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Drift

A photo essay theme where the text and the images are one piece, not a gallery with captions.

== Description ==

A photo essay is a piece of writing with photographs in it, not a gallery with a paragraph at the top. Drift alternates full-bleed image sequences with text set at a normal measure, and the sequence block keeps related frames together across breakpoints.

No parallax, no scroll-triggered fades, no images that assemble themselves as you pass. Every one of those makes a photograph harder to look at, which is a strange thing for a photography theme to do.

Text over an image is only permitted where the block can verify contrast against the actual pixels underneath it, and it refuses where it cannot.

== Screenshots ==

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

== Installation ==

  • Install and activate the theme.
  • Write the essay, then insert Sequence blocks between sections.
  • Choose a scheme, or let it follow the system.

Sequences hold two to five frames. Past five, it is a gallery and the theme has one of those too.

== Frequently asked questions ==

Why no scroll effects?

They delay the image, break the back button and fail without JavaScript. There is no version of them I would ship.

Text over images?

Allowed where measured contrast passes. Where it does not, the block places the text beside the image instead.

== Changelog ==

= 2.2.1 =

  • Fixed: sequences of four split three-and-one at one breakpoint instead of two-and-two.

= 2.2.0 =

  • Contrast measurement for text-over-image, sampling the region behind the text rather than the average of the image.