About Slack Tide
Slack Tide is a free Framer template for a newsletter archive, made for writers on Substack or Ghost who want every past issue on a site of their own. The Blog Import plugin brings your old issues in from a Substack, Ghost, WordPress, Medium, Blogger or Squarespace export, with dates and full text, and your newest 25 posts import free, with a license for the rest. Readers get a grid of issues, newest first, a quiet reading page for each one, and a subscribe form on the archive, issue and About pages.
The 16 issues you see are samples that the import replaces.
Includes
Archive grid, three columns on desktop and two on tablet and phone
Issue page with title, subtitle, date, category, cover and full text, and links to the issues before and after
About page, and a subscribe form on the archive, issue and About pages
Light and dark colour schemes that follow the reader's system setting
404 page and a Read me page with the setup steps
Desktop, tablet and phone layouts, Google Fonts only (Source Serif 4, IBM Plex Sans)
Setup
Remix the template.
Install Blog Import from the Framer Marketplace, open the CMS, select the Issues collection and click Manage.
Choose your export file, pick "1 collection, everything inside each post" and tick "Remove the 16 posts already in this collection".
Publish. The archive and every issue page fill from your posts.
Limitations
The archive runs on the collection Blog Import makes.
Redirects from your old addresses need Framer Pro; on Basic, Blog Import copies the old and new addresses as a CSV.
Set where sign-ups go in the subscribe form's Send to setting.
Sample photographs are public domain or CC0 from Wikimedia Commons, credited at the end of each issue.
