Rural Blog is a classic theme with full block-editor support. You write in Gutenberg; the site frame comes from the Customizer.
What the theme enables
| Feature | |
|---|---|
| Editor styles | Your fonts, colours and widths are applied inside the editor, so the canvas resembles the post |
| Wide and full alignment | On every block that offers it — see Wide and full width |
| Block styles | Core’s default block styling is loaded and then refined by the theme |
| Responsive embeds | YouTube, Vimeo and friends scale to their container |
| Custom line height | The line-height control appears on text blocks |
| Link colour | The colour control appears on links |
| Custom spacing | Padding and margin controls on the blocks that support them |
| Custom units | px, em, rem, vh, vw in the spacing and size controls |
| Custom background | Core’s background colour and image, folded into Design → General |
| Custom logo | See Logo and site title |
| Selective refresh widgets | Widget changes preview without a full reload |
| HTML5 markup | For the search form, comment form, comment list, gallery, caption and navigation widgets |
| Automatic feed links | RSS <link> tags in the head |
| Title tag | WordPress manages the document title |
Post blocks match the theme’s own listing
This is worth knowing if you build with the Query Loop block.
Every setting under Design → Blog reaches the matching post block as well as the theme’s own archive markup:
| Setting | Also styles |
|---|---|
| Post title font and colour | Post Title block |
| Meta font and colour | Post Date, Post Author, Post Terms blocks |
| Excerpt colour | Post Excerpt block |
| Thumbnail border and radius | Post Featured Image block |
So a Query Loop you assemble on a page and the built-in blog listing look like one theme rather than two. That is the point of that section.
The editor canvas width
The canvas uses theme.json’s content and wide sizes — 620px and 900px — and widens live when you set a post or page to Full width in the Post options / Page options box. See theme.json.
Block patterns
Version 1.4 added seven patterns under a “Rural Blog” group in the inserter, and 1.5 removed them. A page that already contains one keeps it — a pattern is copied into the post when you insert it, so nothing you built comes apart. The post block styling they relied on stays, so a Query Loop you assemble yourself still looks like the rest of the theme.