Creator — Building a Ghost Theme (Work Log)

Building Creator, a free open-source multipurpose Ghost theme — documented step by step, in the open.

Build log 02 Jul 2026 1 min read

Part 2 — Navigating the Ghost admin panel

Before touching code, I toured the admin so I know where everything the theme reads actually comes from.

Posts / Pages — content the theme renders.
Tags — the backbone of Creator's collections (internal #hash tags vs public tags).
Settings → Design — brand, navigation, theme upload.
Settings → Labs — routes.yaml + redirects upload, import/export.

Settings → Design → Change theme → Installed. Themes live on disk in content/themes/.

Ghost caches the templates map — new .hbs files need a ghost restart before they're picked up.