Bastion

== Description ==

Emergency information sites, election results and outage pages share one requirement: they must work on the day the traffic arrives. Bastion is built so every page is fully cacheable — no per-visitor markup, no session-dependent output, nothing that forces a cache to bypass.

Personalised elements are loaded after the fact from a separate endpoint, so the page itself is identical for everyone and can be served from an edge node without ever touching PHP.

The critical layout is 6KB of inline-free CSS in one request. There is no webfont, because a webfont is a single point of failure for legibility on the day it matters.

== Screenshots ==

Numbered the way they ship in /assets/. Click any one to see it full width.

== Installation ==

• Install and activate the theme.
• Set your cache headers using the bundled example configuration.
• Test with the origin blocked, which the readme walks through.

The readme includes load-test figures and the configuration that produced them.

== Frequently asked questions ==

Logged-in users?

The admin bar loads after the page from a separate request, so a logged-in view does not defeat the cache for everyone else.

Is it ugly?

It is plain. Plain and fast is the brief; there are two style variations and neither is decorative.

== Changelog ==