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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.
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
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
- Unsplash
- Pixels
Plugins and libraries
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