Page

The page itself: an h1 carrying page.title, then page.content rendered through .rte at a 65ch measure. One setting, and no width, colour or spacing control of any kind. That is the design: a page template in this theme is the merchant's prose plus whatever sections are stacked around it, and every decision except "is there a title" is made in those other sections. Whirligig runs it on four templates and it is first on three of them.

Section settings

• Show page title. On by default.

Blocks

None. The section renders from its own settings.

Example use cases

The workshop page. Show title on, first in the order, then creator-spotlight (Nell, the pull-quote, the order of work), multirow (the bench, the tuning rig, the recording corner), a nodal-field divider and a collection-list. The page body carries the narrative and two h2 headings written into page.content; everything visual sits below it. This is the composition to copy for any "about" page: prose first, evidence second, routes out last.

The default page template, used by "How we record" and "Questions". Show title on, then nodal-field, listening-rail and collection-list. The FAQ page is nothing but page.content and six h2 questions. The audition rail below is doing real work: it is what stops a pure-text page on an audio theme ending in silence.

Choosing a scale. Show title on, but the template runs pitch-axis first and this section second, so the reader meets the whole by-scale collection laid out on a frequency axis before they meet the page title. It is a defensible order (the register is the argument, the prose is the explanation) and it has a cost, named in the notes below.

Notes

One setting is the whole surface. No colour scheme, no padding, no width, no title size. The section carries neither .section nor .color-scheme-N, which is correct for a main-* chrome surface under the paint model in DESIGN.md, and which also means a page's opening block cannot be tinted from the editor.

It emits no vertical padding at all. main-article sets padding-block: var(--section-spacing) and main-blog sets its own --main-blog-pt / --main-blog-pb. This section sets neither, and it does not carry .section, so the global .section { padding-block } rule does not reach it. The only lever is .lq-section--main in theme-overrides.liquid, which today sets a title margin, a 65ch measure and a 1.66 line-height, and no top space. On four page templates the h1 therefore starts hard against whatever is above it. Worth measuring against DESIGN.md's 96px desktop section rhythm before submission.

Turning Show title off leaves the page with no h1 unless a section above or below supplies one. Nothing warns you. If a page needs a display-scale title rather than the plain one, the pattern is to turn this off and put a rich-text above it with a heading block at size h1, which is exactly what the blog template does.

Headings inside the page body are the merchant's markup. page.content renders through .rte, so h2 and h3 come from whatever is in the page's own HTML, at whatever scale the theme gives them. There is no setting here that changes their size, and there is no place to put an eyebrow or a lede.

Ordering this section after another one inverts the document outline. On page.choosing-a-scale, pitch-axis renders an h2 through snippets/section-header.liquid before this section renders the page's h1. The page reads correctly and its heading structure does not. If the register really does have to come first, give pitch-axis heading_tag: 'h1' (the snippet accepts it) and turn Show title off here.

An empty page renders an empty wrapper. With no page.content and Show title off, the section still outputs its container. Nothing guards it.

No audio, and two of the four page templates never get any. page.json and page.choosing-a-scale follow this section with listening-rail or pitch-axis; page.the-workshop and page.contact do not, so those two pages carry no audio at all. That is arguably right for a contact form. It is harder to defend on the workshop page, which is where a merchant reads about how the recordings are made.