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Story’s Theme Features

Published Sep 1, 2018 by Sitting Duck Info in Demo at /theme-features/

Story has a lot of features, but most are optional and have smart defaults! This page is an introduction to Story, with links to further pages that go into more details. There’s also a listing of features that either don’t need a separate documentation page, or just don’t have full documentation yet.

  • Gorgeous, responsive typography on all devices and in print
  • Beautiful featured images and thumbnails (optional)
  • Multiple layouts
  • Flexibility via feature toggles
  • Author profile pages
  • Remark browser-based presentation support, including CSS themes and multiple aspect ratios
  • Automatic table and image enhancements
  • Advanced image styling features
  • Mathematical equation typesetting
  • Formatting ABC music notation as sheet music
  • Built-in search
  • MailChimp subscribe forms and RSS feeds

Story also has support for the following, which aren’t extensively documented:

  • Code syntax highlighting
  • Google Analytics
  • Categories
  • All types of blogs; Story isn’t opinionated about what you call them (you can put your content under /posts/, /blog/, /articles/, or whatever)
  • A section for “talks,” which is different from slideshows; a talks page is a place to put information about your presentations, including links to videos, the location, slides, and so on. /talks/ and /slides/ are the only two content types for which Story has special formatting and archetypes.
  • An archive listing page, which uses the archives layout analogously to the search feature
  • 404 error page
  • Social-media meta tags to make your content look great when shared on social media sites
  • Using skip to hide content from default lists, but generating HTML pages for it
  • Meta keywords
  • Font Awesome icon fonts
  • Custom header meta tags with any content you want
  • Custom footer content with any HTML, JS, or CSS you want; useful for adding custom features from third-parties that provide script blocks to paste into your site
  • Custom CSS classes in the <body> tag
  • Custom content and social link menus with any content you want (not limited to predefined)

Read next: Story’s feature flags.

Sarah Taylor

Sarah Taylor is the founder and CTO of Sitting Duck Info, where she advocates for ducks and duck accessories. She likes to write about technology and wildlife.

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