Aurelia documentation
A cinematic luxury magazine in night and champagne gold: glass surfaces, film grain, a carousel and a staggered journal.
Installation
- Download
aurelia.zipfrom your purchase email or your purchases library. Do not unzip it. - In Ghost Admin, open Settings → Design & branding → Change theme.
- Click Upload theme, select the zip, then Activate.
Aurelia requires Ghost 6 (self-hosted, or a Ghost(Pro) plan that allows custom themes).
Updating
Upload the new zip the same way and confirm the overwrite. Your content, navigation and theme settings are kept.
Import the demo content
The download includes aurelia-demo.zip: posts, pages, tags, navigation and images.
- Use a new or empty site: importing over existing content creates duplicates. On a fresh Ghost, first delete the default content in Settings → Advanced → Danger zone → Delete all content.
- Open Settings → Advanced → Import/Export and import the zip (not just the JSON, or the images will be missing).
- Theme settings are not part of an import: set them in Design & branding (see the table below).
Homepage sections
| Section | Content comes from |
|---|---|
| Edition bar | Edition text, the site description and today’s date. |
| Statement | Hero title: words between *asterisks* are set in gold italics. The paragraph is the site description. |
| Photo strip | The feature images of the 5 latest posts that have one (shown from 5 images). |
| Marquee | Your 8 most used public tags. |
| Cover story | The latest post marked Featured; it is removed from the journal below. |
| Carousel | Posts tagged #selection, 10 at most. Arrows, drag and swipe. |
| Journal | Two staggered columns with Load more; the topic filters sort the stories already loaded. |
# (type #picks in the Tags field of a post). Readers never see them and they have no public page; the theme uses them to pick content.Appearance
Dark (night & gold, default), Light (ivory) or Auto; a Logo for light mode for the ivory scheme. Film grain adds a subtle animated grain. Reveals, the “Read” cursor and rising words are all switched off for readers who reduce motion. Accent tip: #D4B67E. Default fonts: Cormorant Garamond and Manrope.
All settings
| Setting | Tab | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Color scheme | Site-wide | Dark | Default color scheme: Dark (night & gold) or Light (ivory). Readers can switch. |
| Logo for light mode | Site-wide | — | Optional logo used on the light (ivory) scheme |
| Film grain | Site-wide | On | Subtle animated film grain over the whole site |
| Other social links | Site-wide | — | Extra social profile URLs, comma-separated (Pinterest, WhatsApp, GitHub...) |
| Show newsletter | Site-wide | On | Newsletter block (photo + glass card) at the bottom of every page |
| Newsletter heading | Site-wide | The best of the week, *every Sunday* | Newsletter heading. Wrap words in *asterisks* to set them in gold italics. |
| Newsletter text | Site-wide | One long read, three rare addresses and an image no one has seen yet. | Text of the newsletter block |
| Newsletter image | Site-wide | — | Full-bleed photo behind the newsletter card |
| Show edition bar | Homepage | On | Thin bar above the header: edition, site description and today's date |
| Edition text | Homepage | Autumn edition · N° 12 | Left text of the edition bar |
| Show hero | Homepage | On | Large centered statement at the top of the homepage |
| Hero kicker | Homepage | The independent magazine of the art of living | Small line above the statement |
| Hero title | Homepage | We tell the world through *culture,* the *table* & *style.* | The statement. Wrap words in *asterisks* to set them in gold italics. |
| Show photo strip | Homepage | On | Strip of five photos (from the latest posts) under the statement |
| Show marquee | Homepage | On | Scrolling band with your topics |
| Show featured story | Homepage | On | Cover story: the latest post marked as Featured, large image and text below |
| Show carousel | Homepage | On | Horizontal carousel of posts tagged #selection |
| Carousel title | Homepage | Not to be *missed* | Carousel heading. Wrap words in *asterisks* for gold italics. |
| Show journal filters | Homepage | On | Topic filters above the journal grid |
| Table of contents | Post | On | Show a table of contents on posts with three or more headings |
Posts per page: 8 (set by the theme). Settings are in Settings → Design & branding → Customize, in the Site-wide, Homepage and Post tabs.
Navigation & social links
- Dropdowns: in Settings → Navigation, start a label with a dash (
-About) to put it in a dropdown under the item above. That parent item only opens the dropdown; its URL is not used. - Social accounts: X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram come from Settings → General → Social accounts. Add any other profile in the Other social links setting (comma-separated URLs): Pinterest, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, GitHub, Dribbble, Behance, Spotify, Twitch, Snapchat, Reddit and Medium get their icon, any other URL gets a link icon.
- The RSS icon is added automatically.
Posts & pages
- Table of contents: added automatically to posts with three or more H2 headings (setting Table of contents).
- Full width page template: choose it in the page settings for landing pages.
- The page option Show title and feature image is respected.
- Every editor card is styled, including wide and full-width images, galleries, toggles, callouts, buttons and bookmarks.
Members & newsletter
The subscription block uses Ghost’s native members. It is hidden for signed-in members, and when sign-ups are off or invite-only (Settings → Membership).
Translation
Every text of the theme goes through Ghost’s translation system. Copy locales/en.json inside the theme to locales/fr.json (or your language code), translate the values, zip the theme again and upload it. Then set the language in Settings → General → Publication language.
FAQ
The photo strip does not appear.
It needs at least 5 recent posts with a feature image.
A section of the homepage does not appear.
Check its switch in Design & branding, then its content: every section hides itself when it has nothing to show (no Featured post, no post with the internal tag, an empty tag…).
Can I change the fonts?
Yes: the fonts chosen in Design & branding → Typography replace the theme’s heading and body fonts.