Membership

Note

Quietus supports Ghost membership and Portal in full — sign-up, sign-in, free and paid post access all work. The theme is reading-first, not paywall-centric, so membership surfaces are present but understated. There is no pricing table on the homepage and no prominent subscribe call-to-action competing with your essays.

What works out of the box

• Readers can sign up and sign in via Ghost Portal.
• Posts set to Members only or a specific paid tier display a paywall to readers without access.
• The Portal trigger (account icon) is present in the header for signed-in readers.
• The /account/ route is styled to match the publication.

Setup

Quietus does not require any membership-specific theme configuration. Enable membership in Ghost Admin and the relevant surfaces activate automatically.

For full setup instructions — enabling members, creating tiers, connecting Stripe, and testing the sign-up flow — follow the shared steps in the Dispatch membership guide. Those steps are Ghost-level configuration and apply identically to Quietus.

Membership in a reading-first context

Quietus is designed for writers who want readers to pay to read, not to be sold to before they read. If your publication depends on visible subscription conversion surfaces on the homepage or at every scroll point, Dispatch is the more appropriate theme.

If you want a clean, unobtrusive membership setup where the work sells itself, Quietus handles it well.