Beirut Ghost Theme — Documentation

Table of Contents

Theme Installation

To begin, unzip the downloaded package by double-clicking it on a Mac or by right-clicking and selecting “Extract All” on Windows.

Inside the new beirut folder, you will find the beirut.zip theme file and an online documentation file.

Follow these steps to upload the theme to your website:

1. Log in to your Ghost website admin (example.com/ghost).
2. Click the settings icon ( ) at the bottom of the left-hand side.
3. Go to Site > Design & branding.
4. Click Customize > Change theme.
5. Click Upload theme and select the beirut.zip theme file.
6. Once uploaded, click Activate now to activate Beirut.

Upload the routes.yaml File (⚑ Required)

The routes.yaml is required for the following reasons:

• Work page
• Writing page

To upload the file, follow these steps:

1. Unzip the beirut.zip theme file.
2. In your Ghost admin, click the settings icon ( ) at the bottom of the left-hand side.
3. Go to Advanced > Labs.
4. Click Open > Beta features.
5. From the Routes section, click Upload routes YAML button.
6. Select and upload the routes.yaml file inside the theme folder.

Content Structure (⚑ Required)

This document part will introduce you to three essential sections:

1. Beirut Concept to learn about the content structure
2. Create Work and Writing Tags
3. Organize Posts by Tags

➀ Beirut Concept

The concept behind Beirut is to organize your work and writings to show them on different pages and sections. Your work type might be creative work, photography, or any.

How does the theme separate each? Beirut uses tags to create this separation. Posts tagged with work will be in the work section, while posts tagged with writing will be in the writing section. So, each new post you create must have the work or the writing tag.

The homepage will include the introduction, work, services, clients, testimonials, and writing sections.

You will have a list of all work posts under the /work/ URL. The same goes for writing under /writing.

➁ Create Work and Writing Tags

Go to your Ghost admin Tags page and create two new tags, Work and Writing. Fill in the Name and Description for each.

Work Tag

Add the tag Name as Work and ensure the Slug is work. The Description field is optional.

Click Save.

Writing Tag

Add the tag Name as Writing and ensure the Slug is writing. The Description field is optional.

Click Save.

Beirut will use the Name and Description on the Work and Writing pages.

➂ Organize Posts by Tags

After creating your Work and Writing tags, organize your posts by giving each post a tag from Post settings.

If you have more than one tag for a post, ensure that the Work or the Writing tag is the first, as shown in the screenshot below. We call the first tag a Primary tag.

Don’t add Work and Witing tags in the same post; a post should have at least one but not both.

Any additional tags will be visible under the title.

Rename Work to another Term

If, for example, you want to change the Work term to be something like Speaking or Newsletter. Do the following.

Using a code editor, open each theme file and replace the word work with speaking in the mentioned file line. I will use speaking here as an example. Make sure you type it in lowercase.

➊ partials/home/work.hbs ( line 6 )

{{#get 'posts' filter='primary_tag:speaking' include='tags' limit=@custom.number_of_work_items}}

➋ partials/home/work.hbs ( line 12 ) Type it in uppercase as it will be visible on the website.

<h2 class='c-section__headline__title'></h2>

➌ partials/loop.hbs ( line 3 )

{{#match primary_tag.slug 'speaking'}}

➍ partials/related.hbs ( line 8 )

{{#match post.primary_tag.slug 'speaking'}}

➎ routes.yaml ( all lines containing the work word )

collections:
  /speaking/:
    permalink: /speaking/{slug}/
    filter: primary_tag:speaking
    template: speaking
    data: tag.speaking
  /writing/:
    permalink: /writing/{slug}/
    filter: primary_tag:writing
    template: writing
    data: tag.writing
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

➏ Rename the work.hbs file to speaking.hbs

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

After that, make sure to manage your tags and organize your content to match your new term, Speaking, in this example.

Homepage

The homepage will show a list of content sections.

• Homepage Introduction
• Homepage Work
• Homepage Services
• Homepage Clients/Logos
• Homepage Testimonials
• Homepage Writing

Homepage Introduction

Here, you can add text, images, or links.

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Homepage
2. Add your content in the Hero heading box
3. Click Save changes

Use HTML image element to add an image, for example:

<img src='https://media0.giphy.com/media/jpbnoe3UIa8TU8LM13/200w.webp' alt='' width='32' height='32'>

The visible image size will be 32px and zoomed a little when you hover over it.

Or; the HTML link element to add a link:

<a href='/url'>Link</a>

If you want to add a contact link, use mailto as the following example:

<a href='mailto:ahmad@aspirethemes.com'>get in touch</a>

If you want to highlight some text, you can use the u-color-text-brand class with a span element to paint the text with the Accent color.

<span class='u-color-text-brand'>Your Text here…</span>

You can also use other HTML Text Formatting elements.

The following is the demo example.

¶ Amelia Harry <img src='https://krabi.aspirethemes.com/content/images/size/w256/2020/11/guillaume-bleyer-Dep2HTKqGj0-unsplash-2.jpg' alt='' width='32' height='32'> is a Designer and Art Director based in London ● Harry began her studies in art and interior decoration at Wiesbaden School of Art <sup>2016</sup> – Now, I work as an independent designer, <a href='mailto:ahmad@aspirethemes.com'>get in touch</a>. ✌︎

Dingbat ❊

✁ ✂ ✃ ✄ ✅ ✆ ✇ ✈ ✉ ☛ ☞ ✌ ✍ ✎ ✏ ✐ ✑ ✒ ✓ ✔ ✕ ✖ ✗ ✘ ✙ ✚ ✛ ✜ ✝ ✞ ✟ ✠ ✡ ✢ ✣ ✤ ✥ ✦ ✧ ★ ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ ✱ ✲ ✳ ✴ ✵ ✶ ✷ ✸ ✹ ✺ ✻ ✼ ✽ ✾ ✿ ❀ ❁ ❂ ❃ ❄ ❅ ❆ ❇ ❈ ❉ ❊ ❋ ● ❍ ■ ❏ ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○ ❐ ❑ ❒ ▲ ▼ ◆ ❖ ◗ ❘ ❙ ❚ ❛ ❜ ❝ ❞ → ☀ ↳ ⤷ ✌︎ ☼ 

➀ ➁ ➂ ➃ ➄ ➅ ➆ ➇ ➈ ➉

➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ ➏ ➐ ➑ ➒ ➓

Fleuron ❦

❦ ❧ ☙

Homepage Work

The Work section shows four recent posts with the Work tag.

The order is by the post Publish date. You can adjust each post date from the Post setting if you want to reorder the posts.

To control how many Work items to show:

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Homepage
2. Type a number in the Number of work items box. Or, type none to hide the Work section
3. Click Save changes

Homepage Services

Add a list item; call it services, tools, or whatever.

The Clients/Logos section is invisible by default. To show it:

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Homepage
2. Activate the Show services section option

Update the Services Section

Using a code editor, open the theme /partials/home/services.hbs file. You can find two columns; I called one Services and the other Technologies. Each column has a list of items underneath. Each item is added inside an HTML <li></li> element. Change, delete, and update as much as you like.

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

Homepage Clients/Logos

Show or Hide the Clients/Logos Section

The Clients/Logos section is invisible by default. To show it:

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Homepage
2. Activate the Show clients section option

Add a New Logo

Open the theme folder on your computer and go to the /assets/images/clients/ folder. So, this is where you can add your logo images.

Using a code editor, open the theme /partials/home/clients.hbs file. You can find a list of current logo examples in this file.

Each logo is an HTML list item.

<li>
  <img src='{{asset 'images/clients/netflix.svg'}}' alt='Netflix'>
</li>

Add the logo image inside the /images/clients/ theme folder to add a new logo.

If the logo image name is ghost.png, your HTML code in the /partials/home/clients.hbs file would be:

<li>
  <img src='{{asset 'images/clients/ghost.png'}}' alt='Netflix'>
</li>

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

Adjust the Logo Size

If you want to change the logo size, whether to increase or decrease it, add the following CSS code into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header.

<style>
  .c-clients img { max-height: 24px; }
</style>

The 24px is the default value, increase or decrease it to match your preference.

Homepage Testimonials

Show or Hide the Testimonials Section

The Testimonials section is invisible by default. To show it:

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Homepage
2. Activate the Show testimonials section option

Add a New Testimonial

Using a code editor, open the theme /partials/home/testimonials.hbs file. In this file, you can find two testimonials as an example, which you can update or replicate to create new ones.

Each testimonial contains:

1. Testimonial text
2. Testimonial author image
3. Testimonial author name
4. Testimonial author title

<div class='c-card-testimonial'>
  <blockquote class='c-card-testimonial__text'>A beautiful product clearly made by a passionate, experienced team.</blockquote>

  <div class='c-card-testimonial__author'>
    <figure class='c-card-testimonial__figure'>
      <img src="{{ asset '/images/testimonials/amelia.jpg' }}" class='c-card-testimonial__author__image' alt='' width='64' height='64'>
    </figure>
    <div class='c-card-testimonial__author__bio'>
      <p class='c-card-testimonial__author__name'><a href='#'>Amelia Harry</a></p>
      <p class='c-card-testimonial__author__title'>Engineer @Shopify</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

You can add the testimonial quote text inside the blockquote line.

<blockquote class='c-card-testimonial__text'>This Is Where you can add your testimonial quote</blockquote>

Open the theme folder on your computer and go to the /assets/images/testimonials/ folder. So, this is where you can add your authors testimonials images. An image of 128px × 128px is a good size.

If the testimonials author image name is ahmad.jpg, your image HTML code in the /partials/home/testimonials.hbs file would be:

<img src="{{ asset '/images/testimonials/ahmad.jpg' }}" class='c-card-testimonial__author__image' alt='' width='64' height='64'>

You can add a link using the HTML link tag; for example, I added a link to the testimonial author in the above example.

<p class='c-card-testimonial__author__name'><a href='#'>Amelia Harry</a></p>

Make sure to replace the # with the URL you want to link.

If you don’t want to link to the author, remove the a start and closing tags; the final line would be:

<p class='c-card-testimonial__author__name'>Amelia Harry</p>

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

Homepage Writing

The Writing section shows four recent posts with the Writing tag.

To control how many Writing items to show:

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Homepage
2. Type a number in the Number of writing items box. Or, type none to hide the Writing section
3. Click Save changes

Pages

Manage Work, Writing and About pages.

Work Page

The Work page shows all posts with the Work tag.

You can change the number of Work items from the Posts Per Page setting.

Check Add Work Page to Navigation for adding it to the website navigation.

The Work page theme file is work.hbs.

Writing Page

The Writing page shows all posts with the Writing tag.

You can change the number of Writing items from the Posts Per Page setting.

Check Add Writing Page to Navigation for adding it to the website navigation.

The Writing page theme file is writing.hbs.

About Page

1. Create a new page from your Ghost admin
2. Add the page Title, Content, Excerpt, and upload a feature image
3. Open the page settings and choose About from the Template dropdown menu

The About page theme file is custom-about.hbs.

Work Feature Image

The work feature image ideal size to upload is 1184 × 790. The visible size is 592 × 395, but double it to 1184 × 790 to look sharper on retina displays.

The feature image can be uploaded from the post editor, above the title. It will be visible in the work listing cards on the homepage and the work page.

The image aspect ratio is set to 3/2.

To change the ratio to 1x1, you can do this with CSS into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header

  <style>
    .c-card-work__media { aspect-ratio: var(--ratio-1); }
  </style>

Ensure the uploaded image has a 1x1 ratio.

Changing Colors

You can change all your website colors from the admin settings.

Go to your website admin Settings > Design > Site design > Site-wide to show color settings.

Colors Explained

1. Text color primary. Main text color for site content.
2. Text color secondary. Text color for section heading, post date, and image caption elements.
3. Border color. Color of the border, for example, the border between the Writing list.
4. Background color primary. The main background color.
5. Background color secondary. For site footer, Writing list hovers and a placeholder for images before loading.

You can also set the Accent color from the admin Settings > Design > Brand > Accent color. The Accent color is only used for the content Header Card with the background set to the Accent color.

Color Examples

Below, you can find six accessible color scheme examples.

All the color schemes are accessible colors for better reading and accessibility experience.

Please copy the code value for each color and add it to the color settings.

➀ Green

Demo →

1. Text color primary → 016450
2. Text color secondary → 016450
3. Border color → 6c9a8d
4. Background color primary → ecf5f2
5. Background color secondary → d6ece5

➁ Isabelline

Demo →

1. Text color primary → 703288
2. Text color secondary → 703288
3. Border color → d4c1d3
4. Background color primary → f4efec
5. Background color secondary → dac9d9

➂ Red

Demo →

1. Text color primary → B30000
2. Text color secondary → B30000
3. Border color → B30000
4. Background color primary → FFFFFF
5. Background color secondary → fafafa

➃ Dark

Demo →

1. Text color primary → d5caaf
2. Text color secondary → d5caaf
3. Border color → d5caaf
4. Background color primary → 000000
5. Background color secondary → 1c1c1c

➄ Yellow

Demo →

1. Text color primary → 000000
2. Text color secondary → 000000
3. Border color → 000000
4. Background color primary → ffe14b
5. Background color secondary → FFDA1F

➅ Purple

Demo →

1. Text color primary → f3eeeb
2. Text color secondary → f3eeeb
3. Border color → 814b95
4. Background color primary → 703288
5. Background color secondary → 622C77

Color Tools

The following are some online websites and tools to help with color inspiration. Please make sure you choose an accessible color scheme; this is important for readers.

• https://www.fffuel.co/cccolor/
• https://coolors.co/
• https://mdigi.tools/color-shades/
• http://web-accessibility.carnegiemuseums.org/design/color/
• http://colorsafe.co/
• https://clrs.cc/a11y/
• https://accessible-colors.com/

Membership

Beirut has different interface elements for membership features.

1. Footer subscribe form
2. Call to action section on the post page to encourage visitors to subscribe if the post is for members only

Remove Footer Subscribe Form

1. Go to your Ghost admin Settings > Membership > Access > Subscription access
2. Select Nobody
3. Click Save

Remove Ghost Portal / The Bottom Right Button

This is the Ghost Portal button; you can disable it from the Ghost admin. More information at Portal Look and feel.

For more information about Members, connecting Stripe, and setting the package price, check the official Ghost documentation.

Navigation

You can add, edit, delete, and reorder navigation menu in Ghost Admin from the Settings > Site > Navigation > Primary page.

Add New Page to Navigation

First, type the page name as you’d like it appear on your navigation in the label field.

Next, click on the item’s URL. The blog URL will already be auto-populated. Add the page slug after the final /.

Click the Save button.

Add Work Page to Navigation

Add a new navigation item, fill in the Label field and make sure to set the URL to /work/ like the following screenshot.

Add Writing Page to Navigation

Add a new navigation item, fill in the Label field and make sure to set the URL to /writing/ like the following screenshot.

Dropdown

Add a Hyphen (-) followed by a space before the navigation Label to add a dropdown menu.

In this example, Contact will be the parent item with Blog and Archive as child items.

Secondary Navigation / Footer

Like Header Navigation, you can add the footer navigation links from the Ghost admin Settings > Site > Navigation > Secondary.

Search

Beirut uses the Ghost Native Search.

To remove search:

Copy and paste the following CSS code into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header.

<style>
  .c-nav__item--search { display: none; }
</style>

Comments

The theme comes with Ghost Native Comments integration. You can turn the comments on from your Ghost admin Settings > Membership > Commenting.

Learn more about Ghost comments.

Ghost developer documentation for comments.

The theme file for Ghost comments partials/comments/ghost.hbs.

Footer Social Media Links

Ghost supports adding only Facebook and Twitter URLs. Go to Settings > General > Social accounts and add your URLs from your site admin.

By default, Ghost fills these fields with the Ghost social links. If you don’t have Twitter and Facebook, you can remove the default ones, and the links will disappear from the theme.

Beirut supports adding Instagram, Dribbble, Linkedin, and Email URLs. Go to Settings > Design > Site-wide.

The social links theme file is at /partials/social-links.hbs.

Languages

Beirut comes in many languages already. But if you’d like to add another one, you’ll be able to do that too.

Theme Translation

Beirut supports Ghost i18n and comes with Arabic, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, and Danish translations.

To use a language other than English, go to your Ghost admin Settings > General > PUBLICATION INFO and enter the ISO Code into the Publication Language field.

The following is a list of the available theme languages with the code to use.

• ar for Arabic
• da for Danish
• de for Germany
• en for English
• es for Spanish
• fi for Finnish
• fr for French
• it for Italian
• nl for Dutch
• pt for Portuguese
• tr for Turkish

Add a New Language Translation

If the theme does not have a translation for your language, follow the following steps to add a new language translation.

1. Create a new file using a code editor in the theme’s locales folder with the ISO Language Codes code. Foe example, if the new language is Japanese, the ISO code will be ja and the file name will be ja.json.
2. In the same locales folder, open the en.json file and copy its content into your new language file.
3. Start translating, as shown in the following Edit Translation section.

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

Now, go to your Ghost admin Settings > General > PUBLICATION INFO and enter your language ISO code into the Publication Language field. For example, ja.

Click Save settings.

You may want to restart Ghost or deactivate and activate the theme again to make the new changes effective.

Edit Translation

To improve or edit a translation in a specific available language, you can open the language file using a code editor in the /locales/ theme folder:

|____locales
| |____ar.json
| |____da.json
| |____de.json
| |____en.json
| |____es.json
| |____fi.json
| |____fr.json
| |____it.json
| |____nl.json
| |____pt.json
| |____tr.json

For example, the German translation file (de) looks like this:

{
  "Skip to content": "Zum Inhalt springen",

  "Page Not Found": "Page Not Found",

  "Work": "Work",
  "Writing": "Writing",
  "Services": "Services",
  "Technologies": "Technologies",
  "Clients": "Clients",
  "Next": "Next",

  "Loading": "Wird geladen",
  "Load More": "Weitere Artikel",

  "Subscribe": "Abonnieren",
  "Newsletter": "Newsletter",
  "Email address": "Email address",
  "Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription.": "Bitte überprüfen Sie Ihren Posteingang und klicken Sie auf den Link, um Ihr Abonnement zu bestätigen.",
  "Please enter a valid email address.": "Bitte geben Sie eine gültige E-Mail-Adresse ein!",
  "An error occurred, please try again later.": "Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Bitte versuchen Sie es später erneut.",

  "This Content Is for Members": "Dieser Inhalt ist für Mitglieder",
  "This Content Is for Paid Members": "Dieser Inhalt ist für bezahlte Mitglieder",
  "Already have an account?": "Hast du schon ein Konto?",

  "Published with {ghostLink} & {themeLink}": "Veröffentlicht mit {ghostLink} & {themeLink}"
}

Each line consists of a left key ("Loading") and a right value ("Wird geladen").

The key is plain English that exists in all translation files and should not be changed. You should change only the value.

If you have any suggestions to improve a current translation or add a new language, please contact me.

Portal Text & Translation

There is no way to change or translate the Portal text or other parts of the website like Comments and Search labels. It is also not possible to translate the newsletter emails your subscribers receive. These are core Ghost components and not part of the theme layer; we can’t control them.

I suggest reaching out to the Ghost team ( support@ghost.org ); so they might work on this issue or have a workaround.

RTL

RTL means right to left. Turning on RTL makes the theme readable for languages written from right to left, like Arabic or Hebrew.

To enable the RTL option, open the partials/head.hbs theme file using a code editor and change line 7 to {{> css/dist/style-rtl }}.

Save the file and upload the theme to your Ghost blog.

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

Posts Per Page

You can control how many posts to display per page from the theme package.json file. Open that file using a code editor and change the posts_per_page value from 100 to a number.

"config": {
  "posts_per_page": 100
}

The theme default value is set to 100 posts per page.

Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

Typography Drop Caps

The theme comes with different styles of typography drop caps. It will apply to the first letter of the first word in a given paragraph.

To add a drop cap style to a paragraph.

1. Add an HTML card to your Post or Page content editor
2. In that HTML card, add a <p> </p> HTML element with the Drop Cap CSS class. For example, <p class='u-drop-cap-small'> </p>. Check below for the available classes for each style
3. Add your paragraph text whith that <p> </p> HTML element

There are currently two styles available.

➊ Small Drop Cap

• CSS class → u-drop-cap-small
• Example ↓

<p class='u-drop-cap-small'>TEXT HERE</p>

The result.

➋ Large Drop Cap

• CSS class → u-drop-cap-large
• Example ↓

<p class='u-drop-cap-large'>TEXT HERE</p>

The result.

Changing Theme Typeface

Beirut is using one typeface, DM Sans.

The theme loads DM Sans using Google Fonts in the theme partials/typography.hbs file. It is then assigned as a CSS Variable and other system fonts as a backup as the following example.

:root {
  --font-family: 'DM Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}

To change the typeface to any from Google Fonts, use Code Injection Site Header.

For example, if you want to use the Roboto typeface from Google Fonts. Your code in Code Injection might be like this.

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;700&display=swap' rel='stylesheet'>

<style>
  :root {
    --font-family: 'Roboto', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  }
</style>

If you have a custom typeface, check out the Loading Custom Typeface section below.

You might find the following posts helpful as well:

• How to Change a Ghost Theme Font Using Google Fonts
• Change Ghost Casper Theme Fonts with Google Fonts

Loading Custom Typeface

I assume you have the font files and the initial @font-face CSS code for loading the font. Something similar to the following code.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Atyp';
  src: local('Atyp Text Regular'), local('Atyp-Text-Regular'),
    url('AtypText-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
    url('AtypText-Regular.woff') format('woff'),
    url('AtypText-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

➊ Create a new folder in the theme under /assets and name it fonts, for example, then copy your font files there.

➋ Once you finish, zip the theme files, and upload the final zip file to your Ghost website.

➌ In Ghost admin Code Injection, add your @font-face code with the new font files path wrapped in the <style> element.

<style>
  @font-face {
    font-family: 'Atyp';
    src: local('/assets/fonts/Atyp Text Regular'), local('Atyp-Text-Regular'),
        url('/assets/fonts/AtypText-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
        url('/assets/fonts/AtypText-Regular.woff') format('woff'),
        url('/assets/fonts/AtypText-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: 400;
    font-style: normal;
  }
</style>

This should load the fonts. Then you can use the font and do your styling for the body and so on.

RSS Feed URL

You can access all content RSS feed at site.com/rss/.

You can access Work RSS feed at site.com/work/rss/.

You can access Writing RSS feed at site.com/writing/rss/.

Publication icon

You can change the favicon from the Ghost admin Settings > Design & branding > Brand > Publication icon.

Syntax Highlighting

You can add a fenced code block by placing triple backticks ``` before and after the code block. For example:

```
pre {
  background-color: #f4f4f4;
  max-width: 100%;
  overflow: auto;
}
```

This will produce the following gray look:

To highlight a code block, add the language alias like css or js to the code block. For example, the CSS code in the previous example will wrap between ```css and ``` as follows:

```css
pre {
  background-color: #f4f4f4;
  max-width: 100%;
  overflow: auto;
}
```

This will produce the following colored look:

To add inline code, wrap the text between two backticks ` `.

Prism

The theme ships with Prism.js, a lightweight, robust, and elegant syntax highlighter.

The initial Prism package includes some languages, like Markup, CSS, C-like, and JavaScript.

You can add support for more languages by adding the Prism autoloader script, which will automatically load the languages you need. T do this, add the following script to the website admin Code Injection (Site Footer).

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.28.0/plugins/autoloader/prism-autoloader.min.js" integrity="sha512-fTl/qcO1VgvKtOMApX2PdZzkziyr2stM65GYPLGuYMnuMm1z2JLJG6XVU7C/mR+E7xBUqCivykuhlzfqxXBXbg==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>

Click Save.

Footnotes

Ghost has limited support for footnotes, which means it doesn’t support footnotes outside of the editor Markdown card. So, if your article content is in Markdown, this will work fine for you.

For creating a footnote, check out the Markdown Guide – Footnotes for more information about the syntax. You can check out how the theme renders this example in the demo. So, in your editor, you need to add a new Markdown card and your footnote inside.

The theme will render what the editor can do; the theme has no built-in footnotes support but Ghost. Check out this theme demo example.

Check out this Forum discussion for more information and probably some ideas and workarounds.

I have not done any work to support footnotes beyond the basic Ghost Markdown implementation, so I’m afraid I can’t give any advice here.

Theme Deploy with GitHub Actions

Beirut comes integrated with the Deploy Ghost Theme Github action. The purpose of the GitHub action is to take the theme from the GitHub repo and send it to your website.

I have written about this in How to Deploy Your Ghost Theme Using Github Actions. All you need to do is follow steps 1 and 2.

Code Injection

Another choice for customization is to use the Ghost Code Injection settings in Ghost admin.

For a CSS example, you can use the following code in the Site Header section to change the logo color and font size.

<style>
  .c-logo__link {
    color: #4550E5;
    font-size: 32px;
  }
</style>

Watch the following short video about Ghost Code Injection, how it works, and how to use it.

Check out How to use Code Injection Ghost guide for more information.

Customize Logo Size

If you are using an image as a logo (instead of the site name) and want to change the logo size, use the following code in Code Injection.

<style>
  .c-logo__img { max-height: 40px; }
</style>

The default value is 40px, so you can increase this value to match your preference.

Footer Copyright

You can update the footer copyright line information from the theme partials/structure/footer.hbs file. Open and edit that file using a code editor.

If you just want to remove the Published with Ghost… part, copy and paste the following code into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Footer.

<script>
  var footer_copy = document.querySelector('.c-footer-copy'),
  footer_copy_visible_part = footer_copy.innerText.split('-')[0];
  footer_copy.innerText = footer_copy_visible_part;
</script>

Zip Theme Files

You can compress it as a standard folder like any other folder on your computer. If you are on Mac, right-click on the theme folder to view the context menu. Then, click the Compress option.