Themes
The collection.
Editorial Ghost themes for magazines, newspapers and other purposes, designed and built by hand. Every theme is a one-time purchase with lifetime updates, zero dependencies and GScan verification.
Choosing more than one? Get All Access — all nine current themes and every future Ghost theme for US$549. One live site per theme.
Society
A refined editorial theme for independent magazines and global publications with advertising slots. Society puts typography first — generous margins, confident headlines, and layouts that make long-form writing a pleasure to read.
- Editorial typography tuned for long-form reading
- Flexible homepage with featured and curated story areas
- Full support for Ghost memberships and subscriptions
- Zero dependencies — no jQuery, no frameworks
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
View full specifications · 14-day money-back guarantee · Refund policy
Broadsheet
A newspaper-inspired Ghost theme with breaking news ticker, modular story grids, and editorial precision. Broadsheet brings the discipline of print front pages to a modern publishing stack.
- Breaking news ticker for time-sensitive stories
- Modular story grids for dense, front-page layouts
- Newspaper-grade typography and rules
- Full support for Ghost memberships and subscriptions
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Manifesto
A loud, high-contrast magazine theme with huge uppercase headlines, a scrolling news ticker and room for a podcast. Manifesto is built for culture, arts and design publications that want the front page to make a statement.
- Fit-to-width masthead and display headlines
- Scrolling news ticker that readers can pause
- Podcast archive and episode layout, plus an authors directory
- Dark mode that follows the reader's system setting
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Hamptons
A photography-first magazine theme for interiors, architecture and travel titles. Hamptons opens with a full-bleed photograph, sets long reads in a restrained serif and lets you curate the front page — a magazine that looks as considered as the places it covers.
- Full-bleed lead story, with an optional muted video hero
- Editors' picks rail and a curated Most Popular list
- Architecture, Interiors, Travel and Shopping sections
- Light, dark or automatic colour scheme from one setting
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Columnist
A broadsheet front page for opinion-led magazines and independent newsrooms. Columnist gives your cover story a clear pecking order, lets editors build sections from ordinary Ghost pages and gives every writer a byline readers can follow.
- Cover story, supporting desk and a pausable breaking-news crawl
- Homepage sections in six layouts, built without code
- Opinion, Interview, Review, Photo Essay, Video and Live formats
- Four paper palettes, with automatic, light or dark mode
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Sanctuary
A warm, accessible Ghost theme for churches. Sanctuary puts your service times and a welcome in front of every visitor, gives sermons an audio player and a home for each series, and lets your team manage ministries, events, giving and prayer without touching code.
- Service times, a next-service banner and a live-stream badge
- Sermons with audio, series and speaker archives
- Ministries, events, reading plans, giving and prayer
- Four homepage layouts and an always-on text and contrast control
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Blyton
A refined Ghost theme for authors, essayists and nonfiction writers. Blyton gives long-form writing a calm reading page, puts your book at the centre of the homepage, and turns readers into subscribers and supporters without a plugin in sight.
- Book-first, author-portrait or newsletter-first hero, with a featured book showcase
- Start here reading path, Now page, Books pages and a chronological archive
- Support the work tiers built from your paid memberships
- Reading progress, contents list, select-to-share quotes and Light, Dark or Visitor-toggle modes
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Splash
A loud, confident Ghost theme for tabloids and news publishers. Splash puts a giant splash headline on the front page, a breaking ticker under the masthead and a colour on every section, then turns readers into members with a paywall that looks the part.
- Splash headline front page in four layouts, with section rails and a Don’t Miss strip
- Breaking ticker with a pause button, plus BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE and LIVE flashes from internal tags
- Live Blog, Opinion, Splash Story and No Feature Image templates
- Bar and highlight colours, headline styles and Newsprint, White or Dark pages
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Blogga
A quietly luxurious Ghost theme for one writer with taste: crisp paper, dark ink and a single accent colour. Blogga opens with a large greeting in your own words, then sets the index like a ledger, with the year hanging in the margin and a real on-screen serif doing the reading.
- Ledger, Journal and Grid feeds, with the year set large in the margin
- Pinned Strip or Spotlight feature, Load more pagination and a topics, archive and authors page
- Light, dark or system colour scheme, with one accent colour from Ghost Admin
- Contents list, reading progress, image lightbox, share links and highlighted code
- GScan verified against the latest Ghost release
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Side by side
Which one fits your desk?
Every theme shares the same engineering, the same terms and the same support. These are the differences that change how your publication reads.
| Feature | SocietyEditorial magazineUS$149 one-time | BroadsheetDaily newsroomUS$149 one-time | ManifestoCulture magazineUS$149 one-time | HamptonsInteriors magazineUS$149 one-time | ColumnistNewsroom & opinionUS$149 one-time | SanctuaryChurch & ministryUS$149 one-time | BlytonAuthor & essayistUS$149 one-time | SplashRed-top tabloidUS$149 one-time | BloggaPersonal blogUS$149 one-time |
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| Editorial fit | |||||||||
| Best suited to | Independent magazines and long-form reporting | Daily news desks and fast-moving publishing | Culture, arts and design magazines | Interiors, architecture and travel magazines | Opinion-led magazines, newsletters and independent newsrooms | Churches, chapels and faith-based charities | Authors, essayists and nonfiction writers | Tabloids, news and entertainment publishers | Personal blogs, essayists and independent writers |
| Typographic register | Tuned for long-form reading | Newspaper-grade rules and hierarchy | Huge uppercase display type, high contrast | Restrained serif, led by photography | Newspaper serif headlines on system fonts | Warm book serif with a friendly humanist sans | Literary serif for reading, clean sans for the interface | Heavy condensed headlines over a bold serif for reading | A real on-screen serif for reading, a clean sans for dates and the interface |
| Front-page rhythm | Curated and composed | Dense and time-of-day aware | One loud lead story, then feed and picks | A full-bleed photograph, then picks and sections | A cover story and supporting desk, then curated sections | A welcome photo and service times, then next steps and sermons | A featured book and newsletter signup, then topics, essential essays and the feed | A splash headline and spread, coloured section rails, then Don’t Miss and the feed | A large greeting, pinned featured posts, then the index as a ledger, journal or grid |
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| Modular story grids | |||||||||
| Timed front-page editions | |||||||||
| Podcast archive and episode layout | |||||||||
| Authors directory page | |||||||||
| Full-screen feature hero template | |||||||||
| Sermon archive with audio player | |||||||||
| Service times and live-stream badge | |||||||||
| Featured book showcase and Books pages | |||||||||
| Start here reading path | |||||||||
| Dark mode | Follows the reader's system | Night edition after dark | Follows the reader's system | Light, dark or automatic setting | Automatic, light or dark, with a reader toggle | Light, dark or automatic, plus a text and contrast control | Light, dark, system or a visitor toggle in the header | Newsprint, white, dark or matched to the reader’s device | Light, dark or system, with a visitor toggle in the header |
| Shared foundations | |||||||||
| Ghost memberships and subscriptions | |||||||||
| Paywall and tier styling | |||||||||
| Zero build dependencies | |||||||||
| GScan verified | |||||||||
| Lifetime updates | |||||||||
| Public settings documentation | |||||||||
| Buying | |||||||||
| Price | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time | US$149 one-time |
| Licence | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available | One live site; five-site agency option available |
| Guarantee | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days |
| Buy Society | Buy Broadsheet | Buy Manifesto | Buy Hamptons | Buy Columnist | Buy Sanctuary | Buy Blyton | Buy Splash | Buy Blogga | |
All Access
Every theme, now and in the future.
Get Society, Broadsheet, Manifesto, Hamptons, Columnist, Sanctuary, Blyton, Splash and Blogga, plus every new Ghost theme I release under Themes By Kyle.
One payment gives you a growing collection to choose from, for your own publications or client work. Each included theme has its own single-site licence.
US$549once
- All nine current themes, plus all future Ghost themes released under Themes By Kyle
- One live site per theme, including client sites, plus staging and local copies
- Lifetime product updates for every included theme
- Email support for installation, documented settings and confirmed defects
- 14-day money-back guarantee
One live site per theme, rather than unlimited use of the same theme. Need the same theme on several sites? Choose its five-site agency licence for US$349. Ghost(Pro) Starter does not support custom themes. VAT or sales tax may apply.