Daybreak

Daybreak is a Ghost theme with photographic covers, series grids, galleries and a full-screen image viewer. It suits photographers, illustrators, painters, studios and collectives presenting work in image series.

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Best for
Photographers, illustrators, painters, photography studios and artist collectives
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
Series and field notes
Post
Portrait cover
Project
Sequence
Project
Standard pages
Detail
Work
Work
Journal
Journal
About
About
Subject pages
Archive
Author pages
Archive
404
Utility
Error
Utility

Design controls

Palette and accents
Choose White, Fog, Night or Follow system, with blue accents or your site accent color.
Cover
Choose Photograph or Text only and Tall or Full screen height, then edit the cover statement and introduction.
Home sections
Show or hide featured series and recent journal posts.
Contact sheet
Choose Two, Three or Four columns and Landscape 4:3, Square or Uncropped photographs.
Post details
Toggle the full-screen photo viewer, next-series link, post signup and author box.
Newsletter and credit
Edit the signup heading and text, and show or hide the theme credit.

Features

  • Full-bleed home cover from your publication cover image, with a cover statement and a longer introduction below.
  • Up to four featured series displayed as large alternating strips.
  • Contact sheets with two, three or four columns and landscape, square or uncropped images.
  • Series layouts with an HTML facts row, galleries, full-bleed photographs and a next-series link with its photograph.
  • Full-screen image and gallery viewer with captions, image counts, arrow-key navigation and Escape to close.
  • Portrait cover and Sequence post templates for upright covers and full-width photo essays.
  • Field notes tagged #journal, a dedicated Journal page and the three newest notes on the home page.
  • Work page template with subject counts and a contact sheet, plus an About template with an image beside the text.
  • Seventeen custom settings, including White, Fog, Night and Follow system palettes.
  • Member signup through theme forms and Portal, with sign-in and account links.
  • Members-only, paid and tier-specific posts with access labels and a call to action for restricted content.
  • Newsletter signup on the home page, at the end of posts and above the footer on other pages.
  • Ghost’s built-in search and native comments, with comments styled to follow the palette.
  • Responsive images, styles for every editor card, translatable theme text and one small theme script for the full-screen viewer.

What the download includes

  • The package contains Handlebars templates and partials, the theme stylesheet and the lightbox.js script.
  • Manrope 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 daybreak-1.0.0.zip and click Activate.
  3. Open Settings → Design & branding → Customize, then add a wide Publication cover under Brand, at least 2000 pixels across.
  4. Publish Work at work with the Work template, then Journal at journal with the Journal template and About at about with the About template.
  5. Create ordinary Contact and Credits pages.
  6. Add Work, Journal, About and Contact to primary navigation, and your subjects to secondary navigation.

Daybreak by Peachfin Themes presents image series through a full-bleed publication cover, a personal statement and up to four featured series in alternating strips. A contact sheet shows your newest series, with adjustable columns and crops. Three recent field notes and a newsletter band complete the home page.

Each series brings together a cover photograph, a row of facts, galleries and full-bleed images. The Portrait cover template places the title beside an upright photograph, while Sequence displays photographs full width, one after another. Readers can open photographs in a full-screen viewer with keyboard controls and follow a next-series link.

Work, Journal and About templates organise your portfolio, field notes and introduction. Seventeen custom settings control the layout, palettes and display options. Daybreak supports Ghost members, Portal signup, restricted posts, newsletters, built-in search and native comments, with responsive images, styles for every editor card and theme text prepared for translation.

Daybreak suits landscape, travel, documentary, architecture and interiors photographers; wedding and portrait photographers showing series; studios and collectives; and illustrators and painters presenting finished work. Its layouts also suit anyone who presents work as series of images with short writing. The demo’s coast-and-high-country portfolio is one example of how to use them.

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