Blog · Minimal single post

A single post template for essays and newsletters: one narrow centered column with the categories, title, excerpt and byline, the text, share buttons, author box, previous and next posts and a subscribe box; three more posts as text cards 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 · Minimal single post 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.

Minimal single post
  Blog · Post
    Container
      Reading progress
      Article
        Header
          Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Meta
            Meta · Avatar
            Meta · Byline
              Meta · Author
              Meta · Dates
                Meta · Date
                Meta · Reading time
        Content
        Share   (FBK Share)
        Author
          Author · Photo
          Author · Body
            Author · Label
            Author · Name
            Author · Bio
        Previous and next
        Subscribe
          Subscribe · Intro   (FBK Intro)
          Subscribe · Form
  Blog · More essays
    Container
      More · Intro   (FBK Intro)
      More · Posts
        More · 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, Subscribe · Intro, More · 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 Subscribe · Form › Content › Fields (add, remove, required), Submit button and Actions (Email: recipient and subject; success message).
6. Select More · Loop (query loop) › Query: post type, number of posts, order and filters.

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 a category of essays). To see real posts while editing, set Populate content to a post. It uses the pieces and classes of Blog · Single post (fbk-single__*).
• Column: .fbk-singlemin is 40em wide at most (a comfortable line length) and centered; the header's line is in its CSS. No featured photo, table of contents or comments: use Blog · Single post or Single post with cover for those.
• The form is the Bricks Form element in the Fancy Bricks house style (class fbk-form: boxed fields with the label above, primary submit with the Sweep hover): set its fields, actions and messages in the Form element. While a field has focus the Subscribe card rises a little and casts a shadow (class fbk-focus-lift on it); remove the class for a still form. Other looks: add fbk-form--line (underline) or fbk-form--float (floating label). Connect it to your list with the form's Mailchimp or Sendgrid action (it emails you each address until then).
• Keep reading: More · Loop shows three other posts as FBK Post card with Hide photo, Look Soft · Neutral and the author in the footer.
• 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-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--dark.

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