Introduction to Patron

Patron is a theme that lets you create a content and membership site. In essence, it's like hosting an independent Patreon, where your fans/community can pay to access your member-only content, but on your own domain, on a platform you control.

You can charge monthly or yearly memberships and create member-only content for your paying subscribers.

Ghost also includes newsletters so you can send out your posts over email.

With Patron+Ghost, you can put content from any platform behind a paywall, including:

• text- and image-based posts
• early previews of your YouTube videos
• email newsletters
• extended or secret podcast episodes
• member-only AMAs and discussions
• and more!

Features

• the homepage is a place to explain your content and memberships, with content available on /posts/
• member-only posts are locked from visitors
• multiple prompts to become a paying member
• supports free and paid memberships
• customisable home page
• customisable post list: easily show or hide authors, primary tags and reading time
• automatic dark mode
• icons and labels show current user's access
• built-in optional commenting with Cove
• easy-to-edit HTML-based theme files