Homepage & gallery

The Silverpoint homepage is a gallery grid of your published posts, led by their feature images. The design starts from the photograph and builds outward: a dark stage, a configurable grid, and a short intro line above it. Navigation is minimal and present when needed.

The gallery grid

The homepage renders your published posts as a grid of feature images. Each cell shows the post’s feature image, and clicking through opens the full post. Posts without feature images are still included but display a placeholder background.

The density of the grid is controlled by the grid_density setting in Settings → Design → Customize:

• Spacious — one or two images per row, large and given room to breathe. Best for a fine-art portfolio or a publication that publishes infrequently at a high standard.
• Balanced — the default. A moderate grid that works for most photography journals and is the starting point recommended for new installations.
• Dense — more images per row. Best for high-frequency publishers or archives where the reader is scanning for a specific photograph.

Note

Adjust grid_density to suit the pace and volume of your publication. A photographer publishing a single image a week reads very differently at Dense than at Spacious.

The dark stage

color_scheme defaults to Dark. The dark background is an intentional design decision: it reduces the visual competition between the interface and the photographs, and it matches the context in which most photography is presented — gallery walls, darkrooms, editing software. The homepage grid benefits from this framing.

To change the color scheme, go to Settings → Design → Customize and select Light or Auto.

Homepage intro

The homepage_intro line appears beneath your site title, above the gallery grid. The default is “A journal of light, land and the quiet hour.” Set it to a precise, plain sentence about your publication.

If homepage_intro is left blank, the subtitle area does not render — the site title stands directly above the grid.

Navigation

Silverpoint maps your Ghost primary navigation to the header. The header shows your site title and any links configured in Settings → Navigation. Keep the primary navigation short — the header is not designed for long link lists.

Secondary navigation, if configured, appears in the site footer.