about 2 years ago for full FSE or ACF/Templates, but I have a few legacy sites on it. And I went to do some work for a customer and realised so much had changed in the ownership that the brand trust we had is now in the toilet.

Just be careful making a decisions about developing into something you have no idea what the road map is anymore.

This is a warning for anyone looking at Kadence right now about what will be coming and we we all know it.

Liquid Web, after buying Kadence (or before I have never heard of them until this sale), seems to have fully embraced the AI build process from Claude Code. All tells are there. Its a clone of any other Claude website with the eyebrows and the numbers. They are going to sell "Kadence AI" soon, and I expect fully that Kadence is now a pile of shit owned by equity. I can't fault whoever built it for running with it and closing the sale. But as a "Founding" lifetime purchaser for Kadence, I can't recognise what I am looking at.

Kadence will be recommended a lot, and is here, because it's generally a good theme with great hooks and is good enough for a developer that needs to hand a site a customer wants a bit of control over.

But watch out. Don't invest today for something that might be milked for everything it can be by the new owners.

Liquid Webs website is absolute horse shit. Its a testament of the money hungry hype train of AI and if you think Kadence is safe now you are probably in for a surprise.

My suggestion:

Learn to FSE, learn to ACF Pro with Gravity Forms and CPT and templates. Learn to develop WP and don't settle for what's coming. Don't settle for a builder, or a theme or anything bundled and sold, especially if you are going to rely it for income.

We dropped Kadence about 2 years ago for full FSE or ACF/Templates, but I have a few legacy sites on it. And I went to do some work for a customer and realised so much had changed in the ownership that the brand trust we had is now in the toilet.

Just be careful making a decisions about developing into something you have no idea what the road map is anymore.