Ease - Ghost Theme Documentation

Table of Contents

Installation

When you purchase a theme from IVEEL, you will have an access to the theme directly on your account page. Once you click the download link, an installable theme file will be downloaded to your computer.

  1. Navigate to Settings > Design on your Ghost Admin (yourblog.com/ghost).
  2. Click Upload a theme and select the downloaded installable theme file.
  3. Click Activate Now to start using the theme.

Membership

  1. Navigate to Settings > Labs on your Ghost Admin.
  2. Enable the feature in Members > Enable members.
  3. Set your pricing in Members > Subscription pricing.
  4. Make sure Members > Allow free member signup is checked to allow free subscribers.
  5. To send signup and signin links, make sure you configured email settings in config.production.json file. You can read more on Ghost's documentation.
  6. To send newsletter (bulk email) to your subscribers, Ghost needs your Mailgun domain and API key. Insert them in Members > Email settings.
  7. Upload new routes in Beta features > Routes. The routes file routes.yaml is in the theme folder. It adds new routes to your blog which are used for signup, signin and account pages.

Note: Membership feature was introduced in Ghost v3 and it requires Ghost 3.x at least. Remember to restart your Ghost when you made a change in routes.

  1. Click Settings > Integrations > Custom integrations > Add custom integration to generate a new content API key.
  2. Enter an integration name (e.g. Search) and click Create.
  3. Copy Content API Key.
  4. Enter the key in partials/config.hbs file.
    search_key: 'CONTENT_API_KEY',

The theme generates an index of posts for highly performant search. The index is updated automatically when posts are added or updated. However, it isn't updated when posts are unpublished or deleted. To force update the index, increment the search index migration in partials/config.hbs file.

search_migration: 'v2',

Note: Remember to restart your Ghost when you made a change in hbs file.

  1. To feature a post, navigate to Stories on your Ghost Admin.
  2. Select the post you want to feature and click the settings icon on the top right corner.
  3. Scroll down the Post Settings menu and check Feature this post.
  1. To add tags to a post, navigate to Posts on your Ghost Admin.
  2. Select the post and click the settings icon on the top right corner.
  3. Add the tags in Tags field.

Disqus Comment

The theme has a built-in support for Disqus as a commenting system. Follow only these steps to setup Disqus. You don't need to follow the installation tutorial of Disqus on their site.

  1. Create a new site on your Disqus dashboard.
  2. Get your Disqus shortname. Please note that your Disqus shortname will be different than below.
  3. Insert the Disqus shortname in partials/config.hbs file.
    disqus_shortname: 'your_shortname',

Note: Remember to restart your Ghost when you made a change in hbs file.

Copyright Text

You can display some text on your blog's footer section. By default, it displays Powered by Ghost. To change the text, open partials/copyright.hbs file.

copyright: '© All rights reserved.',

You can also add some HTML markup.

copyright: '© All rights reserved. <a href="URL_HERE">More info</a>',

Note: Remember to restart your Ghost when you made a change in hbs file.

Add your social links in partials/config.hbs to display social links on your blog. All links must be full URL.

social_links: {
  facebook: 'https://www.facebook.com/iveelco',
  twitter: 'https://www.twitter.com/iveelco',
  instagram: '',
  dribbble: '',
  behance: '',
  github: '',
  linkedin: '',
  vk: '',
  rss: '',
},

Note: Remember to restart your Ghost when you made a change in hbs file.

Hosting Fonts Locally

  1. Click here to download the font files.
  2. Create a folder named fonts in assets directory.
  3. Unzip the downloaded file and copy the files to assets/fonts folder.
  4. Open default.hbs file and comment out the line (wrap inside {{!-- --}}) which embeds Google Fonts. You can search for "https://fonts.googleapis.com" to be more specific.
    {{!-- <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=..."> --}}
  5. Add the necessary CSS in Settings > Code injection > Site Header field.
    @font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-regular.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-italic.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-italic.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 500;
  src: url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-500.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-500.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-700.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-700.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-700italic.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('../fonts/roboto-v20-latin-700italic.woff') format('woff');
}

Hosting jQuery Locally

  1. Click here to download the latest version of jQuery.
  2. Save the file as jquery.min.js in assets/js folder.
  3. Open default.hbs file and search for "https://code.jquery.com" to find the <script> tag which embeds remote jQuery.
  4. Replace the entire <script>...</script> tag with:
    <script src="{{asset "js/jquery.min.js"}}"></script>