Publica

About Publica

Publica is a newspaper-grade magazine template for newsrooms, magazines and serious blogs. Everything is CMS-driven: add a story, pick its section, authors, topics and layout, and it appears on the front page, in its section, on its topic pages and in the author's archive.

Features

  • Five story layouts per post: Standard, Banner, Cover, Immersive (full-height photo under a transparent header) and Video with the story's own cover as poster.

  • Rotating featured banner with three stories and timed progress ticks, plus a dense four-story strip.

  • Home sections fed from the CMS: Lede strip, Most Read, Briefing, section bands and columns.

  • Posts, Sections, Authors and Topics collections with archive pages, pagination and a Latest page.

  • Co-authors with overlapping avatars and "Name & Name" bylines.

  • Article tools: contents rail from headings, computed read time, pull quotes, image lightbox, tags, previous/next stories and a Written-by card.

  • Share sheet with eleven networks and copy link.

  • Smart header that hides while you read and returns on scroll up, with a larger wordmark at the top.

  • Story-layouts menu in the nav and mobile drawer to preview every layout.

  • Light and dark theme with a toggle, fully editable from the Colors panel.

  • Newsletter footer with subscribe form.

  • Subtle once-only reveals that respect reduced-motion settings.

  • Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone breakpoints on every page.

  • About, Contact, Privacy and 404 pages included.

  • SEO titles, descriptions and social images per page and CMS item.

  • 42 sample stories, 6 sections, 7 authors and 98 topics, all replaceable.