Overview
What this theme gives you
Section titled “What this theme gives you”Broadsheet turns structured page content into a dense editorial board for prices, standings, results, and other regularly published figures. It combines readable tables, sparklines, edition timestamps, notices, and an imageless front page without pretending the data streams continuously.
How to use it
Section titled “How to use it”- Open the theme-management entry for Theme Broadsheet, note the site’s current theme, and select only the site you intend to review.
- Choose Preview Theme Broadsheet to view this theme privately on that site’s existing content without changing its selected theme. Check available page areas, sections and the mobile layout; create a page first if there is nothing to preview.
- When ready, choose Apply Theme Broadsheet for that site. This changes its public design immediately, including already-published pages.
- Choose Closing Bell, Morning Edition, or Split Screen in Theme Studio, then adjust the standard theme controls.
- Build pages in Layout Builder with Broadsheet’s board, ticker, summary, wire, fact, notice, session, and closing-notice sections.
- Enter already-published values and absolute edition times, preview the table order at desktop and mobile sizes, and then publish through the normal Capell workflow.
To recover the previous design, reopen the previous theme’s management entry, select the same site and choose its Apply button. This restores the theme selection; it does not undo content or shared Theme Studio settings. Saving those settings can affect public pages using that theme, so do not treat settings edits as private preview changes.
What it adds
Section titled “What it adds”- A server-rendered board with accessible table semantics and optional client-side sorting.
- A ticker strip, summary tiles, sparklines, wire digest, imageless lede, fact columns, notices, session schedules, and condensed index band.
- Boardroom listing and closing-notice variants for directory and conversion pages.
- Progressive enhancement for ticker motion, sorting, relative display times, session badges, and sparkline reveals, with no network requests.
- A seven-page Harrow & Vale Growers’ Exchange demo covering all standard theme surfaces.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- Install Foundation Theme and Layout Builder first.
- Broadsheet publishes the values supplied by editors or an installed adapter. It does not provide a market feed, results feed, live scoring, or a streaming-data service.
- Tables, absolute timestamps, and charts remain useful with JavaScript disabled. The module only enhances the server-rendered page.
- Keep boards below the documented 100-row authoring soft cap. Split larger datasets into focused boards or provide a dedicated data integration.
- Optional Blog, Events, Search, Form Builder, Newsletter, Data Chart, Countdown, and Location Map packages improve selected paths; the theme retains explicit fallbacks when they are absent.
capell:theme-broadsheet-demoinstalls fictional sample content. Replace every price, result, schedule, contact detail, and deadline before publishing it.
Try fictional demo content safely
Section titled “Try fictional demo content safely”Use private theme Preview for existing content. Ask a developer to follow safe demo setup in a disposable local site when you want fictional sample pages instead.
A scoped demo run writes sample pages, widgets and demo layouts, including on repeats, and can adopt the site recovery page. An unscoped run refuses existing sites; a scoped run preserves site configuration unless the developer deliberately chooses the documented overwrite option. Review the target, languages and domains together before setup.
For developers: see the README.