Shortcodes on first-folio.demo.lobb.ie

Shortcode Showcase

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This page demonstrates every shortcode available in the First Folio theme. Use it as a visual reference.

Callout

Four built-in types plus custom styling:

Tip
This is a tip callout — use it for helpful suggestions.

Info
This is an info callout — use it for informational notes.

Alert
This is an alert callout — use it for critical information.

Warning
This is a warning callout — use it for cautionary notes.

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Custom Callout
This callout has a custom title and background colour.

With float positioning:

The Waiting Room

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A short scene demonstrating the theme’s theatrical shortcodes.

A waiting room. Two plastic chairs. A water cooler that gurgles intermittently. FIONA sits reading a magazine. DECLAN enters, looks around, sits.

DECLAN

Is this the right place?

FIONA

Depends what you’re waiting for.

DECLAN (hesitantly)

The… results?

FIONA

Everyone’s waiting for results. Sit down.

DECLAN sits. The water cooler gurgles. A long silence.

DECLAN

How long have you been here?

FIONA (not looking up)

Hard to say. The clock stopped working on Tuesday.

DECLAN

What day is it now?

Morning Song

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A demonstration of the poem shortcode, which preserves line breaks exactly as written.

The kettle clicks. Outside, a blackbird tests the morning with three cautious notes. Light finds the table, the crumbs from last night, the book left open at the page where sleep arrived. There is no hurry. The day will assemble itself from these small, unhurried pieces.

Three Things I Learned from a Broken Compass

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I bought a compass at a market in Galway. It was brass, heavy, and completely unreliable. It pointed south-southwest regardless of where you stood. I kept it anyway.

Thing one: certainty is overrated

The compass was wrong, but it was consistently wrong. After a while, I learned to compensate. I knew that wherever it pointed, north was roughly 200 degrees the other way. A broken instrument you understand is more useful than a working one you don’t.

Thing two: all tools are extensions of intention

The compass didn’t find north. I found north, using the compass as a reference point. The tool didn’t do the work — it gave me something to push against. Most tools work this way, if you’re honest about it.

Thing three: keep the broken things

I still have the compass. It sits on a shelf next to a clock that runs fast and a pen that skips. These objects remind me that imperfection is not the same as uselessness.

Note
This piece exists to demonstrate the details and callout shortcodes. The compass is fictional. The sentiment is not.