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Getting Started
Blooria is a minimalist ghost theme crafted for influencers, bloggers, authors, marketers, and entrepreneurs. With a focus on crisp typography and unique styling will highlight your content beautifully and communicate an authentic and high-quality brand to your readers.
Support
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to send your questions to our support email: support@electronthemes.com Our support team will reply you within 6 hours.
Theme Setup
Blooria theme setup is very easy. If you have already installed a server for Ghost you can easily setup Blooria theme. If you don’t have server suported with Ghost, you can set up reading Ghost Install. When you have the server, follow the instructions for setting up the theme.
Upload the theme
You can upload the theme file from ghost dashboard. to do this
- Log in into your Ghost admin panel.
- Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Change Theme > Upload Theme > Upload
- Click Activate.

Uploading the theme via (FTP)
Follow the instructions
- Login to your FTP account.
- Unzip the blooria.zip file and copy blooria folder to your /ghost_installation/content/themes
- Restart your installation if necessary. You can ask for help from your hosting provider if you don’t know how to do this step.
- Login to your ghost admin panel.
- Go to settings (general) and select theme “Blooria“
- Click Save.
General Setup
Publication Info
To change publication info, go to Dashboard > General > Publication Info. Here you can change the following:
- Title
- Description
- Site Timezone
- Publication Language

Logo
We have used SVG Logo for the theme . You can change SVG Logo from Dashboard > Settings > Design > Brand > Publication Logo

Favicon Icon
Ghost shows his ghost logo in your site by default. You can change Favicon Icon or Publication Icon from Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Brand > Publication Icon

Publication Cover
You can use the publication in your native language. To change the language of your publication site, your theme must have support for translation. To change langauge:

Language
This is for showing the site bookmark images. If you upload a cover image, it will be in your site bookmark. Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Brand > Publication Cover
- Go to Settings > General > Publication Language and click on Expand
- Change the default language en with your language code
- You can find all the language code here: HTML Language Code Reference

Site Meta Settings
This is for Metadata. It will help to get on search using a search engine. You can add also Twitter and Facebook card images, content here.
You can add/edit the content from Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Meta Settings

Social Accounts
Social account section is for showing Facebook, Twitter links to your site. Go to Dashboard > Settings > Social Accounts

Navigation
Ghost only support two types of Navigation. Primary and Secondary Navigation Menu. On header, primary navigation is showing and On Footer secondary navigation is showing. Go to Dashboard > Settings > Navigation

Create a Post
Ghost has a beautiful dashboard design. You can easily create a post. Go to Dashboard > Posts > New Post
- Feature Image
- Post Title
- Post content
Create a page
As like as post, you can create a new page from Dashboard > Pages > New Page. You can add:
- Title
- Contents
- Tags
- Authors
- Feature Image
- Excerpt
- more…
Featured Post
Ghost has awesome featured posts option to show some of your chosen posts as featured for the visitors. To add a post as featured, go to Post > Settings and scroll down. Select the checkbox Feature this post

Create Tag
To create a new tag, go to Dashboard > Tags > New Tag
Create Author
You can create multiple author in your site from dashboard. Go to Dashboard > Settings > Stuff > Invite people
Click on Invite people and you will get a new popup. You have to add Email Address and select the staff Role. Lastly click on Send Invitation now button. An email notification will be sent to create an account on the specific Role.

Code Injection
Code injection is a great feature on Ghost. You can easily write styles and scripts for your site without editing the theme file. You can add various plugins code here like Google Analytics
Here you will two text fields for code injections. 1. Site Header and 2. Site Footer
- Site Header is for load the scripts or style in the header
- Site Footer will load the scripts or style in the footer
Go Dashboard > Settings > Code Injection

Integrations
Integrations are another cool feature of Ghost. You can connect a lot of third-party plugins or API using integrations. To check the integrations,
- Login to Admin panel
- Go to
Dashboard > Settings > Integrations.
- Click on
+ Add custom integration button
and add a name for creating integration - You can use Content API Key or Admin API Key or API URL

Labs
Labs is another very important and beta tester parts of Ghost. Here your will get some core features as follows: Go to Dashboard > Settings > Labs.
- Import Content
- Export your content
- Delete All Content
- Redirects
- Routes
Members
If you want to get subscriptions and paid customers, you can use Members option in this panel. When you click on this you will get in details
Migration Options
You will get some options here like Import content, export content and delete content options
Routes
Routes is another important part. When you want to use different path link or custom files for pages and different homepage, you can use routes.yaml file to do that. Here is default .yaml
for ghost.
routes:
collections:
/:
permalink: /{slug}/
template: index
taxonomies:
tag: /tag/{slug}/
author: /author/{slug}/
Header

For header, we have used {{> header}}
partials in folder partials/ header.hbs. In this file you can change the followings:
- Logo
- Primary Navigation
- Search
- Dark Light Icon
- Signin & Subscribe
Logo
You can change the site main logo follow the instruction: Settings > Design > Site Design > Brand > Publication Logo
Dark Logo Mode
If you want to use Dark logo, you can change it from your custom settings. You will find the settings :
Settings > Design > Site Design > Site-Wide > Dark Mode Logo

Primary Navigation
For Primary navigation, go to Dashboard > Design > Primary Navigation
Signin and Subscribe
Signin and Subscribe button is coming from partials/members/members-navigation.hbs
partials. If you want to change, edit the file members-navigation.hbs
If you want to remove membership menu, just remove this line {{> members/members-navigation}}
from partials/header.hbs file
Dark, Light and Auto Mode
We have used dark version by default. When you will install the theme file on your ghost server, you will get your website as dark version.
If you want to use Light and Auto version for default, you can change it from your custom settings. Auto version depend on your device color scheme mode. if the device has selected dark mode, you will get auto dark and device has selected light mode, you will get auto light. You will find the settings Settings > Design > Site Design > Site-WIde > Select Color Scheme

Footer

We used very minimal footer in our theme. You will get all footer code partials > footer.hbs file. Here are the following parts:
- Logo
- Secondary Menu
- Social Profiles
- Copyright text
Footer Logo
At footer, we have used same logo as like as header. If you want to change footer logo, go to logo.hbs
file. If you want to remove footer logo, edit footer.hbs file from partials folder.
Remove this
<div class="col-xl-2 col-lg-3"> <div class="f-logo"> {{> logo}} </div> </div>
Secondary Menu
You can add footer menu from Dashboard > Design > Secondary Menu
Social Profiles
Social profiles code are on social-profiles.hbs
file of partials folder. Faceboook and Twitter are from Dashboard > General > Social Accounts. Other social profiles/links can be changed at social-profiles.hbs file
If you want to add more icons you can do.
- Add svg icon in the social-icons folder partials > icons > social-icons
- Repeat this line
<li><a href="#">{{> icons/social-icons/linkedin}}</a></li>
- Change the icon name and link
Copyright text
You can change footer copyright text from Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Site-Wide > Site Footer

if you change the site footer box text . you will get the output on footer copyright text.

Homepage
In homepage, you will get some sections.
- Featured Slider
- Latest Posts
- Special Tags
- Popular Tags
- Subscribe
Featured Posts Slider

We have showed a slider on homepage will the featured posts. If you set a post as featured, it will be added automatically in the slider. See this section how to add featured post
Featured slider post limit is 5. If you want to increase or decrease post limit, go to partials/featured-slider.hbs and edit limit="5"
.
{{#get "posts" limit="5" filter="featured:true" include="authors,tags"}}
If you want to display off /on Featured Post Slider from homepage, please go to Settings > Design > Homepage > Show featured Post

Latest posts
You will get all latest posts at loop.hbs
file of partials folder
Pagination Type
If you want you can change the pagination type ( Button Mode default ) just select one. You will find the settings: :
Settings > Design > Homepage > pagination Type

Special Tags
We have used 2 special tags in special tags section. Edit the file special-tags.hbs
. You will get 2 special tags partials {{> tag-special-1}}
and {{> tag-special-2}}
I have used two special tags sports and food. To change the tag name go to tag-special-1.hbs
in the partials folder and edit the filter filter="tag:sports"
sports. You can change the name also at line number 4.
<h4 class="special-tags-title mb-50">{{t "#sports"}}</h4>
Popular Tags
Popular tags comes from popular-tags.hbs
file at partials folder. We have used 6 popular tags based on the number of posts. You can change the limit from the file. Change limit="6"
from line number 1 of popular-tags.hbs
file.
To change view all text and link go to line number 11 and change it. I have used /tags
for all list of tags page. You can change it with yours tags page name.
Subscribe
For subscribe section, you will get subscribe.hbs in the partials folder. Background image comes from site cover image. You can see how to change site cover image
Post Layout
Show Author

If you want to display show / hide Author from your single post , please go to Settings > Design > Post > Show author

Show Related Posts

If you want to display off /on Show Related Posts from post, please go to Settings > Design > Post > Show Related Posts

Related Posts Title
You can change the Related Posts Title from custom settings. You will find the settings:
Settings > Design > Post > Related Posts Title

You get the change output below single post page :

Custom Settings
From v4.1.0, we have released custom settings for Site-Wide, Homepage, Post. You can easily select your options from Settings > Design > Site Design

Site-Wide Settings
Dark Mode Logo:
You can Upload from here Dark Mode Logo. For enable dark mode logo you have upload first publication logo (light mode logo) for default.color scheme:
You can change your theme color from Dark to Light or Light to Dark for defaultSearch content API:
Add your content API for the search field. When you add to this field, your search option will show and work.Site footer:
You can change footer copyright text.
Homepage Settings
Show featured posts:
You can off/on hompage featured slider by this option.Select pagination:
You can select Pagination or Load More. By default, Load more option will work
Post Settings
Show author:
You can show/hide your author from your single post by this option.Comments Type:
By default we are use cove comment for the posts. You can change your comment Disqus or Cove.Comment title:
You can change title of comment sectionDisqus shortname:
If you select Disqus Comment for your comment option, you need to add Disqus Shortname. You can learn more from [Comments Section]Cove publication id:
Add your cove publication ID from this field. To get cove publication id, create account to CoveShow related posts:
You can show/hide related posts section by this option.Related posts title:
You can change title of relates articles section
Custom Templates
Custom template is a default setting on Ghost. It can be page template and post template. We have created some custom page and post template for the theme. The page template are as follows:
Page Template
- Membership
- Account
- Contact
- Authors
- Tags
Selecting page template
- Create a new page
- Click on Settings to the right side and scroll down
- Select page template i.e. “Membership”

Page url

When you create page, please keep page slug like this.
Page title | Page URl |
Membership | /membership/ |
Account | /account/ |
For other custom pages, you can add Authors, Tags, Contact page.
Membership and Subscriptions
The membership page is helping your customer to understand the plan and compare the differences between your offers. Here are the step by step instructions:
Create Membership page
- Create a new page and open the page settings panel from the right side of the page
- Select the page template: Membership at the bottom dropdown
- Publish the page
Create Tiers and show on membership page
- Go to Settings > Membership in your Ghost Admin
- Go to MEMBERSHIP TIERS at the bottom
- Connect your Stripe Account if you don’t have Stripe connected
- Expand Premium position and click on +Add tier to add new tier name, description, list of benefits, price for monthly and yearly.
- Add tier to activate
- Now, go to portal settings, you can control enable and disable tiers appearing on the membership page.
Create Account Page
- Create a new page and open the page settings panel from the right side of the page
- Select the page template: Account at the bottom dropdown
- Publish the page
Search Options
We have created real-time search options the theme file. You can activate the search easily.


We have used Fuse.io for creating real time search. When you will type, you will get instant results. When you install the theme file, you have configure and add content api key on condeinjection
- Create a custom integrations
- Copy Content Api Key from your created custom integration
- Go to Code Injection > Site Header as follows

After collect the Content Api Key we go to : Settings > Design > Site-Wide
and insert to below search content API box.

Contact form
In contact form, we have used Formspree for getting form data. Put your formspree endpoint URL Settings > Design > Site wide > Contact form endpoint url

To change contact information, go to custom-contact.hbs file. You change all of the information.

Comments
Ghost has no default comment sytem. We need to third-party comment box like Disqus or Cove. This theme supports both comment box. You will find both comment box in the partials folder in the theme file.
Cove Comment
Cove is popular comment system for ghost. You can easily manage comments for members and paid members posts. It is a premium comment sytem. We have a setup for cove comments. You easily change with your comments.
- Create account in Cove.chat and Login
- Click on +Create a New Account and add a name
- Copy the publication ID and paste it in
Settings > Design > Site Design > Post

- Publication ID. Copy this ID and paste to Cove publication field.

- Replace publication id with your account code

Disqus Comment
We have used discus comments for this theme. We have used our own disqus account. You can change easily with your Disqus shortname. Follow the process to create your Disqus account and get a short name.
- You can create your Disqus code in the next url: http://disqus.com/admin/create/
- Add a short-name for Website Name
- Your unique “Disqus URL” is your shortname copy that name and click finish registration.

- Go to
Settings > Design > Site Design > Post
and Select Disqus from Select comment select option. - Go to Settings > Design > Site Design > Post > Disqus shortname;
- Change with your shortname, in this case ‘example-shortname’;
- Save.


Disable Comments from site
If you want to disable comments
from your posts, select Disable from Settings > Design > Site Design > Post > Select Comment
. If will disable comments from your site

Github Deployment
Blooria theme in ready for deploy on github easily. You can read the articles on Github deployment

Development and Customization
In this theme, we have used SCSS to develop and style fast. You must have installed Nodejs and SASS on your computer.
- Open theme file in your editor like VSCode or Sublime Text
- Open terminal in the theme folder
- Run command
npm run sass
Alternatively, You can easily do it using Prepros. To edit SCSS code, follow the instruction:
- Unzip docslab.zip (this is the template only file) and remember where is the folder location.
- Install a SASS compiler, we recommend you to use Prepos 6, you can download it here.
- Click on “Browse” to add project on the middle side.



Changing Primary and Secondary colors
You can change easily primary, secondary, text color and other colors from _variable.scss file. Open assets/scss/_variables.scss file and change the color that you want, example:
:root{
--color-yellow: #FFAF29;
--color-yellow-deep: #faa10c;
--color-text: #DEDDDD;
--color-heading: #fff;
--color-quote: #dedddd;
}
Credits
Fonts and Icon Fonts
- Pacifico: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Pacifico
- Poppins: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poppins
- Mulish: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mulish
- Feather Icons: https://feathericons.com/
Images
- Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/
- Pixels: https://www.pexels.com/
Plugins and libraries
- jQuery: http://jquery.com
- Fitvids: https://github.com/davatron5000/FitVids.js
- Fuse Search: https://github.com/krisk/Fuse
- Prism JS: https://prismjs.com/
- Medium Zoom: https://github.com/francoischalifour/medium-zoom
- Lazy Loading Disqus: https://samclarke.com/lazy-loading-disqus
- Lazy image loader: https://github.com/verlok/lazyload
- Isotope: https://isotope.metafizzy.co/
- imagesLoaded: https://imagesloaded.desandro.com/
Changelog
VERSION – 4.3.3: Release on 06 January 2023
* ADDED: Images changed to Webp format
* ADDED: Line camp Added to post card
* ADDED: Custom option added for table of contents
* ADDED: Lightense plugin added for Image zoom in popup
* FIXED: Signin and Signup icon color issues fixed
* FIXED: TOC icon scroll issues fixed
* Small issues fixed and performance improved
* REMOVED: Medium Zoom plugin from JS
[+] CHANGED FILES:
assets/css/style.css
assets/scss/_header.scss
assets/scss/_variables.scss
assets/scss/_blog.scss
assets/scss/_common.scss
assets/js/single.js
partials/post-card.hbs
partials/author-card.hbs
partials/featured-posts.hbs
partials/page-banner.hbs
partials/related-posts.hbs
custom-post-with-table-of-content.hbs
tag.hbs
post.hbs
author.hbs
custom-authors.hbs
package.json
VERSION – 4.3.2: Release on 19 November 2022
* FIXED: Membership tiers issue fixed
* Small issues fixed and performance improved
[+] CHANGED FILES:
assets/css/style.css
assets/scss/_light-version.scss
assets/scss/_blog.scss
partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly.hbs -> partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly-yearly.hbs
partials/members/pricing-table.hbs
package.json
[-] deleted files:
partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-yearly.hbs
VERSION – 4.3.1: Release on 13 November 2022
* FIXED: Dark light switcher issues fixed
* FIXED: Featured slider spacing issues fixed
* FIXED: Fullwidth image issues fixed for TOC articles
* Other issues fixed and performance improved
[+] CHANGED FILES:
assets/css/style.css
assets/scss/_light-version.scss
assets/scss/_toc.scss
partials/featured-posts.hbs
package.json
VERSION – 4.3.0: Release on 31 October 2022
* Compatible with Ghost 5.x
* Native search and Native Comment feature
* Remove all Ghost 4.x deprecated code
* Multiple fonts feature
* Table of contents with posts
* Custom settings
* CSS bug fixed
* Performance improved
[+] CHANGED FILES:
assets/css/style.css
assets/css/style.scss {All style file has changed}
custom-contact.hbs
package.json
post.hbs
author.hbs
tag.hbs
partials/header.hbs
partials/navigation.hbs
partials/subscribe.hbs
custom-authors.hbs
partials/author-card.hbs
partials/featured-posts.hbs
partials/footer.hbs
partials/page-banner.hbs
partials/post-card.hbs
partials/related-posts.hbs
partials/tag-post-card.hbs
partials/featured-posts.hbs
[+] NEW ADDED FILES:
partials/comments/native-comments.hbs
partials/google-fonts.hbs
custom-post-with-table-of-content.hbs
VERSION – 4.1.0: Release on 05 April 2022
. Added Custom Option
. Updated deprecated functions
. Small bug fixes and performance improvements
CHANGED FILES
[+] style.css
[+] _light-version.scss
[+] _variables.scss
[+] _search.scss
[+] _header.scss
[+] default.hbs
[+] index.hbs
[+] post.hbs
[+] partials/comments/cove-comments.hbs
[+] partials/footer.hbs
[+] partials/header.hbs
[+] partials/logo.hbs
[+] partials/members/notification.hbs
[+] partials/related-posts.hbs
[+] partials/author-card.hbs
[+] partials/loop.hbs
[+] partials/search-popup.hbs
[+] package.json
NEW ADDED FILES
[+] partials/comments/disqus-comment.hbs
VERSION – 4.0.0: Release on 07 Jun 2021
. Compatible with ghost version 4.0
. Added support for public preview posts for members only posts
. Support for new price plan helper
. Updated deprecated functions
. Small bug fixes and performance improvements
CHANGED FILES
[+] style.css
[+] _common.scss
[+] _light-version.scss
[+] _blog.scss
[+] _membership.scss
[+] _header.scss
[+] default.hbs
[+] partials/navigation.hbs
[+] partials/members/members-navigation.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-free.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-yearly.hbs
[+] partials/members/subscriber-information.hbs
[+] partials/members/visibility-paid.hbs
[+] partials/subscribe.hbs
[+] package.json
VERSION – 1.0.3: Release on 14 Sept 2020
[+] CHANGED FILES:
scss/_variables.scss
scss/_header.scss
scss/_blog.scss
scss/_mobile-menu.scss
scss/_notification.scss
scss/_search.scss
scss/_tag.scss
style.css
scripts.js
locales/en.json
partials/members/notification.hbs
partials/members/visibility-content.hbs
partials/notifications.hbs
partials/author-card.hbs
partials/footer.hbs
default.hbs
package.json
VERSION – 1.0.2: Release on 24 Aug 2020
[+] Changed files:
partials/logo.hbs
_variables.scss
_header.scss
style.css
scripts.js
[-] deleted files:
logo-dark.png
VERSION – 1.0.1: Release on 08 June 2020
- Changed files:
featured-slider.hbs
post.hbs
package.json
scripts.js
VERSION – 1.0.0: Release on 03 May 2019
[+] Initial Release