Getting Started
Arkai is a multipurpose, modern and minimal ghost blogging theme specially designed for Magazine, Blog for personal. It is a totally new design, extreme features and supported all the features of Ghost 3.x. This theme is built with SASS, Handlebars, and a lot of options. This is a fully responsive, hand coded and fully translation ready theme.
If you are a programmer, do you write blog or teach programming to people. You can choose this theme. Arkai comes with code highlighting features.
Support
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to send your questions to our support email: electronthemes@gmail.com. Our support team will reply you within 6 hours.
Template Information
- Name: Newsvolt
- Author: Electronthemes
- Platform: Ghost
- Demo: Arkai
- Created: 13 April 2019
- Last Update: 13 Jan 2021 See Changelog
- Version: 3.1.0
Theme Setup
Arkai theme setup is very easy. If you have already installed a server for Ghost you can easily setup Arkai theme. If you don’t have server suported with Ghost, you can set up reading Ghost Install. When you have the server, follow the instructions for setting up the theme.
Upload the theme
You can upload the theme file from ghost dashboard. to do this
- Log in into your Ghost admin panel.
- Go to settings (design section) and upload “arkai.zip“
- Click Activate.

Uploading the theme via (FTP)
Follow the instructions
- Login to your FTP account.
- Unzip the arkai.zip file and copy arkai folder to your /ghost_installation/content/themes
- Restart your installation if necessary. You can ask for help from your hosting provider if you don’t know how to do this step.
- Login to your ghost admin panel.
- Go to settings (general) and select theme “Arkai“
- Click Save.

General Setup
Publication Info
To change publication info, go to Dashboard > General > Publication Info. Here you can change the followings:
- Title
- Description
- Site Timezone
- Publication Language

Logo
We have used SVG Logo for the theme . You can change SVG Logo from Dashboard > General > Publication Identity

Favicon Icon
Ghost shows his ghost logo in your site by default. You can change Favicon Icon or Publication Icon from Dashboard > General > Publication Identity

Publication Cover
This is for showing site bookmark image. If you upload a cover image, it will in your site bookmark

Site Meta Settings
This is for Meta data. It will help to get on search using search engine. You can add also Twitter and Facebook card image, content here.
You can add/edit the content from Dashboard > General > Site Meta Settings

Social Accounts
Social account section is for showing Facebook, Twitter links of your site. Go to Dashboard > Settings > Social Accounts

Primary Navigation
Ghost only support two types of Navigation. Primary and Secondary Navigation Menu. On header, primary navigation is showing and On Footer secondary navigation is showing. Go to Dashboard > Design > Navigation

Secondary Navigation
You can change menu item on secondary Design > Secondary Navigation

Create a Post
Ghost has a beautiful dashboard design. You can easily create a post. Go to Dashboard > Posts > New Post
- Post Title
- Post Contents
- Feature image
- Tags
- Authors

Create a page
As like as post, you can create a new page from Dashboard > Pages > New Page. You can add:
- Title
- Contents
- Tags
- Authors
- Feature Image
- Excerpt
- more…

Featured Post
Ghost has awesome featured posts option to show some of your chosen posts as featured for the visitors. To add a post as featured, go to Post > Settings and scroll down. Select the checkbox Feature this post

Create Tag
To create a new tag, go to Dashboard > Tags > New Tag

Create Author
You can create multiple author in your site from dashboard. Go to Dashboard > Stuff > Invite people

Click on Invite people and you will get a new popup. You have to add Email Address and select the staff Role. Lastly click on Send Invitation now button. An email notification will be sent to create an account on the specific Role.

Code Injection
Code injection is a great feature on Ghost. You can easily write styles and scripts for your site without editing the theme file. You can add various plugins code here like Google analytics
Here you will two text field for code injections. 1. Site Header and 2. Site Footer
Site Header
If you write scripts on site header, it will show in <head>
tag of header. It will load first in your site
Site Footer
If you write scripts on site footer, it will show at the closing of <body>
tag. It will load last in your site

Integrations and Custom Integrations
Integrations are another cool feature of Ghost. You can connect a lot of thirdparty plugins or API using integrations. To check the integrations, go to Dashboard > Integrations. You will get some inbuilt integrations and custom integrations options
Custom integrations
To create custom integrations, click on + Add custom integration at the bottom of the page and you will get a popup and add a name of the integration and Create. I have create here Search and Github Deploy integration

Labs
Labs is another very important and beta tester parts of Ghost. Here your will get some core features as follows: Go to Dashboard > Labs
- Membership
- Import Content
- Export your content
- Delete All Content
- Night shift
- Redirects
- Routes

Members
If you want to get subscriptions and paid customers, you can use Members option in this panel. When you click on this you will get in details
Migration Options
You will get some options here like Import content, export content and delete content options
Routes
Routes is another important part. When you want to use different path link or custom files for pages and different homepage, you can use routes.yaml
file to do that. Here is default .yaml for ghost.
routes:
collections:
/:
permalink: /{slug}/
template: index
taxonomies:
tag: /tag/{slug}/
author: /author/{slug}/
Headers

For header, we have used {{> header}}
partials in folder partials/ header.hbs. In this file you can change the followings:
Header
- Primary Navigation
- Social Icons
- Dark Light Icon
- Search
- Dark/Light
- Logo
Logo
To change the logo markup or text, find this structure on file. We have used 2 logos for Dark and Light mode. Light mode logo is a default logo. You can change the logo:
<a href="{{@site.url}}">
{{#if @site.logo}}
<span class="logo-img"><img src="{{@site.logo}}" alt="{{@site.title}}"></span>
{{else}}
<h3>{{@site.title}}</h3>
{{/if}}
</a>
Primary Navigation
For Primary navigation, go to Dashboard > Design > Primary Navigation
Search
For activating search option, see this
Dark Light Feature
Arkai supports dark light mode. By default, it is on Light mode. If you activate dark mode as default, use data-theme="dark"
in HTML tag. Edit the file default.hbs
in theme-file/default.hbs at line number 2
<html lang="{{@site.lang}}" data-theme="dark">
Signin and Signup
You can change Members Menu from partials > navigation.hbs
partials. You can easily change signin and signup links from navigation.hbs file at line number 17

Footer

We used very minimal footer in our theme. You will get all footer code partials > footer.hbs file. Here are the following parts:
- About Text
- Links
- Tag Cloud
- Connect
About Text
In footer, it shows About Text. You can change about text from partials > footer.hbs
<p>{{t "Arkai is a modern & minimal ghost blogging templates. We design and develop based on our customers demand. You can use this theme for your personal blog, portfolio site and other purposes."}}</p>
Footer Social Profiles
Change footer social profile links at footer.hbs
and you can add more links aftre copying this. Change #
with your links.
<li>
<a href="#">
{{> icons/social-icons/instagram}}
</a>
</li>
If you want to add new social icons, go to partials > icons > social-icons folder. I have used svg icons from Feathericons. Download icons from here and add it in the folder. Change the icon’s extension .svg to .hbs
facebook.svg --> facebook.hbs
Tag Cloud
We have showed 10 tags in the footer. If you want to change limit, you change limit="15"
at line number 18.
{{#get "tags" limit="15" include="count.posts" order="count.posts desc" filter="visibility:internal"}}
Footer Links
Useful Link comes from secondary menu. You can change secondary menu link from Dashboard > Design > Secondary Menu
Copyright text
You can change at footer.hbs
file line number 41
<p>{{t "All copyright reserved by Electronthemes. Published with "}}<a href="https://ghost.org/">{{t "Ghost"}}</a></p>
{{t ""}}
Homepage
In homepage, you will get some sections.
- Featured Posts
- Latest Posts
Featured posts

This section comes from featured post. If you add a post as featured, the post will add automatically in the featured slider. You can check how to add featured post
Latest Posts

Latest posts comes from latest articles. You can control the color of card with internal tags. If you use internal tag #blue
, it will generate a class tag-hash-blue. You will get 11 color tags.
- blue
- purple
- pink
- carrot
- nevy
- violet
- lightgray
- rosepink
- space
- azure
- grape
You will find these colors with preview here

If you don’t want to use feature image, you can use color tag to show nice post card.

Custom Templates
Custom template is a default setting on Ghost. It can be page template and post template. We have created some custom page and post template for the theme. The page template are as follows:

Page Template
- Membership
- Account
- Contact
- Authors
- Tags
- Blog
- Blogwithsidebar
- Portfolio
- Signin
- Signup
Selecting page template
- Create a new page
- Click on Settings to the right side and scroll down
- Select page template i.e. “Membership”

Page url

When you create page, please keep page slug like this.
Page title | Page URl |
Membership | /membership/ |
Account | /account/ |
Signin | /signin/ |
Signup | /signup/ |
For other custom pages, you can add Authors, Tags, Contact, Portfolio, Blog, Blogwithsidebar page.
Sidebar
We have showed some elements on Post sidebar
- About Us
- Featured Posts
- Tag Clouds
1. About us
You will find it in the file partials > sidebar.hbs If you want to remove from sidebar, go to sidebar.hbs
in the partials folder and remove line 1
{{> sidebar-about}}
2. Featured posts
These posts are featured posts as like as featured slider. We have showed 3 limited posts in featured posts of sidebar. If you want to change, go to partials > sidebar-featured-posts.hbs and change limit
{{#get "posts" filter="featured:true" limit="3" include="tags"}}
2. Categories
Here we have shown 10 tags based on the count of posts. If you want to change the in the file, you will get the file partials > sidebar-categories.hbs. If you want to change the limit, you can to it: limit="10"
. If you want to remove category from sidebar, remove this {{> sidebar-featured-post}}
from sidebar.hbs file
{{#get "tags" limit="10" filter="visibility:public" include="count.posts" order="count.posts desc"}}
Membership and Subscriptions
This is an awesome features of Ghost. If you want to make money with publications, you can use Membership features of Ghost. To enable members, go to Dashboard > Labs > Members

Portal Settings

In portal seetings, you can enable Subscribe button at the bottom right of the site.
- Show signup and signin form in popup
- Showing pricing plans
- Changing ancient colors
- Changing icons and text
Stripe connection
Connect your stripe account to get the payment from your subscribers

Subscription Pricing
Add or change your subscription pricing from here

Post Access
When you enable members, you can manage your posts who will see your default posts.

Email Newsletter
You can customize your newsletter template from here

You can also change your support email and email newsletter setting with mailgun using this

Pricing Tables

Here we have used 3 pricing plans.
- Free/Basic Plan
- Monthly Plan
- Yearly Plan
Change the text inside <li>{{t "..."}}</li>
Free/Basic Plan: For changing basic plan {{> members/pricing-tables/plan-free}}
partials is used. You will find partials > members > pricing-tables > plan-free.hbs
<ul>
<li>{{t "Free articles to read"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Free updates"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Weekly notifications"}}</li>
<li>{{t "No discount"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Weekly Support"}}</li>
</ul>
Monthly Plan: For monthly plan {{> members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly}}
partials is used. You will find partials > members > pricing-tables > plan-monthly.hbs
<ul>
<li>{{t "Full access to articles"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Daily updates"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Support independent publishing"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Secure Payments"}}</li>
<li>{{t "No advertisement"}}</li>
</ul>
Yearly Plan: For yearly plan {{> members/pricing-table/plan-yearly}}
partials is used. You will find partials > members > pricing-tables > plan-yearly.hbs
<ul>
<li>{{t "Full access to articles"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Daily updates"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Support independent publishing"}}</li>
<li>{{t "Secure Payments"}}</li>
<li>{{t "No advertisement"}}</li>
<li>{{t "One step way to pay"}}</li>
</ul>
Account Informations
Free Subscriber information
You can change the account information text on header page also. To change the information, go to free-subscriber-information.hbs file and you can change the information.

Paid subscriber information
You can change the account information text on header page also. To change the information, go to partials > members > subscriber-information.hbs

Third Party Plugins
We have created real time search options and Formspree for contact form.
Search Options

We have used Fuse.io for creating real time search. When you will type, you will get instant results. When you install the theme file, you have configure and add content api key on condeinjection
- Create a custom integrations
- Copy Content Api Key from your created custom integration
- Go to Code Injection > Site Header as follows


<script>
var contentApiKey = "your content api key"
</script>
Contact form
In contact form, we have used Formspree for getting form data. Change your email in <form>
tag in partials > contact-form.hbs file at line number 6.
<form class="row" action="https://formspree.io/youremail@domain.com" method="POST">

To change contact information, go to custom-contact.hbs file. You change all of the information.

Google Map Embedded Code
You can add your google map embedded code at line number 8 in the file custom-contact.hbs
. You can create your own location map from this url

After getting your location, you can click on Get HTML Code. You will get HTML and replace the code in your file.
Disqus Comment box
We have used discus comments for this theme. We have used our own discuss account. You can change easily with your Disqus shortname. Follow the process to create your disqus account and get a short-name.
- You can create your Disqus code in the next url: http://disqus.com/admin/create/
- Add a short-name for Website Name
- Your unique “Disqus URL” is your shortname copy that name and click finish registration.

- Go to the directory where is your template.
- Go to /content/themes/arkai/partials/disqus and open the next file: comment-box.hbs and git to line number 13 for disqus_shortname = “arkai”;
- Change with your shortname, in this case ‘example-shortname’;
- Save the file and upload to your ghost installation.
- Optional, you can verify if all is correct clicking Verify on disqus steps (where we get our shortname).
Github Deployment
Arkai theme in ready for deploy on github easily. You can read the articles on Github deployment

Development and Customization
In this theme, we have used SCSS to develop and style fast. You can easily do it using Prepros. To edit SCSS code, follow the instruction:
- Unzip arkai.zip (this is the template only file) and remember where is the folder location.
- Install a SASS compiler, we recommend you to use Prepos 6, you can download it here.
- Click on “Browse” to add project on the middle side.


Changing Primary and Secondary colors
You can change easily primary, secondary, text color and other colors from _variable.scss file. Open assets/scss/_variables.scss file and change the color that you want, example:
:root {
--color-primary: #002b41;
--color-text: #3f6172;
}
Credits
Fonts and Icon Fonts
- Barlow: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow
- Lato: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato
- Feather Icons: https://feathericons.com/
Images
- Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/
- Pixels: https://www.pexels.com/
Plugins and libraries
- jQuery: http://jquery.com
- Fitvids: https://github.com/davatron5000/FitVids.js
- FuseJS: https://fusejs.io/
- Owl Carousel: https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/
- Medium Zoom: https://github.com/francoischalifour/medium-zoom
- Lazy Loading Disqus: https://samclarke.com/lazy-loading-disqus
- Isotope: https://isotope.metafizzy.co/
- imagesLoaded: https://imagesloaded.desandro.com/
- PrismJS: https://prismjs.com/
- Clipboard: https://zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js
Changelog
VERSION – 3.1.0: Release on 13 Jan 2021
[+] Dark Version added
CHANGED FILES
[+] _variables.scss
[+] All SCSS files
[+] package.json
[+] default.hbs
[+] index.hbs
[+] post.hbs
[+] page.hbs
[+] subscribe.hbs
[+] account.hbs
[+] author.hbs
[+] error.hbs
[+] error-404.hbs
[+] custom-authors.hbs
[+] custom-tags.hbs
[+] signin.hbs
[+] signup.hbs
[+] tag.hbs
[+] partials/footer.hbs
[+] partials/logo.hbs
[+] partials/author-card.hbs
[+] assets/img/logo/logo-white.png
[+] assets/img/logo/logo.png
[+] scripts.js
[+] locales/en.json
ADDED NEW FILES
[+] partials/icons/moon.hbs
[+] partials/icons/sun.hbs
[+] partials/members/free-subscriber-information.hbs
[+] partials/members/subscriber-information.hbs
[+] partials/members/notification.hbs
[+] partials/members/visibility-content.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-free.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-yearly.hbs
[+] partials/sidebar/popular-author.hbs
[+] partials/sidebar/popular-posts.hbs
[+] partials/sidebar/popular-tags.hbs
[+] partials/sidebar/popular-subscribe.hbs
[+] partials/sidebar/share-post.hbs
[+] partials/disqus-comment.hbs
[+] _dark-version.scss
VERSION – 1.0.0: Release on 13 April 2019
[+] Initial Release