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Side Quest

Side Quest is a Ghost theme with a dated timeline, square photos and numbered entry checkpoints. It suits hobbyists, personal journals, project diaries, learning logs, newsletters and small publications.

$47 USD

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Best for
Hobby logs, personal journals, project diaries, learning logs, newsletters and small publications
Platform
Ghost
Status
On sale
Price
$47 USD
Version
1.0.1
License
Ghost edition: Peachfin Themes Ghost License, included as LICENSE
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code

Page inventory

Home
Home
Entries
Post
Standard pages
Detail
Log index
Archive
Archive
Archive
Category pages
Archive
Author pages
Archive
404
Utility
Error
Utility

Design controls

Palette and rail
Choose Paper, After dark or Follow system, and use violet or your site's accent color for the rail, links and buttons.
Highlights and spacing
Toggle lime highlights, choose Compact, Comfortable or Spacious spacing, and use square or rounded photo corners.
Masthead
Set the home kicker, heading, highlighted words and introduction, and show or hide category links.
Timeline
Choose Alternate, Every photo or Text only, set thumbnail size, and toggle sticky margin dates and sheet numbers.
Entry details
Toggle numbered checkpoints, author bylines and nearby entries from the same category.
Footer
Edit the footer note and show or hide the Side Quest credit.

Features

  • Dated homepage timeline with margin dates and sheet-style page numbers.
  • Alternating square photos, photos on every entry with an image, or text-only timelines.
  • Numbered checkpoints for second-level headings within entries.
  • Category shelves and dedicated Log index and Archive page templates.
  • Nineteen custom settings, including Paper, After dark and Follow system palette options.
  • Header membership links and footer email signup through Ghost Portal.
  • Members-only, paid and tier-specific entries with labels and a locked-content call to action.
  • Newsletter preferences managed through Portal.
  • Header button for Ghost’s built-in search.
  • Native Ghost comments that follow the selected palette.
  • Responsive images from 200 to 2000 pixels wide, with lazy-loaded timeline photos.
  • Styles for every Ghost editor card, including wide and full-width content.
  • All theme text collected in a translation file.
  • No theme JavaScript, with CSS handling sticky dates, highlights and checkpoint numbers.

What the download includes

  • The ZIP includes Handlebars templates, partials and the theme stylesheet.
  • DM Sans and Fira Code font files include their SIL Open Font License text in OFL.txt files.
  • locales/en.json contains the English theme strings for translation.
  • README.md, CHANGELOG.md and LICENSE provide setup instructions, release notes and the Peachfin Themes Ghost License.

Setup

  1. Use Ghost 6.0 or later, then open Settings → Design & branding → Change theme → Upload theme in Ghost Admin.
  2. Upload side-quest-1.0.1.zip and click Activate.
  3. Open Settings → Design & branding → Customize to adjust the theme settings.
  4. Use each post's first tag as its category, and give category tags descriptions so they appear as shelves.
  5. Create and publish pages using the Log index and Archive templates, with excerpts and optional introductory text.
  6. Add Log, By category, Archive and About in Settings → Navigation, and put footer links in secondary navigation.

Side Quest by Peachfin Themes arranges entries along a violet timeline, with dates in the margin, lime highlights and square photos alternating with text-only notes. A compact masthead introduces the site, and numbered sheets organise the timeline into pages of ten entries.

Inside each entry, second-level headings become numbered checkpoints along a vertical rail. Category shelves group entries by tag, while dedicated Log index and Archive templates give readers more ways to browse. Nineteen custom settings control the palette, masthead, spacing, photos and entry details.

Side Quest supports Ghost members, Portal signup, newsletter preferences, built-in search and native comments. Members-only and paid entries include a call to action for locked content. Responsive images, styles for every editor card and translatable theme text support varied publishing needs, with no theme JavaScript.

Side Quest suits hobby logs, personal journals, project diaries and learning logs that combine dated notes, photos and longer entries. Its category shelves, archive and membership features also suit newsletters and small publications whose readers browse by subject, follow ongoing work or subscribe to members-only and paid entries.

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