Best Ghost Themes for Online Magazines

For an online magazine on Ghost, Tribune is our pick. Its front page works like a newspaper's: three lead stories beside the main story's picture, a Featured list down the side, then a section for each topic you choose, in three different layouts. Homa suits a magazine with steady sections and several writers, and Rune suits one where an editor hand-picks the stories to feature.

A magazine homepage has to work as a table of contents. It shows the lead stories with their images, groups the rest by section, and gives a returning reader a reason to scroll. That is a different job from a blog's chronological feed, and it is why the themes here are chosen for their homepage sections rather than their post pages.

How the picks differ: Tribune reads most like a newspaper, down to a masthead that shrinks into a slim bar as the reader scrolls. Homa turns every tag you list into its own row, which suits a publication organized around a fixed set of topics. Rune is laid out for an editor, with a cover welcome and Editor's Picks as tall cover cards. Nio and Luno build their homepages from featured posts and the topics you highlight. The rest of the list below covers the basics; these go furthest on the front page.

All of them fill those sections from ordinary Ghost tags and the featured flag, so an editor curates the front page from admin without touching the theme.