Arkai – Electronthemes

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: [email protected]. 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: 07 Jun 2021 See Changelog
Version: 4.0.0

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.

Here I have used Cyberduck to upload file on server and I used subdomain. That is why I used Docslab Folder

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

Please upload SVG Logo image so it will support dark and light mode also

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>

We recommend to use .svg logo. If you use .svg logo, actual resolution will be kept.

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

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>

Change the text inside {{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/[email protected]"  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

Changelog

VERSION – 4.0.0: Release on 07 Jun 2021

. Compatible with ghost version 4.0
. Added support for public preview posts for members only posts
. Support for new price plan helper
. Updated deprecated functions
. Small bug fixes and performance improvements

CHANGED FILES
[+] default.hbs
[+] account.hbs
[+] partials/navigation.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-free.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-monthly.hbs
[+] partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-yearly.hbs
[+] partials/members/subscriber-information.hbs
[+] partials/sidebar/sidebar-subscribe.hbs
[+] package.json

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

Arkai Documentation

Table of contents

Getting Started

Support

Template Information

Theme Setup

Upload the theme

Uploading the theme via (FTP)

General Setup

Publication Info

Logo

Favicon Icon

Publication Cover

Site Meta Settings

Social Accounts

Primary Navigation

Secondary Navigation

Create a Post

Create a page

Featured Post

Create Tag

Create Author

Code Injection

Site Header

Site Footer

Integrations and Custom Integrations

Custom integrations

Labs

Members

Migration Options

Routes

Headers

Header

Logo

Primary Navigation

Search

Dark Light Feature

Signin and Signup

Footer

About Text

Footer Social Profiles

Tag Cloud

Footer Links

Copyright text

Homepage

Featured posts

Latest Posts

Custom Templates

Page Template

Selecting page template

Page url

Sidebar

1. About us

2. Featured posts

2. Categories

Membership and Subscriptions

Portal Settings

Stripe connection

Subscription Pricing

Post Access

Email Newsletter

Pricing Tables

Account Informations

Free Subscriber information

Paid subscriber information

Third Party Plugins

Search Options

Contact form

Google Map Embedded Code

Disqus Comment box

Github Deployment

Development and Customization

Changing Primary and Secondary colors

Credits

Fonts and Icon Fonts

Images

Plugins and libraries

Changelog

VERSION – 4.0.0: Release on 07 Jun 2021

VERSION – 3.1.0: Release on 13 Jan 2021