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Drift

A modern and minimalist Ghost CMS theme designed for personal blogs, business blogs and creators, featuring flexible layouts and fast performance.

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Drift is a modern Ghost theme designed for personal blogs, lifestyle publications, travel journals, and creative storytellers. With an editorial approach that blends expressive typography, immersive imagery, and spacious layouts, Drift creates a calm and engaging reading experience that gives every story room to breathe across every device.

Designed for creators who see blogging as a way to explore ideas, places, people, and everyday experiences, Drift brings together curated content, featured stories, and a flexible post feed in a clean and contemporary layout. From personal journals and travel blogs to independent publications and creative projects, Drift helps turn everyday stories into thoughtful, visually engaging experiences that feel natural, personal, and refined.

Find a palette that fits your style

Drift includes four carefully crafted color palettes designed to complement different moods and visual styles. Choose between Light, Dark, Olive, and Harbor to create a distinctive look that feels natural, contemporary, and perfectly suited to your stories.

Color Schemes

Customization Made Simple

Personalize your site with clarity and flexibility using Drift’s built-in customization options. Easily adjust colors, typography, logos, and visual settings directly from Ghost Admin. With support for local and system fonts, flexible layout controls, and 20+ custom settings, Drift makes it simple to create a polished visual experience that feels consistent, personal, and uniquely yours.                         

  • Advanced custom settings
  • Local and system font support
  • Accent color
  • Publication icon and logo
  • Publication cover (Use your publication cover as the main hero image.)

Site Wide Customization

Control the look and feel of your entire site from one place. Drift includes flexible customization options that let you adjust color palettes, typography, footer content, dark mode, and other visual settings to create a consistent and polished experience across every page.

  • Custom color scheme
  • Custom typography
  • Custom footer description
  • Custom copyright text
  • Automatic dark mode based on system settings
  • Custom secondary logo for dark mode

A Homepage Designed Around Your Stories

Create a homepage that gives your stories room to stand out. Drift combines an immersive hero with flexible Featured and Feed sections, allowing you to choose how your content is presented. Build a focused homepage with just your latest posts or add a curated Featured carousel to highlight selected stories.

☑️ Shape your homepage around your content. Choose which sections appear on the homepage, including Featured and Feed, while selecting between Headline or Headline/Subscribe hero layouts to create a strong and welcoming first impression.

  • Custom homepage style including Featured and Feed
  • Custom hero style including Headline or Headline/Subscribe
  • Custom hero title
  • Custom hero description

☑️ Choose how your posts are presented. Select between Classic and Sticky feed layouts to create the reading experience that best fits your content. The Sticky layout keeps the section introduction visible as readers explore the posts, while Classic offers a more traditional feed presentation.

  • Custom posts feed title
  • Custom feed style including Classic and Sticky

Flexible Layouts For Every Story

Create layouts that adapt naturally to different types of content. Drift includes three dedicated templates for posts and pages, Classic, Modern, and Split, giving you the flexibility to choose the presentation that best fits each story while keeping content clear, immersive, and comfortable to read across every device. Drift also includes clean typography, structured metadata, sharing support, related posts, optional drop caps, image zoom, and full Ghost Editor Card compatibility.

Dedicated templates for tag, author, and system pages extend the same visual language throughout your site, creating a cohesive experience while keeping navigation clear and content easy to explore. Each layout is designed to maintain the spacious, editorial character of Drift across every page.

  • Layout options: Classic, Modern, Split
  • 30+ additional social links
  • Custom metadata including author, date, and min read
  • Sharing support
  • Custom related posts title
  • Related posts display options (Primary tag, Latest, or Hide)
  • Image zoom in post view with lightbox
  • Optional drop caps
  • Custom tag page
  • Custom author page
  • Custom 404 page
Classic Template
Modern Template
Split Template

Built-in Ghost Features

Drift works seamlessly with Ghost’s native features, including memberships, tiers, comments, recommendations, search, announcement bars, and public previews for members-only content. Fully compatible with Ghost 6.0+, Drift provides a solid foundation for modern publishing with everything you need to create, manage, and grow your site with ease.

All Theme Features

  • Supports Ghost built-in features
  • Clean, modern, and fully responsive design
  • Lightweight structure with high performance
  • Built-in Ghost portal and memberships support
  • Built-in Search, Announcement bar, and Recommendations support
  • Easy customization via Ghost Admin (20+ custom settings)
  • SEO optimized
  • Built with accessibility best practices
  • Custom accent color
  • Publication icon support
  • Publication cover support
  • Publication logo support
  • Publication secondary logo support (dark mode)
  • 4+ Color schemes (Light, Dark, Olive, and Harbor)
  • Custom fonts (Local fonts, Ghost, and System)
  • Translation ready (EN, ES, FR, PT-BR, DE, IT, and AR included)
  • Automatic dark mode based on system preferences
  • Primary and secondary navigation
  • Dropdown navigation
  • Advanced Homepage and Hero style
  • Responsive images with AVIF and WebP support
  • Public preview for members-only posts
  • 3+ Post/Page templates (Classic, Modern (default), and Split)
  • Custom tag page
  • Custom author page
  • Custom 404 page
  • Multiple authors support
  • Editor Cards support
  • Custom Upgrade CTA for members and tiers
  • Image zoom in post view (Lightbox)
  • Responsive videos and tables
  • Share (built-in)
  • Native comments support
  • Advanced related posts section
  • 30+ Social links supported
  • Custom footer description
  • Custom footer copyright
  • Step-by-step documentation for easy setup
  • Fast & friendly support and regular updates

Credits

All the text in the demo version has been generated using ChatGPT. All photos are sourced from Unsplash.