Compatible with Ghost 6 30-day money-back guarantee Single & multi-site licenses

Meet the Basho

Basho is a multipurpose Ghost theme with a creative touch. Carefully designed with new technology enthusiasts in mind, however, it can easily be used in other areas. Play around with layouts, colors and fonts—create with Basho.

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Highlights

Compatible with Ghost 6.0.0+
Support for free, paid, and tiered memberships, including custom membership pages and pricing layouts.
Light, dark, and partial dark color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
Choose from 15+ prepared font presets, including System fonts and Google Fonts-based combinations.
Homepage hero can use three title sizes and show a subscription form, a button, or text only.
Featured posts can appear in a homepage slider with large or small layouts.
Three post header layouts: Default, Classic, and Center.
Control colors, fonts, hero layout, slider, image orientation, comments, and membership features without editing code.
Fully translatable, with English included and support for Ghost’s built-in translations.

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Key Ghost features

Fully translatable, with English included and support for Ghost’s built-in translations.
Use Ghost native search or Basho’s custom search powered by a Content API key.
Supports native Ghost comments, with Disqus available as an optional alternative.
Use Ghost custom fonts or choose from prepared presets in the theme settings panel.
✓ Content cards
Supports your logo, accent color, publication title, and description across the theme.

Memberships

Works for public posts, free member content, paid articles, and tier-based access.
Supports Ghost membership tiers with monthly and yearly prices, trials, tier access, and plan currencies.
Includes custom membership pages for sign-in and sign-up.
Includes a custom subscribe page for newsletter and member signup.
Includes a custom account page with member details, billing info, account settings, and subscription controls.
Shows padlock icons on protected feed cards and custom call-to-action blocks in protected content.
Shows custom notifications for subscribe, sign-in, sign-up, email update, expired link, and checkout states.
Show a public preview before visitors sign up or upgrade.
Membership and account pages include pricing tables with monthly and yearly plans, trials, benefits, and custom currencies.
Add FAQ items to the membership page with Ghost Toggle cards.

Customization

Light, dark, and partial dark color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
Set a custom background color for the whole site when using the partial color scheme.
Use a separate logo for dark and automatic color schemes.
Choose from 15+ prepared font presets, including System fonts and Google Fonts-based combinations.
Control colors, fonts, hero layout, slider, image orientation, comments, and membership features without editing code.
Homepage hero can use three title sizes and show a subscription form, a button, or text only.
Show up to 15 featured posts in a homepage slider, with large or small layouts.
Set image orientation for feed cards, slider posts, special sections, and post headers.
Recommend posts on the homepage from a selected tag or from the first post’s primary tag.
Longer navigation stays organized by placing extra links in a dropdown at the end.
Show social links in the footer through Ghost settings, with many additional services available through theme settings.
Use secondary navigation to build a structured footer with up to four columns.
Replace the default footer copyright text from the settings.

Publishing

Three post header layouts: Default, Classic, and Center.
Highlight selected stories in the homepage slider.
Hide author details in the feed and on post pages.
Includes regular author and tag archive pages for individual authors and tags.
Includes dedicated authors and tags pages with cards ordered by post count.
Custom contact page with Formspree support, plus optional terms text.
Includes custom page templates for membership, account, contact, sign-in, sign-up, subscribe, and error views.

Post experience

✓ Reading progress
✓ Reading time
Built-in image zoom for image and gallery cards.
Show related posts after articles based on the post’s primary tag.
Share posts on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, with built-in copy link support.

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Technical details

Theme

Current version: v2.6.4
Compatible with Ghost 6.0.0+

Performance

✓ WebP support
Supports responsive images, tables, and video embeds across all screen sizes.
✓ Modern browser support
✓ W3C validated
Checked with Ghost’s official GScan tool.
Built with responsive images, lazy-loaded media, minified scripts, and lightweight assets.

Is this theme for me?

Best for

✓ Personal blogs
✓ Editorial publications
✓ Content-rich publications
✓ Membership sites

Not ideal for

✗ Portfolio
✗ Text-only publications

Basho is a strong fit for clean editorial publications that want a classic blog foundation with enough structure for larger content libraries. The homepage slider, flexible hero, membership pages, account flows, and related posts give it room to support serious publishing without feeling like a dense magazine system.

Choose Basho if you want a refined publication that can grow across essays, categories, memberships, and newsletters while keeping the reading experience simple. It is less suited to portfolio-first sites or very plain text-only publications that do not need featured areas, visual post headers, or membership flows.

Before you buy

What license types are available?

Two license types are available: single-site and multi-site.

A single-site license covers usage on one site. A multi-site license covers usage on multiple sites — the exact number is specified at checkout.

Can I customize the theme?

Yes — customization is fully permitted.

You are free to customize and adapt the theme to fit your project, workflow, or client requirements, including design, and functionality.

Where can I find the full terms?

Full licensing terms, refund policy, and other details are covered on the Terms page.

Purchase & access

What do I get with my purchase?

You receive the theme files, a license key, support, and future updates.

Access is available immediately after payment. All purchases are handled through the Polar checkout — once confirmed, you’ll have access to your files and the Customer Portal ↗.

Do I get future updates?

Yes — future updates are included.

Updates may include bug fixes, improvements, and new features. New Ghost functionality is considered for inclusion when it fits the theme’s design and scope.

What is the refund policy?

A 30-day money-back guarantee is offered on all purchases.

If you are not satisfied for any reason, a full refund may be requested within 30 days of purchase.

Support

Is support included with the purchase?

Yes — support is included at no additional cost.

Support covers theme-related questions and bug reports. Custom development, third-party integrations, and site management services are not included.

How do I get support?

Submit your request through the Support page.

Select the appropriate topic, provide your license key, and describe the issue.

Where can I find the documentation?

Browse Docs and select your theme.

The documentation is continuously updated and always reflects the latest version of the theme. Make sure you’re running the latest version to match the documentation.

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