Site wide

Enova's site-wide settings — color scheme, dark-mode logo, navigation style, sidebar visibility, feed layouts, local bookmarks, and widget toggles.

This section details how to customize the site-wide settings of your publication through the Ghost Admin Site wide tab. Here, you choose how your site looks everywhere — the color scheme, the post feed layout, the sidebars, and a few global features.

Appearance

Control the fundamental visual identity of your website across all devices.

Navigate to the Design & branding settings in Ghost Admin and click Customize.

Expand the Site wide tab on the left-hand column.

Color Scheme

Enforce a specific theme color scheme or give your visitors the freedom to choose.

Important

Selecting Light or Dark enforces the chosen mode globally, overriding the visitor's system preferences. This also removes the theme toggle from the interface, preventing visitors from manually switching between color schemes.

Dark Mode Logo

If your primary logo has dark text or graphics, it might be difficult to see when Dark Mode is active. You can upload an alternative logo strictly for dark mode use.

Layout & Organization

Decide how your content is structured and presented in the main feeds.

Post Feed Layout

Determine the look of your main content lists (like on the Homepage, Authors and Tag pages).

Grid (Default)

Displays multiple posts side-by-side in a responsive, visually appealing grid format.

List

Shows posts sequentially in a clean, vertical list layout.

Choose how issues are presented on your Newsletter Archive page at /newsletters/.

Newsletter Archive setup

Switching layouts never changes content. See the Newsletter Archive guide for the full feature, including the year jump-rail, sticky month chips, and native RSS.

The Enova theme features two powerful sidebars (Left and Right). You can choose exactly where you want these bars to appear to maximize your reading space and focus.

Important

Any of the above options will not disable the sidebar completely, making it inaccessible. It will only hide the sidebar by default. The user can toggle the respective sidebar on or off by clicking the sidebar toggle button in the header.

In Top bar mode (see Navigation Style), the desktop left sidebar is fully replaced by a horizontal top navigation, and this setting governs which page types still show the mobile hamburger drawer.

Global Features

Local Bookmarks

Enova allows your visitors to "Save" or bookmark their favorite posts directly in their browser for later reading. This feature does not require a user account!

The bookmark toggle appears on regular post cards across the site and on every card in the Newsletter Archive. Saved items from both sources show up together in the bookmarks menu in the header.

What turning it off does

Disabling this toggle hides the bookmark buttons and the saved-items menu — visitors can no longer save posts or open their list. It does not erase anything: saved bookmarks stay in each visitor's browser and reappear if you turn the setting back on.

You can toggle individual widgets on or off to clean up your sidebars.

Customize the short pitch text that appears on all newsletter modules across your site.

Sidebar widget

Subscribe text