magicpages/pod

Pod is a theme for Ghost, the blogging and publishing platform, built specifically for people who run a podcast. Made by Magic Pages, it turns an ordinary Ghost site into a full podcast home without needing a separate podcast hosting service. The idea behind Pod is that your Ghost site becomes the podcast host itself. You upload your MP3 episode files to Ghost the same way you would any other file, add a few small text markers to each episode, and the theme generates a complete iTunes and Podcasting 2.0 compatible RSS feed automatically. You then submit that single feed link to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and other listening apps, and they read episodes straight from your own domain. There is no second platform to manage or pay for. On the front end, the theme gives each episode its own page with a built in audio player, a chapter list, and show notes, plus a dedicated subscribe page that links out to eleven to fifteen different podcast apps using the most direct link each app supports. The design includes light, dark, and system color modes, custom typography, and keeps the normal Ghost features working too, like comments, member accounts, paid tiers, and newsletter signup. Setting it up involves downloading the theme file from the project's releases page and uploading it inside Ghost's admin panel under design settings, then activating it. After that, a site owner fills in some podcast specific settings like the show's category and owner details, uploads a routing file so the podcast feed and subscribe page work, and tags podcast episodes with a specific internal tag so the theme knows which posts to include in the feed. Extra metadata for each episode, like duration or chapter markers, gets added through a code injection field Ghost already provides. The project is written using Handlebars, the templating language Ghost themes are built with, and it currently has 7 stars on GitHub. For local development, it works with any Ghost installation, either run directly or through Docker, and includes standard npm build commands.