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A news and magazine theme from Ghost: a centered masthead, section links, a big lead story and columns of featured and recent posts.

MIT Free for commercial and client use. Keep the license file; no visible credit needed.

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The license in plain words

Use it for anything, including paid client work, change it however you like and even share your changed copy. The one rule: keep the copyright notice and license text with the code (for example the LICENSE file). You do not have to show a credit on the page.

  • Commercial and client sitesYes
  • Change the code and designYes
  • Visible credit requiredNo
  • Keep the license text in the filesYes

Checked on October 29, 2026 from the LICENSE file in the source repository (Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Ghost Foundation). Full text: MIT License. The license file that comes with the template is what counts. This is not legal advice.

Who it suits

Good to know: For the Ghost publishing platform.

How to use it

This is a theme for Ghost, a publishing platform for blogs and paid newsletters. It comes with every new Ghost site.

  1. Get a Ghost site. Use Ghost(Pro) or install Ghost on your own server.
  2. Switch the theme on. In Ghost Admin go to Settings, then Design, and choose Source. To use a changed copy, download the code from GitHub, zip it and upload it there.
  3. Set your colors and cover. The design settings let you change the accent color, logo, cover image and fonts with no code.
  4. Keep the license. Leave the LICENSE file in the theme folder if you change and share it.
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