Open sourcing Chapter

Chapter is now open source. The theme, its build tooling, and documentation live on GitHub under the MIT license — free to use, modify, and ship on your own Ghost site.

The latest release is still Chapter 1.6.0, built for Ghost 6.0 and later. Nothing about how the theme works has changed; only how you get it.

Where to find it

• Source: github.com/mneveroff/ghost-chapter
• Demo: ghost-chapter.neveroff.dev
• License: MIT — see the repo’s LICENSE and NOTICE.md for upstream attributions (Dawn and Journal)

What you can do with it

• Download or clone the repo and build chapter.zip yourself
• Fork it, customise it, and run it on any Ghost 6 instance
• Read the source, open issues, or send pull requests on GitHub

There is no purchase step and no license key. If you already run Chapter 1.6.0, you do not need to change anything on your site.

Getting started

1. Clone the repo (or download a release zip from GitHub).
2. Install dependencies with pnpm (pnpm install).
3. Build the theme zip (pnpm run zip) — output is dist/chapter.zip.
4. In Ghost Admin, go to Settings → Design, upload the zip, and activate Chapter.

You need Node.js 22+ to build the theme, and Ghost 6 to run it. See the README for development and upgrade notes.

Under the hood

Alongside open-sourcing, I tidied the dev setup: dependency updates, Gulp 5, pnpm 11, and a CI workflow that runs GScan on every push. The theme itself is the same 1.6.0 you already know — Ghost 6 API limits, chapter navigation, post metadata, and the rest.

Shorter than 1.6.0 on purpose; say if you want a “What’s in Chapter” paragraph or a line calling out that commercial sales are over.