Features

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. In the Brand section, choose an accent color to define the visual identity of your site. Choose between local or system fonts, upload a publication cover image used in the hero section, add your logo and favicon. With more than 20+ custom settings, Sand gives you flexibility while keeping the setup simple and consistent.

• Advanced custom settings
• Local and system fonts
• Dark mode logo

Site Wide Customization

Control the look and feel of your entire site from a single place. Choose a color palette, adjust typography, enable or disable dark mode, and upload a dedicated logo for dark mode to keep your visual identity consistent across every page. Sand also includes a thoughtful footer design. Add a custom call-to-action title, link, and description, and personalize your footer with copyright text, simple details that make your page feel complete.

• Color schemes
• Custom Typography
• Automatic dark mode based on system settings
• Dark logo support for dark mode
• Custom footer CTA (Title, link, description)
• Custom footer copyright

Homepage Built Around Your Content

Sand offers flexible options to create a clean and engaging hero. Customize the hero title and subtitle, and optionally add an extra paragraph with a description. This helps set the tone of your site from the very first impression and also allows you to customize post titles.

• Custom hero title, subtitle and description
• Custom posts title

Smart Layouts for Every Page

Create layouts that reflect your publication’s personality. Sand includes multiple templates for posts and pages, letting you choose between Regular, Wide, and Full layouts. These options help you present each article or page in a clear and comfortable format, with support for metadata, related posts, optional drop caps, image zoom, and editor cards. Additional layouts for tags, authors, and system pages ensure a consistent structure across the entire site.

• Layout options: Regular, Wide, Full
• 30+ additional social links
• Custom metadata including author, date, and reading time
• Share links for X, Facebook, Bluesky, and more
• Related posts section with display options (Primary tag, Latest or Hide)
• Image zoom in post view with lightbox
• Optional drop caps
• Custom tag page
• Custom author page
• Custom 404 page

Built-in Features

Sand works seamlessly with Ghost’s native features, including memberships, tiers, comments, search, announcement bar, recommendations, and public previews for members-only posts. The theme is fully compatible with Ghost 5.130+ and 6.0+, providing a stable foundation for publishing and audience engagement. Clear documentation and regular updates help keep your site easy to manage as it grows.

All Theme Features

• Supports Ghost built-in features
• Clean, modern, and fully responsive design
• Lightweight structure with high performance
• Built-in Ghost portal and memberships support
• Built-in Search, Announcement bar, and Recommendations support
• Easy customization via Ghost Admin (20+ custom settings)
• SEO optimized
• Built with accessibility best practices
• Custom accent color
• Publication icon support
• Publication cover support
• 6+ Color schemes (Light, Sand, Green, Blue, Purple and Dark)
• Custom fonts (Local fonts, Ghost, and System)
• Translation ready (EN, ES, FR, PT, DE, IT, and AR included)
• Automatic dark mode based on system preferences
• Dark logo
• Primary and secondary navigation
• Advanced Hero section
• Responsive images with AVIF and WebP support
• Post access 'padlock' in post cards
• 3+ Post templates (Regular, Wide, and Full)
• Custom tag page
• Custom author page
• Custom 404 page
• Multiple authors support
• Editor Cards support
• Custom Upgrade CTA for members and tiers
• Image zoom in post view (Lightbox)
• Responsive videos and tables
• Share links with navigator share option
• Native comments support
• Advanced related posts section
• 30+ Social links supported
• Custom footer (Title, Link and Description)
• Custom footer copyright
• Step-by-step documentation for easy setup
• Fast & friendly support and regular updates

Credits

All the text in the demo version has been generated using ChatGPT. All photos are sourced from Unsplash.