Pathmark

Pathmark is a modern full-width Ghost theme for travel blogs, hiking journals, destination guides, outdoor magazines, creators, newsletters, and member-driven publications. It includes configurable homepage hero styles, a featured post hero slider, one-row featured posts, sortable and filterable post grids, custom archive pages, topic and author directories, custom auth and share modals, Ghost Members support, Ghost native comments, local browser reactions, responsive image handling, tone-based design variants, and Ghost Design & branding controls.

General Features

• Ready for Ghost 6.x
• Requires Ghost 5.0 or later
• Full-width editorial design for travel, hiking, and outdoor publications
• Lightweight Ghost Handlebars theme structure
• Fully responsive desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts
• Mobile burger navigation
• Primary and secondary navigation support
• Ghost Search button support
• Ghost Portal and Members support
• Ghost native comments support
• Ghost GScan compatible
• SEO-friendly Ghost template structure
• Responsive images and configured image sizes
• Ghost card assets enabled
• Minimal framework-free JavaScript
• Dockerfile included
• GitLab CI/CD configuration included

Homepage Features

• Configurable hero style: Immersive or Editorial Split
• Featured post hero slider
• Configurable hero carousel post count
• Manual previous, next, and dot controls
• Hero title and description fallback settings
• Join the publication CTA with custom signup modal
• Popular topic pills section
• One-row Featured Posts section
• Configurable featured post count
• Responsive latest posts grid
• Configurable homepage post count
• Post sorting by newest, oldest, reading time, or title
• Homepage sidebar article list
• Newsletter signup section
• Configurable promotional image and text block
• Pagination support

Post Features

• Creative editorial post hero with feature image support
• Primary tag badge
• Post title and custom excerpt support
• Author list, publish date, and reading time
• Responsive Koenig editor content
• Normal, wide, and full-width card support
• Author and tag footer
• Related posts by primary tag
• Member-only content CTA
• Reaction row with Like, Dislike, Comment, and Share
• Like and Dislike are mutually exclusive
• Clicking the active reaction clears it
• Reaction counters saved per post in localStorage
• Comment button opens a comments modal
• Share button opens a custom share modal
• Share modal includes Copy link, X, LinkedIn, Email, and native share

Members & Subscriptions

• Ghost Members support
• Custom signup and signin modal
• Header Sign in and Sign up actions open the custom auth modal
• Footer Portal, Sign in, Sign up, and logged-out Account actions open the custom auth modal
• Signed-in Account link opens Ghost account portal
• Custom membership page
• Member-ready navigation and CTAs
• Newsletter signup section
• Footer subscription call-to-action

Custom Pages

• Custom All Posts page
• Custom Membership page
• Custom Contact page
• Custom Topics page
• Custom Authors page
• Custom Recommendations page
• Custom Documentation page
• Default page template
• Tag archive template
• Author archive template
• Post template
• Error page template

Archive & Directory Features

• All Posts page with topic filtering
• All Posts page sorting by newest, oldest, reading time, or title
• Topics directory with tag images, descriptions, and post counts
• Authors directory with profile images, bios, and post counts
• Tag archive pages with tag hero image support
• Author archive pages with author profile details
• Responsive archive post grids

Design & Branding Options

• Site width control
• Custom display site name
• Theme tone setting: Custom, Alpine, Coast, Forest, or Editorial
• Website background color picker
• Body text color picker
• Button background color picker
• Post badge background color picker
• Hero style setting
• Hero title setting
• Hero description setting
• Featured posts count setting
• Hero carousel post count setting
• Homepage post count setting
• Promotional image setting
• Promotional text setting
• Publication logo support

Tone & DNS Switching

• Theme tone can be selected from Ghost Design & branding
• Automatic hostname-based tone switching included
• Default domain: blog-pathmark.ghostheme.com
• Coast tone domain: blog-pathmark-coast.ghostheme.com
• Alpine tone domain: blog-pathmark-alpine.ghostheme.com
• Forest tone domain: blog-pathmark-forest.ghostheme.com
• Editorial tone domain: blog-pathmark-editorial.ghostheme.com

Travel & Hiking Use Cases

• Destination blogs
• Hiking route journals
• Outdoor travel magazines
• Adventure newsletters
• Local guide publications
• Food and culture travel blogs
• Membership-based travel communities
• Creator-led travel publications

Performance & Testing

• Lightweight Handlebars templates
• Minimal framework-free JavaScript
• CSS-based responsive layout behavior
• Ghost image size configuration included
• Ghost card assets enabled
• Validated with Ghost GScan
• Compatible with Ghost 6.x

Deployment & Development

• Docker deployment setup included
• Custom Docker entrypoint included
• GitLab CI/CD deployment setup included
• Theme ZIP build script included
• GScan test script included

Compatibility Notes

• Requires Ghost 5.0 or later
• Tested for Ghost 6.x compatibility
• Uses Ghost Portal for member account management
• Uses Ghost Members forms for custom signup and signin modals
• Uses Ghost Design & branding custom settings
• Uses Ghost Search through data-ghost-search buttons
• Works with modern desktop and mobile browsers

Development Commands

npm install npm test npm run zip