◇ Defalt

https://defalt.org

A visual theme editor for Ghost

Drag, drop, customize. Export when ready.

Defalt lets you customize the Ghost Source theme without touching code. See your changes live, rearrange sections, tweak colors, and download a ready-to-upload theme when you're done.

What you can do

• See changes instantly in a live preview
• Drag sections around to reorder them
• Show or hide sections per page type
• Write custom CSS (we'll tell you if something's wrong)
• Export a ZIP and upload it to Ghost

Contributions

Not accepting contributions right now. Check back later!

Can I self-host this?

Defalt is built as a platform, not a standalone tool. It runs alongside Ghost and uses Ghost's member authentication.

For local development:

cd dashboard
bun install
cp .env.example .env
bun run dev

Set VITE_DEV_BYPASS_AUTH=true in .env to skip auth during development.

License

Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2) - You can use, modify, and distribute the code, but you cannot offer it as a competing hosted service.