Quando Ghost Theme | Electron Themes

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Quando is News and Magazine Ghost. It is built for bloggers, journalists, freelancers, editors, authors, writers, developers. Quando is fully responsive, light-weight, superfast ghost theme and built with HTML, CSS, JS, SCSS and ready for premium subscription features.

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 to you as soon as possible.

Theme Setup

Quando theme setup is very easy. If you have already installed a server for Ghost you can easily setup Quando 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

Download theme file from ElectronThemes Dashboard
Log in into your Ghost admin panel.
Go to settings (design section) and upload “newsvolt.zip“
Click Activate.

Uploading the theme via (FTP)

Follow the instructions

Login to your FTP account.
Unzip the quando.zip file and copy quando 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 “quando“
Click Save.

Here I have used Cyberduck to upload file on server and I used subdomain. That is why I used Quando Folder

General Setup

Publication Info

To change publication info, go to Dashboard > General > Publication Info. Here you can change the followings:

Title
Description
Site Timezone
Publication Language

Logo

You can change Logo from Dashboard > Settings Icon > 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

Publication 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

This is for showing site bookmark image. If you upload a cover image, it will in your site bookmark. To upload publication cover image, go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Brand > Publication cover

Language

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 language:

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 Meta data. It will help to get on search using search engine. You can add also Twitter and Facebook card image, content here.

You can add/edit the content from Dashboard > General > Site Meta Settings

Social Accounts

Social account section is for showing Facebook, Twitter links of 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

Post Title
Post Contents
Feature image
Tags
Authors

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}/

Enable or Disable Subscription

You can easily enable or disable the subscription feature from Dashboard: Settings > Membership > Subscription access If you choose Nobody, you will not see signin and subscription in the navbar

Footer

We used very minimal footer in our theme. You will get all footer code partials > footer.hbs file. Here are the following parts:

Secondary Menu
Footer Social Profile
Copyright text

Secondary menu

Useful Link comes from the secondary menu. You can change the secondary menu link from

Dashboard > Design > Secondary Navigation

Footer Social Profiles

Change footer social profile links at partials > footer.hbs Line Number; 28 to 51 and you can add more links after copying this. Change # with your links.

<div class="col-md-6">
    <ul class="social-links-media">
        {{#if @site.facebook}}
        <li><a href="{{facebook_url}}">
            {{> icons/social-icons/facebook}}
            </a>
        </li>
        {{/if}}
        {{#if @site.twitter}}
        <li><a href="{{twitter_url}}">
            {{> icons/social-icons/twitter}}
            </a>
        </li>
        {{/if}}
        <li><a href="#">
            {{> icons/social-icons/linkedin}}
            </a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">
            {{> icons/social-icons/instagram}}
            </a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

If you want to add new social icons, go to partials > icons > social-icons folder. I have used svg icons from Feathericons. Download icons from here and add it in the folder. Change the icon’s extension .svg to .hbs

facebook.svg --> facebook.hbs

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 Posts
Regular Post
Popular Authors
Popular Tags
Subscribe

Featured Posts

We have shown Three post on the homepage will the featured posts. If you set a post as featured, it will be added automatically in the section.

Featured section post limit is 3. If you want to increase or decrease the post limit, go to partials/featured-posts.hbs line number 2 and edit limit="3".

{{#get  "posts" filter="featured:true" limit="3" include="authors,tags"}}

Add minimum 3 posts as featured posts to get the slide view as the demo If you want to display off /on Featured Post from homepage, please go to Settin

Regular Post

All your post will be shown here

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

Popular Authors and Tags

We show only 4 authors and tags in this section. If you want to hide from homepage, you can remove {{> popular-section}} from index.hbs file

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.

Page Template

Membership
Account
Contact
Authors
Tags
Signin
Signup

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/
Signin	/signin/
Signup	/signup/

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

From Ghost 5.7, they released a Ghost Native Search. We implemented this feature on this

If you install this theme in your ghost dashboard, Ghost Native Search will be activated automatically.

We have created third-party real-time search options for the theme file also. You can activate the search easily. When you install the theme file, you have configure and add content api key on code injection

Create a custom integrations
Copy Content API Key from your created custom integration

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

Contact form

In the contact form, we have used Formspree for getting form data.

You need to create Formspree account
Collect form endpoint
Add this to Settings > Design > Site Wide > Contact form endpoint URL

Google Map Embedded Code

You can add your google map embedded code at line number 33 in the file custom-contact.hbs. You can create your own location map from this url

After getting your location, you can click on Get HTML Code. You will get HTML and replace the code in your file.

Comments

Ghost Native Comment

Ghost has a native comment system. Only members of your website can comment on your post. To activate native comment:

Go to the Settings > Membership > Commenting in the Ghost Admin.
Change the Commenting level to All members or Paid-members only.
Click on Save button

If you want to use other comment feature like Cove or Disqus. You can use. This theme supports both comment box. You will find both comment box in the partials folder in the theme file.

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 newsvolt.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.

Credits

Fonts and Icon Fonts

Images

Plugins and libraries

jQuery

Changelog

VERSION – 4.3.2: Release on 19 October 2023

* ADDED: New Header card improvements feature
* ADDED: New twitter icon
* Removed all deprecated code
* Small css issues fixed and improvement performance

[+] CHANGED FILES
    assets/css/style.css
    partials/icons/social-icons/twitter.hbs
    page.hbs
    package.json

VERSION – 4.3.1: Release on 12 June 2023

* ADDED: Added FX Light box gallery image view feature
* ADDED: New menu navigation feature after five menu items
* Removed all deprecated code
* Small css issues fixed and improvement performance

[+] CHANGED FILES
    assets/css/style.css
    .github/workflows/deploy-theme.yml
    partials/related-posts.hbs
    partials/membership/pricing-table.hbs
    partials/post-navigation.hbs
    partials/navigation.hbs
    partials/header.hbs
    partials/footer.hbs
    partials/subscribe.hbs
    partials/popular-section.hbs
    partials/comments/native-comments.hbs
    partials/icons/dots.hbs
    partials/icons/social-icons/facebook.hbs
    partials/icons/social-icons/link.hbs
    partials/icons/social-icons/linkedin.hbs
    partials/icons/social-icons/twitter.hbs
    partials/icons/social-icons/youtube.hbs
    post.hbs
    page.hbs
    default.hbs
    package.json

[-] REMOVED FILES:
    partials/comments/cove-comments.hbs
    partials/comments/disqus-comment.hbs

VERSION – 4.3.0: Release on 16 November 2022

* ADDED: Native comments and Search
* ADDED: Multiple Google fonts support
* ADDED: Auto mode color support
* ADDED: Contact form endpoint custom option
* ADDED: Table of Contents Support
* REMOVED: Few custom options: comment_title, show_related_posts
* IMPROVED: Post and Page design on mobile
* FIXED: Some CSS issues fixed

[+] CHANGED FILES
    assets/css/style.css                 
    assets/js/scripts.js                 
    assets/scss/_author.scss             
    assets/scss/_blog.scss               
    assets/scss/_common.scss             
    assets/scss/_dark-version.scss       
    assets/scss/_featured.scss           
    assets/scss/_footer.scss             
    assets/scss/_gallery.scss            
    assets/scss/_homepage.scss           
    assets/scss/_reset.scss              
    assets/scss/_tag.scss                
    assets/scss/_variables.scss          
    custom-contact.hbs                   
    default.hbs                          
    post.hbs
    package.json                        
    locales/en.json                      
    partials/footer.hbs                  
    partials/header.hbs                  
    partials/loop.hbs                    
    partials/navigation.hbs              
    partials/popular-section.hbs         
    partials/related-posts.hbs           
    partials/subscribe.hbs               
    partials/comments/cove-comments.hbs
    partials/comments/disqus-comment.hbs
    
[+] NEW ADDED FILES:
    partials/comments/native-comments.hbs
    partials/google-fonts.hbs

VERSION – 4.2.0: Release on 25 April 2022

. Added Custom Option
. Updated deprecated functions
. Previous bug fixes and performance improvements
. Improvements search performance
. New comment Option added
. Work with Membership Option

CHANGED FILES
[+] style.css
[+] assets/scss/style.scss
[+] assets/scss/_membership.scss
[+] assets/scss/_blog.scss
[+] assets/scss/_common.scss
[+] assets/scss/_notification.scss
[+] assets/scss/_signin.scss
[+] assets/scss/_common.scss
[+] assets/scss/_author.scss
[+] assets/scss/_featured.scss
[+] assets/scss/_gallery.scss
[+] assets/scss/_homepage.scss
[+] assets/scss/_dark-version.scss
[+] assets/scss/_responsive.scss
[+] _variables.scss
[+] assets/js/scripts.js
[+] default.hbs
[+] index.hbs
[+] post.hbs
[+] tag.hbs
[+] page.hbs
[+] author.hbs
[+] custom-authors.hbs
[+] custom-tags.hbs
[+] partials/disqus-comment.hbs
[+] partials/footer.hbs
[+] partials/header.hbs
[+] partials/logo.hbs
[+] partials/membership/account-information.hbs
[+] partials/membership/pricing-table.hbs
[+] partials/navigation.hbs
[+] partials/membership/paid-post-box.hbs
[+] partials/post-navigation.hbs
[+] partials/subscribe.hbs
[+] partials/post-card.hbs
[+] partials/related-posts.hbs
[+] partials/loop.hbs
[+] partials/search-popup.hbs
[+] package.json

NEW ADDED FILES
[+] assets/scss/_cove.scss
[+] partials/popular-section.hbs
[+] partials/comments/cove-comments.hbs

DELETED FILES
[+] partials/comment.hbs

VERSION – 1.1.1: Release on 11 Oct 2020

[+] Initial Release

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