Personal newsletter homepage
Ubud gives personal newsletters and blogs a focused homepage for an introduction, featured stories, recent posts, and subscription forms.
Welcome visitors with a photograph and a short introduction.
Six homepage styles
Choose the homepage layout that fits your publication, and change it later without switching themes.
Use the captions below to preview each layout.
Color schemes
Choose from nine documented color schemes, ranging from light earthy tones to darker palettes.
Copy a documented set of CSS color values into Ghost Code Injection to apply a scheme.
The color scheme documentation provides the values for each option.
About Dark Mode
Ubud uses one color scheme at a time, so readers cannot switch between light and dark modes.
For a dark website, use a dark color scheme. A reader-controlled mode switch is not planned.
Responsive layout
Ubud adjusts to phone, tablet, and desktop screens of any size.
Accessibility details
Ubud includes a skip-to-content link and labels its main navigation and interface controls for assistive technology.
Posts without feature images
Ubud preserves its homepage, post cards, and article layouts when posts do not include feature images.
Organize your blog posts and archives
Blog page
Recent posts appear on the homepage, while the Blog page contains the complete post collection.
The “Load More” button reveals additional posts without leaving the page.
Archive page
The Archive page groups posts by month and provides links to browse by tag.
Subscriptions and member content
Ubud includes subscription forms on the homepage and article pages. It also labels public, member-only, and paid posts in the post list, and works with Ghost Portal for account access and paid subscriptions.
Is Ubud right for your publication?
Choose Ubud when a personal introduction, a small selection of featured work, and newsletter growth matter more than a dense magazine front page. Its six homepage styles let you change the presentation without rebuilding the content structure. For several authors, many topic sections, or a newsroom workflow, choose a more editorial theme.
Translation support
Translation-ready theme text with 12 included language files: English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.
Deploy with GitHub
Use the Deploy Ghost Theme GitHub Action to upload theme changes to Ghost from your repository.
More Ubud features
- Ghost Native Search
- Ghost Native Comments
- Reading time
- Responsive videos
- Responsive tables
- Syntax highlighting
- Lazy-loading images for optimal performance
- Social sharing icons (Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, etc.)
- Public, Members, and Paid labels on the posts list for easy scanning
Where does the name Ubud come from?
Ubud is a lovely town in Bali, Indonesia. I visited Ubud in 2019 for two weeks during my three-month backpacking trip around Southeast Asia, and it was one of the best places I saw on that trip.
Inspired by the calmness of Ubud and the great environment, I wished to translate the experience into this theme’s design.
Someday, I hope you’ll visit Ubud and enjoy it as much as I did.
