The Dispatch

The Dispatch is a Ghost theme with newspaper layouts, section fronts, contributor credits and newsletter signup. It suits newsrooms, regional magazines, culture publications, school papers and trade journals.

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Best for
Newsrooms, regional magazines, culture publications, travel magazines, school papers and trade journals
Platform
Ghost
Status
On sale
Price
$47 USD
Version
1.0.0
License
Ghost edition: Peachfin Themes Ghost License, included as LICENSE
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code

Page inventory

Home
Home
Stories
Post
Photo essay
Post
Brief
Post
Standard pages
Detail
Masthead
About
Sections
Archive
Archive
Archive
Section pages
Archive
Author pages
Archive
404
Utility
Error
Utility

Design controls

Palette and accents
Choose Petrol, Newsprint, Night or Follow system, with brick red accents or your site accent color.
Header and issue
Choose Masthead or Compact, edit the issue label and note, and show or hide the issue band.
Home layout
Choose Front page, Cover and contents or Latest first, and lead with the latest featured post or latest post.
Home sections
Show or hide the photo pair, section columns, editor's note and newsletter band.
Story details
Choose Small caps, Drop cap or Plain openings, and toggle reading progress, author boxes and related stories.
Newsletter and credit
Edit the newsletter heading and text, and show or hide the theme credit.

Features

  • Three home layouts: Front page, Cover and contents, and Latest first.
  • Centred nameplate between double rules, with a dateline and optional issue label and note.
  • Front page lead headline beside a credited photograph, followed by four Latest headlines, a photo pair and six cards.
  • Cover story beneath a wide photograph, with five numbered contents entries and additional story rows.
  • Section fronts with descriptions and images, plus home page columns for the four largest sections.
  • Home page editor’s note drawn from the newest post tagged #editors-note.
  • Story credits beside the standfirst, multiple authors, author boxes and initial badges for authors without profile photographs.
  • Default, Photo essay and Brief post layouts; standard pages and Masthead, Sections and Archive page templates.
  • Nineteen custom settings, including Petrol, Newsprint, Night and Follow system palettes, header styles and story opening styles.
  • Member signup through theme forms and Portal, with calls to action for members-only, paid and tier-specific stories.
  • Newsletter signup on the home page, in stories and in the footer on other pages.
  • Ghost’s built-in search and native comments that follow the chosen palette.
  • Optional reading progress line and responsive images, with lazy loading for card photographs.
  • Styles for every Ghost editor card and an English language file containing every theme string for translation.

What the download includes

  • The package contains Handlebars templates and partials, the theme stylesheet and the progress.js script.
  • Roboto Condensed and The Dispatch Serif font files are bundled with their SIL Open Font License text.
  • English interface strings are supplied in locales/en.json.
  • README.md covers setup, CHANGELOG.md records releases, and LICENSE contains the Peachfin Themes Ghost License.

Setup

  1. Use Ghost 6.0 or later, and open Settings → Design & branding → Change theme → Upload theme in Ghost Admin.
  2. Upload the-dispatch-1.0.0.zip and click Activate.
  3. Open Settings → Design & branding → Customize to choose your theme settings.
  4. Publish an Archive page at archive with the Archive template, then create Masthead and Sections pages with their matching templates.
  5. Create ordinary About and Contact pages, then add primary navigation links and secondary links for the footer and phone menu.
  6. Give section tags descriptions and optional images, then tag an editor's letter with #editors-note to place it on the home page.

The Dispatch by Peachfin Themes opens with a centred nameplate between double rules and a dateline. The Front page layout places the lead headline beside a large photograph with its credit, followed by a Latest strip of four headlines, a photo pair and six story cards.

The Cover and contents layout pairs a wide cover photograph with numbered contents, while Latest first lists stories by date with photographs. Section fronts, columns for the four largest sections and a note from the editor organise the publication. Stories have a credits column beside the standfirst, serif reading text and support for multiple authors.

Built for Ghost 6 and later, The Dispatch supports member signup through forms and Portal, restricted stories with calls to action, built-in search and native comments. Newsletter signup appears on the home page, in stories and in the footer on other pages. Nineteen custom settings control the palettes, home layouts, header, story openings and other display options.

The Dispatch suits city and regional magazines, independent newsrooms, culture, travel and photography publications, school, university and community papers, and trade and member publications. Its section fronts, contributor credits and newsletter placements support any team that publishes stories in sections with a newsletter.

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