Features
Discover Sand, a minimalist Ghost theme for travelers and writers who value stories, calm design, and effortless publishing.
A fast, lightweight, and responsive Ghost theme for writers, travelers, and creatives. Fully customizable, SEO-ready, and perfect for sharing your stories.
Sand is a Ghost theme made for people who love to share stories. Inspired by the simplicity of travel and clean design, it offers a relaxed reading experience. It works perfectly for personal blogs, travel journals, or any publication that values authenticity and storytelling.
Choose the perfect palette for your story
Switch between six handcrafted color schemes — Sand, Green, Blue, Purple, Light, and Dark. Each palette is designed to match your tone and style, giving your site a unique personality in just one click.

Customization Made Simple
Personalize every detail of your site with ease. Adjust fonts, upload a logo for dark mode, and fine-tune layouts using advanced custom settings — all directly from Ghost Admin, no coding required.
- Advanced custom settings
- Local and system fonts
- Dark mode logo

Smart Layouts for Every Page
Create a layout that matches your publication's personality. Choose from Regular, Wide, or Complete layouts. Use an advanced highlight section for impactful visuals and set a cover image for the hero, giving your site a strong visual identity from the start. Also includes custom pages author, tags, and a 404 page.
- Advanced hero section
- Publication cover image support
- Single layout options: Regular, Wide, Full
- Custom tag page
- Custom author page
- Custom 404 page

Enhanced Reading Experience
Deliver an exceptional reading experience across all devices. With responsive images, lightbox zoom, adaptive dark mode, and clean metadata, your stories shine in every environment.
- Custom metadata (Author, date, and reading time)
- Image zoom in post view (Lightbox)
- Responsive videos and tables
- Automatic dark mode based on system settings

Keep Readers Engaged
Encourage interaction and discovery with built-in sharing options, smart related posts, and 30+ supported social platforms to help readers stay connected wherever they are.
- Share links (X, Facebook, Bluesky, and more)
- Related posts section (Primary tag, latest or hide)
- 30+ Additional social links

Thoughtful Footer Design
End page with purpose. Add a custom call-to-action or personalize your footer with copyright text simple details that make your publication feel complete.
- Custom footer CTA
- Custom footer copyright

General features
- Fully customizable
- Clean design
- Lightweight and minimal
- Super fast
- User friendly
- Fully responsive
- Compatible with modern browsers
- Updated regularly
- SEO optimized
- Fast & Friendly support
Supports Ghost built-in features
- Translation ready (EN, ES, FR, PT, DE, IT, and AR included)
- Native Search
- Native Comments
- Recommendations (Built-in)
- Membership tiers
- Accent color
- Typography
- Responsive images
- Avif and WebP format support
- Publication title, icon, logo and cover
- Home, post, page, tag and author page
- Tag description
- Author avatar, bio, website, location and social accounts
- Multiple authors
- Editor Cards support
- Two quotes style
- Primary and Secondary navigation
- Featured posts badge in post cards
- Post reading time
- Show title and feature image option (Pages)
- Social accounts (Extended)
Members & subscriptions
- Ghost portal by default
- Member stuff in the sidebar
- Subscribe form (Hero)
- Post access 'padlock' in post cards
- Public preview for members posts
- Upgrade CTA (Member, paid-only and tiers)
Credits
All the text in the demo version has been generated using ChatGPT. All photos are sourced from Unsplash.
