Open with the sentence that earns the reader’s attention — concrete, a little unexpected, and pointed at what the piece is really about.

Most theme demos are stage sets. Every image is stock, every button is disabled, and the moment you click something real the illusion collapses. This site is the opposite of that: it is a live WordPress install running the actual Fernlight theme, the actual Companion plugin, and the actual Pro plugin, unlocked to its top tier so nothing is hidden behind a paywall you can’t test.

That matters because a theme is a long-term relationship, not a screenshot. You want to know what the editor feels like at 2am when a sentence isn’t landing, what happens when you switch a style variation on a page that already has content, and whether the reading experience actually gets out of the way of the words.

So click around. Change the style variation in the Site Editor. Toggle dark mode. Read this post’s table of contents and heading anchors. Everything you see is real.