Change subscribe button top right in theme Headline

Mariska · February 2, 2026, 9:56am

Hi there,

I am building my site in the headline theme and already found out how to change the text in the subscription part at the bottom of all pages. But I also want to change the texts at the top of every page. It now says ‘sign in’ and ‘subscribe’ and I would like to translate that in Dutch, as my whole site is in Dutch. Anyone knows how to fix that?

Thank you! Mariska

gdfi · February 25, 2026, 4:39pm

Looks like that’s hard-coded in the theme

github.com/TryGhost/Headline

default.hbs

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          <div class="gh-head-actions">
              {{#unless @site.members_enabled}}
                  {{^match @custom.navigation_layout "Stacked"}}
                      <button class="gh-search gh-icon-btn" aria-label="Search this site" data-ghost-search>{{> "icons/search"}}</button>
                  {{/match}}
              {{else}}
                  <button class="gh-search gh-icon-btn" aria-label="Search this site" data-ghost-search>{{> "icons/search"}}</button>
                  <div class="gh-head-members">
                      {{#unless @member}}
                          {{#unless @site.members_invite_only}}
                              <a class="gh-head-link" href="#/portal/signin" data-portal="signin">Sign in</a>
                              <a class="gh-head-btn gh-btn gh-primary-btn" href="#/portal/signup" data-portal="signup">Subscribe</a>
                          {{else}}
                              <a class="gh-head-btn gh-btn gh-primary-btn" href="#/portal/signin" data-portal="signin">Sign in</a>
                          {{/unless}}
                      {{else}}
                          <a class="gh-head-btn gh-btn gh-primary-btn" href="#/portal/account" data-portal="account">Account</a>
                      {{/unless}}
                  </div>
              {{/unless}}
          </div>

you can edit that line or add a custom variable in package.json under custom and use it in that place

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Change subscribe button top right in theme Headline

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