# Phanatik - Astro news & podcast theme for BCMS

## What Phanatik gives you

Phanatik is a paid Astro theme created by [Lexington Themes](https://lexingtonthemes.com/templates/phanatik), designed for editorial sites and digital magazines: long-form articles, interviews, columns and curated issues. It is compatible with [BCMS](https://www.thebcms.com/), 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](https://www.thebcms.com/docs/integrations/astro.md) 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.