Highlights
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✓ Ghost 6
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Compatible with Ghost 6.0.0+
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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 & sepia modes
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Light, dark, and sepia color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
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✓ Flexible hero section
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Homepage hero can show a custom title, site description, and a configurable subscriber button.
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✓ Featured content
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Featured posts and pages can appear in separate visual homepage sections.
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✓ Post header layouts
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Seven post header layouts with different ways to combine title, image, and background image.
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✓ Post-card options
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Use internal tags to create large post cards or move card titles to the top of images.
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✓ Custom theme settings
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Control color modes, hero content, search, special sections, post cards, comments, and footer text 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 native search or Genki’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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✓ Custom fonts
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✓ Content cards
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✓ Publication branding
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Supports your logo, accent color, publication cover, 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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✓ Subscriber button
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Choose where the homepage Become a subscriber button points.
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✓ Membership FAQ section
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Add FAQ items to the membership page as simple expandable blocks.
Customization
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✓ Dark & sepia modes
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Light, dark, and sepia color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
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✓ Secondary logo
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Use a separate logo for dark and automatic color schemes.
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✓ Accent color buttons
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Choose whether buttons use the publication accent color.
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✓ Custom theme settings
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Control color modes, hero content, search, special sections, post cards, comments, and footer text without editing code.
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✓ Flexible hero section
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Homepage hero can show a custom title, site description, and a configurable subscriber button.
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✓ Featured content
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Show up to four featured posts and four featured pages in separate homepage sections.
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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 five 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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Seven post header layouts with different ways to combine title, image, and background image.
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✓ Post-card options
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Use internal tags to create large post cards or move card titles to the top of images.
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✓ Featured posts
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Highlight selected posts and pages in homepage featured sections.
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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.
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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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✓ 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 on X and Facebook, with built-in copy link support.
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Technical details
Theme
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Current version: v2.5.3
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Last update: Nov 28, 2025
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Compatible with Ghost 6.0.0+
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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Personal blogs
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Creators
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Design & lifestyle projects
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Membership sites
Not ideal for
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Large magazines
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Text-only publications
Genki works well for creator-led blogs and lifestyle publications that want personality, color, and flexible post presentation. It has enough structure for memberships, featured areas, and custom pages, while still feeling approachable for an independent publication.
Choose Genki if your content benefits from expressive layouts, background image variants, and a warmer visual identity. It is less ideal for large magazine operations or text-only publications that want the interface to disappear almost completely.