Phanatik - Astro news & podcast theme for BCMS
Phanatik is a premium Astro news and podcast theme, paired with BCMS for editorial workflows: oversized headlines, paywall-ready layouts, multi-author publishing, and podcast pages.
What Phanatik gives you
Phanatik is a paid Astro theme created by Lexington Themes, designed for editorial sites and digital magazines: long-form articles, interviews, columns and curated issues. It is compatible with BCMS, so editors can publish stories, manage authors and organize sections directly from the CMS.
It is the version of an editorial site you would normally pay an agency to build: confident typography, opinionated layouts, and a content model that already understands articles, sections, authors, and episodes.
Who it is for
Independent newsrooms and indie magazines that need an editorial-grade design without commissioning custom work.
Paywalled publications with metered or member-only articles, ready for gating logic on top.
Podcasters and audio shows that want a real home for episodes, transcripts and show notes - not just a feed.
Multi-author teams with writer profiles, bylines, and per-author archive pages out of the box.
Highlights
Editorial typography - oversized headlines, drop caps, byline blocks, and section navigation that read like a real publication.
Paywall-ready structure - article gating slots, teaser/full-article variants, and member-only routes baked in.
Podcast pages - episode lists, single episode pages, audio embed slot, and show notes layout.
Author profiles - per-author pages with bio, social and an archive of their work, modeled in BCMS.
SEO out of the box - meta tags, OpenGraph, sitemap and structured data sourced from your BCMS content.
How Phanatik works with BCMS
All editorial data - articles, sections, authors, episodes and media - lives in your BCMS instance. Phanatik consumes it through the BCMS client, so editors stay inside one familiar UI and developers do not write a CMS layer from scratch.
Need different content models, multilingual articles, or a custom editorial workflow? BCMS templates and statuses are designed for that - see the Astro integration docs to extend the model after install.
Get the Phanatik starter
Phanatik is a paid theme. Buy a license through Lexington Themes (checkout handled by Polar), then scaffold the BCMS-ready project with our CLI:
npx @thebcms/cli lexington phanatik
Connect it to your BCMS instance with an API key, deploy to your hosting of choice (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify or Vercel), and start publishing.
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