The Lindenfeld Courier: a regional newspaper

The Lindenfeld Courier is a fictional regional newspaper built from the recipe Publication of Leitvia Studio, in the style variation Swiss Editorial light. It shows how far the free theme goes for a newsroom.

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Start page of The Lindenfeld Courier: the line News from Lindenfeld and the river valley above the lead story about tram line 4 and a bar chart
Start page at 1440 pixels, as of October 2026

What the demo shows

  • Sections for city, climate and culture, each with its own archive
  • Author pages with biography, no avatars from Gravatar
  • Articles with one h1, a byline linked to the author page, labelled publish and update dates and a reading width of 60 to 80 characters
  • Pages on corrections and transparency
  • Structured data for articles from Studio, as long as no SEO plugin is active
The Lindenfeld Courier on a phone: masthead line, introduction and the name of the editor
On a phone, 390 pixels wide

Patterns and blocks

Editorial hero, featured post, posts list, posts with category badges, quote, two columns, break image, testimonials grid, FAQ and contact call to action, with the default header and the minimal footer.

Blocks: Core blocks only; the article and archive templates of the theme do the work.

Every pattern reads its colors, sizes and spacing from the roles of the design contract, so the same sections look different in each demo without a line of custom CSS.

Facts

  • Brand: The Lindenfeld Courier (fictional)
  • Kind of site: Regional newspaper
  • Built with: the recipe Publication
  • Plan: Free.
  • Live demo: demo.leitvia.com/news/

Build a site like The Lindenfeld Courier

Set it up on your own site in three steps:

  1. Install the theme and Leitvia Studio.
  2. Apply the recipe Publication and its change package: header, footer, home page, sections, about, contact and reading settings.
  3. Write your articles. A filter of Studio marks your news categories, so their posts carry NewsArticle instead of BlogPosting in the structured data.
wp leitvia recipe apply leitvia/publication --user=admin

The skill leitvia-setup sets the site up; leitvia-news writes regular posts from a news brief and stops before anything goes live.

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