Every address on your Ghost site shows one template from your theme. For each kind of page, Ghost checks the templates in a fixed order and takes the first one your theme has. Knowing the order tells you which template to edit when a page doesn't look the way you expect.
The template for each address
The table uses the names Fantasma shows in the Templates list in the left sidebar. A template you added sits under the template it is based on, such as /about under Page. Templates lists every kind and how to add it. Your Ghost site uses a template once you publish your theme or upload it again.
Address
Ghost uses the first of these that exists
The front page, /
Homepage
The next pages of your main post list, /page/2/ and on
Collections, the template of your main post list
A post, /slow-living/
A Post template for its slug, or a custom template a writer chose for it in Ghost Admin. Then a Post template for one of its internal tags. Then Post.
A page, /about/
A Page template for its slug, /about, or a custom template chosen in Ghost. Then a Page template for one of its internal tags. Then Page.
A tag, /tag/travel/
A Tag template for that tag, /travel. Then Tag.
An author, /author/sarah/
An Author template for that author, /sarah. Then Author.
A collection you added, a second post list at /projects/
That collection's template, Projects, listed under Collections
An error, a page that doesn't exist
The error page for that error, such as 404 Error for a missing page or 5xx Error for a server error. Then Error. Then Ghost's own error page, because a new project has no error template.
Your main post list starts at /, where Homepage shows instead of its first page. To give the list its own address, select Collections and enter a Path in the right sidebar, such as blog. The list at /blog/ then uses Collections, and / keeps Homepage.
Templates for a tag
A template for an internal tag shapes every post or page that has that tag. It does not change the tag's own page, /tag/review/, which uses Tag. When a post has two tags that each have a template, the template whose tag name comes first in alphabetical order wins. A post with #news and #review gets the #news template.
Tag templates use internal tags, the Ghost tags whose names start with #. Visitors never see them. Give posts with a tag their own design shows how to set one up.
Where to change each part
A template holds the sections of the page itself. The header, the footer and the dialogs, such as the menu that opens on phones, come from the template's layout, which wraps every template that uses it. When the part you want to change sits on every page, change the layout. Change the header and footer on every page explains layouts.
Every address on your Ghost site shows one template from your theme. For each kind of page, Ghost checks the templates in a fixed order and takes the first one your theme has. Knowing the order tells you which template to edit when a page doesn't look the way you expect.
The template for each address
The table uses the names Fantasma shows in the Templates list in the left sidebar. A template you added sits under the template it is based on, such as
/aboutunder Page. Templates lists every kind and how to add it. Your Ghost site uses a template once you publish your theme or upload it again.//page/2/and on/slow-living//about//about, or a custom template chosen in Ghost. Then a Page template for one of its internal tags. Then Page./tag/travel//travel. Then Tag./author/sarah//sarah. Then Author./projects/Your main post list starts at
/, where Homepage shows instead of its first page. To give the list its own address, select Collections and enter a Path in the right sidebar, such asblog. The list at/blog/then uses Collections, and/keeps Homepage.Templates for a tag
A template for an internal tag shapes every post or page that has that tag. It does not change the tag's own page,
/tag/review/, which uses Tag. When a post has two tags that each have a template, the template whose tag name comes first in alphabetical order wins. A post with#newsand#reviewgets the#newstemplate.Tag templates use internal tags, the Ghost tags whose names start with
#. Visitors never see them. Give posts with a tag their own design shows how to set one up.Where to change each part
A template holds the sections of the page itself. The header, the footer and the dialogs, such as the menu that opens on phones, come from the template's layout, which wraps every template that uses it. When the part you want to change sits on every page, change the layout. Change the header and footer on every page explains layouts.
To make a page that no built-in template covers, see Design one post, page, tag or author on its own, Let writers choose a template in Ghost, and Create a part of your site with its own URL.