Discussion on Ruki - A Captivating Personal Blog Theme

Discussion on Ruki - A Captivating Personal Blog Theme

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Hello,

I was wondering if there are any other pages included with the import demo 6, besides the all Posts. Should there also be a Subscription page, or am I missing something?

Thank you for any clarification.

Thanks for replying.

I did a fresh install and then imported the demo again. The only page created is the page Typography. Mailchimp is activated/API Key.

Is it a page we have to create manually, the Subscribe page?

Hi,

If it isn’t in the demo data, you can create one. The demo is simply the MailChimp form embedded in the page and a featured image. You can then link your CTA/subscribe button to the page.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

I see… I’ll create one. Thanks for your reply.

Hi there! I’m experiencing a minor glitch with the header of our site using Ruki. Sometimes, upon the page loading, the header is completely misaligned. Then, upon a quick refresh, it loads as normal/as we designed.

Do you have an answer/fix for this kind of bug? Let me know! Thank you so much.

Awesome, will try that! Thank you for the speed and for the advice.

^ That worked! Thanks again, Steve!

Excellent, thanks for letting me know :)

Hi, Your plugin is great. The only problem I have is that when I enter text into the customiser e.g. for the Related Posts title, I have no way to translate this text.

In general for translatable plugins/themes, the customiser inputed text appears as strings to translate in Polylang. The fact that no text strings appear for the Ruki Theme or the Related posts plugin or other plugins associated with Ruki, suggests that they are not completely translatable as was suggested by the theme description. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks, Richele

Hi,

Ruki supports WPML plugin which does not require any specific theme/plugin support for customizer strings. Polylang requires specific support for customizer strings which is not included in Ruki theme plugins

If you want to use Polylang you would need to convert all esc_attr functions with esc_html__ functions in Ruki plugins. They would then be picked up by Polylang for translation.

I can do this for you if you need help.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Hi there!

I’ve just bought your template and I’m having a little issue with changing the layout.

When I change the settings of the homepage, the preview page shows all the changes. But once I’ve saved and go onto the live site it still shows the default page without the changes I made.

Could you please tell me how to correct this?

Many thanks.

You can email it to me: 3fortymedia@gmail.com

Thank you, I’ve just sent the screenshot

I’ve replied to your email

Hi,

I’ve installed your theme and used the one-click import for Demo 7. It all looks and works great, but the searchbar doesn’t have the tags below it like on your demo. do I have to enable that somewhere?

Hi,

Appearance > Customize > Ruki: Theme Settings: Show Tags in Site Search

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Hello!

I have 2 questions about the Ruki Theme.

1. In the description of the theme I saw it can show a 4 column masonry. I do not see this in the demo, so I wanted to check if that this is really possible.

2. I’d like to have a 2 column masonry on mobile view, is that possible with this theme as well?

Thank you for your reply. Lisa

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

1. Yes, 4 column grid and masonry is supported. You are right, none of the demos show this, I might add some more demos with 4 columns.

2. It’s not supported but a single line of CSS will allow you to change that.

I hope this helps

Thanks – Steve

Thank you, Steve, that was very helpful to know.

When I test the pages in responsive cheker and google’s Page Insights, it says “Serve images larger than the user’s viewport”

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/395jfu0b8rmq4sxwpdreb/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-14.48.50.png?rlkey=35mmxs9rltfue1uf8y2ssrpbh&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3z8m8srh08i6hw22oohbb/Xnip2024-03-07_18-44-57.jpg?rlkey=7exlpbomm7r35nqnr3yivnq94&dl=0

I have already regenerated the right sized images and they are available in media library. But how do I set it up so that the page uses the closest image true to its size? For e.g. if it is the featured image for desktop, it should automatically take a lowered down version like 833×833 for featured image instead of the original 1024×1024, 600 by 600 or 300 by 300 for other images in the post, 150×150 for thumbnails of previous and next post etc…....

Ruki serves larger images in order to handle high resolution displays. Scaling down larger images prevents blurry images in 4k/Retina/High Resolution displays.

Ruki already serves different size images depending on the layout selected but I do have an update planned for later this year which will include improved image sizing.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Hi:

Does Ruki and carrino Theme work / compatible with Elementor Page Builder?

I love both themes but I am a writer, not an expert web developer, so I doubt how I can customize the Home Page and Other Pages.

I don’t know Gutenberg can do all the things or not.

Please let me know.

Thank You.

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

No, none of my themes support Elementor. All of my themes are specifically designed for Gutenberg or the classic editor.

Gutenberg is not a fully fledged page builder (yet), but it’s great for creating content for your posts/pages. If you want to build complex pages my themes are probably not for you but there are lots of themes in the marketplace built around Elementor that may be better suited to your needs.

If you want a lightweight, easy to use, Gutenberg for content creation theme, Ruki or Carrino will serve you well.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Does the theme support custom sidebars. I want to show a specific sidebar for a specific post. Is this possible.

Hi,

No, but you can use JetPack plugin widget visibility or Widget context plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-context/ to choose the posts/pages/criteria that your widgets are displayed.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your help so far! A few more questions for you:

- Can I stop auto-scrolling for featured posts on the homepage? Only want visitors to use the arrows to scroll through the Hero Header of Latest Posts.

- Can I customize the number of posts each page displays? Ideally would like each page to display 15-21 posts.

- How do I add in CSS for a custom footer we’re building?

Thank you!

Hi,

You can edit the hero.js file in /themes/ruki/js/slick-inline.js.

Find all instances of this line: autoplay: true, and change to autoplay: false,

That’s a WordPress setting; Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most

If you are using the child theme, simply add your own CSS to the supplied CSS file (inside the child theme folder) otherwise Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Hi there! Have a few questions I had sent in our ongoing email thread, but wanted to send here in case it was missing your inbox!

1. How do I upload our brand’s custom font? I’m seeing it in the dashboard of Wordpress, but it seems like the theme isn’t scraping it when I search for it. Any advice you have here would be awesome!

2. What resolution do you recommend for all header images to remain hi-res?

3. How do I remove the blog title in singular posts?

4. Am I able to embed a video as the header image?

Appreciate all of your help so far helping us bring your theme to life. Thank you!

Best, Nick

Hi Nick,

1. I recommend https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-fonts/ or https://wordpress.org/plugins/olympus-google-fonts/

2. Upload the largest resolution you can, WP will generate the requires sizes and HTML for standard and retina.

3. You would need to use custom CSS .single h1.entry-title { display:none;}

4. Do you mean instead of the featured image (single posts)? If so Yes, set the post type to video and embed a video in your post with any of the video or embed blocks. Ruki will take the first embed and set that as your featured media.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

I hope you had a nice Christmas!

Loving the theme. One question, am I able to change the “Subscribe to Newsletter” envelope icon on the nav bar? I really like the design I just would like to change it to the Patreon logo if possible.

https://irritablebantersyndrome.com/

Thanks!

Hi,

I’ve just uploaded a minor theme update which you can download from your TF downloads. To use patreon icon simply change the ruki-subscribe css class to ruki-patreon or ruki-patreon-alt. See custom classes here: https://3forty.media/docs/ruki/#special

Thanks – Steve

Thanks Steve! I am a bit of a noob, how do I update the theme using the installation files without reinstalling the whole theme?

Hi,

If you have access to FTP you can;

1. Upload the entire theme (overwriting the current version)

2. Upload just the parts updated in this update. Which are: style.css and “fontello” folder in /css/fontello

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

Is there a way to use a different logo for the mobile version? Would really be amazing if I could!!

Appearance > Customize > Ruki Theme Settings > Header Settings

Scroll down to the bottom where you can upload a mobile logo

Thanks – Steve

Thank you, I’d sworn that I had seen the option to do it somewhere!

Hi there,

My Mailchimp looks a little awkward with the inherited theme appearance. I do want to keep it though, Is there any way I can fix it looking half chopped off?

https://pasteboard.co/d5hVfeUjH3cd.png

Also, sorry I have another question. Is it possible to change demos once you’ve already imported one, created all the posts, and changed all the branding? Or will I have to start again?

Thanks

Hi,

Here’s the form markup for Mailchimp:

<label>Subscribe to my newsletter for all the latest updates</label> <input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required /> <input type="submit" value="Sign up" /> <label> <input name="AGREE_TO_TERMS" type="checkbox" value="1" required=""> <a href="#" target="_blank">I agree to the terms & conditions</a> </label>

If you want to try different demos, you will need to reset your Customizer settings before installing a new demo.

Install Customizer Reset

Go to Appearance → Customize → Reset.

You can now install a different demo

You may still need to manually remove some of the widgets

If you have existing content you will want to switch to manual import as described in the docs: https://3forty.media/docs/ruki/#demoimport

Thanks – Steve

Thank you!!

I’ve replied to your email

Yesterday my website got a fault error after there were 10 errors with the ruki featured post plugin: Tue Dec 12 05:06:09.699910 2023 pid 2473528:tid 140368362104576 [host www.mariskavos.nl] Backend log: PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “term_id” on null in /home/deb125999/domains/mariskavos.nl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ruki-featured-posts/ruki-featured-posts.php on line 253\n

Is this something I can easily fix? I don’t think I am using featured posts (www.mariskavos.nl, can I just deactivate the plugin?

I have sent a temporary login to your email

Thanks, that’s fixed for you.

thank you!

Hi there,

I’ve got a video post on my theme and it shows as an embedded video on both the archive and usual post layouts but it does not show on the hero section, it shows the featured image instead. Is there any way to make it show the embedded video instead on the hero slider?

Thanks, Dylan

Hi Dylan,

Sorry no, the Hero slider shows only images. I’m working on a major update first quarter of next year, I’ll look at video support for the update.

Thanks – Steve

Hi, I just purchased Ruki and have been working on my development server. Is there a suggested method to export theme settings so that they can be imported into my prod server?

Edit: I embarrassingly noticed the search feature after posting my question and found a response to a similar question suggesting: https://wordpress.org/plugins/customizer-export-import/

Glad you found it :)

Can I hide the side bar in the categories mobile only? It is now put under the posts, but I would like to hide it on the mobile.

I deactiveded several ruki plugins, because I did not use them. ruki featured posts, hero, homepage post blocks, related posts and social plugins. and one click demo import. But now I am getting this weird problem: In google if I search for a keyword for my website, the urls appear with a ? behind them. I got the first message about it from google on 12/28 about one url and yesterday about more urls with ? with Page indexing issue fixes (Alternative page with proper canonical tag) DO I need to activate an plugin again?

Hi,

This is a server, wp setting or url rewrite issue, not a theme issue.

Settings > Permalinks. Check your URL settings. If you have custom URL settings you may need to contact your host to help configure the rewrite rules.

I hope this helps?

Thanks – Steve

thank you!

Hello.

How can I change the h3 headers of the home page to h2? I’m looking in the code but I can’t find it.

Thank you.

Which headers are you referring to. If you mean the blog list entry title headers;

themes/ruki/template-parts/post/content.php and content-xxx.php

Thanks – Steve

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