Title: Rural Blog
Author: Owldraft
Published: July 17, 2026
Last modified: October 10, 2026

---

# Rural Blog

![Owldraft Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/040f9339b2dc1a78c0f948b5f4fbd0f57cd564e0b3392e6ec1227aaa8b2aa699?
s=24&d=mm&r=g)

[Owldraft](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/author/owldraft/)

![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/rural-blog/1.5.4/screenshot.jpg?w
=post-thumbnail&strip=all)

[Preview](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/rural-blog/preview/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/rural-blog.1.5.4.zip)

 *  Version 1.5.4
 *  Last updated October 10, 2026
 *  Active installations 100+
 *  WordPress version 6.0
 *  PHP version 7.0
 *  [Theme homepage](https://owldraft.com/themes/rural-blog)

Rural Blog is an extremely powerful & flexible blog WordPress theme for lifestyle
blogger, writer, personal website, freelancer, reviewer, traveler, instagram creator,
photographer and anybody who wants a simple yet powerful blog site. It focuses on
readability, minimalism and loading speed. Theme performance is 99/100 on mobile
and desktop. Accessibility tested & passed. Theme requires no third-party plugins,
no Google fonts, only self-hosted built-in WordPress font libs, tiny CSS and Javascript,
just your words. Rural is a classic WordPress theme (ie. not FSE theme) with Theme
Customizer panel to customize header, footer, typography, layout.. View live demo
at: https://rural-blog.owldraft.com

## Features

[Blog](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/blog/), [Custom background](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-background/),
[Custom colors](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-colors/), [Custom logo](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-logo/),
[Custom menu](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Editor style](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/editor-style/),
[Featured images](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [Grid layout](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/grid-layout/),
[Left sidebar](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/left-sidebar/), [One column](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/one-column/),
[Right sidebar](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/right-sidebar/), [Theme options](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/theme-options/),
[Threaded comments](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/),
[Translation ready](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/),
[Two columns](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/)

## Downloads per day

Active Installations: **100+**

## Ratings

No reviews have been submitted yet.

[Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/rural-blog/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/rural-blog/reviews/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/rural-blog/)

## Report

Does this theme have major issues?

[Report this theme](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/report-theme/?rep-theme=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fthemes%2Frural-blog%2F&rep-subject=Reported+Theme%3A+Rural+Blog)

## Translations

This theme is available in the following languages: [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/themes/rural-blog/),
[Русский](https://ru.wordpress.org/themes/rural-blog/), and [Српски језик](https://sr.wordpress.org/themes/rural-blog/).

[Translate this theme](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/rural-blog)

## Browse the code

[Development log](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/log/rural-blog)

[Subversion repository](https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/rural-blog)

[Browse in Trac](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rural-blog)

[Trac tickets](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/query?keywords=~theme-rural-blog)

[Previous Legacy Law](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/legacy-law/)

[Next FDA Starter Lite](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/fda-starter-lite/)