Customization
Make your Ghost theme match your brand: custom fonts, dark mode, code injection, layouts, and design tweaks, each explained without assuming code skills.
Articles
- What You Can Change in a Ghost Theme Without Code Four layers of Ghost customisation, from settings to a custom theme, what each can and cannot change, and how to tell before buying which layer your idea needs. 8 min
- Update a Ghost Theme Without Losing Your Settings Ghost identifies a theme by the name of the zip you upload. Same name, and your settings survive the update. We tested what survives and what does not. 9 min
- Ghost Portal Guide: Settings, Links & Customization How Ghost's Portal works and how to shape it: signup options, default billing cycle, the floating button, every Portal link and data attribute, translation. 12 min
- Customize the Members CTA on Gated Ghost Posts Replace the fixed wording on Ghost's members-only post box with your own copy per tier, using Ghost's built-in code editor. Paste-ready snippet included. 4 min
- Ghost Plugins: What to Use Instead Ghost has no plugin system and doesn't need one: integrations, Zapier, code injection, APIs and themes cover the same jobs. Here is what to use for each. 4 min
- Using Ghost as a Headless CMS Ghost Content API delivers your content as JSON. Build custom frontends with Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, or any framework while using Ghost for content management. 7 min
- Ghost Analytics: Built-In and Third-Party Set up Ghost 6 native analytics (Tinybird), fix the empty Traffic dashboard on self-hosted installs, and add GA4 or privacy-focused tools via code injection. 10 min
- Ghost Code Injection: The Complete Guide How Ghost code injection works: site vs post level, what it can and cannot change, loading order, and paste-ready examples for analytics, fonts, CSS, and JS. 9 min
- Ghost SEO: Built-in Features and What You Still Do What Ghost does for search on its own, checked on a live site: sitemaps, structured data, canonicals, meta data, redirects, AI-search files, and your part. 10 min
- Ghost Stripe Integration: Complete Setup Ghost connects directly to Stripe for paid memberships. Learn how to set up Stripe, configure tiers, handle taxes, and manage subscriber billing. 7 min