Wander
A photo-first Ghost theme for travel blogs and journals, with a dotted world map of your stories.
// overview
About Wander
Wander is a photo-first theme for travel blogs and journals. A dotted world map pins every story, each post gets a passport card and boarding-pass trip facts, and a journey bar follows the reader through the trip.
Who it is for
- You write travel guides, trip reports or a travel newsletter
- Your photos are the star
- You want readers to see where you have been at a glance
- You sell members-only guides or plan to
Probably not for you if
- You rarely use photos — see Noir or Folio
- You publish recipes — see Saffron
- You need a news layout with many stories per screen — see Ledger
Pages and layouts
Page templates: Map, Destinations, Travellers, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.
Getting set up
- Tags: give each tag (Europe, Hiking…) a feature image. It is used for the Destinations tiles, the Destinations page and the full-screen photo at the top of the tag page.
- Featured stories: mark up to 4 posts as Featured for the homepage slider. With none featured, the slider shows your 4 newest posts.
- 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 (wander_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.
// features
What's included
- Full-screen photo slider of your featured stories, with autoplay, swipe and a progress bar per slide
- Dotted world map with a pin for every story; hover a pin to see the story as a postcard
- Map on the homepage, on every tag page (only that tag's stories) and on a full Map page
- Passport card on each post: a small map with the pin, the place, its coordinates and the date
- Trip facts boarding pass, built from one plain line of text in the editor
- Journey bar: a route at the bottom of the screen with a stop for each part of the story and a plane that follows the reader
- Header that sits clear over full-screen photos and turns solid when the reader scrolls
- Destinations row of tall photo tiles for your tags
- Airmail postcard newsletter box with stamp and postmark
- Galleries shown as tilted photo prints, handwritten captions
- Map page, Destinations page (postcards) and Travellers page (postage-stamp portraits)
- Next stop: a full-width photo link to the next story
- Membership page with tiers and a monthly/yearly switch
- Styled paywall for members-only and paid stories
- Sign in, sign up and account pages
- Light, dark and system modes with a reader toggle
- Reading progress bar and image lightbox
- Self-hosted fonts (Big Shoulders Display, Schibsted Grotesk, Caveat)
- Fully translatable, 18 theme settings, no jQuery
Compatibility & tags
Changelog
v1.0.0 · 2026-09-30
- First release.
// faq
Questions about Wander
Read more about Wander
Best Ghost Theme for a Travel Blog in 2026: Maps, Photos and a Newsletter
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