Volta

Volta is a loud, colour-blocked culture magazine where every topic owns a colour. Giant condensed headlines, topic bands and a scrolling headline ticker give music, arts and lifestyle publications a designed front page.

Who it is for

• You run a culture, music, arts or lifestyle magazine
• You want a homepage that looks designed, not templated
• You cover several topics and want each to feel different
• You sell memberships or plan to

Probably not for you if

• You want a quiet, minimal look — try a calmer theme
• You publish one post a month (the colour bands need content)
• You need a photo-first portfolio

Pages and layouts

Page templates: Membership, Topics, Writers, Signin, Signup, Account.

Extra post layouts: Poster.

Getting set up

• Topic colours: Tags → edit each main tag → set its Color (see Topic colours).
• Featured posts: mark 3–5 posts as Featured for the Trending list.
• 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 (volta_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.