Blog · Single post with cover

A single post template for photo-led stories: the featured photo as a big cover with the categories, title, excerpt and byline over its dark lower edge; then one narrow reading column with share buttons, tags, author box, previous and next posts and comments, and related articles below.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Blog · Single post with cover on fancybricks.co — the live preview, and the button that copies it.

Structure

This is what the Bricks Structure panel shows after you paste the template. Component instances say which component they are.

Single post with cover
  Blog · Post
    Container
      Reading progress
      Cover
        Cover · Featured photo
        Cover · Text
          Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Meta
            Meta · Avatar
            Meta · Byline
              Meta · Author
              Meta · Dates
                Meta · Date
                Meta · Reading time
      Article
        Content
        Share   (FBK Share)
        Tags
          Tags · Label
          Tags · List
            Tag
              Tag · Name
        Author
          Author · Photo
          Author · Body
            Author · Label
            Author · Name
            Author · Bio
        Previous and next
        Comments
  Blog · Related articles
    Container
      Related · Intro   (FBK Intro)
      Related · Posts
        Related · Loop
          Post card   (FBK Post card)

The template also pastes a dashed note above the section, with the short version of this page. It only shows inside the builder, never on the published page — see Builder notes.

How to adjust

Every step is the same move: pick the element in the Structure panel, change its Properties.

Where are those panels?

How to adjust a template shows every one of them in a screenshot of the real builder: the Structure and Properties panels, the classes on an element, a component's style families and the field where a CSS variable goes.

The classes this element carries, in the Bricks panel.

This template's own component, with its Style group open.

1. Paste the template in Bricks first — see Copy and paste.
2. Select Intro, Related · Intro (FBK Intro) › Properties: Eyebrow, Hide eyebrow, Title, Title level, Lead, Hide lead · Style group: Eyebrow style, Highlight, Title size, Accent line · Layout group: Alignment, Layout, Background, Spacing · Motion group: Reveal in slider.
3. Select Share (FBK Share) › Properties: Label, Hide label · Networks group: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Pinterest, Bluesky, Email, Open in a new tab · Style group: Look, Tone, Shape, Size, Hover effect, Network colors, Show network names, Layout, Background.
4. Select Post card (FBK Post card) › Properties: Read more text · Show group: Excerpt length, Hide excerpt, Hide Read more, Hide author, Hide photo, Author and date, Hide reading time, Hide comment count, Category, Date · Style group: Look, Tone, Shape, Padding, Title size · Layout group: Layout, Photo position, Photo shape, Title level, HTML tag · Motion group: Photo hover, Card hover.
5. Select Tag (query loop) › Query: taxonomy, number of terms and order.
6. Select Related · Loop (query loop) › Query: post type, number of posts, order and filters.
7. Spacing, sizes, color and timing with no property of their own: the CSS variables below.

CSS variables

These are the only values in the template meant to be changed by hand. Copy the block, paste it, edit the numbers.

The Custom CSS field of this template's own element, with one of its variables as a real example.

/* «Cover» · class .fbk-singlecover */
.fbk-singlecover {
  /* Height of the cover */
  --fbk-t-cover-h: min(75svh, 40em);
  /* How dark the shade under the text gets (over the photo) */
  --fbk-t-shade: 85%;
}

Paste the block in the element's Style → CSS field (the selector is already in it), or set the same variables on the class itself to change every copy at once. The values are your framework's variables, so they follow your site: Choosing a framework.

Finish by hand

• Use it as a Bricks template of type Single and give it a condition (Template settings > Conditions, e.g. Post type: Posts, or only a category for your feature stories). To see real posts while editing, set Populate content to a post. It is a sister of Blog · Single post (same pieces and classes fbk-single__*).
• Cover: the featured photo fills .fbk-singlecover (its height is --fbk-t-cover-h) and a dark shade rises from the bottom (::after; --fbk-t-shade is how dark it gets under the text). The text block uses the dark scheme (classes fbk-scheme fbk-scheme--dark on Cover). Without a featured photo the cover stays dark.
• Reading column: .fbk-singlecover__read, 44em wide at most and centered; no table of contents (use Blog · Single post for long guides). Reading time and the progress bar are Bricks elements.
• Comments: the Bricks Post comments element with the Fancy Bricks form fields; delete it if your site has comments closed. Previous and next: the photo zoom on hover is the class fbk-single__nav--zoom. Related articles: three posts of the same category, without the current one.
• Posts: the query loop is on the li around Post card (Query: posts). Change the number, order or category there. Each post needs a featured image (cards without one show no photo). Card options are on Post card: what to show (category, date, author, excerpt), look, layout, photo shape and hover. The line hover is the class fbk-post--line and the photo zoom fbk-post--zoom (both through the Card hover and Photo hover options).

On phones

The template is designed desktop first, the Bricks default, and only changes at the two widths the library uses:

• 991px and below — .fbk-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-single__nav, .fbk-singlecover, .fbk-section, .fbk-share.

Those changes live in Bricks' own breakpoint fields, so you edit them where you always do: pick the breakpoint in the toolbar and the same fields follow.

Careful with the classes shared by the whole library (fbk-section, fbk-intro, the component classes): a change there shows up in every template that uses them.

If your site's breakpoints are set up mobile first, copy the mobile-first variant of the template instead — see Copy and paste.

Accessibility

In this template, keyboard focus is visible on every interactive piece; movement is cut back when the visitor's system asks for less motion; the state screen readers need is already set (aria-hidden, aria-label).

What is checked on every template, and what depends on your own palette: Accessibility.

Dark mode

With your site in dark mode this section turns dark too — the class fbk-section--auto-dark on the section does it. Remove the class to keep it light.

Its background is a modifier on the section, so you can swap it for any of the ones the template is checked with: fbk-section--light, fbk-section--soft, fbk-section--dark.

How the library follows your site's color scheme: Dark mode and preview.