Broadsheet

Broadsheet brings the craft of a well-made newspaper to WordPress: a masthead with today's date and edition, ruled sections, red kicker labels, Newsreader headlines with optical sizing, drop caps and generous pull quotes. The navigation bar sticks to the top and turns into frosted glass as you scroll.

The front page opens with a trending ticker and a bento of the day's stories: the lead story (your newest sticky post, or the newest post) with photo, headline and standfirst, three more top stories and a Latest column. Below come sections for your biggest categories (picked automatically, each in its own layout: a grid, a list with photos and an opinion-style quote layout), a dark Watch strip for video posts, a numbered Most discussed ranking (ordered by comments), a newsletter band, From the archive with newsprint-toned photos, and the full list of stories with pagination and a topics sidebar.

Stories have breadcrumbs, a kicker, a large headline, the excerpt as standfirst, a byline with avatar, date and reading time, the featured video or featured image with its caption, a drop cap, polished lists, quotes, tables, footnotes and code, a sticky table of contents with share links beside the text on wide screens (collapsible above the story on phones), a reading progress bar, tags as glass chips, an author card, previous and next stories, comments and related stories from the same section.

Templates: Front page (blog home), Story, Feature (full-screen cover with the headline over the photo, for long reads), Opinion (columnist layout with a big author portrait), Page, Wide page, Landing page, Archive, Author (with portrait and biography), Search and 404.

More than 60 patterns in seven categories: heroes (lead bento, today's briefing, feature cover, section spotlight, opinion quote, background video, lead story cover), story grids and rankings, photo essays (masonry and carousel galleries with a lightbox), video and podcast strips, forms (newsletter, "send us a tip", contact), the masthead staff grid, events, FAQ, reader quotes, numbers, partner wordmarks, sponsor slot, membership appeal, and complete About, Contact, Photo essay, Videos, Landing and Masthead pages.

Five styles: Morning (ink and press red, the default), Evening (dark), Sepia Press (warm newsprint), Tech (sans-serif headlines and electric blue) and Green (environment and science). Each has its own dark edition for the light/dark switch in the header.

Built in, no plugins needed (the Symelo Theme Kit): forms with spam protection whose messages are stored under Messages and emailed to you, galleries in Masonry and Carousel styles, a slideshow lightbox, featured videos for posts (YouTube, Vimeo or a video file, loaded only after a click), play badges on video posts, light and dark color schemes, share links, table of contents, reading progress, back to top and tasteful scroll animations that respect reduced motion.