Captivate your audience with Ruki; A striking Gutenberg optimized WordPress theme for personal bloggers and content creators. With an abundance of theme options, numerous layouts, beautiful post styles and extensive color options Ruki provides a magnificent showcase for your content.

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Designed for Gutenberg

Designed and enhanced for Gutenberg with full back and front-end block styling, support for all alignments and custom color palettes. Ruki harnesses the power of Gutenberg to give you the tools to build stunning posts and pages quickly and easily. Ruki also includes styling for all WooCommerce Gutenberg blocks so you can build custom shop pages or embed products into posts and pages all with Ruki’s beautiful styling.

“In Loop” Sidebars

Add widgets directly inside post loops (between posts), perfect for adverts, Google AdSense or any other widget, choose the position and set a background colour to add more impact.

Category Featured Posts

Feature your favourite posts for each category at the top of the page and configure the layout, colour scheme and post style for maximum impact. You can exclude featured posts from the category loop or duplicate inside the loop for additional exposure. View Example

Home Featured Posts

Get maximum exposure for your posts by adding them to the featured display on the homepage. Pick the posts you want to display or filter them by category or type, choose an offset (posts to exclude), number of posts and post style, toggle post meta and set your own colour scheme to create an attention grabbing posts display.

Homepage Post Blocks

Create multiple post block displays on your homepage, perfect for showing your favourite posts from multiple categories, post type or choose the posts you want to display in each block. Create your own colour scheme for each block and configure and combine blocks to create unique and exciting displays. Post blocks also support shop products so you can promote your favourite products from your WooCommerce shop on the homepage. View Post Blocks Demo

Hero Area

Create an impact with Ruki’s Hero area. Display your favourite posts from a category, type or specify the posts you want to display. You can display a single post or add multiple posts and showcase them in an eye catching slider or carousel

Related Posts

Keep your readers engaged with Ruki’s related posts. Posts can be related by category, author or tag and configured in a choice of styles and layouts.

AMP Support

Ruki includes a dedicated theme matched AMP theme. AMP posts and pages inherit theme colour, logo & toggle icon settings for a fantastic Google accelerated mobile pages experience. View AMP Post

WooCommerce Ready

Build a stunning online shop with Ruki & WooCommerce. Ruki is fully compatible with WooCommerce and includes additional WooCommerce theme settings as well as full support and styling for all WooCommece Gutenberg blocks and with Ruki’s “In Loop” sidebars you can add product widgets inside post loops for maximum product exposure and selling opportunities. View Shop Demo

Toggle Everything

Ruki gives you total control of all elements so you can create the look that’s perfect for you. Toggle post meta, thumbnails and titles and site elements such as site headers, descriptions, post counts, post navigation, author bio and menus.

Fully Customizable Colour Scheme

Quickly and easily change your theme colour scheme, selected individual element colours, widget colours, border colours and set category tag colours to create just the look you want.

Thumbnail Aspect Ratio

Choose a thumbnail aspect ratio that suits you; Ruki lets you choose landscape, portrait, square and uncropped for all post loops with an additional hero aspect ratio for single posts.

Custom Image Format Options

Image format adds visual impact in post loops. Configure meta data, title and thumbnail aspect ratio independently of the global loop settings for maximum effect.

Optimized for Speed

Ruki is fast, light and optimized to achieve the best possible SEO scores.

• GTMetrix: PageSpeed A (99%), YSlow A (90%)
• Pingdom: A 93
• Google page speed 94

Ruki Plugins and Widgets Included

• Featured Posts Plugin
• Homepage Post Blocks Plugin
• Hero Plugin
• Social Media Plugin
• Related Posts Plugin
• Posts Widget
• Theme Boost Plugin

All plugins are optional and are not required to use Ruki theme

More Features

• Gutenberg Ready
• Customisable Related Posts
• Configurable Category Featured Posts
• Jetpack Load More Posts (Grid Layout)
• Sticky Header Menu
• Masonry (2, 3 & 4 column)
• Grid (2, 3 & 4 column)
• Back to Top
• 9 Sidebars & Dynamic Category Widget Areas
• Custom Posts Widget
• Custom Social Media Widget
• 3 Post Styles
• 8 Single Post Layouts in 2 different styles
• Toggle everything
• Fully editable colour scheme
• Mail Chimp Support
• WP Instagram Support
• SB Instagram Support
• Contact Form 7 Support
• WooCommerce Compatible
• Standard, Video, Audio, Gallery & Image Post Formats
• Google Fonts
• Fontello Icons
• Retina ready
• Support for all standard wordpress widgets
• Fully Responsive
• Detailed Documentation
• Demo data included
• Child theme included
• Translation ready
• RTL language support View Demo

Support

For theme support simply send me an email through my profile page. For less technical or quick questions post a comment in the theme comments section and I’ll be happy to help. Online Documentaion | FAQ

Thanks for checking out Ruki

If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to leave a comment and if you love Ruki, I’d really appreciate it if you could rate it.

All demo images from freepik.com

Changelog

View Changelog here