Introduction
Documentation for Quiet, the premium Ghost theme for writers and authors. Installation, theme settings, homepage sections, the podcast and video channel, portfolio, gallery and customization.
Quiet is a centred, generous theme for writers and authors: essays first, with room for a newsletter, a podcast, films, a portfolio and photographs when you want them, and nothing competing with the words.
Live Demo
See Quiet running with real content.
Buy Quiet
Licences, pricing and what's included.
Changelog
What changed in each release.
Getting Help
Stuck with Quiet? Get help from our team.
Where to start
1. Install the theme
Upload the zip, activate, publish three pages and add the routes file. Five steps.
2. Build your homepage
A guided walkthrough from the starter layout to a composed homepage.
3. Learn the tags
The internal tags Quiet reads. Worth reading once, early.
4. Set your brand
Accent colour, logo, icon and fonts, in Ghost's own settings.
How Quiet works
Most themes are configured in a settings panel. Quiet is configured with content: you publish a page, add one tag, and a section of your site appears. That means your homepage is written in the editor rather than assembled from options, and features switch themselves on when the content they need exists.
There are only eight theme settings, and you can ignore most of them.
Two things to know before you start
Quiet needs Ghost 6.0.0 or later (see Compatibility), and the archive, the podcast and the video channel need the routes file that ships with the theme, which is step 5 of installation.
What you can build
| What | How it works |
|---|---|
| A writing site | Posts, a month-by-month archive with a tag filter, tag and author pages |
| A homepage in your own words | Ten bands you compose from ordinary pages |
| A newsletter | Signup fields in the right places, and a page that shows your recent issues |
| A podcast | A show page at /podcast/, episodes as posts, listening links for twenty-two apps |
| A video channel | Films at /videos/, with a player that keeps playing as readers browse |
| A portfolio | Numbered projects, each a full page, with previous and next links |
| A gallery | A photo wall with a full-screen viewer |
| A membership | Ghost's tiers and paywall, in Quiet's clothes |
Fourteen languages ship with the theme. See Publication language.