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Folio

A bold, Swiss-style Ghost theme for design studios, agencies and portfolios, with a studio journal and memberships.

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About Folio

Folio is a bold, Swiss-style portfolio for studios, agencies and freelancers. A giant typographic homepage, case-study pages that read like editorial features and a studio journal make your work the hero.

Who it is for

  • You run a design studio, agency or freelance practice
  • You want case studies that read like editorial features
  • You also write a studio journal or newsletter
  • You like strong type, lots of white space and one bold colour

Probably not for you if

  • You need a shop or client portal
  • Your projects have few or no images
  • You want a dark, cinematic look — see Noir

Pages and layouts

Page templates: Work, Team, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.

Extra post layouts: Full bleed.

Getting set up

  • Case studies: add the internal tag #work to every project post. It gives the post the case-study layout and puts it in the project index.
  • Disciplines: give each project one or more public tags such as Branding or Editorial. They fill the services list and the Discipline column.
  • Journal: create a public tag with the slug journal for studio notes and articles. The homepage shows the newest three.
  • Contact: set Contact email, Studio location and Studio timezone (for example Europe/Amsterdam) in Design → Site wide.
  • 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 (folio_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.

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What's included

  • Giant typographic homepage statement with project images set inside the words
  • Case-study layout for projects: huge title, lead, facts (services, year, lead, reading time) and a full-width cover
  • Project index with a List/Grid switch that each reader's choice is remembered for
  • Image preview that follows the cursor over the project list
  • 'Next project' band that walks through every case study and wraps round at the end
  • Edge-to-edge post template: every image in the story runs full width
  • Services list built from your tags, with project counts
  • Studio journal with previous/next links and related posts
  • Live studio clock in the header, in your studio's time zone
  • Giant contact band with your email and a giant site title in the footer, both fitted to the screen
  • Work and Team pages, and team member pages
  • 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 first, with dark and system modes and a reader toggle
  • Reading progress bar and image lightbox
  • Self-hosted fonts (Syne, Manrope)
  • Fully translatable, 19 theme settings, no jQuery

Compatibility & tags

Changelog

  1. v1.0.0 · 2026-09-30

    • First release.

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Questions about Folio

No. Folio is a theme for Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. It needs a Ghost 6 site, either on Ghost(Pro) with a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost.

No. You upload the zip in Ghost Admin and change colours, homepage sections and text in the theme settings (19 of them). The documentation walks through every setting. Custom CSS is optional.

Yes. The theme includes a membership page with your tiers and a monthly/yearly switch, a styled paywall for members-only and paid posts, and sign-in, sign-up and account pages. Payments run through Ghost's built-in Stripe connection, so you keep your subscribers and your revenue.

Yes. Every word the theme shows comes from a translation file, so you can translate it into your site's language.

The regular licence covers one website that you or your client run. The extended licence is for a single end product that you sell to others, for example a paid product where buyers receive a site built on the theme. If you are unsure which one you need, contact us before you buy.

Yes. Our Ghost theme install and setup service puts the theme on your Ghost site, sets your colours, navigation and homepage, connects memberships and imports your content. See the services page for the price.