Forma is built for calm, fast, editorial health publishing without the weight of a heavy frontend app. It combines mostly static Astro output, Markdown-powered articles, responsive image optimization, strong SEO defaults, accessible page structure, RSS, sitemap support, tasteful motion, and a warm editorial design system organized around six wellness pillars: Training, Nutrition, Recovery, Mindset, Wellness, and Lifestyle.
Features
- Editorial homepage with full-bleed hero, featured story, six-pillar slider, journal feed, pull-quote section, wellness highlights, trending links, and archive grid
- Six configurable health pillars: Training, Nutrition, Recovery, Mindset, Wellness, and Lifestyle
- Markdown-powered posts using Astro content collections
- Validated frontmatter for titles, excerpts, categories, tags, authors, dates, reading time, cover images, image credits, trending flags, and drafts
- Dynamic article, category, tag, paginated archive, RSS, robots.txt, sitemap, and custom 404 pages
- Configurable category layouts with featured, grid, and list presentation modes
- Article pages with editorial hero imagery, author metadata, image credits, sticky table of contents, share links, copy-link action, print action, reading progress, and print styles
- Astro view transitions, shared cover-image transitions, scroll reveals, pillar slider controls, and reading progress with prefers-reduced-motion support
- Canonical URLs, Open Graph metadata, Twitter/X card metadata, RSS, sitemap, robots.txt, and JSON-LD structured data
- Centralized site settings, navigation, social links, newsletter settings, category colors, and publication metadata
- Responsive Astro images with optimized formats and layout-stable media
- Self-hosted Instrument Sans Variable typography with no external font requests
- Local social and utility icons with no external icon requests
- Provider-neutral newsletter configuration and optional reusable ad slot component
- Static about, contact, privacy, RSS, and 404 starter pages
- Accessible skip link, semantic landmarks, visible focus states, labelled controls, and keyboard-friendly navigation
- Tailwind CSS 4 design tokens and CSS custom properties for easy customization
- Mostly static Astro output with minimal client JavaScript and no hydrated framework islands by default
- Clean commercial template structure ready for customization, deployment, and reuse
Best Used For
- Health and fitness magazines
- Wellness publications
- Training journals
- Nutrition guides
- Recovery and mobility blogs
- Mindset and habit-building publications
- Lifestyle editorial sites
- Independent health creators
- Fitness coaches and educators
- Wellness newsletters
- Studio or personal brand journals
- Editorial themes that need fast static performance, strong SEO, and a calm premium design system
