Wildstem

Wildstem is an Astro template for portfolios with collection bands, paired photographs and an illustrated register. It suits photographers, artists, designers, research teams and museums documenting visual studies with observations and short written accounts.

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Photographers, artists, designers, research teams, museums
Platform
Astro
Status
On sale
Price
$47 USD
Version
1.2.3
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
Home
Study register
Work
Paired study
Project
About
About
Contact
Contact
404
Utility

Design controls

Site configuration
Edit branding, navigation, colours, fonts and layout options in src/site.config.ts.
Collection bands
Choose the categories, headings and photographs shown in the homepage bands.
Photo framing
Choose one to three photographs per band, portrait proportions and band spacing.
Register details
Show or hide labels and counts, choose round or square thumbnails, and adjust reading width.

Features

  • Alternating full-width collection bands
  • Study pages bring paired photographs and observation tables together
  • Compact register with category links
  • About, Contact and matching archive pages
  • Markdown and MDX content files, local fonts and static output
  • Optional EmDash edition: edit studies and pages, menus and site settings (site title, tagline, logo and favicon) in EmDash's admin; set up with one command on a
  • The optional EmDash edition is tested with EmDash 1.2.0 on Node and Cloudflare Workers, including image and video blocks.

What the download includes

  • Astro source with typed content collections and pinned dependency lockfile
  • CC0 demonstration photographs with credits
  • Local OFL font files and license notices
  • Getting started, customization and update documentation, plus EMDASH.md
  • A switch script (scripts/emdash.mjs) and an emdash/ folder with Node.js and Cloudflare configurations, the content source and a demo seed

Setup

  1. Install Node.js 24 LTS, then run npm ci in the extracted folder.
  2. Run npm ci, then edit src/site.config.ts and src/content/.
  3. Replace photographs and update their credits in src/data/photos.json.
  4. Run npm run check and npm run build before publishing the generated site.
  5. Optional: run npm run emdash:setup to switch to EmDash on a Node.js host, or npm run emdash:setup — –target cloudflare for Cloudflare Workers. See EMDASH.md for details and the Cloudflare go-live ch

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