Changelog
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2.0.0 · 20 October 2026
A full rebuild for Ghost 6. New code, new design and new settings. Requires Ghost 6.0 or later.
New
- Full-screen cover homepage with your own heading, and a choice of how dark the photo is behind the text
- Five colour schemes: Light, Dark, System, Pastel and Bold
- Three post layouts: Default, Cover and Split
- Topic cards on the homepage, using each tag's own colour
- Featured post banner above the feed
- Newsletter sign-up band, where readers can pick which newsletters they get
- Grid or classic layout for post lists
- Authors, Topics and Subscribe page templates, plus an optional
routes.yaml - Dropdown menus from Ghost's normal navigation
- Separate logo for dark backgrounds and cover photos
- Ghost's native comments, with Disqus as an option
- Styles for every card in Ghost's editor
- All theme text in one translation file
- 17 settings in Ghost Admin, no code needed
Changed
- Scripts load only on pages that use them
- Readable CSS and JavaScript source, with build scripts, included in the zip
- Passes Ghost's GScan check for Ghost 6
Removed
- jQuery, the Genericons icon font, and the old Google+ and Facebook comment systems
Stretch through the years
Stretch was first released in January 2014 for Ghost 0.4, one of the early commercial Ghost themes. It was updated through version 1.6.6 in 2020 for Ghost 3. In 2026 it was rebuilt from scratch for Ghost 6 as Stretch 2.0.
Stretch 1.x changelog (2014–2020)
1.6.6 · 21 September 2020
Works with Ghost 3.x. Secondary menu for social profiles.
1.5 · 9 October 2014
Meta title and description support. Post cover images. Combined CSS and scripts, updated icons, cleaner templates.
1.4 · 11 August 2014
Author template and multi-user support. CSS fixes.
1.3 · 9 April 2014
Tags on the front end. Fixed full-screen cover in Internet Explorer and styling in Firefox.
1.2 · 1 March 2014
Open Graph and Twitter Card support. Fixed featured image alignment.
1.1 · 28 January 2014
Ghost 0.4 support, page template, featured post styling, Google+ and Facebook comments, updated icon font and docs.
1.0 · 10 January 2014
First release.