Crawlspace Analysis

Sample video post

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Placeholder text under a cross-posted video. A video can also go anywhere inside a story with the Video button in the editor, or by pasting a video link on a line of its own:

Plays from Vimeo. Nothing is loaded from Vimeo until you press play. Watch on Vimeo

Readers see a still image and a play button. Nothing is loaded from the video site until they press play.

Sample story: how a long investigation reads on this site

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This is placeholder text. Every story is a plain Markdown file in the content/articles folder. The block at the top of the file sets the headline, the summary line under it, the date, the section and the lead image. Everything below that block is the story itself.

Paragraphs are separated by a blank line. Links look like this one, and the site marks outside links so readers’ browsers don’t pass along where they came from.

Subheadings break up long pieces

A line starting with ## becomes a subheading. Each one gets its own anchor, so you can link someone straight to a section of a long investigation.

A line starting with > becomes a block quote, for quoting documents, filings or interviews.

Images placed in the body get a caption from the text in quotes. They are resized automatically for phones.

Tables work for records and timelines

Date	Record	Source
2026-01-04	Placeholder entry	Public filing
2026-03-18	Placeholder entry	Court docket
2026-06-02	Placeholder entry	Procurement notice

On a phone, wide tables scroll sideways inside the story rather than breaking the page.

Sources. A source list at the end of a story is just a list:

Placeholder source one, with a link.
Placeholder source two.

Sample report: testing the document reader

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Placeholder summary. The text you write here appears above the document and is what search engines index alongside the PDF itself. A few paragraphs on what the report found, written for someone who won’t read all of it, does the most work for readers and for search.

Key findings

Placeholder finding one.
Placeholder finding two.
Placeholder finding three.

Read the full report

Sample: putting a source document inside a story

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Placeholder text. When a story rests on a document, the document can be embedded right where the reader needs it. Put the PDF in content/reports/files/ and add one line to the story:

[[pdf: sample-report.pdf | Sample source document]]

which produces this:

Loading document… If it doesn't appear, open the PDF directly.

The reader only downloads the document if they scroll to it.

Sample essay layout

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Placeholder text for an essay. Stories without a lead image work fine: the headline and the opening paragraph carry the page. The first letter of the first paragraph is set large, a small typographic touch that the template applies on its own.

Placeholder paragraph two. Body text is set in Newsreader, a typeface designed for long-form reading on screens, at a size that stays comfortable on a phone.

Sample short news item

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Placeholder text for a short item. Short pieces get the same treatment as long ones.

Sample method note

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Placeholder text. This sample has comments: false in its top block, which turns the discussion off for a single story.