Koga is a vibrant WordPress theme for personal blogs and magazines. Koga has extensive theme options, easy monetization with dedicated advertising areas and is Google Pagespeed and Core Web Vitals optimized.
Toggle Everything
Toggle post elements (global or each post), theme elements, sidebars and plugin elements to create the look that’s perfect for you all with live preview in the WordPress customizer.
Dedicated mobile settings
Optimize the mobile viewing experience with Koga’s dedicated mobile settings. Toggle post elements and configure the layout just for mobile devices. Set a big and bold layout for desktop displays and a minimal space saving layout for mobile devices, it’s easy with Koga.
Fully Customizable Colour Scheme with Dark Mode
With separate light and dark colour scheme settings you can create the perfect colour scheme for any device in all viewing modes. Dynamic mode detection, toggle light/dark mode or set a permanent colour mode. Koga includes a pre-configured light and dark colour scheme to help get you started.
SEO, Core Web Vitals & Google Pagespeed
Performance, SEO, accessibility and best practices. Koga shines in all areas ensuring your users don’t have to wait and you achieve the best possible rankings in search results. Core web vitals passed and up to 99 Google pagespeed. Full optimization guide is provided to help you get the best performance.
Thumbnail Aspect Ratio
Choose a thumbnail aspect ratio that suits you; landscape, wide, portrait, square and uncropped with an additional hero aspect ratio for single posts. Koga works with your existing images, no need to upload new images or regenerate thumbnails and with Koga’s smart thumbnail selection you can be sure the correct thumbnail size is displayed for all layouts.
Add widgets between posts
Add widgets between posts in home, blog and archive displays, perfect for adverts, Google AdSense or any other widget.
One Click Demo Import
Quickly and Easily import your favourite demo with one click demo import. Optional demo content is included to help get you started.
Want to mix and match theme elements & demos? No problem. Install a demo to get you started then head on over to the customizer to configure each element just the way you want it. Change the header, footer, sidebars, layouts, widgets and post styles to get exactly what you want.
Earn money from your content
Maximise your advertising effectiveness with dedicated advertising areas 7 theme sidebars, between post advertising and Google Autoads support. Upload your own banners or add your advertising code.
Advert locations
- After Header (dedicated ad area)
- Before Footer (dedicated ad area)
- Static sidebar
- Slide Out Sidebar
- Footer sidebars
- After post content sidebar
- Before/After every post block (dedicated ad area)
- Sidebar with every post block
Koga Theme Plugin
Koga requires no plugins but a dedicated theme plugin is included to give your theme a boost (should you want to). It’s less than 1mb in size and packs in a lot for such a small package.
Koga theme plugin includes:
- Featured Posts
- Related Posts
- Homepage Post Blocks
- Social media and sharing icons
- Social media widget
- Posts display widget
- About widget
- Dedicated Advertising Areas
Featured Posts
Create an impact with Koga’s Featured posts. Showcase your favourite posts in a choice of dynamic layouts choose the location and style for an extensive combination of eye catching displays.
Homepage Post Blocks
Build stunning post displays quickly and easily with live preview within the WordPress customizer. Configure post settings, add widgets and combine block sidebars with theme sidebars to create multi column magazine style layouts. Each post block includes a dedicated advertising area so you can place adverts between blocks.
Related Posts
Keep your readers engaged with Koga’s related posts. Posts can be related by category, author or tag and configured in a choice of styles and layouts. You can even choose the location; after post content or before the footer
Koga also supports the following plugins, some are used in the Koga theme demos but you don’t have to install them if you don’t want to.
- MailChimp
- Yoast SEO
- Autoptimize
- NavXT
- Contact Form 7
- Post Views Counter
More Features
- PHP8 Ready
- Optimized for Gutenberg
- Sticky Header Menu
- 30+ Blog Layouts
- Masonry (2, 3 & 4 column)
- Grid (2, 3 & 4 column)
- 3 header Layouts
- 9 Footer Layout combinations
- 7 Theme Sidebars
- 2 Blog Post Styles
- 20 Single Post Layouts
- Standard, Video, Audio, Gallery & Image Post Formats
- Google Fonts
- Fontello Icons
- Support for all standard wordpress blocks & widgets
- Fully Responsive
- Detailed Documentation
- Demo data included with One Click Demo Import
- Child theme included
- Translation ready
Support
For theme support simply post a comment in the theme comments section and I’ll be happy to help. You can also send a message through my profile page.
Online Documentation
Please note: Due to licensing restrictions featured images used in the demos are not included. Placeholder images are included in all demo data.
Changelog
View Changelog here