Shape the homepage like a magazine cover. One lead story anchors the featured section, with additional picks and a subscription form arranged around it.
Give each story its own opening. Eight post header layouts change how the title, cover image, and color meet before the article begins.
Let imagery fill the background. Ghost’s publication cover, author and tag covers, and post images can sit behind the page, each with its own opacity.
Highlights
-
✓ Ghost 6
𝒊
Compatible with Ghost 6.37.0+
-
✓ Built for memberships
𝒊
Support for free, paid, and tiered memberships, including custom membership pages and pricing layouts.
-
✓ Dark mode & custom color
𝒊
Use light, dark, or automatic color schemes, and set a custom background color for the site.
-
✓ Flexible hero section
𝒊
Customize the homepage hero title, alignment, and overlap with the featured section.
-
✓ Featured content
𝒊
Show up to seven featured posts in a visual homepage section, with room for a subscription form beside the lead story.
-
✓ Post header layouts
𝒊
Eight post header layouts with different ways to combine title, image, and background image.
-
✓ Post header colors
𝒊
Choose from 50+ background colors for post headers.
-
✓ Background imagery
𝒊
Use publication, author, tag, and post images as large backgrounds with separate opacity controls. Keep the publication cover on the homepage or carry it across the site.
-
✓ Recommended posts
𝒊
Recommend posts on the homepage from a selected tag or from the first post’s primary tag.
-
✓ Custom theme settings
𝒊
Control color modes, hero title, cover opacity, search, special sections, comments, and footer text without editing code.
-
✓ Translation ready
𝒊
Fully translatable, with English included and support for Ghost’s built-in translations.
See full feature list
Key Ghost features
-
✓ Translation ready
𝒊
Fully translatable, with English included and support for Ghost’s built-in translations.
-
✓ Search
𝒊
Use Ghost’s native search or Daigo’s custom search powered by a Content API key.
-
✓ Comments
𝒊
Supports native Ghost comments, with Disqus available as an optional alternative.
-
✓ Members
𝒊
Supports Ghost Members for free signups, paid memberships, and protected content.
-
✓ Multiple authors
𝒊
Supports multiple authors and dedicated author archive pages.
-
✓ Native sharing
𝒊
Supports Ghost’s native sharing option from the theme settings.
-
✓ Custom fonts
-
✓ Content cards
-
✓ Custom theme settings
𝒊
Control color modes, hero title, cover opacity, search, special sections, comments, and footer text without editing code.
-
✓ Publication branding
𝒊
Supports your logo, accent color, publication cover, title, and description across the theme.
Memberships
-
✓ Public, free, and paid content
𝒊
Works for public posts, free member content, paid articles, and tier-based access.
-
✓ Membership tiers
𝒊
Supports Ghost membership tiers with monthly and yearly prices, trials, tier access, and plan currencies.
-
✓ Custom auth pages
𝒊
Includes custom membership pages for sign-in and sign-up.
-
✓ Subscribe page
𝒊
Includes a custom subscribe page for newsletter and member signup.
-
✓ Custom account page
𝒊
Includes a custom account page with member details, billing info, account settings, and subscription controls.
-
✓ Custom member experience
𝒊
Shows post access labels on feed cards and custom call-to-action blocks in protected content.
-
✓ Custom member notifications
𝒊
Shows custom notifications for subscribe, sign-in, sign-up, email update, expired link, and checkout states.
-
✓ Public previews
𝒊
Show a public preview before visitors sign up or upgrade.
-
✓ Membership pricing tables
𝒊
Membership and account pages include pricing tables with monthly and yearly plans, trials, benefits, and custom currencies.
-
✓ Membership FAQ section
𝒊
Add questions and answers to the membership page.
Customization
-
✓ Dark mode & custom color
𝒊
Use light, dark, or automatic color schemes, and set a custom background color for the site.
-
✓ Background color
𝒊
Set your own background color for the whole site from theme settings.
-
✓ Background imagery
𝒊
Use publication, author, tag, and post images as large backgrounds with separate opacity controls. Keep the publication cover on the homepage or carry it across the site.
-
✓ Secondary logo
𝒊
Use a separate logo for dark and automatic color schemes.
-
✓ Flexible hero section
𝒊
Customize the homepage hero title, alignment, and overlap with the featured section.
-
✓ Featured content
𝒊
Show up to seven featured posts in a visual homepage section, with room for a subscription form beside the lead story.
-
✓ Recommended posts
𝒊
Recommend posts on the homepage from a selected tag or from the first post’s primary tag.
-
✓ Advanced navigation
𝒊
Longer navigation stays organized by placing extra links in a dropdown at the end.
-
✓ Social accounts
𝒊
Show social links in the footer through Ghost settings, with many additional services available through theme settings.
-
✓ Multi-column footer
𝒊
Use secondary navigation to build a structured footer with up to four columns.
-
✓ Footer copyright
𝒊
Replace the default footer copyright text from the settings.
Publishing
-
✓ Post header layouts
𝒊
Eight post header layouts with different ways to combine title, image, and background image.
-
✓ Post header colors
𝒊
Choose from 50+ background colors for post headers.
-
✓ Featured posts
𝒊
Highlight up to seven selected stories in the homepage featured section.
-
✓ Hide author
𝒊
Hide author details in the feed and on post pages.
-
✓ Author and tag archives
𝒊
Includes regular author and tag archive pages for individual authors and tags.
-
✓ Authors and tags pages
𝒊
Includes dedicated authors and tags pages with cards ordered by post count.
-
✓ Contact form
𝒊
Custom contact page with Formspree support.
-
✓ Custom content pages
𝒊
Includes custom page templates for membership, account, contact, sign-in, sign-up, subscribe, and error views.
Post experience
-
✓ Reading progress
-
✓ Reading time
-
✓ Image zoom
𝒊
Built-in image zoom for image and gallery cards.
-
✓ Post navigation
𝒊
Article pages include newer and older post navigation after the content.
-
✓ Related posts
𝒊
Show related posts after articles based on the post’s primary tag.
-
✓ Social sharing
𝒊
Share posts with custom controls for X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and copy link, or use Ghost’s native sharing option.
See it in action
Technical details
Theme
-
Current version: v2.5.0
-
Last update: Jul 8, 2026
-
Compatible with Ghost 6.37.0+
Performance
-
✓ WebP support
-
✓ Responsive media
𝒊
Supports responsive images, tables, and video embeds across all screen sizes.
-
✓ Modern browser support
-
✓ W3C validated
-
✓ Ghost GScan tested
𝒊
Checked with Ghost’s official GScan tool.
-
✓ PageSpeed tested
𝒊
Built with responsive images, lazy-loaded media, minified scripts, and lightweight assets.
Is this theme for me?
Best for
-
✓
Editorial
-
✓
Magazines
-
✓
Content-rich publications
-
✓
Image-led publications
-
✓
Large publications
-
✓
Multi-topic publications
-
✓
Visual editorial sites
-
✓
Membership focus
Not ideal for
-
✗
Portfolios
-
✗
Basic publications
-
✗
Text-only publications
Daigo fits visual magazines and editorial publications where imagery shapes the identity of the site. It suits fashion, design, architecture, lifestyle, culture, and other multi-topic projects that need a strong front page and room to give individual stories a different visual treatment.
The homepage title can shape the entire opening. Write your own text, position it left or center, then keep it above the featured stories or let it overlap the section below, bringing the title and featured stories into one composition.
Choose Daigo if you want a magazine-style homepage built around featured stories, room to give each article a distinct visual character, and membership pages and subscription prompts that sit naturally within the design.
