If you want to run your own instance of Ghost, in most cases the best way is to use our CLI tool
$ npm install ghost-cli -g
Then, if installing locally add the local flag to get up and running in under a minute - Local install docs
$ ghost install local
After instalation clone this repository to content -> themes and run ghost restart to start seeing the feeka-theme in http://localhost:2368/ghost/#/settings/design.
Check out our official documentation for more information about our recommended hosting stack & properly upgrading Ghost, plus everything you need to develop your own Ghost themes or work with our API.
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 archives
One really 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
Casper 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:
$ yarn install
$ yarn devNow you can edit /assets/css/ files, which will be compiled to /assets/built/ automatically.
If you mess around with the sass files, you'll have to have another terminal running:
$ npm run sassThe zip Gulp task packages the theme files into dist/<theme-name>.zip, which you can then upload to your site.
$ yarn zip