Themes
The built in layouts your blog can use, how to preview one, what an article page assembles around your text, and what switching a theme does.
On this page
Your blog's layout comes from a theme. Three are built in, each maintained by Blogged, so a theme keeps working as the product changes.
| Theme | Suits |
|---|---|
| Minimal SaaS | A blog beside a marketing site. Generous whitespace, product forward, reads like a product page in essay form. |
| YC Editorial | Long form writing where the argument carries the piece. |
| Developer Docs | Technical writing with code, structure and reference material. |
Previewing
Every theme has a live preview showing your own content, at desktop and phone widths. Preview before switching: a theme that suits a long essay can leave a short changelog post looking sparse.
Switching
Switching a theme changes the presentation of every post at once. It does not touch the posts themselves: no content is rewritten, no URL changes, and nothing needs republishing.
The table of contents on an article
Article pages build their own contents list from the headings in the article. There is no setting to turn it on, and none to turn it off.
- What it collects
The second and third level headings in the body. The article title is not an entry in it, and neither is anything inside a call to action block, a related posts block or a contents list you wrote yourself.
- When it appears
Only when the article has at least three of those headings. A short post with two sections does not get one, because a contents list of two entries is furniture rather than navigation.
- On a very long article
Past forty entries the list is shortened to the top level headings alone where that still leaves a usable outline, and it is labelled "Main sections" rather than "On this page" so the change is visible rather than silent.
Where article context sits
Three pieces of context around an article can each be placed independently, either in the sidebar or below the article. Moving them never hides anything.
| Context | Default placement |
|---|---|
| Reader feedback | Sidebar |
| Category | Below the article |
| Tags | Below the article |
The contents list is not one of these. It is derived from the article body and is not placed by this setting.
What a theme decides and what it does not
- The theme decides
Layout, typographic scale, how lists and cards are arranged, how images sit in the flow, and the shape of the homepage.
- You decide
Colours, fonts within the theme's scale, logo, navigation, homepage content and what appears in the footer. See brand and typography.