Features

Aura is a modern Ghost theme designed for personal blogs, lifestyle publications, fashion journals, and creative storytellers. Combining refined typography, expressive imagery, and balanced layouts, Aura creates an elegant editorial experience that brings personality to every story across every device.

Designed for creators who want to share ideas, perspectives, and everyday inspiration, Aura brings together featured stories, curated content, and flexible post layouts in a clean and contemporary design. From personal journals and lifestyle blogs to independent magazines and creative projects, Aura provides a thoughtful space to publish stories, showcase photography, and build a distinctive online presence.

Find a palette that fits your style

Aura includes six carefully crafted color palettes designed to complement different moods and visual styles. Choose between Light, Linen, Orchid, Saffron, Garnet and Dark each offering a distinct combination of tones to shape your site's atmosphere, from soft neutrals and warm accents to richer, more expressive colors.

Customization Made Simple

Personalize your site with clarity and flexibility using Aura's built-in customization options. Easily adjust colors, typography, logos, and visual settings directly from Ghost Admin. With support for local and system fonts, flexible design controls, and 20+ custom settings, Aura makes it simple to create a polished editorial experience that feels consistent, personal, and uniquely yours.

• Advanced custom settings
• Local and system font support
• Accent color
• Publication icon and logo
• Publication cover (Use your publication cover as the background image for the subscribe section.)

Site Wide Customization

Control the look and feel of your entire site from one place. Aura includes flexible customization options that let you adjust color palettes, typography, footer content, dark mode, and other visual settings to create a consistent and polished experience across every page.

• Custom color scheme
• Custom typography
• Custom copyright text
• Automatic dark mode based on system settings
• Custom secondary logo for dark mode

A Homepage Designed Around Your Stories

Create a homepage that gives your stories room to stand out. Aura combines an immersive hero with flexible Tag, Feed and Subscribe sections, allowing you to choose how your content is presented. Build a focused homepage with just your latest posts or add a curated Featured to highlight selected stories.

☑️ Shape your homepage around your content. Choose which sections appear on the homepage, including Tags, Feed and Subscribe, while selecting between Headline/Subscribe/Featured hero layouts to create a strong and welcoming first impression.

• Custom homepage style including:
  • Feed
  • Tags/Feed
  • Feed/Subscribe
  • Tags/Feed/Subscribe (default)
• Custom hero style including:
  • Headline
  • Headline/Subscribe
  • Headline/Featured
  • Headline/Subscribe/Featured (default)
• Custom hero title
• Custom hero description
• Custom featured posts
• Custom tag title
• Custom tag list

☑️ Choose how your posts are presented. Select between Classic and Cover feed layouts to create the reading experience that best fits your content. The cover feed layout displays post images as card backgrounds, creating a more visual and immersive feed, while classic offers a more traditional post presentation.

• Custom feed title
• Custom feed style including:
  • Classic
  • Cover (default)

Flexible Layouts For Every Story

Create layouts that adapt naturally to different types of content. Aura includes two dedicated templates for posts and pages, Classic and Cover, giving you the flexibility to choose the presentation that best fits each story while keeping content clear, immersive, and comfortable to read across every device. Aura also includes refined typography, structured metadata, sharing support, related posts, optional drop caps, image zoom, and full Ghost Editor Card compatibility.

Dedicated templates for tag, author, and system pages extend the same visual language throughout your site, creating a cohesive experience while keeping navigation clear and content easy to explore. Each layout is designed to maintain Aura's refined, editorial character across every page.

• Layout options:
  • Classic
  • Cover (default)
• 30+ additional social links
• Custom metadata including author, date, and min read
• Sharing support
• Custom related posts title
• Related posts 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 Ghost Features

Aura works seamlessly with Ghost’s native features, including memberships, tiers, comments, recommendations, search, announcement bars, and public previews for members-only content. Fully compatible with Ghost 6.0+, Aura provides a solid foundation for modern publishing with everything you need to create, manage, and grow your site with ease.

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
• Publication logo support
• Publication secondary logo support (dark mode)
• 6+ Color schemes (Light, Linen, Orchid, Saffron (default), Garnet and Dark)
• Custom fonts (Local fonts, Ghost, and System)
• Translation ready (EN, ES, FR, PT, DE, IT, CS, HR, SK and AR) included
• Automatic dark mode based on system preferences
• Primary and secondary navigation
• Social navigation
• Social accounts support
• Dropdown navigation
• Advanced Homepage and Hero style
• Responsive images with AVIF and WebP support
• Public preview for members-only posts
• 2+ Post/Page templates (Classic, Cover (default) )
• 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 (built-in)
• Native comments support
• Advanced related posts section
• 30+ Social links supported
• 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.