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Fumio Documentation

Fumio theme documentation, covering theme installation, routes setup, custom settings, theme development and more.
Last update: Aug 19, 2022

Theme compatibility

Fumio v1.6.0 for Ghost 5.x

100/100

Compatible Ghost version: v4.20.0 or any newer version.

Starting with theme version v1.4.5 you need Ghost v5.54.1 or later.


Install the theme

Follow the steps below to upload the theme:

  1. Log in to your publication admin section at yoursite.com/ghost/
  2. Go to Settings > Design ( yoursite.com/ghost/#/settings/design/ )
  3. Click Change theme and then click Upload theme and select the fumio.zip file.
  4. After the upload is complete click Activate

Routes Setup

For the theme to function properly you must upload the routes.yaml file.

The theme was developed for projects and portfolios primarily, and it comes with a specific routes setup to support this use case. This works based on the internal tag #project. For a post to be considered a project you have to add the #project tag, every other post will be considered a blog post.

Follow the steps below to upload the routes.yaml file (The file is located inside the zip)

  1. Log in to your publication admin section at yoursite.com/ghost/
  2. Go to Settings > Labs.
  3. Click on Upload routes YAML button and select the file from the root folder of the theme.
Ghost routes.yaml
Ghost routes.yaml

The routes file defines the following custom routes and collections (these also need pages in the Admin):

  • /projects/
  • /blog/
  • /signin/
  • /signup/
  • /membership/
  • /account/
  • /authors/
  • /tags/
  • /search/

By default, the theme comes with custom /signup/, /signin/ and /account/ pages, however, if you prefer the Portal feature instead, you can change the links in the theme files to point to Portal instead.

To get the Portal links go to Settings > Membership, then click Customize Portal and select Links.

You will have to change the following files:

  1. header.hbs
  • change the 'Subscribe' button link, by adding data-portal="signup" after the href="/signup/"
  1. content-cta.hbs
  • change the 'Sign in' link after 'Already have an account?' by adding data-portal="signin" after the href="/signin/"
  1. menu.hbs
  • change the 'Sign in' link after 'Already have an account?' by adding data-portal="signin" after the href="/signin/"
  1. member-menu.hbs
  • change the 'Account' link by adding data-portal="account" after the href="/account/"
  • change the 'Sign up' link by adding data-portal="signup" after the href="/signup/"
  • change the 'Sign in' link by adding data-portal="signin" after the href="/signin/"

Custom Settings

The theme comes with custom settings available in the Ghost Admin. Go to Settings > Design ( yoursite.com/ghost/#/settings/design/)

Custom settings are defined and can be changed in the package.json file. These settings are placed under three categories:

  1. Site-wide settings
  2. Homepage settings
  3. Post settings

Site-wide

  • Color scheme - set the default color scheme (system, light, dark)
  • Font family - select from a predefined list of font families or use system fonts
  • Background pattern - set the background pattern used on your website (topography, grain, dots, lines)
  • Header position - set the header position (normal, sticky, floating)
  • Search key - the content API key, it's necessary for the search to work
  • Search type - set the search type(native, custom, none)

Homepage

  • Hero headline - add your own headline
  • Hero description - add your own description
  • Hero image style - set the image style of the hero section
  • Hero CTA - set the CTA of the hero section, by default, this is the subscribe-form but you can set primary-cta (which will work as a link to the page with the #primary-cta tag).
  • Project feed layout - set the project feed layout (asymmetric-grid, grid, asymmetric-list, alternating-list, list)
  • Max project count - set the maximum project displayed on the homepage
  • Project card color - show color on project cards (based on the primary tag)

Post

  • Enable breadcrumbs - enable breadcrumbs for posts (otherwise the main tag is shown)
  • Comment plugin - set your comment plugin (Native, Cove, Disqus)
  • Comment plugin id - set the commend plugin ID (Cove ID, Disqus ID)

Homepage

The homepage layout is defined in the home.hbs file and can contain the following sections:

  • hero
  • projects
  • services
  • clients
  • testimonials
  • team(authors)
  • faq
  • blog
  • categories(tags)

Hero

The hero section can be customized in the Ghost Admin. You can change the headline, description, and CTA. By default, the CTA is the subscription form.

If you change it to the primary-cta option, you should also have a page with the tag #primary-cta. This page will be the link the CTA will point to and it can be any page (ex. Contact, About).

For example, on the second homepage demo, this is set up to the Contact page. The CTA in this case is a button linking to the Contact page, the button text is the title of the page. The contact page has the #primary-cta tag.

Projects

The projects section will be populated by posts having the internal tag #project. You can customize this section from the Admin, you have the possibility to change the layout, the maximum number of projects, and whether you want colors on the project cards or not.

If you enable the Project card color option, the color of the card will come from the first public tag assigned to the post. To change the color of a tag, in the Admin go to Tags, click on one of the tags, and there you have the color option.

Services

Add the tag #home-services tag to the /services/ page.

The services section is based on tags assigned to a specific page. This can be any page (recommended is /services/), which has the internal tag #home-services. When you add this tag to one of your pages, it will enable the services section to appear on the homepage.

The section title will be the page title, and to add services you just have to add new tags to this page, every tag you add will appear on a separate card, the data displayed on a card will come from the tag itself:

  • image - is the tag feature image
  • title - is the tag name
  • description - is the tag description
  • background-color - is the tag color with some opacity

The order of the tags in the page settings is the order in which the cards are rendered, so you can control that.

For example, on the demo, we have a page called Services (/services/) with the internal tag #home-services (for the section to appear on the homepage) and with the following tags: Visual Identity, Strategy & Design, App Development, Motion Design.

Clients

Add the tag #home-clients tag to the /clients/ page.

The clients section is based on tags assigned to a specific page. This can be any page (recommended is /clients/), which has the internal tag #home-clients. When you add this tag to one of your pages, it will enable the clients section to appear on the homepage.

The section title will be the page title, and to add new logos you just have to add new tags to this page. Every tag with an image will be rendered and added to this section.

The recommendation is to use SVG files and the color of the logo ideally should be black, because that way it will work on both light and dark themes. (on the dark theme there is a CSS filter to invert the colors, so there is enough contrast).

If you prefer not to apply the filter, you can add the following in code injection:

<style>
  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    html:not([data-color-scheme='light']) .client-logos img {
      filter: initial;
    }
  }
</style>

Testimonials

Add the tag #home-testimonials tag to the /testimonials/ page.

The testimonials section is based on tags assigned to a specific page. This can be any page (recommended is /testimonials/), which has the internal tag #home-testimonials. When you add this tag, it will enable the testimonials section to appear on the homepage.

The section title will be the page title, and to add new testimonials you just have to add new tags to this page.

The tag data will be used for the testimonial content:

  • quote - is the tag description
  • author image - is the tag feature image
  • author name - is the tag meta title
  • author role/bio - is the tag meta description

By default, the homepage will show up to 4 testimonials, but you can change the limit in the home.hbs file.

Team/Authors

Add the tag #home-authors tag to the /authors/ page.

The team section is based on the Ghost authors. All the data that appears in an author card can be changed in the Admin by going to Settings > Staff and editing an author profile.

FAQ

Add the tag #home-faq tag to the chosen page ( /faq/) page.

The FAQ section is rendered from the content of a specific page. This can be any page (recommended is /faq/), which has the internal tag #home-faq. When you add this tag to one of your pages, it will enable the faq section and the content of the page will appear.

The section title will be the page title and for the content, the recommendation is to use Toggle cards, which is a Ghost feature to create collapsible content, ideal for an FAQ section.

Blog

Add the tag #home-blog tag to the /blog/ page.

The blog section is populated with posts that do not have the #project tag (as explained in the routes setup). By default, 3 posts are shown with a link to view all blog posts ( [/blog/](https://fumio.brightthemes.com/blog/) ).

If you want to increase this limit, edit the limit="3" in the home.hbs template under the Blog section.

Categories/Tags

Add the tag #home-tags tag to the /tag/ page.

The categories/tags section is populated with the most popular tags, with a limit of 6 by default. This means the 6 tags that are assigned to the most will appear here. There will be a link to the /tags/ page as well, where all tags will be displayed.

You have a couple of things you can change here, you can increase/decrease the limit to show more or fewer tags. You can change the order from the post count to tag name for example, or you could filter for specific tags instead.


Custom Pages

As explained in the routes setup, the theme comes with a couple of custom pages, which need some actions from your side to be activated.

Uploading the routes.yaml file is a key requirement for these custom pages.

By default, these custom routes require a page with the same slug to exist, this is because this way you can control all the meta properties for that specific route.\

Follow the steps below to create a Page:

  1. Log in to your publication admin section at yoursite.com/ghost/
  2. Go to Pages ( yoursite.com/ghost/#/pages/ )
  3. Click New page and set the Title and Page URL
  4. Finally, click Publish

Projects

The Projects route requires a page with the slug /projects/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is projects.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

The layout set for the homepage (Project feed layout) will be used on this page as well.

Blog

The Blog route requires a page with the slug /blog/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is blog.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

Posts that do not have the internal tag #project will appear on this page.

Signup

The Signup route requires a page with the slug /signup/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is members/signup.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

To add an image to your signup page, add a feature image to this page in the Admin, additionally, the fig caption you add will appear over the image.

Signin

The Signin route requires a page with the slug /signin/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is members/signin.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

To add an image to your signing page, add a feature image to this page in the Admin, additionally, the fig caption you add will appear over the image.

Account

The Account route requires a page with the slug /account/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is members/account.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

Membership

The Membership route requires a page with the slug /membership/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used by default is members/membership-tiers.hbs. This template is implemented specifically for membership tiers, if you don't have tiers, you can switch to a simpler template by changing the routes.yaml from:

/membership/:
  template: members/membership-tiers

To:

/membership/:
  template: members/membership

After you save the change, upload the routes file again. (In this case, the template file used is: members/membership.hbs)

The membership tier names, prices, and benefits can all be changed in the Admin, by going to Settings > Membership ( /ghost/#/settings/members). Edit existing tiers or add new ones under the Membership Tiers section.

Membership icons

The membership tier icons are based on the tier number, meaning that the first tier displayed will have the icon named tier-1, the second tier will display tier-2 and so on.

To change this icon, you have to edit the icon sprite used by the theme, this file is: /assets/icons/icons-sprite.svg. You can edit this file with any text editor (we use VS Code). For more about the icon library used, check out the Icons section.

Membership colors

By default, the membership tier cards use the primary color, but you can change the color of each tier by adding a line of CSS in code injection.

The membership tiers are set up to use custom CSS properties as an accent color, so the first tier will use --color-tier-1, the second tier will use --color-tier-2 and so on.

To change the colors, add the following in code injection:

<style>
  :root {
    --color-tier-2: #ff4500;
    --color-tier-3: #ff1493;
  }
</style>

Native ghost search functionality is integrated with version v1.3.0, this works out of the box, no configuration needed.

If you prefer the custom search, then you need some configuration to make it work. The custom search is based on the fuse.js library. , follow the steps below to activate it:

  1. Log in to your publication admin section at yoursite.com/ghost/
  2. Go to Settings > Integrations ( yoursite.com/ghost/#/settings/integrations/ )
  3. Click Add custom integration, set the Name, and click Create
  4. Copy the Content API Key and go to Settings > Designs > Site-Wide
  5. Paste the Content API Key into the Search key field and click Save

The Search route requires a page with the slug /search/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is search.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

By default, the search is looking at the post title, excerpt, and tags. You can potentially enable search in content as well, but keep in mind, that if you have a lot of posts this can affect the performance. To enable search in the content you have to edit the setup in partials/theme-settings.hbs:

  searchInContent: false,

Another possibility (to avoid editing the theme file) is to add the following in code injection:

<script>
  themeSettings.searchInContent = true;
</script>

Authors

The Authors route requires a page with the slug /authors/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is author.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.

Tags

The Tags route requires a page with the slug /tags/ to work, follow the steps described in custom pages to create a new page.

The template used is tags.hbs. There you can make changes if you want to customize it.


Custom templates

Besides the default post (post.hbs) & page (page.hbs) templates, the theme comes with several custom templates, which can be selected for both posts and pages, in the Post Settings menu.

Custom templates:

  • custom-with-background-image.hbs - template with feature image in the background
  • custom-with-full-width-background-image.hbs - template with feature image being a full-width background
  • custom-with-image-on-side.hbs - template with feature image being on the side (on desktop)
  • custom-with-sidebar.hbs - template with sidebar beside the post content (on desktop), sidebar template is partials/sidebar.hbs
  • custom-with-table-of-contents-and-sidebar.hbs - template with table of contents on the left and sidebar on the right side of the post content
  • custom-with-wide-image.hbs - template with a wider image format (compared to the default template)

If you want to edit the templates these are in the root directory of the theme.


Color customization

The themes' basic CSS values are defined as custom CSS properties, so you can easily overwrite them from code injection to change background colors, text colors, site width, and more.

To change these properties add the following in code injection:

<style>
  :root {
    --global-theme-notifications: none; /* flex/none */
    --global-hero-title-color: var(
      --color-primary
    ); /* you can also add gradients for the hero title color */
    --global-max-width: 1280px; /* site max width */
    --global-content-width: 680px; /* post content width */
    --global-radius: 8px; /* default radius */
    --global-radius-rounded: 30px; /* radius for rounded elements */
    --global-header-height: 80px;
    --global-progress-bar: visible; /* progress bar in posts: visible/hidden */
    --color-text: hsl(0, 0%, 10%);
    --color-text-acc: hsl(0, 0%, 30%);
    --color-bg: hsl(0, 100%, 100%);
    --color-bg-body: hsl(0, 100%, 100%);
    --color-bg-acc: hsl(0, 0%, 97%);
    --color-border: hsl(0, 0%, 92%);
  }
</style>

If you want to change the dark theme colors:

<style>
  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    html:not([data-color-scheme='light']) {
      --global-hero-title-color: var(--color-primary);
      --color-text: hsl(0, 0%, 90%);
      --color-text-acc: hsl(0, 0%, 70%);
      --color-bg: hsl(0, 0%, 12%);
      --color-bg-body: hsl(0, 0%, 12%);
      --color-bg-acc: hsl(0, 0%, 10%);
      --color-border: hsl(0, 0%, 20%);
    }
  }
</style>

Some useful tools for choosing colors and gradients:

Here are a couple of examples, how you can define your own theme in a couple of lines of css (for both light and dark theme)

Purple theme:

<style>
  :root {
    --color-primary: hsl(255, 100%, 65%);
    --color-text: hsl(255, 100%, 15%);
    --color-text-acc: hsl(255, 100%, 30%);
    --color-bg: hsl(255, 100%, 96%);
    --color-bg-body: hsl(255, 100%, 98%);
    --color-bg-acc: hsl(255, 100%, 94%);
    --color-border: hsl(255, 100%, 90%);
  }
  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    html:not([data-color-scheme='light']) {
      --color-primary: hsl(255, 100%, 65%);
      --color-text: hsl(255, 100%, 95%);
      --color-text-acc: hsl(255, 100%, 90%);
      --color-bg: hsl(255, 100%, 14%);
      --color-bg-body: hsl(255, 100%, 10%);
      --color-bg-acc: hsl(255, 100%, 12%);
      --color-border: hsl(255, 100%, 20%);
    }
  }
</style>

Red theme:

<style>
  :root {
    --color-primary: hsl(350, 100%, 65%);
    --color-text: hsl(350, 100%, 15%);
    --color-text-acc: hsl(350, 100%, 30%);
    --color-bg: hsl(350, 100%, 96%);
    --color-bg-body: hsl(350, 100%, 98%);
    --color-bg-acc: hsl(350, 100%, 94%);
    --color-border: hsl(350, 100%, 90%);
  }
  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    html:not([data-color-scheme='light']) {
      --color-primary: hsl(350, 100%, 65%);
      --color-text: hsl(350, 100%, 95%);
      --color-text-acc: hsl(350, 100%, 90%);
      --color-bg: hsl(350, 100%, 14%);
      --color-bg-body: hsl(350, 100%, 10%);
      --color-bg-acc: hsl(350, 100%, 12%);
      --color-border: hsl(350, 100%, 20%);
    }
  }
</style>

Yellow theme:

<style>
  :root {
    --color-primary: hsl(43, 100%, 65%);
    --color-text: hsl(43, 100%, 15%);
    --color-text-acc: hsl(43, 100%, 30%);
    --color-bg: hsl(43, 100%, 96%);
    --color-bg-body: hsl(43, 100%, 98%);
    --color-bg-acc: hsl(43, 100%, 94%);
    --color-border: hsl(43, 100%, 90%);
  }
  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    html:not([data-color-scheme='light']) {
      --color-primary: hsl(43, 100%, 65%);
      --color-text: hsl(43, 100%, 95%);
      --color-text-acc: hsl(43, 100%, 90%);
      --color-bg: hsl(43, 100%, 14%);
      --color-bg-body: hsl(43, 100%, 10%);
      --color-bg-acc: hsl(43, 100%, 12%);
      --color-border: hsl(43, 100%, 20%);
    }
  }
</style>

Posts per page

The posts per page defines the number of posts that appear in your collections, until it's paginated. In this theme, it defines how many projects appear on the /projects/ route and how many posts appear on the /blog/ route.

By default this is set to 6, and you can change it in the package.json file:

"config": {
  "posts_per_page": 6
}

Image sizes

Ghost can handle responsive image sizes, and this is defined in the package.json file, under the image_sizes property. You can change the default configuration by editing this file before uploading the theme.

"image_sizes": {
  "xxs": {
    "width": 30
  },
  "xs": {
    "width": 100
  },
  "s": {
    "width": 300
  },
  "m": {
    "width": 600
  },
  "l": {
    "width": 1000
  },
  "xl": {
    "width": 2000
  }
}

The image sizes defined there will be used to generate copies of images at the specified sizes when uploading images in Ghost Admin.

The theme also comes with the lazysizes library for lazyloading images, to improve performance.

When it comes to aspect ratios, the project cards are using an aspect ratio of 4/3 and blog cards are using an aspect ratio of 16/9. The aspect ratio in the post layouts differs based on the template used and device size, but generally the 4/3 and 16/9 aspect ratio images should work fine.

Secondary CTA

The section right above the footer, which acts as a CTA is a customizable section. On the demo, this section is a CTA pointing to the Contact page.

Secondary CTA
Secondary CTA

For this section to appear you have to assign the internal tag #secondary-cta to the page where the link will point to. The headline will be the page excerpt and the button text will be the page title.

Syntax Highlighting

The theme comes with prism.js integration by default, to activate syntax highlighting just add the internal tag #syntax-highlighting to your post.

Why is this necessary? In short, for performance. To avoid loading the library when it's not necessary. If you don't add the tag, the library will not load at all.

If you are someone who shares code regularly and wants to have the plugin on all your posts, without having to add the tag, you can do so by changing the partials/syntax-highlight.hbs file. Simply remove the condition checking for the tag.

Additionally, in this partial file, it's defined which version of the prism library is loaded as well as the components, languages, and the theme. So you can easily customize it, add new languages, or a different code highlighting the theme without having to go into theme development.

Table of Contents

Table of contents are generated using the TocBot library and this is integrated into the theme by default. You can use the ToC functionality in two ways:

  1. Using the With Table Of Contents And Sidebar template.
  2. Using the internal tag #toc.

With the first option, you get a fixed Table of Contents on the left side next to the post content and also a sidebar on the right. (You can select this template for any post in the Post Settings menu in the Admin).

With the second option, you get a floating ToC on the top-right part of the website, with this option you can add a Table of Contents to any template you are using.

If you want to make changes to the ToC layout or the TocBot library configuration, you can edit the partials/toc.hbs file.

Comments

Fumio comes with two comment platforms integrated:

By default, comments will not appear on your posts. To activate one of these platforms:

  1. Inside Ghost Admin go to Settings > Design > Post
  2. Change the Comment Plugin dropdown from None to either Native, Cove or Disqus.
  3. Provide the Comment Plugin Id (not necessary for the Native comment system)

The Native Comment System requires Ghost v5.9.0 at least. Additionally, you have to enable it from Settings > Membership > Commenting. By default, native comments are not active, so you have to select either All members or Paid-members only

The Comment Plugin Id for Cove is your cove_id, which you can get from your cove.chat account.

The Comment Plugin Id for Disqus is your disqus_shortname, which you can get from your Disqus account.

Both Cove and Disqus comment integrations have their own integrations in separate partial files: partials/comments-cove.hbs and partials/comments-disqus.hbs.

Projects (posts with the tag #project) do not display comments, these are simplified templates.


Google Fonts

You can set the font family from the Admin section, going to Settings > Design > Site-wide and under Font family select one of the options.

The theme comes with the following options:

  • System font - the default value, loads the system font (no requests to Google Fonts)
  • Urbanist & Inter - Urbanist for headings and Inter for the body font
  • DM Sans - DM Sans for both headings and body font
  • Inter - Inter for both headings and body
  • Playfair Display & Open Sans - Playfair Display for headings and Open Sans for body
  • Roboto Mono - Roboto Mono for both headings and body font

With the System font option, you can avoid requests to the Google servers in case GDPR is a concern. If you still want to use Google fonts and want to self-host the font files check out this guide for self-hosting Google Fonts.


Icons

The icons used in the theme are from Tabler Icons, the library consists of 4000+ icons. Not all icons from the library are included to save on the file size, but the most common icons are included in an icon sprite file.

This file is placed in the /assets/icons/ directory in SVG format: icon-sprite.svg. The icons are placed in separate <symbol> tags with a unique id.

Here are the steps to add new icons:

  1. Go to Tabler Icons and click on the Icon you want to add, this will copy the code to your clipboard.
  2. Open the file (icon-sprite.svg) in a text editor and go to the end of the file.
  3. After the last <symbol> create a new <symbol> tag with a unique id (which can be the icon name)
  4. Paste the code from the clipboard inside the opening <symbol> and closing </symbol> tags
  5. Remove the line starting with <svg and also the closing </svg> tag from the code you pasted.
  6. Save the file.

For using the icons inside the theme files, there is a special partial file partials/icon.hbs which accepts name and size as parameters.

Let's see an example and try to add a new icon. Assuming we want to add the icon battery-charging and by clicking on the icon on the website, we get this code:

<svg
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  class="icon icon-tabler icon-tabler-battery-charging"
  width="24"
  height="24"
  viewBox="0 0 24 24"
  stroke-width="1.5"
  stroke="#2c3e50"
  fill="none"
  stroke-linecap="round"
  stroke-linejoin="round"
>
  <path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none" />
  <path
    d="M16 7h1a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v.5a0.5 .5 0 0 0 .5 .5a0.5 .5 0 0 1 .5 .5v3a0.5 .5 0 0 1 -.5 .5a0.5 .5 0 0 0 -.5 .5v.5a2 2 0 0 1 -2 2h-2"
  />
  <path d="M8 7h-2a2 2 0 0 0 -2 2v6a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h1" />
  <path d="M12 8l-2 4h3l-2 4" />
</svg>

As explained before, we don't need the <svg> tags just what is inside, as we will place them in <symbol> tags. So the code we will place in the icon-sprite.svg will look like this:

<symbol id="battery-charging" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
  <path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none" />
  <path
    d="M16 7h1a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v.5a0.5 .5 0 0 0 .5 .5a0.5 .5 0 0 1 .5 .5v3a0.5 .5 0 0 1 -.5 .5a0.5 .5 0 0 0 -.5 .5v.5a2 2 0 0 1 -2 2h-2"
  />
  <path d="M8 7h-2a2 2 0 0 0 -2 2v6a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h1" />
  <path d="M12 8l-2 4h3l-2 4" />
</symbol>

It's important that the id is uniques and there is no other <symbol> with the same id. After copy-pasting this into the icon-sprite.svg and saving it, we can use the new icon in the theme, like this:

{{>icon name="battery-charging" size="md"}}

Wherever you put this code, will render the icon.


Social links are shown in the footer and by default the theme comes with:

  • Facebook (Settings > General > Social accounts)
  • Twitter (Settings > General > Social accounts)
  • RSS

To add other links you need to edit the partials/social-links.hbs file. There are several other links in there already, you just have to uncomment the relevant parts and add your own link in the href attribute.


Social sharing

Social sharing is part of the post layout and the following is included:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • Email
  • Copy to clipboard

To add other social sharing options you need to edit the partials/social-share.hbs file.


Theme development

If you want to make more advanced changes to the theme, or you want to develop your own components, the theme comes with a developer-friendly setup. You can take advantage of the Gulp tasks that are set up for compiling Javascript and PostCSS.

All the assets are combined and minified for better speed and performance. To customize the theme make sure you have Node.js and npm installed.

Follow the official guide for installing Ghost locally. After you have installed Ghost and put the theme directory inside the content/themes/ directory, run the following commands in the theme directory:

npm install

This will install all the dependencies for the theme

Then run:

gulp

This will compile PostCSS and javascript and will watch for changes. So when you edit .hbs, .css or .js file the change will trigger the gulp watch task and this will compile the assets whenever you change a file.

If you want to compile just CSS:

gulp css

If you want to compile just JS:

gulp js

FAQ & Code Snippets

Frequently asked questions and useful snippets you can use to make some quick changes to your site.

  • How to resize the header logo?

    Go to the Admin, Settings > Code Injections and in the Site Header add (adjust the height value depending on your preference):

    <style>.header__brand img { height: 50px; }</style>
    
  • How to remove the theme toggle button?

    Go to the Admin, Settings > Code Injections and in the Site Header add:

    <style>.menu__theme { display: none; }</style>
    
  • How to hide the subscribe form in the menu?

    Go to the Admin, Settings > Code Injections and in the Site Header add:

    <style>.menu__subscribe { display: none; }</style>
    

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