Post
Quiet's three post settings: whether to show reading time, the author card and a Read next row. The picture at the top and the share row are decided elsewhere.
Three settings that apply to every post on your site, all simple on-or-off switches for the things that surround an article.
How to get here:
Go to Settings → Design & branding.
Click Customize, then open the Theme tab.
Open the Post section.
Two things you might expect here, and where they went
How the picture at the top of a post is laid out is chosen per post, with one tag, from four layouts: see Post and page layouts. The share row at the end of a post is always on; if you want fewer networks, or none, one line of Code injection does it: see Reading experience.
Show Reading Time
On by default. Adds an estimated reading time to the byline, and to the small meta line on post cards throughout the site.
Switch it off and the byline is your name and the date alone.
Show Author Card
On by default. Adds a "Written by" card at the end of the post, with the author's picture, name, bio, location and website from Settings → Staff.
It hides itself without a bio
The card renders only when the author has written a bio. A card holding just a name the reader has already seen twice is noise, so Quiet leaves it out rather than showing an empty box. Add a bio in Settings → Staff to bring it back.
On a co-authored post the card shows the first author, and Ghost still credits everyone in the page data search engines read.
Related Posts
On by default. Adds a Read next row of three posts at the end of each article.
Quiet picks them by the post's primary tag, newest first, and never offers the post the reader is already on. A post with no public tag falls back to your three newest posts, which is a better offer than nothing.
It hides itself when there is nothing to show
On a brand new site with one post, the row does not render at all: no heading over an empty space.
Homepage
Quiet's one homepage setting: how many posts the Latest writing band lists. Everything else about the homepage is decided by the pages you publish.
Navigation
Set up Quiet's menus: a dash makes a header dropdown, overflow tucks into a More menu, and a hash in the secondary menu makes a footer column.