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Features
Every Hatch feature explained, one page each, with what it does and does not do.
24 articles
- Choose a Hatch frontend design: Editorial, Terminal or Docs Compare the three Hatch Connect frontend designs, Editorial, Terminal and Docs, pick the right one for your blog or help site and switch designs safely.
- Customise Hatch colours, fonts and layout Set brand colours, heading, body and code fonts, density, corner rounding, page width and header for your Hatch Connect Astro frontend from wp-admin.
- Reading experience: table of contents, progress bar and share buttons Turn on the table of contents, reading progress bar, share buttons, reading time, breadcrumbs, author bio and related posts on your Hatch Astro frontend.
- Use your own domain with Hatch Serve your Hatch Connect frontend on your own domain instead of workers.dev: the extra Cloudflare token permissions, setup steps and how to check it.
- Serve your Hatch blog from a subfolder like /blog Mount your Hatch Astro frontend at yoursite.com/blog with Nginx, Caddy, Vercel rewrites, Cloudflare Pages redirects or a Worker proxy, step by step.
- Images and media in Hatch How Hatch Connect serves WordPress images on your Astro frontend: clean media URLs, image optimisation, lightbox, lazy loading, hover zoom and fallbacks.
- Redeploy and Auto-Refresh on Publish How Hatch Connect tells your Astro frontend on Cloudflare to refresh when you publish, update or delete a post, and how to trigger a refresh by hand.
- Frontend Comments and Visitor Accounts in Hatch How comments and visitor sign-in work on a Hatch frontend: guest comments, Turnstile, the Frontend accounts switch and WordPress registration rules.
- Headless WordPress vs a traditional theme, and which to choose Compare headless WordPress with a traditional theme: who renders pages, plugins, forms and security trade-offs and when each approach is the better choice.
- What headless WordPress on Cloudflare is, and how it works Headless WordPress on Cloudflare explained: WordPress as back office, REST API, and a Worker frontend. What you need and how Hatch sets it up for you.
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Getting Started
Install it, connect Cloudflare, deploy, and confirm it is actually running.
All getting started