Moments is an editorial Astro 7 theme built for wedding photographers, portrait photographers, elopement and family photographers, and small photography studios that want to show their work as stories rather than as a grid of thumbnails.
The theme is designed for static-first publishing with fast page loads, minimal dependencies, and reusable Astro components. Stories are managed through Astro content collections, with validated frontmatter for title, collection, place, dates, tags, cover, layout, and featured and draft flags. Each story lives in its own folder with its photographs, which are referenced by filename. Galleries lay each frame out by its own proportions, so every photograph is shown whole, and nothing is cropped to fit a grid.
Key Features
- Built with Astro 7, Tailwind CSS 4, MDX, and TypeScript
- Monochrome editorial design derived from a single --brand token, with light and dark modes
- Home, work, story, collection, tag, studio, pricing, contact, privacy, styleguide, robots, sitemap, and 404 pages
- Astro content collections for stories, validated at build time
- Justified story galleries packed by each photograph's own proportions, with no cropping
- Masonry wall of work that keeps reading order and ends every column flush
- Lightbox with arrows, keyboard, swipe, and a counter, built on a native <dialog>
- Three front-page openings from one config value: full-bleed slideshow, split, or none
- Two story layouts per post: full-window photograph or editorial title
- Fourteen MDX cards usable in any story with no imports: figures, galleries, pull quotes, callouts, toggles, bookmarks, audio, downloads, buttons, product cards, embeds, and signup bands
- Styleguide page showing every card, ready to copy
- Share sheet with the major networks, copy link, and native share where available
- Paginated work, collection, and tag pages with collection filter pills
- Dark studio panel with figures counted from your content
- Testimonials slider pairing each couple's photograph with their words
- Pricing page with three packages set in one config file
- Provider-neutral newsletter and enquiry forms
- Replaceable SVG logo that takes the colour of whatever it sits on
- Scroll reveals that honour prefers-reduced-motion
- Config-driven site metadata, navigation, front page, pricing, and SEO defaults
- Canonical URLs, Open Graph, Twitter/X cards, per-story share images, robots.txt, and sitemap generation
- Article, ImageGallery, BreadcrumbList, and ProfessionalService JSON-LD
- Accessible skip link, landmarks, keyboard-friendly controls, a focus-trapped drawer, and visible focus styles
- Every label in one strings file for easy translation
- Self-hosted Marcellus and Inter fonts, with Cormorant Garamond included
- Local Bootstrap icons
- Optimized Astro images from local assets
- Minimal dependencies and static-first output
- Deployable to Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or any static host
Best For
- Wedding photographers
- Portrait photographers
- Elopement photographers
- Family and newborn photographers
- Engagement and couples sessions
- Small photography studios
- Photo stories and visual journals
- Photographer portfolios with pricing
- Creative studios booking by enquiry
- Static photography portfolios
