Introduce the publication before the feed. Open with your own text, either on its own or followed by a subscription form or button.
Give featured stories room to move. Show featured posts in a horizontal homepage slider, with a large or small layout and its own image proportions.
Choose a color for key sections. In partial mode, your chosen color frames the publication and leaves the reading space clear.
Highlights
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✓ Ghost 6
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Compatible with Ghost 6.37.0+
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✓ Built for memberships
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Support for free, paid, and tiered memberships, including custom membership pages and pricing layouts.
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✓ Dark & partial modes
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Light, dark, and partial dark color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
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✓ Background color
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Set a custom background color for key sections of the site using Basho’s partial color mode.
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✓ 15+ curated font presets
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Choose from 15+ prepared font presets, including System fonts and Google Fonts-based combinations.
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✓ Flexible hero section
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Homepage hero can use three title sizes and show a subscription form, a button, or text only.
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✓ Featured post slider
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Show up to 15 featured posts in a homepage slider, with large or small layouts.
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✓ Author spotlight
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Automatically highlights the publication’s top authors above the homepage feed, ordered by post count.
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✓ Recommended posts
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Recommend posts on the homepage from a selected tag or from the first post’s primary tag.
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✓ Post header layouts
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Three post header layouts: Default, Classic, and Center.
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✓ Custom theme settings
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Control colors, fonts, hero layout, slider, image orientation, comments, and membership features without editing code.
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✓ Translation ready
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Fully translatable, with English included and support for Ghost’s built-in translations.
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Key Ghost features
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✓ Translation ready
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Fully translatable, with English included and support for Ghost’s built-in translations.
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✓ Search
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Use Ghost’s native search or Basho’s custom search powered by a Content API key.
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✓ Comments
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Supports native Ghost comments, with Disqus available as an optional alternative.
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✓ Members
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Supports Ghost Members for free signups, paid memberships, and protected content.
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✓ Multiple authors
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Supports multiple authors and dedicated author archive pages.
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✓ Native sharing
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Supports Ghost’s native sharing option from the theme settings.
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✓ Custom fonts
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Use Ghost custom fonts or choose from prepared presets in the theme settings panel.
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✓ Content cards
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✓ Custom theme settings
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Control colors, fonts, hero layout, slider, image orientation, comments, and membership features without editing code.
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✓ Publication branding
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Supports your logo, accent color, publication title, and description across the theme.
Memberships
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✓ Public, free, and paid content
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Works for public posts, free member content, paid articles, and tier-based access.
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✓ Membership tiers
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Supports Ghost membership tiers with monthly and yearly prices, trials, tier access, and plan currencies.
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✓ Custom auth pages
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Includes custom membership pages for sign-in and sign-up.
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✓ Subscribe page
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Includes a custom subscribe page for newsletter and member signup.
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✓ Custom account page
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Includes a custom account page with member details, billing info, account settings, and subscription controls.
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✓ Custom member experience
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Shows padlock icons on protected feed cards and custom call-to-action blocks in protected content.
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✓ Custom member notifications
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Shows custom notifications for subscribe, sign-in, sign-up, email update, expired link, and checkout states.
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✓ Public previews
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Show a public preview before visitors sign up or upgrade.
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✓ Membership pricing tables
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Membership and account pages include pricing tables with monthly and yearly plans, trials, benefits, and custom currencies.
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✓ Membership FAQ section
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Build an FAQ section on the membership page with Ghost Toggle cards.
Customization
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✓ Dark & partial modes
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Light, dark, and partial dark color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
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✓ Background color
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Set a custom background color for key sections of the site using Basho’s partial color mode.
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✓ Secondary logo
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Use a separate logo for dark and automatic color schemes.
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✓ 15+ curated font presets
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Choose from 15+ prepared font presets, including System fonts and Google Fonts-based combinations.
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✓ Flexible hero section
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Homepage hero can use three title sizes and show a subscription form, a button, or text only.
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✓ Featured post slider
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Show up to 15 featured posts in a homepage slider, with large or small layouts.
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✓ Flexible image layouts
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Set image orientation for feed cards, slider posts, special sections, and post headers.
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✓ Recommended posts
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Recommend posts on the homepage from a selected tag or from the first post’s primary tag.
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✓ Advanced navigation
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Longer navigation stays organized by placing extra links in a dropdown at the end.
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✓ Social accounts
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Show social links in the footer through Ghost settings, with many additional services available through theme settings.
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✓ Multi-column footer
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Use secondary navigation to build a structured footer with up to four columns.
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✓ Footer copyright
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Replace the default footer copyright text from the settings.
Publishing
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✓ Post header layouts
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Three post header layouts: Default, Classic, and Center.
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✓ Featured posts
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Highlight selected stories in the homepage slider.
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✓ Author spotlight
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Automatically highlights the publication’s top authors above the homepage feed, ordered by post count.
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✓ Hide author
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Hide author details in the feed and on post pages.
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✓ Author and tag archives
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Includes regular author and tag archive pages for individual authors and tags.
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✓ Authors and tags pages
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Includes dedicated authors and tags pages with cards ordered by post count.
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✓ Contact form
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Custom contact page with Formspree support, plus optional terms text.
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✓ Custom content pages
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Includes custom page templates for membership, account, contact, sign-in, sign-up, subscribe, and error views.
Post experience
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✓ Reading progress
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✓ Reading time
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✓ Image zoom
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Built-in image zoom for image and gallery cards.
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✓ Post navigation
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Article pages include newer and older post navigation after the content.
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✓ Related posts
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Show related posts after articles based on the post’s primary tag.
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✓ Social sharing
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Share posts with custom controls for X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and copy link, or use Ghost’s native sharing option.
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Technical details
Theme
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Current version: v2.7.0
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Last update: Jun 23, 2026
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Compatible with Ghost 6.37.0+
Performance
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✓ WebP support
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✓ Responsive media
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Supports responsive images, tables, and video embeds across all screen sizes.
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✓ Modern browser support
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✓ W3C validated
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✓ Ghost GScan tested
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Checked with Ghost’s official GScan tool.
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✓ PageSpeed tested
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Built with responsive images, lazy-loaded media, minified scripts, and lightweight assets.
Is this theme for me?
Best for
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Editorial
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Personal blogs
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Author-heavy publications
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Content-rich publications
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Large publications
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Membership focus
Not ideal for
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Portfolios
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Basic publications
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Text-only publications
Basho fits editorial publications and personal blogs that want a clean, classic foundation with enough structure to grow. A featured-story slider and room for several authors give it depth, while a hero that can double as a subscription prompt keeps membership within easy reach — all without turning the homepage into a dense magazine layout.
The homepage doesn’t stop at posts. Above the feed, a group of your top authors appears automatically, ordered by the number of posts they’ve published, giving multi-author sites a natural way to show who’s behind the writing.
Choose Basho if you want a classic editorial layout that gives featured stories and authors a clear place on the homepage, with membership support built in.
