Ledger

Ledger gives a finance, business or economics newsletter the look of a serious newspaper: a ticker strip above the masthead, a numbered 'The Brief' column, a chart of the week and tables styled like financial statements.

Who it is for

• You write about money, markets, business or the economy
• You publish a daily or weekly briefing
• You want a serious, trustworthy newspaper look
• You sell subscriptions or plan to

Probably not for you if

• You need live market data feeds (the ticker shows text you type)
• You want a bright, playful look — see Riot or Volta
• Your site is mostly photographs — see Noir

Pages and layouts

Page templates: Sections, Reporters, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.

Extra post layouts: Briefing.

Getting set up

• Sections: create a public tag for each section (Markets, Economy…) with a colour. The four tags with the most posts become the homepage desks.
• Chart of the week: add the internal tag #chart to a post whose feature image is a chart. The newest one is shown large on the homepage.
• Ticker: type your items in Design → Site wide → Ticker items, separated by |. Leave it empty to show your latest headlines instead.
• 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 (ledger_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.