Can I use a custom theme on the Starter plan?

Short answer: yes, with an add-on.

Custom themes — anything you bought, downloaded, or wrote yourself — are included on the Pro plan. The Starter plan runs the Magic Pages exclusive themes and Ghost's official ones.

Adding custom themes to Starter

If you're on Starter and want to upload your own theme, you can add custom themes to your plan without moving to Pro. It's a separate add-on that follows your billing cycle: monthly, yearly, or a one-off payment on lifetime plans. You'll see the current price in the customer portal when you add it.

Or just move to Pro

Worth comparing before you decide. Alongside custom themes, Pro gives you:

• 10,000 emails a month instead of 2,000
• 200 MB file uploads instead of 128 MB
• The worldwide CDN

Depending on how close you are to your email limit, upgrading can work out better than the add-on.

Not sure if your theme counts as custom?

Send it over and I'll tell you. If it's one of ours, or one of Ghost's, you don't need anything extra.