Introducing Influenza: an editorial news and magazine website template

Influenza is built like a real newsroom front page: a lead story, a column of headlines, thumbnail stories and an advert slot, all picked by your editors.

At the top, a wide slider can feature up to six stories, each playing its video silently on a loop.

Here's what's inside, and how it helps you launch faster.

Who Influenza is for

Influenza is made for online magazines, news sites, niche publications and content-heavy blogs.

What's inside Influenza

Video hero slider

Feature up to six stories in a wide slider at the top of the home page. Each slide plays the post's video silently in a loop, or shows its image, with the date, headline and author on top. Swipe, drag or let it autoplay.

Editorial front page

A three-column layout made for news: a lead story with image and excerpt, text-only headlines on one side, and an advert slot with thumbnail stories on the other. Every slot is picked from your posts in the Studio.

Category pages with pagination

Every category gets its own listing page with a page title, a three-column post grid and numbered pagination. Add a category to the menu in one click and it highlights while visitors browse it.

Article pages that keep readers reading

Long-form layout with a large image or video player, date, intro and rich text. The sidebar shows a newsletter signup, the post's tags, a featured story card and the latest posts. Share buttons for Facebook, LinkedIn and X.

Video posts

Upload an MP4 or WebM to any post. It plays in the hero slider, gets a play button on cards, and shows a full player on the article page with the image as its poster.

Demo content included

Fifteen written articles across Science, Politics, Economics and Videos, three authors, and every image and video from the demo, imported in a single step.

Fully responsive

Designed for desktop and built mobile-first: columns stack cleanly on phones, the menu scrolls horizontally, and images are cropped around the focal point you set in the Studio.

Fast and accessible by default

Server-rendered with Next.js, optimised images, semantic headings, labelled forms and keyboard-friendly navigation. The slider pauses autoplay for visitors who prefer reduced motion.

Editing it in Sanity

Everything you see on the Influenza demo, from headlines and photos to buttons and page order, lives in Sanity Studio. You change it in plain fields, press Publish, and the site updates. No code and no developer needed. New to Sanity? Read our guide on editing a Sanity website template without code.

Under the hood, Influenza is built with Next.js App Router, Tailwind CSS, Sanity CMS and Resend.

Get Influenza

You can buy Influenza on its own, or get it as part of the All-Access membership along with every other RAYSO template. Explore the live demo to click through every page, or see everything included on the Influenza template page.