#What is Slack Tide?

Slack Tide is a free newsletter archive and photo blog Framer templates created by Mam Studio under Keyturn Kit. Designed for newsletter writers, photographers, independent publishers, and bloggers with existing content, it transforms past articles into a clean, organized, and easy-to-navigate digital archive. The template features a chronological issue grid, dedicated reading pages, responsive layouts, system-based light and dark modes, and built-in subscription forms. With support for the Blog Import plugin, creators can migrate existing content from platforms like Substack, Ghost, WordPress, Medium, Blogger, and Squarespace without manually recreating every article. It's especially useful for publishing personal newsletters, photography journals, editorial collections, and long-running content archives.

#Features ⚡

• Chronological Issue Archive: Displays newsletter issues in a grid ordered from newest to oldest, with cover images, publication months, and titles.

• Dedicated Issue Pages: Each issue includes a title, subtitle, publication date, category, cover image, and full article content.

• Previous & Next Navigation: Allows readers to navigate between consecutive issues without returning to the homepage.

• Responsive Grid Layout: Uses a three-column desktop archive and two-column layouts on tablets and phones.

• Light & Dark Themes: Automatically adjusts the website's color scheme according to the visitor's system settings.

• Blog Import Support: Import existing newsletter and blog content through the free Blog Import plugin.

• CMS-Powered Publishing: Manage newsletter issues through Framer CMS, with archive and issue pages populated from the content collection.

• Subscription Forms: Includes newsletter signup forms on archive pages, individual issue pages, and the About page.

• Minimal Editorial Typography: Combines Source Serif 4 and IBM Plex Sans for a readable, publication-inspired design.

• Mobile-Friendly Reading Experience: Provides clear article layouts and structured navigation across different screen sizes.

• Easy Content Migration: Includes a workflow for removing sample issues and replacing them with imported posts.

• Simple Customization: Allows creators to update typography, content, images, and layouts using Framer's visual editor.

#Included Components/Templates

Slack Tide includes the essential pages and components needed to launch a newsletter archive or photo blog.

• Newsletter archive homepage

• Responsive issue grid

• 16 preloaded sample issues

• Individual newsletter issue template

• Cover image and issue metadata sections

• Chronological issue navigation

• Previous and next article links

• CMS Issues collection

• About page

• Newsletter subscription forms

• Light and dark color schemes

• Responsive desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts

• Custom 404 page

• Read Me documentation page

• Google Fonts typography setup

#Pricing 💸

Slack Tide is available as a completely free Framer template.

• Template Price: Free

• Pricing Model: Free Framer remix

• Included: Archive layouts, issue pages, CMS structure, sample content, subscription forms, and responsive designs.

• Blog Import Plugin: Free, with no stated limit on the number of posts imported.

• Framer Basic: Can be used for publishing the website, subject to Framer's plan limits.

• Framer Pro: Required if you need URL redirects from your previous blog to the new Framer website.

• Optional Paid Alternative: The creator also offers Back Issue, a separate magazine-style template with yearly volumes and typography-based covers.

#Integrations 🧰

• Framer: Native visual website builder for editing, customizing, and publishing the template.

• Framer CMS: Stores and organizes newsletter issues and article content.

• Blog Import Plugin: Imports existing newsletter and blog posts without a stated post-count limit.

• Substack: Supports migrating exported newsletter archives.

• Ghost: Supports importing existing publication content.

• WordPress: Allows migration of blog posts from exported content.

• Medium: Supports transferring existing articles.

• Blogger: Supports blog content imports.

• Squarespace: Supports migrating exported website content.

• Google Fonts: Uses Source Serif 4 and IBM Plex Sans.

• Subscription Forms: Uses configurable form destinations through Framer's Send to setting.