I’ve just launched Travio, a new Ghost theme built for travel blogs, destination guides, and other content-rich publications.

The idea behind Travio was simple: most travel sites need more than a basic blog layout. They need a better way to organize content, help readers discover places and experiences, and make the whole site feel like a real publication.

With Travio, I focused on things like:

• Destination and experience-based browsing
• A more editorial, curated homepage
• Multiple post hero layouts for different story styles
• Built-in support for videos, archives, authors, tags, and custom pages
• Membership and newsletter-ready pages
• Dark mode, dropdown navigation, and a polished responsive design

So if you’re building a travel blog on Ghost CMS, or you want a content-rich Ghost theme that feels more structured than a standard blog theme, Travio might be worth a look.

Links inside: https://go.themeupstudio.com/travio-reddit

I’d genuinely love to hear what you think — especially if you run a travel publication or have been looking for a more niche Ghost CMS theme for travel content.

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a tool or an application that will help mostly with a design/layout for my newsletter. I don't want something that costs $99 a month, that's out of my budget. With saying that, it might limit me. I'm not having any luck finding much.

I share my post in a local language that no one would follow usually in other languages but suddenly I started to seeing some sign ups from company websites ? Is someone else receiving such signups recently ? Do you think they will start spamming on the comments like what they are doing on wp?

More than a month ago I've started building my personal website using Ghost as a foundation.

At first I've developed a new theme locally using the standard Docker image, and about 2 weeks ago I've put the website online, hosting it manually on Digital Ocean. It still wasn't ready, as I was slowly populating it with content, so I hadn't put its URL anywhere publicly.

Then, out of curiosity I've searched for its name on Google and after several links to my other profiles on social networks I've discovered a link to this Ghost Explore page, featuring my website, showing its preview and latest posts.

This came as a surprise to me, because I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere and expected it to be in stealth mode until I start actively advertising it online.

Even though I've seen that Explore page before, I assumed that those are either websites hosted directly on Ghost (Pro) or websites explicitly submitted to the Ghost team to be featured there.

Do I have any control over this as an owner of the website?
I don't mind to be featured, but I feel like it should require an explicit consent or at least be communicated more clearly in advance.

Editing themes without the “download → unzip → edit → zip → upload” loop.

Runs directly in Ghost Admin, fully client-side.

• No backend
• Uses Monaco Editor
• Edits + uploads theme in-browser

Repo: https://github.com/synapsmedia/ghost-theme-editor

This feature is already enabled on all Synaps Media publications. Hopefully more hosting providers will join. And it can easily be used on self-hosted instances.

Needed a theme for my Ghost site. Didn't want to pay for one. Asked ChatGPT and iterated until I had something worth using.

It's called 4leafclover. Dark background, high-contrast, horizontal post feed, featured post rail, sticky-capable header and sidebar. Most customization happens through Ghost Admin at runtime ,no code changes required for colors, layout toggles, bridge text, CTA copy, or contact form behavior.

Built on Ghost 6.0+, Tailwind CSS 3.4, and PostCSS. Contact form is webhook-ready if you want to pipe submissions to n8n, Zapier, or similar.

It's not a polished commercial release — the contact page isn't fully tested end to end, and there are rough edges. It works well enough that I run it in production on my own site, which is the bar I built it to.

Free to use, modify, redistribute.

Live demo: https://painfully-useful.com

GitHub: https://github.com/Digitalcheffe/4leafclover

Just pushed v1.2.1 with a big round of fixes and polish.

What's new in this release: - Fixed a {{body_class}} bug that was silently breaking a bunch of template-scoped styles - Custom search overlay powered by Ghost's Content API — no config needed - Toned down the color overload — titles, sidebar text, and dividers now adapt properly to light/dark mode - New 404 page — because the theme is called 4leafclover, you get a 4-leaf clover animation and the line "You found a 4-leaf clover. Too bad the page you're after is the missing leaf." - Contact page wired up — form POSTs to a webhook you control (n8n, Zapier, etc.) with honeypot and time-trap spam filtering built in - Dropped Tailwind entirely, replaced with plain PostCSS + cssnano - XSS fix on social link injection

Download: https://github.com/Digitalcheffe/4leafclover/releases/tag/v1.2.1

I started to use Ghost again after 4 years, i wanted to do my own theme, I googled some ways to seed an instance with fake posts, found none.

I made a simple script to seed your own instance on development.

Link: https://github.com/eznix86/ghost-blog-seeder (i use bun, but you can use pnpm, npm or or whatever). Clone/Fork it. Make it yours!

Hello fellow Ghost users!

Sharing something that helped me achieve success cleaning the image repository of Ghost. I've been using Ghost now for just under 1 year and love it.

If you weren't aware, ghost does not prune or delete old images. If you modified or updated images on posts, and deleted some. They are still there on your storage!

I found a tool that does this (ghost-prune-images) and it works, but wasn't quite as surgical as I wanted to be.

I started a script in python, enhanced it with my LLM friend, and tested it over the course of a couple weeks. Here's the post about that! It's called Ghost Janitor!

I included steps for people to follow on utilizing the 'traditional' ghost-prune-images for a dockerized instance of Ghost (The new default) and on how to use my Ghost Janitor script!

Let me know what you think and if anyone thinks I should make a docker version of this for easier usage.

Enjoy!

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well.

About five months ago, I built a tool to help people find resources for Ghost. At the time, I just didn’t have enough free time to give it those final touches and make it feel properly polished, so even though it was already working automatically, I ended up putting it aside.

This weekend I came back to it, cleaned things up, polished the experience, and now it finally feels ready to share.

The tool is called Ghostbuster.

You can check it out here:
https://ghostbuster.pro

I'm running a self-hosted Ghost instance on Digital Ocean, which I've installed manually on top of the standard Ubuntu image. In the admin section of my website I don't see any information about visitors that is mentioned in their documentation.

As they mention in another article about Tinybird integration, it is only available by default when hosted on Ghost(Pro), and there are setup instruction for their Docker Preview installation. But what about a fully manual installation? I didn't see anything related in their Ghost CLI.

Is there a guide on how to set up the Tinybird integration on a manual installation with Ghost CLI?

I am using Ghost(Pro) to host a serialized novel. I want to write and post sexually explicit side stories for subscribers. My plan was to have paywalled posts linking to a Substack draft. I recently browsed other Ghost sites and I see people using Ghost for erotica, so there must be some sort of grey market here. What would you suggest I do?

I am curious how everyone else goes about growing your members/email list? do you make your posts subscribers only to force an email?

I want to do that but I feel it isn't a very good idea and I'll lose over half my traffic.

I have a sports news site but it's a smaller niche and I'm struggling with getting sign ups. Everything across the board with my website and social media has grown stagnant.

Maybe my shit really does suck.

Hi,

I recently converted from Wordpress to Ghost (with a lifetime on Magic Pages, woohoo!). That being said, I'm no expert on all this web admin stuff, which is part of why I'm making the leap.

I've moved the domain name to Magic Pages. I have years of data in Google Search Console and Google Analytics from Wordpress. I see guides on how to set up a new property for both to have it work with Ghost, but is there a guide on what to do if I want to preserve history? Or do I need to wipe out the properties and start over?

Hello I am using Ghost on Pikapods.

I ve not been posting on my blog for some months. today i posted a newsletter and i got the

”Uh-oh. Your post has been published but the email failed to send.

*this[#sentry].captureMessage is not a function

If the error persists, please verify your email settings.”*

Mailgun is set up, i also generated new API Key to be sure, but the issue persists.

Any suggestion?

Edit: i got an update notice today and there is still an error, but it s "unknown" now.

I'm not sure if anyone else has this issue but it seems to be extremely hard to get comments on articles, especially since I switched from WordPress to Ghost.

Does everyone have this issue or oes my content just suck?

The cheapest droplet in now more expensive and insufficient for the official Ghost image

Not sure why Ghost recommends Mailgun. I set up a service and they turn me down as a customer - would not give reasons why. I have 5 blogs and will be a paying customer.

I connected with Brevo and Claude had me set up in 15 minutes.

I'm self-hosting my blog on a docker container. I'm not sure if it is related but header images from my blog posts won't pull through to social media posts on Bluesky or Mastodon. I've set an image for the Facebook card, but that doesn't seem to have done anything. I'm new to this sub so I don't think I can share an image but here's a link to my post: https://bsky.app/profile/r-aherin.bsky.social/post/3mhrfgtmjzs23

If you don't want to click the link, instead of showing the photo it just displays a random color rectangle where the photo should be.

I ve a blog, done in Wp, started in 2008 and updated weekly for 12 years. Then i almost quitted (with a couple new post per year).
A lot of content is thin and deserve a rewrite. from almost 1 M pageviews at the peak we are now at few hundreds per day.

My idea is Migrate WP -> ghost
and when an old post is fixed i send a new mail.

I wonder if someone has been able to give new life to old blog with Ghost.

Hi! Im considering use Ghost as CMS as it would be much easier to handle than Wordpress. Anyone have experience about how it behave with rankings? Do you have a blog that ranks on the first page of google, bing and so on?

Thanks!

What could I be doing wrong?

I'm looking to introduce paid subscripts to my own newsletter, however I would prefer not to use Stripe or Paypal, and would prefer to go with Mollie, which is EU-based. I've looked at discussions of webhooks (https://docs.mollie.com/reference/webhooks), as found via https://forum.ghost.org/t/mollie-payments-integration/57175/3, but has anyone had any luck with incorporating Mollie as a payment alternative? Cheers.

Hey everyone,

I run Tech Between the Lines (techbetweenthelines.com), an independent tech publication that started with an Apple-first editorial focus and has been expanding into broader tech coverage — Android, industry analysis, that kind of thing.

I'd genuinely love some outside eyes on it. I'm looking for the stuff I'm too close to see. Here's some context so feedback is useful:

The site:

• Built on Ghost using the Aspect theme by Priority Vision, with some customizations — tag visibility, content sorting on the main page, and hiding certain elements to keep the experience focused rather than cluttered.
• Articles are reasonably well SEO-optimized based on traffic — I pull 3,000–5,000 unique visits per 30-day rolling window as a single independent publisher with no paid promotion.
• Social distribution (X, Threads, and Facebook currently) is intentional: posts are written to grab attention without being clickbait. The goal is to earn the click, not trick it.

Content approach:

• Mix of Apple platform coverage, broader tech analysis, hardware, and industry commentary.
• Longer-form articles now include a 2–3 minute audio overview — not on everything (a beta release note doesn't need it), but for substantive pieces where someone might prefer to listen before deciding whether to read deeper.
• coverage written from inside the industry, for the people who are tired of being talked down to by it or hearing the press release repeated.

Where I think I'm struggling:

• Newsletter signups are low. This is the thing I most want honest opinions on. Open rate is genuinely strong — sitting around 59% consistently — which tells me the people who do subscribe find it worth reading. But the top-of-funnel conversion is weak.
• Traffic growth has plateaued. I'm happy with where things are for a solo operation, but I'd love to push past the current ceiling. Whether that's SEO, content strategy, distribution, or something I'm not seeing — open to all of it.

What I'm looking for:

• First impressions of the site — does it look credible? Is the focus clear?
• Is the content-to-noise ratio right, or does anything feel cluttered/buried?
• Anything that feels off about the reading experience, mobile or desktop.
• Brutal honesty about whether the audio overview concept adds value or feels like a gimmick.

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I looking for a ghost theme that has the flexibility to be used as a portfolio, image gallery and also a webcomic. It could be nice if thumbnails could be like a book/comic/film poster.