Getting started

Build your first theme, find your way around the builder, and move from Fantasma 1.

Fantasma is a visual builder for Ghost themes. You design every page of your site on one canvas, from sections and blocks, and Fantasma turns the result into a theme file that Ghost runs. Your posts, members and newsletters stay in Ghost, and the theme decides how they look.

These articles take you from a new account to your own design on your Ghost site, and name the parts of the builder you will use every day.

The Fantasma builder with the templates on the left, the home page on the canvas and its settings on the right

Where to start

Build your first Ghost theme

One path from a new account to your own design on your Ghost site, with a link to the details of each step.

How Fantasma works with Ghost

What lives in Fantasma, what stays in Ghost Admin, and how the theme file gets from one to the other.

The builder

The parts of the editor screen, from the icon rail on the left to the right sidebar, and what each one is for.

Templates, sections and blocks

The parts a theme is built from, which one holds which, and where patterns and custom blocks come in.