README

Aludra

Everything a page builder gives you,
inside the editor you already have.

What it is

Aludra gives you what people install a page builder like Elementor for (ready-made sections, whole page layouts, per-device control) without the second editor, the heavy front end or the lock-in. 34 blocks, 21 sections, 8 page layouts and 5 headers and footers, built and edited in the block editor WordPress already has.

Your theme sets the colours and fonts and ships a default header and footer. Aludra provides everything between them: heroes, stat rails, trust bars, feature grids, pricing tiers, comparison tables, FAQs, reviews, contact sections and CTA bands. It also adds headers and footers you can swap in, with a mega menu, a full-screen search or a shop bar.

• One editor. Every section is a normal block you can move, copy, style and reuse.
• No lock-in. Content is standard block markup. Switch Aludra off and nothing turns into shortcodes.
• Light on the front end. Assets load per block, only where the block is used. Carousels start as a CSS scroll-snap rail with no JavaScript; jQuery and Slick load only for the Slider engine.
• Per-device control. Hide any section on mobile, tablet or desktop (WordPress 7.0+), and give it its own spacing, colours and typography per device (WordPress 7.1+), with the block editor's own controls.
• Start from a layout. Settings → Aludra → Start creates a draft page from any layout in one click.
• Any theme. Built alongside Aviendha, so themes that use the same colour names fit as they are. On other themes, Twenty Twenty-Five and its dark variations included, Aludra maps its colours onto the theme's own palette, and you can pick the brand colour on the Start tab. See Themes.

It is not a free-form drag-and-drop canvas with styling on every element. You get the block editor's controls plus each block's settings: the parts of a page builder most sites use, without the rest.

Getting started

1. Install from the WordPress.org plugin directory, or with Composer: composer require imagewize/aludra
2. Activate it, then click Get started on the Plugins screen (or open Settings → Aludra).
3. On the Start tab, create a page from a layout and replace the copy. Add more sections from the inserter's Patterns tab.

Requires WordPress 7.0+ and PHP 7.4+. WooCommerce is optional and enables the store blocks and patterns.

Documentation

• Blocks: every block and what it does
• Patterns: sections, page layouts, headers and footers, store, carousel and mega menu patterns
• Agents: build pages from patterns over the REST API with Claude Code, Codex or Mistral Vibe
• Themes: Aviendha, Elayne, Ixian and Winespring, store block hooks, and where Aludra came from
• Credits: ported blocks, icons and libraries
• Changelog
• Contributing: development workflow and build instructions

License

GPL v3 or later. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Support

Issues and feature requests: https://github.com/imagewize/aludra/issues

Built by Imagewize.