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Basho

Name: Basho
Brand: fueko
SKU: basho
Price: 89 USD
Availability: InStock

Highlights Ask about Basho Showcase Docs · v2.7.0 · 1,500+ sales

A clean editorial grid sits at the heart of Basho, a Ghost theme with a flexible hero title and featured-post slider. Color, typography, and image shape give that simple structure surprising range.

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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

✓ Ghost 6
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.
Set a custom background color for key sections of the site using Basho’s partial color mode.
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.
Show up to 15 featured posts in a homepage slider, with large or small layouts.
Automatically highlights the publication’s top authors above the homepage feed, ordered by post count.
Recommend posts on the homepage from a selected tag or from the first post’s primary tag.
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’s native search or Basho’s custom search powered by a Content API key.
Supports native Ghost comments, with Disqus available as an optional alternative.
Supports Ghost Members for free signups, paid memberships, and protected content.
Supports multiple authors and dedicated author archive pages.
Supports Ghost’s native sharing option from the theme settings.
Choose from prepared theme presets or Ghost’s built-in heading and body font lists.
Supports and styles Ghost’s built-in editor cards for rich article content.
Control colors, fonts, hero layout, slider, image orientation, comments, and membership features without editing code.
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.
A built-in email signup section appears above the footer, with an option to place another form in the homepage hero.
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.
Build an FAQ section on 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 key sections of the site using Basho’s partial color mode.
Use a separate logo for dark and automatic color schemes.
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.
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 up to three link columns beside a separate social column.
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.
Automatically highlights the publication’s top authors above the homepage feed, ordered by post count.
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.
Includes custom page templates for membership, account, contact, sign-in, sign-up, subscribe, and error views.

Post experience

A progress indicator shows how far readers have moved through an article.
Shows the estimated reading time for each article.
Built-in image zoom for image and gallery cards.
Article pages include newer and older post navigation after the content.
Show related posts after articles based on the post’s primary tag.
Share posts with custom controls for X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and copy link, use Ghost’s native sharing option, or disable sharing entirely.

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Technical details

Theme

Current version: v2.7.0
Last update: Jun 23, 2026
Compatible with Ghost 6.37.0+

Performance

Uses WebP sources for responsive images throughout the theme.
Supports responsive images, tables, and video embeds across all screen sizes.
Designed to work in current versions of major modern browsers.
Theme markup is checked against W3C validation standards.
✓ Ghost GScan tested
Built with responsive images, lazy-loaded media, minified scripts, and lightweight assets.

Is this theme for me?

Best for

Content & structure

✓ Author-heavy publications
✓ Content-rich publications
✓ Large publications

Publishing model

✓ Membership focus

Not ideal for

✗ Portfolios

Content & structure

✗ Text-only publications

Summary

Basho is a clean, classic foundation for an editorial publication or personal blog, but it has more range than its simplicity first suggests. A featured-story slider and support for several authors add depth, while the hero can become a subscription prompt when membership deserves a more visible place — without turning the homepage into a dense magazine front page.

In practice

Basho also makes the people behind the publication part of the homepage. Just above the feed, it automatically gathers the most active authors and orders them by the number of posts they have published. On a multi-author site, that small section gives readers faces and names before the archive begins.

Best fit

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.

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Before you buy

How does licensing work?

There’s a single license that scales with the number of sites you need — you choose how many at checkout.

The license isn’t tied to a specific site — it can be used on any site, as long as the number of sites in active use at any time doesn’t exceed what was purchased.

Can I customize the theme?

Yes — you can adapt the theme’s design and functionality to suit your project, workflow, or client requirements.

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 14-day money-back guarantee is offered on all purchases.

If you are not satisfied for any reason, a full refund may be requested within 14 days of purchase.