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Accent color is not applying

Section titled “Accent color is not applying”

Symptom: Changing the accent color in Ghost Admin has no visible effect, or the color shown in the theme does not match what you entered.

Causes and fixes:

  1. You may be setting the color in the wrong place. Ghost has a Brand color field under Settings → General that is separate from the Quietus accent_color theme setting. The theme setting in Settings → Design → Customize takes precedence and is the correct place to set the Quietus accent.
  2. Your browser may be serving a cached version of the site. Hard-refresh the page (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows) after saving the setting.
  3. If you entered a hex value, confirm it is a valid six-digit hex with a leading # (e.g. #a5552f).

Feature image appears at the top of every essay

Section titled “Feature image appears at the top of every essay”

Symptom: Feature images are showing in the essay view when you would prefer them not to.

Causes and fixes:

  1. show_feature_image is enabled (the default). Go to Settings → Design → Customize and disable it to suppress feature images across all posts.
  2. If you want to suppress the feature image on a single post rather than globally, open the post in the Ghost editor, go to the post settings panel, and remove the feature image from that post.

Dark mode is not activating

Section titled “Dark mode is not activating”

Symptom: The site appears in Light mode even though the reader’s system is set to dark.

Causes and fixes:

  1. color_scheme is set to Light (the default), which overrides the system preference. Go to Settings → Design → Customize and set color_scheme to Auto to follow the reader’s operating system, or to Dark to force the dark palette for all readers.
  2. If color_scheme is already set to Auto and the site still appears in Light mode, the issue is likely with the reader’s browser or system configuration, not the theme.

Theme upload is rejected by Ghost

Section titled “Theme upload is rejected by Ghost”

Symptom: Ghost Admin shows an error when you try to upload the theme .zip.

Causes and fixes:

The most common cause is uploading a folder or a double-nested archive. Ghost expects the .zip to contain the theme files at the top level, not inside a subfolder. Re-download the theme from your Gumroad receipt and upload that file directly without extracting or re-compressing it.