Configuration
Theme settings
Fold keeps its own settings list short on purpose — three toggles, not thirty. Everything else about its look is either a fixed part of the design system (see Customization for how to override it anyway) or comes from settings Ghost already gives every theme.
Fold's theme settings
Found in Ghost Admin under Settings → Design and branding → Theme settings, once Fold is active.
| Setting | Group | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Show publication intro |
Homepage | Boolean | On | Shows your publication's title, description, and a Subscribe button above the post feed. Turn it off if you'd rather the dispatch feed start immediately with no banner above it. |
Paywall text |
Post | Text | "Become a subscriber to read this post and get full access to every future issue." | The line shown inside the red fold-paywall section on gated posts, under the "This post is for subscribers" headline. |
Email signup text |
Post | Text | "Enjoyed this? Subscribe to get every new post in your inbox." | Heading shown above the Subscribe button at the bottom of free posts, for visitors who aren't members yet. Doesn't appear on gated posts (the paywall CTA covers that) or to visitors who are already members. |
Ghost settings that affect Fold
These live outside the theme settings panel, in Ghost's general admin settings, but change how Fold actually renders.
| Setting | Where | Effect on Fold |
|---|---|---|
| Publication logo & title | Settings → General | Used in the masthead. With no logo set, Fold falls back to a text wordmark using your publication title. |
| Navigation (primary + secondary) | Settings → Navigation | Primary nav renders in the masthead, secondary in the footer. Keep it short — Fold wraps nav links into a plain row rather than collapsing to a hamburger menu, by design. |
| Heading & body fonts | Settings → Design and branding → Brand | Fold reads Ghost's font picker directly, so choosing a different heading/body font here does change Fold's typography. See Fonts. |
| Accent color | Settings → Design and branding → Brand | Has no effect on Fold. See the note below. |
| Membership & Tiers | Settings → Membership | Required for the paywall to do anything at all — see Turning on Members and Tiers. |
Fold's palette (ink, paper, and the one signal-red used at the paywall) is fixed by design, not driven by Ghost's Accent Color picker. This is deliberate — the theme's whole premise is that red means exactly one thing, everywhere, and letting it be recolored by a general "brand color" setting would undercut that. If you want to change it anyway, that's supported through code injection — see CSS variables.