Based on https://heiswayi.github.io/the-plain/
Used in https://chepanov.com
Install ghost-cli:
npm install -g ghost-cli@latest
Create new workspace (outside of the git tree!)
mkdir ghost-workspace && cd ghost-workspace && ghost install local
Symlink this repository folder inside content/themes
, for example:
ln -s /Users/nchepanov/dev/the-ghost-plain content/themes/the-ghost-plain
Populate with sample data from current blog. Enter a simple password, like administrator
ghost import ../the-ghost-plain/spiritual-pragmatism.ghost.2023-08-20-17-07-04.json
Start the instance
ghost start
Login using [email protected]
as username and administrator
as password and activate the-ghost-plain
under advanced
Almost there, images are not part of the exported bundle, grab the logo manually
mkdir -p content/images/2021/10/
cd content/images/2021/10/
curl -OL https://chepanov.com/content/images/2021/10/[email protected]
Styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need Node, Yarn and Gulp installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:
All commands run in the git root (not in ghost-workspace
):
yarn install && yarn dev
Now as changes are made to any of the resources, now you can edit /assets/css/
files,
which will be compiled to /assets/built/
automatically.
The zip
Gulp task packages the theme files into dist/<theme-name>.zip
, which you can then upload to your site.
yarn zip
Ghost uses a simple templating language called Handlebars for its themes.
We've documented our default theme pretty heavily so that it should be fairly easy to work out what's going on just by reading the code and the comments. Once you feel comfortable with how everything works, we also have full theme API documentation which explains every possible Handlebars helper and template.
The main files are:
default.hbs
- The main template fileindex.hbs
- Used for the home pagepost.hbs
- Used for individual postspage.hbs
- Used for individual pagestag.hbs
- Used for tag archivesauthor.hbs
- Used for author archivesOne neat trick is that you can also create custom one-off templates just by adding the slug of a page to a template file. For example:
page-about.hbs
- Custom template for the /about/
pagetag-news.hbs
- Custom template for /tag/news/
archiveauthor-ali.hbs
- Custom template for /author/ali/
archive
Copyright (c) 2013-2021 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.