Zap

Zap is a minimal, performance-focused theme for Ghost, built to demonstrate Ghost's baseline performance without the overhead of heavy images, scripts, or large assets.

Demo: https://zap.ghost.io

Instructions

1. Download this theme
2. Log into Ghost, and go to the Design settings area to upload the zip file

Development

Zap is intentionally small. You can edit the Handlebars templates in the theme root and the stylesheet in /assets/screen.css.

From the theme's root directory:

# Enable the package manager pinned in package.json
corepack enable

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Check theme compatibility
pnpm test

Contribution

If you're looking to contribute or raise an issue, head over to the TryGhost/Zap repository.

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.