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
No. Wander 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 Wander
Best Ghost Theme for a Travel Blog in 2026: Maps, Photos and a Newsletter
Travel readers want to see where you went before they read how. Here is what a Ghost travel theme should do, and how Wander puts every story on a map.
Best Ghost Theme for Photographers and Visual Storytellers in 2026
A photographer's site should feel like a cinema, not a blog. Here is what a Ghost theme for visual stories must do, and where Noir fits.
How to Install a Ghost Theme (and Set It Up Properly) in 2026
Uploading a Ghost theme takes a minute. Making your site look like the demo takes a little longer. Here is the full process, step by step.
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