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Getting Started
White is minimal and Lightweight Ghost theme. It is highly focused on bloggers, readers, writers, authors, etc. White is a super fast and mobile responsive theme that will encourage the visitor to read your blog. 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
White theme setup is very easy. If you have already installed a server for Ghost you can easily setup White 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
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
white.zip
file and copy White 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 “White“
- 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
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.
Fonts
Now you can choose your fonts from the fons list. follow the below instruction:
go to Settings > Design > Site-wide
after select the font click the save button from top-right cornner.
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 are another important part. When you want to use different path links or custom files for pages and different homepages, you can use routes.yaml file to do that. Here are the default .yaml for ghosts.
routes:
collections:
/:
permalink: /{slug}/
template: index
taxonomies:
tag: /tag/{slug}/
author: /author/{slug}/
Homepage
On the homepage, you will get some sections.
- Hero section
- Featured Posts
- Daily Update News
Hero Section
Normally you get a background color in your hero section.
You can use a video background instead of background color . follow the below instruction:
go to Settings > Design > Homepage
Input your video code inside the box and save it. you will get output like this :
Featured Posts
We have shown a slider on the homepage will the featured posts. If you set a post as featured, it will be added automatically in the slider.
Footer
We used a very minimal footer in our theme. You will get all footer code partials > footer.hbs file. Here are the following parts:
Copyright text
You can change at footer.hbs
file line number 6
<div class="col-md-10 mx-auto footer-text-wrapper">
<p> {{t "Copyright"}} {{ date format="YYYY" }} , {{ @site.title }} - {{ @site.description }}. All Right Reserved.</p>
</div>
Change the text inside {{t ""}}
Custom Templates
A custom template is a default setting on Ghost. It can be a page template and a post template. We have created some custom pages and post templates for the theme. The page template is as follows:
Page Template
- Membership
- Account
- Contact
- Authors
- Tags
- Signin
- Signup
Selecting page template
- Create a new page
- Click on Settings on the right side and scroll down
- Select page template i.e. “Membership”
Page url
When you create the page, please keep the 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, and Contact pages.
Post Template
- Post Full Width
- Post Left Sidebar
We have used 1 post page style in this theme. You can choose as following:
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 them on the 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 the Premium position and click on +Add tier to add a new tier name, description, list of benefits, and 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 easier. When you install the theme file, you have configured and add the content API key on the code injection
- Create a custom integrations
- Copy Content API Key from your created custom integration
After collecting 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 a Formspree account
- Collect form endpoint
- Add this to
Settings > Design > Site Wide > Contact form endpoint URL
To change contact information, go to custom-contact.hbs
file. You change all the information. Line Number; 55 to 81
<h4>{{t "Contact Us"}}</h4>
<p>{{t "Our Support is open 24/7 call us anytime :-)"}}</p>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="single-info">
<div class="info-icon">
<i class="fa fa-volume-control-phone"></i>
</div>
<p>{{t "+ (123) 7859 5624"}}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="single-info">
<div class="info-icon">
<i class="fa fa-envelope-open-o"></i>
</div>
<p>{{t "Youremail@gmail.com"}}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="single-info">
<div class="info-icon">
<i class="fa fa-paper-plane-o"></i>
</div>
<p>{{t "11/7 Saint Archas, Sydney"}}</p>
</div>
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 the Save button
GitHub Deployment
The white theme in ready for deployment on GitHub easily. You can read the articles on the 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 a theme file in your editors like VSCode or Sublime Text
- Open the 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 a project on the middle side.
Credits
LIBRARIES/TOOLS
- Bootstrap
- jquery
- Owl Carousel
FONTS
- Lemon/Milk
- Libre Baskerville
- Noto Sans
IMAGES
All images those are included in the live preview are taken from unsplash.com
Changelog:
VERSION – 4.3.2: Released on 31 May 2023
* Removed all deprecated code
* Small css issues fixed
[+] CHANGED FILES
assets/scss/theme.scss
partials/hero.hbs
package.json
VERSION – 4.3.1: Released on 16 May 2023
* Multi font custom option added
* Homepage video background added
* Ghost native-comments added
* Removed all deprecated code
* Small css issues fixed
[+] CHANGED FILES
assets/scss/theme.scss
assets/js/scripts.js
partials/hero.hbs
partials/navigation.hbs
partials/related-posts.hbs
partials/post-navigation.hbs
partials/post-card.hbs
partials/headerSingle.hbs
partials/headerHome.hbs
partials/footer.hbs
partials/loop.hbs
partials/members/membership-navigation.hbs
partials/icons/search.hbs
partials/icons/chevron.hbs
partials/icons/link.hbs
partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-free.hbs
partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-table.hbs
partials/members/subscriber-information.hbs
custom-contact.hbs
custom-archive.hbs
post.hbs
index.hbs
default.hbs
page.hbs
package.json
[+] NEWLY ADDED
assets/scss/_prism.scss
assets/scss/_kg-card.scss
partials/google-fonts.hbs
partials/comments/native-comments.hbs
custom-post-with-table-of-content.hbs
partials/logo.hbs
[-] DELETED FILES
partials/comments/cove-comment.hbs
partials/comments/disqus-comment.hbs
VERSION – 4.3.0: Released on 18 June 2022
* Added Support for Ghost 5.0
* Removed all deprecated code
* Small css issues fixed
* Updated English translation file
[+] CHANGED FILES
assets/scss/_membership.scss
assets/scss/_header.scss
assets/css/theme.css
partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-free.hbs
partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-table.hbs
partials/social-share.hbs
custom-membership.hbs
custom-account.hbs
partials/footer-scripts.hbs
default.hbs
package.json
locales/en.json
Version 3.0.0
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[+] NEWLY ADDED
Subscription and Membership
Dark and Light Version
Updated styles
Updated SCSS
svg logo
[-] DELETED FILES
routes.yaml
Version 2.1.0
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Upated with ghost new version 2.23.2
Bug fixed and performance upgrated
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Language support added
compatible with new ghost version
post card and author page design upgraded
prev and next post navigator changed
Version 2.0.0
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Upated with ghost new version 2.13.1
Bug fixed and performance upgrated
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Whole design updated
3 author list page style added
404 page updated
Contact page design updated
Search problem fixed with the new version
Documentation updated
Online Documentation added