Nagastra Theme is a modern, professionally designed theme built specifically for academic journal publishing on OJS 3.3, 3.4+. It features a clean editorial design system with customizable colors, typography powered by Google Fonts (Playfair Display & Inter), and a comprehensive set of custom templates for every journal page.

Features

Design System

• Customizable Color Palette — Primary, Surface, and Accent colors configurable from the admin dashboard
• Premium Typography — Playfair Display (headings) + Inter (body) via Google Fonts
• Material Symbols — Integrated icon system for navigation and UI elements
• Tailwind CSS — Utility-first CSS framework loaded via CDN for rapid styling
• Responsive Layout — Fully mobile-friendly across all pages

Homepage Components

• Jumbotron Hero Section — Gradient-powered hero banner with customizable badge text and colors
• Editor-in-Chief Welcome Speech — Dedicated section with photo, name, and rich-text welcome message
• Journal Identity Panel — Displays ISSN, DOI, frequency, and publisher info
• Abstracting & Indexing Carousel — Splide.js-powered carousel showcasing indexing services (DOAJ, Sinta, Crossref, Garuda, Scholar, etc.)
• Journal Description — Pulled from the Journal Summary setting
• Latest Issue & Articles — Clean article cards with DOI badges and author listings

Admin Dashboard Extensions

• Welcome Speech Tab — Rich-text editor for the Editor-in-Chief welcome message
• Indexing Services Tab — Individual fields for Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, Sinta, Garuda, and custom indexing services
• Developer Info Tab — Attribution panel displaying developer and publisher information

Page Templates

• Article Detail — Enhanced article view with structured metadata, galley download links, and DOI display
• Article Summary — Card-style article listings with author and DOI info
• Issue TOC / Summary — Clean issue table of contents and archive layouts
• Search — Styled search page
• Contact — Professional contact page layout
• Editorial Masthead — Team listing page
• Submissions — Author guidelines page
• About — Journal information page

Sidebar Enhancements

• Styled Sidebar Blocks — Cards with Material Symbols icons
• Smart Navigation Icons — Auto-detected icons based on URL patterns
• Make Submission CTA — Gradient-styled call-to-action block

Static Page Support

• Reviewer List — Pre-built CSS classes for displaying reviewer profiles with photo, affiliation, specialization, and academic profile links (Scopus, Sinta, WoS, Google Scholar)