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There are thousands of plugins available in the official WordPress.org plugin directory. It’s difficult to know which plugin you should choose for your website, especially if you are just starting out with WordPress. We put together a detailed list of recommended plugins for WordPress beginners, to help you get started with your WordPress website. (We…
While reading blog posts recently, I came across text links or quotes that readers could share directly in Twitter including a link back to the post. I thought this is a great idea and I wanted to include theses kind of links on our Elmastudio blog as well. So I researched a bit for an…
First of all we want to wish you a Happy New Years Eve! We hope you will have a nice celebration into the new year, we wish you all the very best for 2017 and that all your wishes and dreams will come true.
We finally finished our work on the new Uku update over the last days and we are super excited to show you the theme update. Our Uku WordPress theme now comes with a beautiful, complete new third design style called “serif” and support for the WooCommerce eCommerce plugin. So now, next to the blog and Magazine options you can also built your online shop with Uku.
Uku now comes with three different design styles, the “standard” design (which you can see in the Taupo demo), the “neo” design (see live demo Pirongia) and the new “serif” design style with the brand new demo Ruapuke. For the serif design style we use the Cormorant Garamond Google font and a took a fresh, breathable, minimal design approach in general.
The new WooCommerce shop looks especially beautiful with Uku serif and we also built a new shop front page template for you.
Of course you can also use Uku serif for your Magazine or blog. You can use all blog page sections and a featured post slider.
In case you are looking for a theme to build an elegant, modern WooCommerce shop with, Uku, with it’s fresh shop design will be the perfect theme for you.
Uku offers a three-column shop layout without sidebar or a two-column shop page with a shop sidebar. To use the shop front page, you just need to create a default page and assign the “Shop Page Template” to it. On the Uku Shop front page you can shop your products in different sections (like latest products, best rated, on sale or featured products), add an About section or big quote and show a section with your latest posts.
Uku serif also offers a big, fullscreen header image options with a slogan text (we will shortly add this option to the other design styles as well). An additional feature is the quick cart button, which open a cart overlay to quickly show your customers their current cart content.
The product single pages are also very minimal and uncluttered, so that you can truly feature your products in a fresh look.
We also prepared a One Click live demo import for Uku. You can now install the free “One Click Demo Import” WordPress plugin (just search the plugin name in your plugin admin area to install it) and you will find the three Uku live demos ready to be installed.
We hope you will love the new Uku theme version with its new design style and the WooCommerce support. Please let us know what you think, we would love to receive your feedback, suggestions and ideas for new theme features. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Happy 2017, Yours Ellen & Manuel
Dear Elmastudio blog readers and theme users, we wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas holiday with your family and friends. As probably most of you, we had trouble to get into the Christmas spirit this year, with so much unhappy news going on in the world and unfortunately also in our own family. But especially in those times, we want to remind ourselves to live with more awareness for all the good things happening, too and enjoy and celebrate everything beautiful around us.
Since it already is an Elmastudio tradition, we offer you a 35% discount over the holidays. Starting from today until January 2nd (11.59pm CET) you will receive all single themes and our entire Theme Bundle for a discounted price by using the coupon code “xmasfun”.
All theme bundle users, who renew their Theme Bundle using their 50% discount coupon (which you received via email) until January 2nd, will receive additional 3 months to their new Theme Bundle year (the 3 months will be added automatically to your new Theme Bundle year).
And because we will have some additional Elmastudio presents for you in the next days (we are working on two almost ready to be released goodies at the moment), don’t forget to check the blog for updates after the Christmas days or follow us on social media.
But for now we just wish you a wonderful Christmas celebration and quiet holidays with your loved ones.
Merry Christmas,
Ellen & Manuel
About three months ago I switched from using Coda2 as my text editor to the open source editor Atom. I used Coda for several years and I was honestly a bit stuck in it. What I mean by that is that I used Coda every day, but without really optimizing my workflow any more. Since…
A while ago we ran a little survey to ask you about your opinion regarding our WordPress Themes and your general experience with Elmastudio. We are so happy for all your feedback, your constructive critic and your helpful advice. Thanks to all of you, who took the time to answer our questions and give your…