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Current Version:1.0.4 — 28 July 2021 Changelog →

Theme Editing & Tools

Edit the theme files mentioned here with your text editor of choice. For example, you can use Visual Studio Code ↗ or Sublime Text ↗.

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

If editing the routes.yaml file, make sure to upload it after every change you make.

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Watch the following short video tutorial about theme editing.

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If you are looking for Ghost hosting, I recommend Ghost(Pro) ↗.

Table of Contents

• Theme Installation
• Upload the routes.yaml File (⚑ Required)
• Homepage
  • Homepage Content
    • Homepage Metadata Note
  • Homepage Default Style
  • Homepage Styles Change Overview - Video
  • Homepage Image Right Style
  • Homepage Image Circle Style
  • Homepage Image Center Style
  • Homepage Image Wide Style
  • Homepage Image Full Style
  • Homepage Number of Posts
  • Homepage Change Featured and Recent Posts Titles
  • Homepage Styles and File Names
  • Homepage Remove the Content Subscribe Form
  • Homepage Replace the Content Subscribe Form With a Button
  • Homepage Remove the Featured Posts Section
  • Homepage Remove the Recent Posts Section
  • Homepage Exclude Featured Posts From the Recent Posts Section
  • Homepage Remove the All Posts → Link
  • Homepage Remove the Bottom Subscribe Box
• Changing Colors with CSS Variables
  • Theme Colors Explained
  • Color Scheme Examples
  • Color Scheme Tools
• Members / Subscriptions
  • Remove Membership Components from the Theme
  • Remove ‘Log in’ and ‘Membership’ links from Header
  • Using Portal for Header ‘Log in’ and ‘Subscribe’ Links
  • Remove ‘Public’, ‘Members’ and ‘Paid’ Labels from Post Card
  • Remove Subscribe Form from the Post Page
  • Edit Plan Features
  • Add Free Plan Column to Membership Page
  • Remove Ghost Portal / The Bottom Right Button
  • Membership Troubleshooting Tips
• Navigation
  • Secondary Navigation / Footer
  • Social Media Icons
• Pages
  • Archive Page
  • Blog Page
  • Contact Page
• Languages
  • Theme Translation
  • Add a New Language
  • Edit a Translation
  • Portal Text & Translation
  • RTL
• Comments
  • Disqus
    • Disable Disqus
    • Disable Disqus Recommendations/Ads
  • CommentBox
  • Commento
• Posts Per Page
• Google Analytics
• Update Favicon
• Responsive Tables
• Social Sharing Icons
• Syntax Highlighting
  • Prism
• Theme Deploy with GitHub Actions
• Code Injection
• Typography Drop Caps
• Changing Theme Font
• Loading Custom Font
• Customize Logo Size
• Remove Dates
• Add Related Posts
• Add Search
• Add Custom Meta Tags
• Footer Copyright
• AMP
• Theme Development
  • My Current Setup
  • Zip Theme Files
• Theme Update

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Theme Installation

The first step is to unzip the downloaded package by double-clicking it on Mac or by right-clicking and selecting “Extract All” in Windows.

Inside the new folder ubud, you will find the ubud.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 Theme.
4. Click Upload a theme and select the ubud.zip theme file.
5. Once uploaded, click Activate now to activate the theme immediately. If you want to activate it later, click Close.

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Upload the routes.yaml File (⚑ Required)

The routes.yaml is required for the following reasons:

• Members and subscriptions flows
• Homepage content and layout style
• Blog page
• Archive page

To upload the file, follow these steps:

1. Unzip the ubud.zip theme file.
2. In your Ghost admin, click the settings icon ( ) at the bottom of the left-hand side.
3. Go to the Labs.
4. Scroll down to the Routes section and click the Upload routes YAML button.
5. Select and upload the routes.yaml file inside the theme folder.

Or watch the following video for installation.

Note: upload routes.yaml after uploading the theme zip

There will already be a default routes.yaml file uploaded to Ghost. You need to upload your theme’s routes.yaml to override the default.

Do this separately after uploading your theme zip file.

Homepage 404: Page Not Found

After uploading the routes.yaml file, the homepage will return 404 Page Not Found.

That’s fine. Move on to the next step and set up the Homepage.

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Homepage

Make sure to Upload the routes.yaml file.

The homepage will show a list of content sections.

• Your content and image from a custom Ghost Page
• Featured posts, if they exist
• Recent three posts
• All Posts → link to the blog page
• Subscription box

Homepage Content

Make sure to Upload the routes.yaml file.

In Ghost admin, create a new Page.

From the Page settings, make sure that the Page URL setting is home.

Add your content, upload your image, and publish the page.

The page title will not be visible on the website; only the content and the image will be. However, you can name it Home or any preferred name to make it visible from the dashboard.

If you don’t want to upload an image, you can leave it empty, and the theme will only show the page content on the homepage like the following example.

Now, go to your website homepage, and you will see your content is visible using the theme homepage default layout style.

Watch the following video for the homepage setup.

Homepage Metadata Note

Due to a Ghost limitation not exposing the custom homepage data, the homepage Metadata information will be coming from the admin General and Branding settings.

• From the General admin settings, you can set up the Title & description.
• From the Branding admin settings, you can set up the Publication cover. You can upload the same image as the homepage featured image if you already uploaded one.

Metadata is helpful for Search Engine Optimization and sharing your website on social media sites to have a nice-looking preview.

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The Twitter card and Facebook card meta settings are helpful if you want to customize the look for these specific sites.

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It might take some time from the social media site to fetch the new image and to see the changes; give it some time. You can also use a tool like Twitter Card validator ↗ for testing.

Homepage Styles Change Overview - Video

Watch the following short video to overview the available theme homepage styles and how to change them.

Homepage Default Style

The theme file for the home default style is home.hbs if you want to make any changes.

Homepage Default Style Image Size

The image size is 540px wide.

When uploading the Featured image, try to upload an image with a double size to look sharp in retina displays. The 540px wide size is the one that is visible on the screen. But behind the scenes, the theme will crop the image to be 1080px wide if the uploaded image is broader than that. Again, I use this method so the image looks good on retina screens.

Homepage Image Right Style

The theme file for the home image right style is home-image-right.hbs if you want to make any changes.

To activate the Image Right style:

1. Open the routes.yaml theme file
2. Comment the - home line by adding # in front of it.
3. Uncomment the - home-image-right right by removing the # in front of it.

The routes.yaml will look like the following.

routes:
  /membership/: members/membership
  /signup/: members/signup
  /signin/: members/signin
  /account/: members/account
  /:
    data: page.home
    template:
      # - home
      - home-image-right
      # - home-image-circle
      # - home-image-center
      # - home-image-wide
      # - home-image-full
  /archive/:
    template: archive

collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

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

Save and Upload the routes.yaml file to your website.

Homepage Image Right Style Image Size

The image size is 540px wide.

When uploading the Featured image, try to upload an image with a double size to look sharp in retina displays.

The 540px wide size is the one that is visible on the screen. But behind the scenes, the theme will crop the image to be 1080px wide if the uploaded image is broader than that.

Again, I use this method so the image looks good on retina screens.

Homepage Image Circle Style

The theme file for the home image circle style is home-image-circle.hbs if you want to make any changes.

To activate the Image Circle style:

1. Open the routes.yaml theme file
2. Comment the - home line by adding # in front of it.
3. Uncomment the - home-image-circle right by removing the # in front of it.

The routes.yaml will look like the following.

routes:
  /membership/: members/membership
  /signup/: members/signup
  /signin/: members/signin
  /account/: members/account
  /:
    data: page.home
    template:
      # - home
      # - home-image-right
      - home-image-circle
      # - home-image-center
      # - home-image-wide
      # - home-image-full
  /archive/:
    template: archive

collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

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

Save and Upload the routes.yaml file to your website.

Homepage Image Circle Style Image Sizes

The image circle style comes with four different image sizes.

• Default: 96px * 96px
• Medium: 128px * 128px
• Large: 192px * 192px
• xLarge: 256px * 256px

When uploading the Featured image, try to upload an image with a double size to look sharp in retina displays.

The previous sizes are the ones that are visible on the screens. But behind the scenes, the theme is using the actual image size will be.

Again, I use this method so the image looks good on retina screens.

• Default: 192px * 192px
• Medium: 256px * 256px
• Large: 384px * 384px
• xLarge: 512px * 512px

The theme and Ghost will do the image crop and generate those sizes when you upload an image. I want to give you an overview of the dimensions.

To show different image size instead of the small and default one. Open the home-image-circle.hbs theme file and replace line 11 with the following medium size line.

{{> home/home-image-ricle--medium }}

For the large size, use the following line.

{{> home/home-image-ricle--large }}

For the xLarge size, use the following line.

{{> home/home-image-ricle--xLarge }}

You can also watch the following short video for how to change the circle image size.

Homepage Image Center Style

The theme file for the home image center style is home-image-center.hbs if you want to make any changes.

To activate the Image Center style:

1. Open the routes.yaml theme file
2. Comment the - home line by adding # in front of it.
3. Uncomment the - home-image-center right by removing the # in front of it.

The routes.yaml will look like the following.

routes:
  /membership/: members/membership
  /signup/: members/signup
  /signin/: members/signin
  /account/: members/account
  /:
    data: page.home
    template:
      # - home
      # - home-image-right
      # - home-image-circle
      - home-image-center
      # - home-image-wide
      # - home-image-full
  /archive/:
    template: archive

collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

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

Save and Upload the routes.yaml file to your website.

Homepage Image Center Style Image Size

The image size is 731px wide.

When uploading the Featured image, try to upload an image with a double size to look sharp in retina displays.

The 731px wide size is the one that is visible on the screen. But behind the scenes, the theme will crop the image to be 1462px wide if the uploaded image is broader than that.

Again, I use this method so the image looks good on retina screens.

Homepage Image Wide Style

The theme file for the home image center style is home-image-wide.hbs if you want to make any changes.

To activate the Image Center style:

1. Open the routes.yaml theme file
2. Comment the - home line by adding # in front of it.
3. Uncomment the - home-image-wide right by removing the # in front of it.

The routes.yaml will look like the following.

routes:
  /membership/: members/membership
  /signup/: members/signup
  /signin/: members/signin
  /account/: members/account
  /:
    data: page.home
    template:
      # - home
      # - home-image-right
      # - home-image-circle
      # - home-image-center
      - home-image-wide
      # - home-image-full
  /archive/:
    template: archive

collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

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

Save and Upload the routes.yaml file to your website.

Homepage Image Wide Style Image Size

The image size is 1120px * 630px.

When uploading the Featured image, try to upload an image with a double size to look sharp in retina displays.

The 1120px * 630px size is the one that is visible on the screen. But behind the scenes, the theme will crop the image to be 2240px wide if the uploaded image is larger than that.

Again, I use this method so the image looks good on retina screens.

Homepage Image Full Style

The theme file for the home image full style is home-image-full.hbs if you want to make any changes.

To activate the Image Full style:

1. Open the routes.yaml theme file
2. Comment the - home line by adding # in front of it.
3. Uncomment the - home-image-full right by removing the # in front of it.

The routes.yaml will look like the following.

routes:
  /membership/: members/membership
  /signup/: members/signup
  /signin/: members/signin
  /account/: members/account
  /:
    data: page.home
    template:
      # - home
      # - home-image-right
      # - home-image-circle
      # - home-image-center
      # - home-image-wide
      - home-image-full
  /archive/:
    template: archive

collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

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

Save and Upload the routes.yaml file to your website.

Homepage Image Full Style Image Size

The wider the image, the better. An image height of 676px will be perfect.

Homepage Number of Posts

To control the number of featured posts, open the partials/home/featured-posts.hbs theme file. Change the limit value from all to whatever number you want to show. For example, to show only three featured posts, use limit='3'.

To control the number of recent posts, open the partials/home/recent-posts.hbs theme file. Change the limit value from 3 to whatever number you want to show. To show all the posts, use limit='all'.

Homepage Change Featured and Recent Posts Titles

To change the Featured Posts title, open the partials/home/featured-posts.hbs theme file and change it in line 10.

To change the Recent Posts title, open the partials/home/recent-posts.hbs theme file and change it in line 10.

Homepage Styles and File Names

Blew are the homepage styles and theme file names for a quick overview.

• Homepage Default Style → home.hbs
• Homepage Image Right Style → home-image-right.hbs
• Homepage Image Circle Style → home-image-circle.hbs
• Homepage Image Center Style → home-image-center.hbs
• Homepage Image Wide Style → home-image-wide.hbs
• Homepage Image Full Style → home-page-full.hbs

Homepage Remove the Content Subscribe Form

To remove the Content Subscribe Form from the homepage content area, open the theme file for the homepage style you are using. Then, remove the following lines.

{{#unless @member}}
  {{> subscribe-form inputLabel='subscribe-home-intro'}}
{{/unless}}

Homepage Replace the Content Subscribe Form With a Button

You may want to replace the homepage content subscribe form with a button that goes to the subscribe page.

Open the theme file for the homepage style you are using. Remove the current three lines of code for the subscribe form, which will be similar to:

{{#unless @member}}
  {{> subscribe-form inputLabel='subscribe-home-intro'}}
{{/unless}}

With the following line of code.

<a href='/membership/' class='c-btn c-btn--full' style='color:#fff; text-decoration:none;'>Subscribe</a>

The result will be similar to the following example.

Homepage Remove the Featured Posts Section

To remove the Featured Posts section from the homepage, open the theme file for the homepage style you are using. Then, remove the {{> home/featured-posts }} line from that file.

Another option is to remove the Feature this post checkbox for each post on your website.

Homepage Remove the Recent Posts Section

To remove the Recent Posts section from the homepage, open the theme file for the homepage style you are using. Then, remove the {{> home/recent-posts }} line from that file.

Homepage Exclude Featured Posts From the Recent Posts Section

Open the partials/home/recent-posts.hbs theme file and change line 5 to the following.

{{#get 'posts' filter='featured:false' limit='3'}}

Homepage Remove the All Posts → Link

To remove the All Posts → link from the homepage, open the theme file for the homepage style you are using. Then, remove the {{> home/all-posts-link }} line from that file, the line before the last line.

Homepage Remove the Bottom Subscribe Box

To remove the Subscribe Box link from the homepage, open the theme file for the homepage style you are using. Then, remove the {{> subscribe-box }} line from that file, the last line.

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Changing Colors with CSS Variables

Watch the following video to overview the color scheme feature and how to use it.

The theme file assets/sass/settings/colors.scss contains the theme default color variables. They are exactly as the following.

:root {
  --color-brand: #C5322E;

  --color-text-primary:   #181818;
  --color-text-secondary: #687385;

  --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
  --color-error:   #CC3C64;
  --color-success: #07815C;
  --color-border:  #ECECEC;

  --background-primary: #FFFFFF;
  --background-secondary: #F6F6F6;

  --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
}

Theme Colors Explained

It might seem complicated if you are not a technical person, but once you change one and get an instant result, you will get and feel it.

You can try the ready-made nine color schemes blew.

:root {
  // The theme's dominant color; you can see it in buttons, header Membership link text, and content links hover interaction.
  --color-brand: #C5322E;

  // Primary text is the main text color for site content.
  --color-text-primary: #181818;

  // Secondary text is the color of elements like post date, footer nav, input placeholder, content captions for images and galley, for example, and author information block icons and metadata.
  --color-text-secondary: #687385;

  // White color used for buttons with the brand colors as a background.
  --color-white: #FFFFFF;

  // Color error is used for the error message that comes when something wrong happens while subscribing.
  --color-error: #CC3C64;

  // Color success used for the success message comes when something wrong happens while subscribing.
  --color-success: #07815C;

  // Color border is used for borders separating each post card in the homepage, for example, and used as a color for the form input border.
  --color-border: #ECECEC;

  // Primary background is the website background. Also, used for the subscribe box icon color.
  --background-primary: #FFFFFF;

  // Secondary background used for the homepage content background, subscribe box, subscribe plans, author information block, and comments section.
  --background-secondary: #F6F6F6;

  // The hero background will inherit the secondary background from the above `--background-secondary`. I set a specific color variable to it if you want to put a unique color or make it the same as the website background.
  --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
}

Color Scheme Examples

Blew, you can find nine accessible color scheme examples.

Copy and past scheme code into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header.

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

➊ Dark

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #DC514D;

    --color-text-primary:   #FFF;
    --color-text-secondary: #9BAAC1;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #FF6347;
    --color-success: #00CF80;
    --color-border:  #292622;

    --background-primary: #000;
    --background-secondary: #241F21;

    --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
  }
</style>

➋ Monza

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #D6001C;

    --color-text-primary:   #D6001C;
    --color-text-secondary: #D6001C;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #96281B;
    --color-success: #134D13;
    --color-border:  #D6001C;

    --background-primary: #FFFFFF;
    --background-secondary: #FFF3CC;

    --background-hero: var(--background-primary);
  }
</style>

➌ Soft Peach

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #905656;

    --color-text-primary:   #241616;
    --color-text-secondary: #412727;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #96281B;
    --color-success: #134D13;
    --color-border:  #e9dbdb;

    --background-primary: #F6F0F0;
    --background-secondary: #f2e9e9;

    --background-hero: var(--background-primary);
  }
</style>

➍ Cinnamon

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #805b00;

    --color-text-primary:   #000;
    --color-text-secondary: #374c6d;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #D91E18;
    --color-success: #205E3B;
    --color-border:  #807D67;

    --background-primary: #F4F6EF;
    --background-secondary: #e4e6e0;

    --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
  }
</style>

➎ Bright Gray

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #373f48;

    --color-text-primary:   #3C434C;
    --color-text-secondary: #647180;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #B22222;
    --color-success: #20603C;
    --color-border:  #DFE3E9;

    --background-primary: #FFFFFF;
    --background-secondary: #E7EBF0;

    --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
  }
</style>

➏ Iron

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #000;

    --color-text-primary:   #212121;
    --color-text-secondary: #404040;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #B50000;
    --color-success: #20603C;
    --color-border:  #bdbec2;

    --background-primary: #d6d7d9;
    --background-secondary: #f2f2f3;

    --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
  }
</style>

➐ Linen

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #b95d0e;

    --color-text-primary:   #000;
    --color-text-secondary: #374c6d;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #923026;
    --color-success: #205E3B;
    --color-border:  #ece3dc;

    --background-primary: #FFFFFF;
    --background-secondary: #FCF3ED;

    --background-hero: var(--background-secondary);
  }
</style>

➑ Turbo

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #000000;

    --color-text-primary:   #000000;
    --color-text-secondary: #000000;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #5C0819;
    --color-success: #005031;
    --color-border:  #000000;

    --background-primary: #FEE900;
    --background-secondary: #fff14a;

    --background-hero: var(--background-primary);
  }
</style>

➒ Pampas

<style>
  :root {
    --color-brand: #c31118;

    --color-text-primary:   #292a2c;
    --color-text-secondary: #65605E;

    --color-white:   #FFFFFF;
    --color-error:   #5C0819;
    --color-success: #005031;
    --color-border:  #b2b2b2;

    --background-primary: #F6F4F2;
    --background-secondary: #eeedeb;

    --background-hero: var(--background-primary);
  }
</style>

If you have any schemes you would like to share, please let me know :)

Color Scheme 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://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/ ↗

Change Color of Specific Elements

If, for example, you want to add a color that’s not in the available theme variables or add another style to a new element, you can create a new variable and give it a name and value.

We can extend the previous example to add a new color for the logo color and assign that variable to the logo HTML element class .c-logo__link.

<style>
  :root {
    --color-logo: blue;
  }

  .c-logo__link {
    color: var(--color-logo);
  }
</style>

The logo will then have a blue color.

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Members / Subscriptions

Make sure to Upload the routes.yaml file.

Ubud has different user interface elements for membership feature.

• Log in and Membership links in the Header
• Homepage subscription boxes
• A post subscription box
• Call to action section on the post page to encourage visitors to subscribe if the post is for members only

Remove Membership Components from the Theme

Ghost 4.0 can no longer disable membership, so the theme can’t listen and hide the membership elements.

However, I made it a bit easy to do this with CSS instead of editing the theme files. Add the following code into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header to hide all the elements.

<style>
  .is-membership {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

Remove ‘Log in’ and ‘Membership’ links from Header

To remove Log in and ‘Membership’ links from the Header, open the partials/header.hbs theme file and remove lines 18 to 24. This will also remove the Account and Log out links, visible if logged in.

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

Using Portal for Header ‘Log in’ and ‘Subscribe’ Links

If you want to use the Ghost Portal for the theme header Login and Subscribe links, you can update the links href value to use the Portal Links value.

So, for example, for the header Log in link in the theme partials/header.hbs file, change the href value from {{ @site.url }}/signin/ to #/portal/signin. Change {{ @site.url }}/subscribe/ to #/portal/signup for the Subscribe link. You got the point.

You can find all the Portal custom links from the Ghost admin Portal Links section. For more information, please visit Ghost Members documentation ↗.

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

Remove ‘Public’, ‘Members’ and ‘Paid’ Labels from Post Card

Open the partials/post-card.hbs file and remove lines 5 to 16.

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

Or, copy and paste the following CSS code into the Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header.

<style>
  .c-post-card__visibility { display: none; }
</style>

Remove Subscribe Form from the Post Page

To remove the subscribe box on the post page. Open the post.hbs file and remove line 33.

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

Edit Plan Features

To edit the membership plan features, edit the partials/membership-plans.hbs file.

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

Add Free Plan Column to Membership Page

To add a free column plan to the Membership page, you can create another column in the theme partials/membership-plans.hbs file by copying one of the current columns code.

Fill in your information like a list of benefits and so on.

For the button, add a link to the {{ @site.url }}/signup/ page so the button like will be like:

<a class='c-btn c-btn--outline' href='{{ @site.url }}/signup/'>Free</a>

Your partials/membership-plans.hbs theme file might end up like this.

<div class='c-membership-plans'>

  <!-- Free Plan Column -->
  <div class='c-membership-plan'>
    <header class='c-membership-plan__header'>
      <h2 class='c-membership-plan__title'>{{t 'Free'}}</h2>
      <span class='c-membership-plan__sign u-type-uppercase'></span>
      <span class='c-membership-plan__amount'></span>
    </header>
    <div class='c-membership-plan__content'>
      <ul class='c-membership-plan__list'>
        <li>Full access to all private posts</li>
        <li>Regular updates with new content</li>
      </ul>
      <a class='c-btn c-btn--outline' href='/signup/'>{{t 'Subscribe'}}</a>
    </div>
  </div>

  <!-- Monthly Plan Column -->
  <div class='c-membership-plan'>
    <header class='c-membership-plan__header'>
      <h2 class='c-membership-plan__title'>{{t 'Monthly'}}</h2>
      <span class='c-membership-plan__sign u-type-uppercase'>{{ price currency=@price.currency }}</span>
      <span class='c-membership-plan__amount'>{{ @price.monthly }}</span>
    </header>
    <div class='c-membership-plan__content'>
      <ul class='c-membership-plan__list'>
        <li>Full access to all private posts</li>
        <li>Regular updates with new content</li>
        <li>Support independent publishing</li>
      </ul>
      <a class='c-btn c-btn--outline' href='javascript:void(0)' data-members-plan='Monthly'>{{t 'Subscribe'}}</a>
    </div>
  </div>

  <!-- Yearly Plan Column -->
  <div class='c-membership-plan'>
    <header class='c-membership-plan__header'>
      <h2 class='c-membership-plan__title'>{{t 'Yearly'}}</h2>
      <span class='c-membership-plan__sign u-type-uppercase'>{{ price currency=@price.currency }}</span>
      <span class='c-membership-plan__amount'>{{ @price.yearly }}</span>
    </header>
    <div class='c-membership-plan__content'>
      <ul class='c-membership-plan__list'>
        <li>Full access to all private posts</li>
        <li>Regular updates with new content</li>
        <li>Support independent publishing</li>
        <li>One easy payment instead of 12!</li>
      </ul>
      <a class='c-btn c-btn--outline' href='javascript:void(0)' data-members-plan='Yearly'>{{t 'Subscribe'}}</a>
    </div>
  </div>

</div>

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

You may want to reduce the column’s padding style so the content will have a breath after adding a third column.

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

<style>
  .c-membership-plan { padding: 32px; }
</style>

The result will be like.

Remove Ghost Portal / The Bottom Right Button

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

Membership Troubleshooting Tips

If for any reason the subscribe form does not work, or there is an error message, the following tips might help:

1. First, make sure you run the latest version of Ghost.

2. If you are self-hosting your website, make sure to set up the mail config ↗. After doing that, restart your Ghost server.

3. The website config URL should match the URL used to access the website, as described in the Ghost docs ↗.

Enter the URL that is used to access your publication. If using a subpath, enter the full path, https://example.com/blog/. If using SSL, always enter the URL with https://..

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If you still have an issue and using Ghost Pro, please reach out to the Ghost team.

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There is nothing to do from the theme side. Also, you can try the original theme demo to double-check that everything is working fine.

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

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Navigation

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

To include a static page on your navigation menu, follow these steps.

First, type the page’s name as you’d like it appear on your menu 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 /. When you’re satisfied with your page configurations, click the Save button.

Secondary Navigation / Footer

Like Header Navigation, you can add the footer navigation from the SECONDARY NAVIGATION at section Settings → Navigation page.

Social Media Icons

The theme file for the navigation social media icon links is partials/social-icons.hbs.

Ghost supports adding Facebook and Twitter profile URLs from the admin panel. Go to General > Social accounts and add your URLs, and the theme will automatically add them in the site navigation.

Available Social Media Icons

The theme uses Evil Icons ↗ to provide simple and clean icons for other social accounts. Here you can find a list of the social media icons to use:

Facebook

<span data-icon='ei-sc-facebook' data-size='s'></span>

GitHub

<span data-icon='ei-sc-github' data-size='s'></span>

Instagram

<span data-icon='ei-sc-instagram' data-size='s'></span>

LinkedIn

<span data-icon='ei-sc-linkedin' data-size='s'></span>

Odnoklassniki

<span data-icon='ei-sc-odnoklassniki' data-size='s'></span>

Pinterest

<span data-icon='ei-sc-pinterest' data-size='s'></span>

Skype

<span data-icon='ei-sc-skype' data-size='s'></span>

SoundCloud

<span data-icon='ei-sc-soundcloud' data-size='s'></span>

Telegram

<span data-icon='ei-sc-telegram' data-size='s'></span>

Tumblr

<span data-icon='ei-sc-tumblr' data-size='s'></span>

Twitter

<span data-icon='ei-sc-twitter' data-size='s'></span>

Vimeo

<span data-icon='ei-sc-vimeo' data-size='s'></span>

VK

<span data-icon='ei-sc-vk' data-size='s'></span>

Youtube

<span data-icon='ei-sc-youtube' data-size='s'></span>

Update Instagram Icon

As mentioned above, Ghosts supports adding only Twitter and Facebook links from the admin. But the theme comes with an additional icons as mentined above which you can use in the theme. Instagram is added as an example.

Edit or update these in the partials/social-icons.hbs file. For example, here’s the Instagram code block:

<li class='c-nav__item c-nav__item--social'>
  <a href='#' title='Instagram' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>
    <span class='c-nav__item__icon' data-icon='ei-sc-instagram' data-size='s'></span>
    <span class='u-hidden-visually'>Instagram</span>
  </a>
</li>

The code above contains the icon code from the above list and the social media link (a) within a list element (li).

Next, replace your Instagram full URL with the link href value. If your Instagram URL is:

https://www.instagram.com/ghost/

Then the new code will be:

<li class='c-nav__item c-nav__item--social'>
  <a href='https://www.instagram.com/ghost/' title='Instagram' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>
    <span class='c-nav__item__icon' data-icon='ei-sc-instagram' data-size='s'></span>
    <span class='u-hidden-visually'>Instagram</span>
  </a>
</li>

If you want to remove Instagram altogether, you can delete all the code block, the li, a, and the icon.

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

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Pages

Manage pages for Archive, Blog, and Contact.

Archive Page

Make sure to Upload the routes.yaml file.

The Archive page shows all posts organized by month and also contains all website tags.

The archive page theme file is archive.hbs.

To add the archive item to the site navigation, add it as a navigation item. Make sure to set the destination URL to /archive/ like the following screenshot.

Blog Page

Make sure to Upload the routes.yaml file.

The blog page includes your recent ten posts with a load more bottom to load more.

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

The blog page theme file is index.hbs.

To add the blog item to the site navigation, add it as a navigation item. Make sure to set the destination URL to /blog/ like the following screenshot.

Contact Page

To create the Contact page:

1. Create a new Page and give it a title, like “Contact”.
2. Add your content and the contact form code using Formspree ↗ as a service. Please check the code example below.
3. Publish the page.
4. To add the page to the navigation, please check the Navigation section above.

<form action="https://formspree.io/your@email.com" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name"><br>
  <input type="email" name="_replyto" placeholder="Email"><br>
  <textarea name='message' placeholder="Message"></textarea><br>
  <input class='c-btn c-btn--action' type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

For more information, check out How to Add a Contact Form to Your Ghost Blog.

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Languages

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

Theme Translation

Ubud 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 Admin > General > PUBLICATION INFO > Publication Language and enter the ISO Code ↗.

• 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

To add a new language, follow these steps.

1. Create a new file in the theme’s locales folder with the language ISO Code ↗ code. So, if the new language is Arabic, the new file name will be ar.json.
2. Copy the en.json file content into your new file and start to translate, as shown in the following section.
3. Go to Admin > General > PUBLICATION INFO > Publication Language and enter the language code (ar in this example).

Edit a Translation

To improve or edit a translation in a specific available language, you can open the language file in the locales 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 looks like this:

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

  "Loading": "Wird geladen",
  "More Posts ↓": "Weitere Artikel ↓",
  "All Posts →": "Alle Artikel →",

  "Recent Posts": "kürzliche Artikel",
  "Featured Posts": "Beliebte Beiträge",
  "Page Not Found": "Seite nicht gefunden",
  "Published with {ghostLink} & {themeLink}": "Veröffentlicht mit {ghostLink} & {themeLink}",

  "Share on Twitter": "Auf Twitter teilen",
  "Share on Facebook": "Auf Facebook teilen",
  "Share on LinkedIn": "Auf LinkedIn teilen",
  "Share on Pinterest": "Auf Pinterest teilen",
  "Share via Email": "Per E-Mail teilen",
  "Copy link": "Link kopieren",
  "Link copied to clipboard": "Link in die Zwischenablage kopiert",

  "Archive": "Archiv",
  "Tags": "Stichworte",
  "1 min read": "1 minuten gelesen",
  "% min read": "% minuten gelesen",

  "Paid": "Bezahlt",
  "Members": "Mitglieder",
  "Public": "Öffentlichkeit",

  "Account": "Konto",
  "Log in": "Einloggen",
  "Log out": "Ausloggen",
  "Continue": "Fortsetzen",
  "Subscribe": "Abonnieren",
  "Membership": "Mitgliedschaft",
  "Your email address": "Deine E-Mail-Adresse",
  "{siteTitle} Newsletter": "{siteTitle} Newsletter",
  "Please check your inbox and click the link to complete the login.": "Bitte überprüfen Sie Ihren Posteingang und klicken Sie auf den Link, um die Anmeldung abzuschließen.",
  "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.",

  "Already have an account?": "Hast du schon ein Konto?",
  "Don't have an account yet?": "Sie haben noch keinen Account?",

  "This Content Is for Members": "Dieser Inhalt ist für Mitglieder",
  "This Content Is for Paid Members": "Dieser Inhalt ist für bezahlte Mitglieder",
  "Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox.": "Treten Sie dem Newsletter bei, um die neuesten Updates in Ihrem Posteingang zu erhalten",

  "Premium Membership": "Premium Mitgliedschaft",
  "Unlock full access to {siteTitle} and see the entire library of members-only content.": "Schalten Sie den vollständigen Zugriff auf {siteTitle} frei und zeigen Sie die gesamte Bibliothek mit Inhalten nur für Mitglieder an.",
  "Subscribe to {siteTitle}": "Anmelden bei {siteTitle}",
  "Monthly": "Monatlich",
  "Yearly": "Jährlich",

  "Log in to {siteTitle}": "Melden Sie sich bei {siteTitle} an",
  "Send login link": "Anmeldelink senden",

  "Your subscription will expire on": "Ihr Abonnement läuft am ab",
  "Your plan": "Dein Plan",
  "Card": "Karte",
  "Expires": "Läuft ab",
  "Next bill date": "Nächstes Rechnungsdatum",
  "Edit billing info": "ERechnungsinformationen bearbeiten",
  "You have an active {siteTitle} account with access to all posts.": "Sie haben ein aktives {siteTitle} Konto mit Zugriff auf alle Posts.",
  "You are subscribed to free updates from {siteTitle}, but don't have a paid subscription to read all the posts.": "Sie haben kostenlose Updates von {siteTitle} abonniert, haben jedoch kein kostenpflichtiges Abonnement, um alle Beiträge zu lesen."
}

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. The Portal is not part of the theme files but a core Ghost component. I suggest reaching out to the Gost team ( support@ghost.org ); they might work for 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 default.hbs file and change line 10 to {{> compiled/inline-css-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.

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Comments

The theme supports comments from Disqus, Commento, and CommentBox.

If you display comments for logged in users only, they will need to login/register into the comment system again. As you know, Ghost has no comment system, and these are third-party tools that are not integrated with and not part of Ghost.

For questions or issues about the commenting systems here, please contact their authors or check out their documentation.

Disqus

To enable Disqus ↗ as a comments system, open the partials/disqus.hbs file. Replace the aspirethemes-demos value with the disqus_shortname variable to match your Disqus account shortname.

var disqus_shortname = 'aspirethemes-demos';

So, if your Disqus shortname is exampleone, the final code above should be:

var disqus_shortname = 'exampleone';

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

From the theme side, that’s all you need to set up Disqus. If you have any issues with comments not loading, make sure you have registered your website with Disqus (Step 1) ↗.

If you still have issues, check the Disqus troubleshooting guide ↗.

Disable Disqus

To disable Disqus comments, open the post.hbs theme file and delete the line containing the {{> disqus}} text (line 35).

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

Disable Disqus Recommendations/Ads

Checkout the Disqus Recommendations ↗ documentation.

Disqus Issues

If you have any issue with Disqus redirecting to any advertising pages, please disabled Tracking and Affiliate Links from your Disqus account.

Check out Keegan Leary’s blog post about this issue at https://keeganleary.com/disqus-is-evil-trash/ ↗.

Also, be aware of Disqus trackings. Check out https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus ↗.

So, you might want to use another commenting system.

Thanks for sharing, Keegan!

CommentBox

To enable CommentBox ↗ as a comments system, open post.hbs file and replace line 35 replace with {{> commentbox}}.

The next step is to create a CommentBox account. From the dashboard, create a new project by filling your site information. You will then receive a Project ID.

Copy that Project ID, open the partials/commentbox.hbs file, and replace the my-project-id value with it. That’s it.

Commento

To enable Commento ↗ as a comments system, open the post.hbs file and replace line 35 with {{> commento}}.

The next step is to create a Commento account and register your domain ↗ with it.

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Posts Per Page

You can control how many posts display per page from the package.json file.

"config": {
  "posts_per_page": 10
}

The theme default value is set to 10 posts per page.

Note

This will not apply to the homepage but for the Blog page, Author, and Tag pages. For the homepage, checkout Homepage Number of Posts.

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Google Analytics

To integrate Google Analytics, I recommend using the Google Analytics ↗ integration by Ghost.

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Update Favicon

You can change the favicon in Ghost from Admin > General > PUBLICATION IDENTITY > Publication icon.

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Responsive Tables

Responsive tables are required and essential for adding tabular content and allowing tables to be scrolled horizontally. You can make any table responsive across all viewports by wrapping a table with .responsive-table, for example:

<div class='responsive-table'>
  <table>
    ...
  </table>
</div>

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Social Sharing Icons

You can customize and update a post’s social media sharing icons from the partials/share.hbs theme file.

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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

Ubud 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. For example, to add support for PHP, get the PHP component script from Prism CDN ↗.

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.13.0/components/prism-php.js'></script>

From the side admin menu, go to Code Injection and add the script to the Site Footer section. Be sure to click Save.

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Theme Deploy with GitHub Actions

Ubud 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 at How to Deploy Your Ghost Theme Using Github Actions. All you need to do is follow steps 1 and 2.

The Deploy Ghost Theme action is developed by Ghost and works with any Ghost install whether you self-host Ghost or using Ghost Pro.

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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.

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Typography Drop Caps

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

To add a drop cap style to a paragraph.

• Ad the paragraph as an HTML card to the editor, wrap the text in a <p> HTML element, and add the CSS class, for example.

There are currently four styles available.

➊ Small Drop Cap

• CSS Class u-drop-cap
• HTML Example ↓

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

The result.

➋ Large Drop Cap

• CSS Class u-drop-cap-large
• HTML Example ↓

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

The result.

➌ Block/Small Drop Cap

• CSS Class u-drop-cap--block-small
• HTML Example ↓

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

The result.

➍ Block/Large Drop Cap

• CSS Class u-drop-cap--block-large
• HTML Example ↓

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

The result.

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Changing Theme Font

Ubud is using one font, Inter ↗.

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

:root {
  --type-sans-serif:  'Inter', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';
}

To change to any other font, you need to include the font on your theme or using Code Injection Site Header if you are using Google Fonts, for example.

For example, if you want to use the Roboto ↗ font 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 {
  --type-sans-serif: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
</style>

You might find the following posts useful as well:

• How to Change a Ghost Theme Font Using Google Fonts
• How to Change the Fonts of the Casper Ghost CMS Theme Using Google Fonts

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Loading Custom Font

I assume that 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.

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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.

If the logo image has a large white space around it, trim that space with a photo editing app for better results.

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Remove Dates

To remove the dates from the theme homepage and listing pages, add the following CSS code into Ghost admin Code Injection Site Header.

<style>
  .c-post-card__meta { display: none; }

  .c-post-card {
    grid-template-areas: 'content content content content content content content content content media media media';
  }

  .c-post-card--no-image {
    grid-template-areas: 'content content content content content content content content content content content content';
  }
</style>

To only remove the date and keep the Public, Members and Paid labeles, use the following.

<style>
  .c-post-card__date {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

To remove date from the post page, use the following.

<style>
  .c-post-header__date {
    display: none;
  }
</style>

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Add Related Posts

Add a related posts section to the article page based on the Ghost related posts algorithm ↗.

Follow the following three steps.

➊ In your theme /partials directory, create a new file and call it related-posts.hbs.

➋ Copy the following code to that new file.

<hr>
{{#get 'posts' limit='3' filter='tags:[{{post.tags}}]+id:-{{post.id}}' as |related-posts|}}
  {{#if related-posts}}
    <div class='o-grid'>
      <div class='o-grid__col o-grid__col--center o-grid__col--9-10-m o-grid__col--2-3-l'>
        <div class='c-title-bar'>
          <h3 class='c-title-bar__title'>{{t 'Related Posts' }}</h3>
          <span class='c-title-bar__divider'></span>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class='o-grid'>
      <div class='o-grid__col o-grid__col--center o-grid__col--9-10-m o-grid__col--2-3-l'>
        {{#foreach related-posts}}
          {{> post-card}}
        {{/foreach}}
      </div>
    </div>
  {{/if}}
{{/get}}

This will show 3 posts. You can change that from the limit attribute.

➌ Open the post.hbs file and the following line at the end of it.

{{> related-posts }}

Note that it is required to be at the end of the post.hbs file outside the {{#post}} {{/post}} helpers.

Adding it inside {{#post}} {{/post}} will not work.

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Add Search

I suggest using the SearchinGhostEasy ↗ plugin; it seems to be a good search solution and straightforward to install ↗. Cuong Tran is using it on ghostFam ↗ with Ubud – I think he might help if you need a custom service to set it up.

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Add Custom Meta Tags

Some custom pages like Archive or membership pages like Log In and Membership do not have an admin interface to add custom meta tags. If you want to add custom meta tags, you can use the Ghost block helper ↗. This method is used for adding the title. For example, to add a description meta:

➊ In the partials/head.hbs file, add the following under the title meta line.

{{{block 'description'}}}

➋ In the Archive theme page archive.hbs file, add the following.

{{#contentFor 'description'}} <meta name='description' content=''> {{/contentFor}}

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Footer Copyright

You can update the footer copyright line information from the theme partials/footer.hbs file.

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AMP

The AMP integration in Ghost is enabled by default, but if you prefer not to use the feature then you can turn it off in the settings within Ghost Admin.

Read more about AMP at Google AMP + Ghost ↗

The theme didn’t have an AMP file; the Ghost default/core one will be used instead. If you want to customize it, you can add the default Ghost template ↗ to the theme folder and customize it.

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Theme Development

If you are a developer and need to do heavy customization work, the theme uses Gulp ↗ to compile Sass ↗ and JavaScript. This improves the development flow and makes it much faster.

Adding your custom code to Code Injection is always recommended to avoid redoing your customizations with future theme updates.

Changing any .hbs file, for example, post.hbs, does not require being in development mode with gulp running. Just edit the file in your preferred editor and upload it.

First, make sure you have Node.js ↗, npm ↗, Gulp CLI ↗, and Bower ↗ installed. Check My Current Setup.

Run the following command in the theme root directory to install npm and bower dependencies.

npm install

To start Gulp, run:

gulp

This will compile Sass and JavaScript files and start watching changes as you edit files.

Gulp will produce two files:

➊ assets/js/app.min.js: The final main JavaScript file.

This file is generated from many other JavaScript files listed in the gulpfile.js file. Gulp will do all the work to create that file, so no manual work is needed.

Gulp will watch your changes in the assets/js/app.js or assets/js/ghosthunter.js (if exist) and will then generate the final app.min.js file.

➋ partials/compiled/inline-css.hbs: The final CSS file.

This file is generated from the assets/css/style-min.css file, which was generated by Gulp. It is used as an Internal CSS in the theme partials/head.hbs.

If you are working with Gulp, it’s recommended you avoid editing these files. Instead, do customizations in assets/sass for CSS or in assets/js/app.js JavaScript. This way, you can make sure the flow is going in the right direction and never lose any changes.

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My Current Setup

In case you are wondering what my current environment set up is and which package versions I use, take a look at the following:

$ node -v
v14.16.1

$ npm -v
7.13.0

$ bower -v
1.8.12

$ gulp -v
CLI version: 2.3.0
Local version: 4.0.2

This environment works well for running Ghost and also for theme development.

I use macOS Big Sur.

Zip Theme Files

To create a zip file after your theme changes, you can use one of the following options.

Use one of the first two options if you are on a Theme Development mode.

Using the command line

zip -r ubud.zip ubud -x '*node_modules*' '*bower_components*'

This will exclude the node_modules and bower_components directories from the final zip file.

Using Gulp

If you are running gulp, you can type the gulp zip command to do this.

Using your computer program

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

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Theme Update

You may be wondering: how can I update my theme to the latest theme version?

There are two choices:

• Keep your current theme and replace only the changed files from the new version. You can find the modified files on the theme page Changelog
• Use the latest version as a starting point and redo your theme changes and customizations

One way to reduce the need for redoing customizations is to use the Code Injection tool. This is very helpful for adding custom CSS and tracking code. Keeping your custom CSS code with Code Injection is always recommended.

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