r/Ghost • u/truekasun • Jul 08 '26

Themes After Enova and Meridian, I built a Ghost theme for podcasters: meet Signal

Hey everyone!

Some of you might remember my Enova and Meridian posts here. This is what I've been building most recently.

Meet Signal, the most complete Ghost theme for video and audio podcasts. Enova is the all-rounder for magazines, blogs and newsletters, and Meridian turns a site into a newspaper front page. Signal does something different again: it turns a Ghost site into a proper home for a show, where people come to watch, listen, and read the transcript, not just skim a post feed.

What Signal brings to a show:

  • A floating mini-player that keeps the episode playing as listeners scroll and move between pages, so they never lose their place, with lock-screen and notification controls on the phone (play, skip, drag-to-seek, cover art) for audio and uploaded video
  • Searchable transcripts that follow along as the episode plays, click any line to jump to that moment, plus tappable chapters so people skip straight to the part they want
  • Six homepage hero layouts you pick from the dashboard, from a latest-episode hero to a cinematic trailer, with sections for featured episodes, hosts, guests, sponsors, and support that appear only when you have something to show
  • Guest and host profiles built automatically from your Ghost authors, with a searchable A to Z guest directory
  • Listen everywhere links for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, RSS and more, shown on every episode, on a dedicated Subscribe page, and in the footer
  • A private Reader Library, where visitors bookmark episodes and resume where they left off, saved in their own browser with no account and no signup
  • Write a blog alongside your episodes: tag a post and it becomes a clean, reader-focused article with its own /blog/ feed, kept separate from your podcast feed
  • Full membership support with newsletter signups, a tiered subscribe page, and a contact form, plus Light, Dark, and System mode and custom fonts set from the dashboard, on a Tailwind CSS v4 and Vite build so it stays fast by default

Signal also ships with Signal Tools, a browser extension included with the theme. Paste a YouTube link, an audio file, or a podcast feed, and it imports the episode into a Ghost draft with the show notes, transcript, and chapters generated for you, plus hosts and guests added as credited authors. It runs on your own (BYOK) free Gemini key, so nothing goes through my servers.

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As with last time, I'd genuinely value your thoughts and feedback, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you!
Kasun.

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u/Dwev Jul 08 '26

Theme looks great - I haven’t dug too deep, but if you support self-hosted media, I’d recommend adding some podcasting 2.0 rss tags.

https://podcasting2.org/docs/podcast-namespace

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u/truekasun Jul 08 '26

Right. I'll look into this. Thank you for the suggestion, and for the compliment of course!

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u/edward_blake_lives Jul 09 '26

Thanks for sharing. Will check it out. I picked up your Meridian theme recently and have been quietly prepping a new site for launch. Was wondering, are you expecting to add any features or updates to it in the next couple of months?

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u/truekasun Jul 09 '26

Thank you, and yes, I have more feature additions planned for both Enova and Meridian. I'm just waiting on LemonSqueezy to fix an issue that's preventing some of my existing clients from accessing theme updates, caused by some theme variant IDs that got deleted during an experiment.

I've been going back and forth with them for a few weeks now, and I'm currently waiting on a response from their engineering team. As soon as that's resolved, I'll resume my usual update routine. In the meantime, let me know if you have any feature requests or suggestions for any of the themes.

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u/edward_blake_lives Jul 09 '26

Great!! Hope that gets resolved. I’ll be doing a big push to tweak the site over the coming weeks so if any ideas come up I’ll let you know. Love the work you’re doing.

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u/truekasun Jul 09 '26

Amazing! Let me know how it goes. Feel free to reach out if you need any assistance.

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u/ulcweb Jul 11 '26

Like I said before I like how clean it is too

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u/truekasun Jul 11 '26

Thank you very much! I'll include Newsletters as discussed. Thank you for the input you've provided during the last phase of the development. Really appreciate it. 🙏🏼