Masthead

Description

Masthead is a newspaper-style news theme for EmDash, the open-source CMS built on Astro. It is for local papers, magazines, student newspapers, and newsletters with many writers: editors publish from an admin screen, not from Markdown files in a repository. ### How it looks - A front page with a full-width nameplate, a lead story with a drop cap, and a dense column grid split by thin vertical rules - Articles in one readable column, with bylines, reading time, and photo credits - Section, tag, and author pages; full-text search; dark mode; works down to 360px wide ### What editors get - The EmDash admin: write posts and pages in a rich-text editor and upload media - Sections, tags, authors, menus, and site settings (title, tagline, logo) are edited in the admin, not in code - The front page's lead, top stories, and section columns are chosen in the admin - Sample content (24 articles, 7 bylines, 6 sections) is applied on first setup, so the site is complete from the first run ### Under the hood - Astro 7 and EmDash, server-rendered on Cloudflare Workers with D1 (database) and R2 (media) - Pages cached at the edge and refreshed when content changes - RSS, sitemap, SEO metadata and JSON-LD; no client-side framework on public pages - AGENTS.md and EmDash agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding tools - Needs a Cloudflare Workers Paid plan (the bundle is over the free plan's 3 MiB limit) ### Try it Live demo: https://masthead-free.ondelva.com. The admin demo at https://masthead-free.ondelva.com/demo signs you in as a contributor, with no sign-up. ### Masthead Pro Pro adds a podcast (episode pages, player, transcripts, and an Apple Podcasts / Spotify-ready feed), email-link membership with members-only articles and episodes, newsletter and corrections forms, Cover and Sign-up page layouts, and generated social images. Pro demo: https://masthead.ondelva.com ### Install ```sh pnpm create astro@latest my-site --template ondelva/astro-theme-masthead cd my-site npx emdash secrets generate --write .env pnpm dev ```

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