(opens full-size screenshot)01 Home
(opens full-size screenshot)02 Article
(opens full-size screenshot)03 Index
(opens full-size screenshot)04 About
These preview photographs are included in the demo content.
Common Hours
A day-book blog that files every entry under Morning, Midday or Evening, opening on three chapter cells and one photographed story.
- Best for
- Personal, household and food writers keeping a day book of routines, recipes and small rituals
- Platform
- Astro
- Status
- On sale
- Price
- $47 USD
- Version
- 1.0.1
- License
- Astro edition: Peachfin Themes Astro License (LICENSE in the download). Font SIL OFL 1.1. Photo credits in src/data/photos.json and ASSETS.json.
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code
Page inventory
- Home: chapter cells, opening story and chapters
- Home
- Entry with ritual card and steps
- Post
- Index by chapter
- Journal
- About with day and week schedules
- About
- Contact
- Contact
- Chapter page
- Archive
- Photo credits
- Utility
- 404
- Utility
Design controls
- Site configuration
- Edit identity, navigation, chapter names and hours, the About schedule, SEO and the footer credit in src/site.config.ts.
- Colour palette
- Set seven theme.colors values: paper, ink, olive, terracotta, mist, rule and muted.
- Fonts and italics
- Choose the serif and sans font stacks, and whether chapter names and titles are set in italic.
- Layout and density
- Set reading width, wide width, chapter photo size, photo corners, gutter and compact, comfortable or spacious density.
- Home
- Set the home heading, note, opening-story label and entries shown per chapter.
- Discovery and analytics
- Indexing, sitemap, analytics, llms.txt, ai.txt and IndexNow are off by default and switched on in site configuration.
Features
- Home opens on three equal Morning, Midday and Evening chapter cells, then one 3:2 opening story
- Chapter sections list entries text-first, with a small square photograph after each title
- Articles carry a chapter label, italic title, standfirst, wide photograph, ritual card and numbered steps
- Index groups every entry into three chapter columns
- About page with usual-day and usual-week schedule tables
- Markdown content files, local fonts and static output; no client JavaScript unless analytics is enabled
- No CMS integration is included: entries and pages are edited as files
What the download includes
- Astro source with typed content collections and a pinned package-lock.json
- 8 CC0 photographs from the WordPress Photo Directory, with sources in ASSETS.json
- Local Literata and DM Sans font files with OFL-1.1 license notices
- README, getting started, discovery and changelog documentation, and the Peachfin Themes Astro License
- 8 fictional demo entries plus About and Contact pages
Setup
- Install Node.js 22.19 or later, then run npm ci in the extracted folder.
- Set url, identity and navigation in src/site.config.ts; edit entries in src/content/entries/ and pages in src/content/pages/.
- Replace photographs in src/assets/photos/ and src/data/photos.json, keeping ASSETS.json sources accurate.
- Demo content is fictional: replace the sample entries, pages and photographs before publishing.
- Run npm run check and npm run build, then publish the static dist/ folder.
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