Build a homepage, not just a feed. Combine featured posts, curated topic sections, and welcome or manifesto text to shape a magazine-style front page.
A sidebar with a life of its own. A new pick appears each day, so good writing doesn’t disappear once the feed moves on.
Three ways to present membership. Walk visitors through one plan in depth, let them pick from a simple list, or compare every tier side by side — whichever matches how many plans you offer.
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 & sepia modes
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Light, dark, and sepia color schemes, with optional automatic switching based on system preferences.
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✓ Appearance modes
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Choose between blurred backgrounds or solid tag-based color accents.
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✓ 43 privacy-friendly font presets
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43 hand-picked font presets bundled locally with the theme – no Google Fonts or external font requests, fully GDPR-friendly.
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✓ Post layout variants
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Use Split, Full, or Compact templates on individual posts and pages, and add a TOC template when needed.
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✓ Multiple feed layouts
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Choose from multiple homepage feed layouts: Balance, Grid, and Showcase.
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✓ Custom homepage sections
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Build your homepage with custom sections: featured posts, topic cards, and curated topic sections.
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✓ Post of the day sidebar
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Optional sidebar can highlight a post of the day, including variants for latest, featured, or posts tagged with #daily.
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✓ Custom theme settings
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Control layouts, fonts, colors, and key theme 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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✓ Table of contents
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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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✓ Comments
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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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✓ Custom fonts
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Use Ghost custom fonts or choose from bundled presets. Local font files keep typography flexible without third-party requests.
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✓ Content cards
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✓ Custom theme settings
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Control layouts, fonts, colors, and key theme features without editing code.
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✓ Publication branding
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Supports your logo, accent color, and publication cover 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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✓ Custom member experience
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Shows post access labels on feed cards and member-facing prompts in protected content.
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✓ Public previews
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Show a public preview before visitors sign up or upgrade.
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✓ Portal support
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Choose between Ghost Portal and custom membership pages.
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✓ Membership pricing tables
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Three membership page templates: Focus, Choice, and Cards.
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✓ Continue the journey section
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Shows a Continue the journey section when a free tier is set up, with optional featured-page links.
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✓ Membership FAQ section
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Add FAQ items to the membership page with Ghost Toggle cards.
Customization
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✓ Multiple feed layouts
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Choose from multiple homepage feed layouts: Balance, Grid, and Showcase.
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✓ Flexible hero section
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Customize the homepage hero with your own title, headline size, and tag widget.
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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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✓ 43 privacy-friendly font presets
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43 hand-picked font presets bundled locally with the theme – no Google Fonts or external font requests, fully GDPR-friendly.
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✓ Welcome and manifesto sections
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Add custom Welcome and Manifesto text sections on the homepage.
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✓ Advanced navigation
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Header navigation with dropdown menus and an optional featured section for key content or categories.
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✓ Featured content
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Featured posts and curated topic sections help important stories stay visible beyond the main feed.
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✓ Flexible image layouts
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Set image orientation for feed cards and supported post/page templates: Portrait, Square, Classic, Landscape, Ultrawide, or Natural.
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✓ Secondary logo
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Use a separate logo for dark and automatic color schemes.
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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 secondary navigation.
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✓ Tags widget
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Show popular tags or a selected tag list in the hero or below the welcome section.
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✓ Reader-saved posts
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Readers can save posts locally in a pinned area, then manage, remove, or clear saved items from the page.
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✓ Post of the day sidebar
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Optional sidebar can highlight a post of the day, including variants for latest, featured, or posts tagged with #daily.
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✓ Topic collections
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Create up to six homepage topic sections from selected tag.
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✓ Multi-column footer
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Use secondary navigation to build a structured footer with columns and optional social links.
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✓ Footer copyright
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Replace the default footer copyright text from the settings.
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✓ Appearance modes
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Choose between blurred backgrounds or solid tag-based color accents.
Publishing
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✓ Post layout variants
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Use Split, Full, or Compact templates on individual posts and pages, and add a TOC template when needed.
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✓ Featured posts
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Highlight selected stories on the homepage, in curated topic sections, and on a featured posts page.
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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 and article sections.
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✓ Contact form
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Custom contact page with Formspree support, plus optional terms text.
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✓ Accent-aware topic styling
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Use tag accent colors for readable, colorful topic styling.
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✓ Custom content pages
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Includes custom page templates for featured posts, contact, sign-in, sign-up, membership flows, 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 zoom for image and gallery cards, including keyboard navigation.
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✓ Table of contents
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✓ Related posts
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Show a related posts section after articles to keep readers moving through the publication.
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✓ Social sharing
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Share posts on X, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Telegram, with built-in copy link support.
See it in action
Technical details
Theme
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Current version: v1.1.0
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Last update: Jun 4, 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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Magazines
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Content-rich publications
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Evergreen content
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Large publications
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Multi-topic publications
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Subscription-first publications
Not ideal for
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Portfolios
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Basic publications
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Text-only publications
Tozan is a strong choice for publications that need a refined editorial structure without feeling heavy. It works especially well for magazines, essays, culture, travel, lifestyle, and independent publishing projects where readers should discover more than the latest post.
The homepage itself can become a real front page, not just a reverse-chronological feed. Featured posts and curated topic sections give related writing its own space, a welcome or manifesto message can set the tone before readers reach the first post, and a rotating sidebar keeps one more story in view so nothing good disappears once the feed moves on. For multi-topic publications, this turns the homepage into a guide through the archive, not just a record of what’s newest.
Choose Tozan if you publish across several topics and want the freedom to shape each post’s layout and offer membership in whichever way suits your plans.
