Gazette
A bold, colourful Ghost theme for news magazines, with a live blog, save-for-later and follow-a-topic feeds.
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About Gazette
Gazette is a colourful news magazine theme. Every section has its own colour, readers can follow sections and save stories for later without an account, and a live blog template covers events as they happen.
Who it is for
- You publish news, explainers or a general-interest magazine
- You cover several sections and want each to feel distinct
- You run live coverage of events
- You sell memberships or plan to
Probably not for you if
- You want a quiet, minimal blog — see Noir
- You cover markets and finance — see Ledger
- Your site is one person's journal — see Marlowe
Pages and layouts
Page templates: Sections, Writers, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.
Extra post layouts: Live blog.
Getting set up
- Section colours: in Tags, give each section tag an accent colour (use strong, darker colours: white text sits on them). Posts use the colour of their primary (first) tag.
- Editor's picks: mark up to 4 posts as Featured.
- 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 (gazette_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
- Colour-coded sections: each tag's accent colour runs through its kicker, section block, tag page and reading bar
- Front page with a cover story, two side stories and a Just in list with times like "2 hours ago"
- Editor's picks: featured posts in a numbered black band
- For you: readers follow sections and get a personal row of their newest stories, no account needed
- Section blocks on the homepage for your four biggest sections, with Follow buttons
- Live blog post template: timestamped updates, key events, newest/oldest order and a new-updates alert
- Save for later: a bookmark on every story and a reading list drawer in the header
- Masthead with a date bar, centred wordmark and section navigation that compacts on scroll
- Serif reading text with a coloured drop cap, pull quotes, tables and toggle FAQs
- Co-author bylines with stacked avatars
- Sections page with colour tiles and latest headlines, and a journalists page
- 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
- Button text switches between black and white to suit your accent colour
- Reading progress bar in the section's colour, image lightbox
- Self-hosted fonts (Archivo variable, Source Serif 4)
- Fully translatable, 18 theme settings, no jQuery
Compatibility & tags
Changelog
v1.0.0 · 2026-09-30
- First release.
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Questions about Gazette
No. Gazette 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 (18 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.
Read more about Gazette
Best Ghost Theme for a News Website in 2026: Sections, Live Blogs and Memberships
A news site is a front page, not a feed. Here is what a Ghost news theme must do, from section colours to live coverage, and how Gazette does it.
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