Almanac

Almanac is for people who write in public: essays, short notes and pages that grow over time. A writing heatmap shows the last twelve months at a glance, entries are listed by year, and sidenotes sit in the margin like a well-kept notebook.

Who it is for

• You write for yourself first, and publish in public
• You mix long essays with short notes
• You like to come back to posts and improve them
• You want a quiet, text-first site that loads fast

Probably not for you if

• You run a magazine with lots of photos — see Marlowe
• You write fiction in chapters — see Verse
• You publish a newsletter first — see Riot

Pages and layouts

Page templates: Archive, Garden, People, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.

Extra post layouts: Note.

Getting set up

• Archive: create a page with the slug archive and the Archive template. The Everything, by year button after each post links to it.
• Notes: for a short post, add the internal tag #note and choose the Note template. Give all notes the same public tag (for example Notes) as their first tag so the older/newer links follow the notes.
• Growth stages: add #seedling, #budding or #evergreen to any post.
• Start here: mark your best posts as Featured; the first five appear in the homepage side column.
• Upload the theme zip in Ghost Admin → Settings → Design, then fill in the theme settings.
• Import the sample content if you want to start from the demo and replace it with your own posts.

What you download

• The theme, ready for Ghost 6.0 or later (almanac_1.0.0)
• Documentation in HTML
• Sample content you can import into Ghost
• 12 months of updates and support from the people who built it

Requirements

A Ghost 6 site: Ghost(Pro) on a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost. Memberships and paid tiers use Ghost's own members feature and its Stripe connection; the theme adds the pages and the paywall design. Demo photos are not included in the download.