Fernlight was built on the assumption that most writers publish less often than the content-calendar industry wants them to, and that a site should feel complete at any size — five posts or five hundred. This is the last of five sample posts on this demo. Below is Companion’s Related Grid block, hand-curated rather than…
Full-bleed figures break the reading column deliberately, for the images that deserve the extra weight. Use them sparingly — once or twice per essay, at most.
The best features are the ones you forget are features. Heading anchors, a reading progress bar, automatic prev/next navigation, instant search — none of it announces itself, and that’s exactly the point. Hover any H2 in this post. You’ll see a small anchor link appear — that’s Companion, quietly making every heading shareable.
Fernlight ships with seven built-in style variations and five more from Fernlight Pro. That’s twelve total looks from one codebase, switchable in seconds from the Site Editor with zero content migration. The rule of thumb: Sage for calm editorial defaults, Ink for a serious newsroom feel, Dark for a true dark-mode reading experience, and the…
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…