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Neutrino ships two families of post layout — cover hero and compact hero — chosen per post, with three table-of-contents options between them.

Neutrino ships two families of post layout, and you choose per post. They differ in one thing: where the feature image goes.

A cover hero puts the image behind the title, filling the screen, and the reader scrolls into the article from a cinematic opening. It's the layout Neutrino is known for, and it suits anything where the image is doing narrative work.

A compact hero puts the image below the title instead, as a tidy block in the flow of the page. Nothing is overlaid, nothing moves on scroll, and a contents list can sit above the body where it's actually usable. It suits anything a reader is consulting rather than reading through — documentation, FAQs, policies, reference pages.

The same post on the Cover hero template and on the Compact hero template

That's the whole distinction, and it's why the families are named after the image rather than after a kind of content: a compact hero started life as a layout for support articles, and turned out to be just as right for a pricing explainer or a terms page.

There are three table-of-contents behaviours: none, top-level headings only, or every level nested — the deepest of the three being a compact-hero option only. The contents list is built from the headings you write, so a well-structured post gets a usable one with no extra work. And because Ghost offers the same list on pages, a standalone reference page can take either layout too.

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