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Since WordPress 4.7 we have the option to insert additional CSS (under Appearance/Customizer/Additional CSS) directly in the WordPress Customizer. This relatively new feature provides an easy way to override or add the default CSS of themes or plugins. Finding out which CSS styles to use, is of course not always easy. Therefore, I prepared a…
The Pukeko Theme Overview Pukeko is so much more for us than just our latest theme. With Pukeko, we have completely redefined our definition of a WordPress theme, how we aim to work with our themes, and how we can evolve them over a longer time period. We’ve been creating WordPress themes for quite a…
Let’s celebrate our blog birthday! Eight years ago today we wrote our very first blog post here on our Elmastudio blog. We also started using WordPress for our website and at that time and decided to create a lively WordPress blog from this day on. This decision changed a lot, since we only had a…
The newest Uku theme version (1.3) comes with three completely new layouts for your latest blog posts. Next to the default layout you can now choose between a 3- or 4-column grid layout and a classic blog design with excerpt texts and a “Read More” button. With the new layout options Uku is now a…
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
Child themes are a great way to customize a WordPress theme, without loosing your changes in a parent theme update. But since you are copying the original theme files into your own child theme, of course changes in the parent themes will not get transferred to your child theme files. This could result in you…