Quiet Pages is a minimal editorial Astro theme designed for independent magazines, personal journals, essays, field notes, and long-form publishing. It prioritizes fast static pages, readable typography, accessible navigation, and a quiet visual style that keeps attention on the writing.
Features:
- Editorial homepage with featured story and latest posts
- MDX-powered blog posts
- Astro content collections with validated frontmatter
- Blog archive with search, categories, tags, and load-more behavior
- Category, tag, and author pages
- Article pages with breadcrumbs, table of contents, related posts, sharing links, and adjacent post navigation
- RSS feed, sitemap, and robots.txt
- Canonical URLs, Open Graph tags, Twitter card metadata, and article JSON-LD
- Light and dark mode
- Responsive Astro image handling
- Accessible focus states, skip link, semantic landmarks, and keyboard-friendly navigation
- Contact page and custom 404 page
Best used for:
- Personal blogs
- Independent magazines
- Essay collections
- Editorial portfolios
- Slow-web publications
- Writing-heavy sites that need strong SEO and clean content structure
