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Uku WordPress Theme With New Design Style and WooCommerce Support

31 December 2016

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.

The New Serif Design Style

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.

WooCommerce Support for Uku

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.

Live Demo Imports just got easier

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.

Your Feedback

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
Elmastudio Wishes You Merry Christmas with 35% Discount in the Theme Shop

24 December 2016

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
Our Uku Theme gets a New Design Style and Second Live Demo

31 August 2016

Our Uku WordPress theme gets a new update (version 1.1) today. It comes with optimized theme options and some smaller CSS optimizations and bugfixes, but the best part is a complete new design style option. Now you can choose between the “standard” design style and the new Uku “neo” design style in the theme options. The new style has a fresh, open design. It uses a serif font for titles (the Source Serif Pro Google font). All other text styles use the modern, fresh looking sans-serif font “Poppins”. Most titles are shown on a white background in the Uku neo design style, which brings a light feel to the theme.

The Overlay area (viewable via the menu button) is a fullscreen area in the new Uku neo design style. Next to the website title and description text is shows your main menu and an optional Off Canvas widget area. The Featured Sections (Top and Bottom) both have a little bit different layout and the Front page About area has a fullwidth image and right-aligned text on the image.

The New Uku Demo Page

To be able to show you the new design options in the best possible way, we also prepared a new overview demo page for Uku and a new live demo. This way you can easily compare the two different styles. The Uku Taupo live demo shows the Uku standard design style and Uku Pirongia the new Uku neo style. And yes, we are planing to add further live demos and new features and styles for Uku in the upcoming months :)

Both demo files are available to you in the main theme folder (or in the demo folder for Theme Bundle users). So you can import the live demo data and use it as a starting point to build your own website with Uku. You can of course also use all the images we included in the demos.

The New Theme Options in the Dashboard

In addition to the new design style option you can also choose to hide the sidebar on single posts or on the Front page only. To hide the sidebar on pages individually, you can choose the “No Sidebar” page template. You can now also include small CSS snippets directly via the Theme Options panel (under General).

Your Feedback

We hope you like the new, second design option for Uku as well as the new live demo. We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for Uku theme optimizations. We are excited to hear your ideas for new theme features and options and we will try to include all your suggestions into theme over time. Just write us a comment!
Uku – a super flexible Premium WordPress Magazine Theme with a free Light Version

14 July 2016

Yeah, Uku is here! We are super happy to finally release our newest WordPress Magazine, Newspaper, and Blog Theme Uku today. Uku is a bit different from our previous themes. It has a lot more options and flexibility and the greatest thing is, it also has a free light theme version (download on the Uku theme page). The light version is a blog-only theme with a header image option.

The Front Page

The Uku Premium version shows all the flexibility Uku has to offer. You can create your own, unique Front page in the Customizer with the Uku Front page sections. You can also include your latest posts on the Front page (optional) and include an About section with Social links. In addition, you can filter the posts in the front page post sections using tags. Here is a list of all Front page sections:

– Featured Slider (max. 6 posts)
– Featured Top section (with one big left-aligned featured post)
– 2-column section
– 3-column section
– Fullwidth Post
– Latest blog posts (optional)
– Featured Bottom section
– About and Social Links section
– Featured section on a background color
– 4-column section
– 6-column section

All sections are optional, so they won’t show up if they are left blank. Since you can set up your front page in the Customizer, it’s super easy to see what your front page will look like in the Customizer preview as you are building it.

Header and Slider Options

You can use the Featured slider or alternative an header image in three different designs: boxed, full width or fullscreen. Additionally, you can change the transparency level of the gradient or use a completely transparent background of the image with the color you like.

Fix-positioned Menu and Off Canvas Area

By default Uku comes with a fix-positioned menu bar, which becomes visible once the visitor starts scrolling down a page. You can choose the color of the menu bar to be light or dark and you can also choose to hide the menu bar completely. Additionally Uku also has an off canvas area (an area hidden by default) showing the main menu and an optional widget area. You can customize the background and text color of your off canvas area.

Single Posts

You can choose to show a left-aligned or right-aligned sidebar or no sidebar at all. The Featured image also has three options, the default Featured image position, a big Featured image (use a custom field with the values post_class = big-thumb) or no Featured image (custom field post_class = no-thumb). You can also add an intro text to posts with a big Featured image using a custom field with the name of “intro” and your intro text as the value.

The last widget of the sidebar will always stick to the page when a visitor is scrolling down a page. This is a great feature to highlight your newsletter form (using the Mailchimp WordPress plugin).

The Footer

The footer offers a 4-column Footer menu area as well as a big, one-column advertisement area. Here you can promote your latest product or link to another web project of yours.

The free Uku Light version

For Uku we wanted to create free light theme version because we think it’s a great way to get to know the theme better and an opportunity to use Uku for free as a smaller blog-only theme. The light version does not offer the Front page sections or the slider, but you can add a big Header image with the same layout options the Premium theme slider offers.

How do you like Uku?

We hope you like the Uku theme and you are excited to start using the theme for your website or blog. Since we plan to add more features and additional live demos with new settings over time, we would love to hear your ideas on how we can improve Uku. The Premium Uku theme also comes with the sample live demo content included. (Note: It’s important to first unzip the main theme folder and only upload the included uku.zip folder to your WordPress installation after you purchased the theme). The detailed Uku theme documentation and a little video tutorial will be available online by tomorrow. Please let us know how you like the Uku theme and tell us your ideas for improvements, bugs you have found or any Uku-related theme question in the comments. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Image Measurements:
– Featured images in the slider + and big images on single posts: 1440 x 530 pixels
– default Featured images: min. width of 1024 pixels
– Sidebar width 400 pixels
(Please install and run the Regenerate Thumbnail WordPress plugin after installing Uku on already established blogs to prepare the images correctly.)

Uku Links:
– Uku Premium Live Demo
– Uku Light Live Demo
– Buy Uku Premium or download Uku Light
Hawea – Our Newest WooCommerce Shop WordPress Theme is Here

15 February 2016

We are very excited to showcase our latest WooCommerce WordPress theme Hawea (have a look at the Hawea live demo). Hawea is an eCommerce theme that you can use together with the free WordPress shop plugin WooCommerce. So with WordPress, WooCommerce and Hawea it is super easy to build a beautiful, elegant and modern shop to sell your products online.

One of the Hawea theme highlights is it’s customizable, easy-to-setup front page. There is a scalable, fullwidth image slider, to feature your best products. Hawea also includes a beautiful blog page with a left-aligned sidebar. The default shop page comes in a two-column layout and the Hawea footer widget area offers tons of space to include all your important content (like a Mailchimp newsletter form or your latest Instagram pictures). (more…)
Zeitreise: Our new clean and minimal Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme

17 November 2015

We are super happy to present our newest WordPress theme “Zeitreise” to you today. Zeitreise is a clean, modern and minimal Business and Portfolio theme with a responsive design, so that your website is optimized for small mobile devices and big widescreen monitors alike.

The Zeitreise theme design is clean, simple and modern with a lot of whitespace, so that your website will be a true eye catcher. Zeitreise also comes with lots of options that are especially useful for business and portfolio websites, like an amazing customizable Front page. (more…)