Changelog
New releases, improvements, fixes and notable changes.
v1.3.0 — September 28, 2026
New Features
- ✨ Posts and pages with three or more sections get a table of contents, built from your headings. Learn more
- ✨ It sits above the article as a single Contents line, numbered and counted, that opens with a tap.
- ✨ Scroll past it and a Contents button appears in the corner, its ring filling as the article is read. Learn more
- ✨ The button opens the list over the page and marks the section you are in. On a phone it rises from the bottom.
- ✨ Hover a heading and a small link button appears at the end of it: click it to jump there and copy a link to that section. Learn more
- ✨ Add
#no-tocto a post or page to leave its table of contents off. Learn more
Design
- 🎨 The heading you jumped to is underlined for a moment, so you can see where you landed.
- 🎨 The first paragraph of a post or page is now the same size as the rest of the text.
Bug Fixes
- 🐛 A link to a heading now lands just under the header, instead of noticeably lower down the page.
- 🐛 Links to headings with accents, curly apostrophes or non-Latin letters work while a video plays in the corner.
- 🐛 Back and Forward between headings move the page again while a video plays in the corner.
- 🐛 Icons uploaded in Ghost's Navigation settings now follow your text colour, so they read in both light and dark mode and pick up the accent on the current page. Add
-colorto a file name to keep a logo's own colours. Learn more - 🐛 The footer fits up to four menu columns side by side on a desktop screen. A third column used to drop to a new row. Learn more
Cleanup
- 🧹 New Code injection hooks for the table of contents, the Contents button and section links, including one line that turns the table of contents off across your site. Learn more
- 🧹 Custom CSS that styles a heading by the paragraph before it may need a small update on posts with a table of contents. Learn more
v1.2.0 — September 19, 2026
New Features
- ✨ Ghost's navigation icons show beside your menu labels in the header, dropdowns, phone drawer, footer and 404 page. Learn more
- ✨ Leave a menu item's label empty and its icon becomes the whole link, still named for screen readers.
- ✨ Add menu icons from Code injection, one line per item: thirty built-in icons, the social brand marks or your own. Learn more
- ✨ Show your latest posts as a row of image cards: add
#latest-cardsto the Latest writing page. Learn more - ✨ List your featured posts instead of the newest ones: add
#latest-featured. Learn more - ✨ Let reader quotes drift across the page in one slow row that readers can pause: add
#testimonials-marqueeto the Testimonials page. Learn more - ✨ Keep that row still with
#testimonials-static. - ✨ Linked logos in the logo strip open in a new tab, so readers keep their place on your homepage.
- ✨ Star a post as Featured and your three newest starred posts appear as picture cards at the top of your archive. Learn more
- ✨ A starred post keeps its place in the month list below, marked with a small star.
- ✨ A Team page: choose the Team template and your writers appear as portrait cards built from their staff profiles. Learn more
- ✨ Add more than one author to the Team page to choose who is listed, in your order.
- ✨ Show the team as a compact directory instead of portrait cards with
#team-compact. - ✨ Turn team portraits black and white, colouring in on hover, with
#team-mono. - ✨ Leave the post counts off the Team page with
#hide-team-counts. - ✨ Every account on a writer's profile appears on their Team card and author page: X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and their website.
Design
- 🎨 The Latest writing list is numbered, opens each entry with its date and subject, and closes with a rule.
- 🎨 Tag pages and author pages list posts month by month, one line per post, like the articles archive. Learn more
- 🎨 The author page's picture grid, "Posts by" heading and closing signup panel are gone.
Bug Fixes
- 🐛 When the desktop header runs out of room, the More menu takes in another item before your site title is shortened.
- 🐛 The link under a testimonial is readable again, instead of white on a plain background.
- 🐛 Tab into a moving logo, photo or quote strip and it stops, with the item you landed on in view.
- 🐛 A logo in the logo strip keeps its size when you link it, instead of showing at full size.
- 🐛 A linked logo, and the button under a moving quote, stay clickable on every pass of the strip.
- 🐛 Clicking a link in a moving strip no longer makes the strip jump under the pointer.
- 🐛 An author or tag page with no posts yet keeps a proper gap above its "Nothing here yet" panel.
- 🐛 Author and tag pages say "1 post", not "1 posts".
- 🐛 The introduction on a Team, Projects, Videos, Podcast, Gallery or Newsletter page no longer prints larger than the excerpt above it.
Cleanup
- 🧹 New Code injection hooks for menu labels, the Featured strip, starred rows and the Team page, all listed in the hook reference. Learn more
- 🧹 Rules written for the tag page's old two-column card need updating: the hook reference names the row to target instead. Learn more
v1.1.0 — September 16, 2026
New Features
- ✨ Choose the text colour on your accent-coloured buttons with a two-line snippet in Code injection. Learn more
Design
- 🎨 Section labels on the homepage and in the footer now use the same typeface as the small labels on cards.
- 🎨 The pause button beside a scrolling logo or photo strip sits level with its label.
Bug Fixes
- 🐛 The "Members" pill next to a post title sits on the title's baseline instead of floating above it.
- 🐛 The padlock inside the "Members" pill is centred on the lettering.
- 🐛 A font chosen in Ghost's Brand panel now keeps Quiet's own typefaces behind it, so accented letters, other alphabets and emoji still appear.
- 🐛 A player or map you paste into a post is announced by name to screen readers, even when the service leaves it unnamed.
Cleanup
- 🧹 The author's name in the "Written by" card is a proper heading, so screen readers list it with the page's other sections.
v1.0.0 — September 11, 2026
The first release.
New Features
Homepage
- ✨ Build your homepage from pages: publish a page, add one tag, and it becomes a section you can reorder at any time.
- ✨ Ten sections to choose from: introduction, topic picker, latest writing, newsletter, logo strip, testimonials, podcast, films, projects and a photo strip. Empty sections stay hidden.
- ✨ Five introduction layouts, from a centred column to a portrait that fills the view below the header. Learn more
- ✨ Section copy is written in the editor and renders as you wrote it: lists, links, headings and buttons all work.
Writing
- ✨ An archive that files your writing under month headings, with a filter row of your most-used tags.
- ✨ Four post layouts, each one tag away: portrait beside the title on either side, picture edge to edge or at text width. Learn more
- ✨ Tag a post
#dropcapand its first letter opens the article large, in the heading typeface. - ✨ A share row at the end of every post: Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Threads, email and Copy link. No third-party scripts, and it works with JavaScript off.
- ✨ Members-only posts open with a free preview that fades into the signup card.
Portfolio, photographs, podcast and films
- ✨ Tag pages
#projectand they appear on the Projects page as a numbered ledger, with previous and next links between them. - ✨ A gallery page that arranges your pictures into a balanced wall, with a full-screen viewer for every photo on the site.
- ✨ Tag a post
#podcastand it becomes an episode on your podcast page. Add listening links for twenty-two platforms from one Code injection snippet. - ✨ Tag a post
#videoand it becomes a film on your videos channel. Films keep playing in a floating player as visitors move around the site. - ✨ YouTube, Vimeo and uploaded video files all play in one player, cookie-free, and load only when someone presses play.
Newsletter and contact
- ✨ A newsletter page that lists your recent issues automatically.
- ✨ A contact page with a working form: paste a form-service address into one setting and readers can write to you.
Menus and footer
- ✨ Start a menu label with
-to nest it in a dropdown. Items that outgrow the header tuck into a "More" dropdown. - ✨ Start a secondary-navigation label with
#to make it a footer column heading. - ✨ Footer icons for all of Ghost's social accounts, plus nine more platforms or any custom link, through one Code injection snippet.
- ✨ Tag any page
#footer-legal-linkand it joins the footer's legal row.
Everywhere
- ✨ Ships in 14 languages and follows your publication language the moment you switch. Add one file to translate it into any other.
- ✨ Password-protected sites get a themed door with your logo, colours and a proper unlock form.
Design
- 🎨 Light and dark modes with no flash of the wrong one, matched by the browser's own scrollbars and form controls.
- 🎨 Picks up your brand colour and fonts from Ghost and keeps links and buttons readable whatever colour you choose.
- 🎨 Newsreader and Manrope are built in, so no fonts load from anywhere else.
- 🎨 Nothing moves for readers who have asked their device to reduce motion.
Performance
- ⚡ Every page reads fine without JavaScript, and nothing waits for it to load.
- ⚡ The video player's machinery downloads only when a reader is about to press play.
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.
Compatibility
Quiet runs on Ghost 6.0.0 and later. What to check before installing, what needs the routes file, which browsers are supported, and how the theme behaves for readers with different needs.