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This guide explains how to set up your homepage using the Compact theme in Ghost.


Add Logo:

  1. Go to Ghost Admin → Settings → Design & Branding → Brand.
  2. Upload your Primary Logo:
    • Find the “Publication logo” field.
    • Click Upload logo and select your file.
    • Click Save to apply changes.
  3. For dark mode logo:
    • Go to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme.
    • Upload your logo for dark mode.

Primary Color:

  1. Go to Ghost Admin → Settings → Design & Branding → Brand.
  2. Find the “Accent Color” field and choose your color
  3. For dark mode color:
    • Go to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme.
    • Find the “Accent Color for Dark mode” field and choose your color

Hero section:

  1. For H1 text, Go to Ghost Admin → Settings → Title & Description → Site description.
  2. For Description bellow the title text, Go to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme → Small description.

The Compact theme provides flexible navigation options.

(Displayed at the top of your site)

  1. Go to Ghost Admin → Settings → Navigation.
  2. Click Customize next to Primary Navigation.
  3. Add/Edit Menu Items:
    • Drag to reorder links.
    • Click + to add new items.
    • Click the trash icon to remove items.
    • Click Save to apply changes.

(Optional menu for extra links or CTAs)

  1. In the same Navigation settings, click Customize next to Secondary Navigation.
  2. Build your menu following the same steps as above.

  1. Go to Ghost Admin → Settings → Social accounts.
  2. Add your links:
    • Facebook: Paste full profile URL (e.g., https://facebook.com/yourpage)
    • X (Twitter): Enter handle or full profile URL (e.g., https://twitter.com/yourhandle)
  1. Navigate to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme.
  2. Add your Instagram and Pinterest and the other profile links.

To display tags for Filter, navigate to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme, then add Featured tags slug separated by comma


  • Automatically added, this section displays latest posts.

  • To display the Subscribe form, make sure access is set to “Anyone can sign up”. To do this, go to Ghost Admin → Membership → Access.

  • Logo ais displayed automatically if configured initially.
  • To edit copyright text go to :
    Settings → Design & Branding → Theme → Footer text
  • To edit phone number and Email go to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme and Edit your information.

Compact support by default Sepia Theme, to switch to Light theme go to Settings → Design & Branding → Theme → Default theme