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

Koga WordPress Theme