Politica is built for sharp, fast political publishing without the weight of a heavy frontend app. It combines static Astro performance, Markdown-powered reporting, responsive image optimization, strong SEO defaults, accessible page structure, RSS, sitemap support, and a bold editorial design system for policy desks, campaign coverage, civic publications, and modern news teams.
Features
- Political front page with headline ticker, three-column lead section, Power Index ranking, desk rails, editor’s picks, and newsletter briefing
- Markdown-powered posts using Astro content collections
- Validated frontmatter for titles, excerpts, categories, tags, authors, dates, reading time, cover images, image credits, trending flags, editor’s picks, and drafts
- Paginated all-news archive plus category, tag, author index, and individual author archive pages
- Article pages with editorial hero imagery, author metadata, image credits, share links, related stories, and structured reading layouts
- Site-wide header search backed by a static, lazily-loaded JSON index
- Dedicated about, contact, privacy, RSS, robots.txt, sitemap, and custom 404 pages
- Provider-neutral newsletter configuration and reusable ad slot component
- Canonical URLs, Open Graph metadata, Twitter/X card metadata, RSS, sitemap, robots.txt, and JSON-LD structured data
- Centralized site settings, navigation, social links, categories, authors, newsletter endpoint, and publication metadata
- Responsive Astro images with optimized formats and layout-stable media
- Local social/share icons with no external icon requests
- Accessible skip link, semantic landmarks, visible focus states, labelled controls, and keyboard-friendly navigation
- Tailwind CSS 4 design tokens for fast 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
- Political newsrooms
- Policy reporting sites
- Election and campaign coverage
- Civic journalism projects
- Independent media publications
- Public affairs magazines
- World affairs and diplomacy blogs
- Legislative tracking publications
- Think tank journals
- Local government and city hall reporting
- Advocacy or nonprofit newsrooms
- Editorial themes that need fast static performance, strong SEO, and a serious news-forward design
