The theme prioritizes fast static pages, crawlable reporting, accessible navigation, strong SEO defaults, responsive image optimization, and a classic editorial layout built for serious publishing with a polished newspaper feel.
Features
- Newspaper-style homepage with hero story, editor’s picks, ranked stories, department rails, category sections, and latest posts
- Markdown-powered articles using Astro content collections
- Validated frontmatter for titles, excerpts, dates, categories, tags, authors, reading time, cover images, image credits, trending states, and drafts
- Paginated all-news archive
- Category and tag pages
- Article pages with related posts, share links, social metadata, image credits, and structured editorial layout
- RSS feed, sitemap, and robots.txt
- Canonical URLs, Open Graph tags, Twitter/X card metadata, WebSite JSON-LD, and Article JSON-LD
- Configurable site settings, categories, navigation, footer links, social links, newsletter content, and ad labels
- Newsletter signup component
- Responsive Astro images with defined dimensions and layout-stable media
- Local SVG icon system for social and share links
- Accessible skip link, semantic landmarks, visible focus states, labelled controls, and keyboard-friendly navigation
- Light and dark color modes with minimal inline JavaScript
- Privacy page, contact page, about/masthead page, and custom 404 page
- Lightweight Astro build with mostly static output and minimal client JavaScript
Best used for
- Independent newspapers
- Digital magazines
- City and regional publications
- Culture, politics, business, and technology journals
- Editorial blogs with multiple sections
- Newsroom-style sites that need strong SEO and fast static performance
- Publisher themes that need a classic, credible, easy-to-customize foundation
