Getting Started with the Make Theme for WordPress

Make is outstanding. I’d say it’s the best “page builder theme” I’ve ever used. It does a lot in as simple and spare a way as possible. You need to use it the way it wants you to: thoughtfully with a less is more approach.
As a base parent theme that gives end users a very nice interface for building and modifying layouts, it’s best as a foundation for custom styling in a child theme you build. It’s extremely well thought out code and great to work with if you want to modify page templates and the pro plugin’s functionality. If I’ve had one minor frustration it’s that there’s not a style-less or style-lite version, or a simple way to swap in a different set of styles for interface elements.
The basic free version of Make is in github, and the team behind it is super people, highly capable. Support and development of it has been top notch since Make’s debut. The only things lacking at this early stage are a developer’s guide and more detailed end user guide.
As with all builder themes, a little layout code and markup gets added into your page content and its postmeta database fields. Unless you take pains to avoid using certain features your page content will be marked up with some shortcodes too. Since this will impact future content portability, you need to take that into account. This would be more of a concern for me with other builder themes and companies; not so much with Make. It’s an asset I’d expect to stick with a long time.