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    Getting Started

    Quando is News and Magazine Ghost. It is built for bloggers, journalists, freelancers, editors, authors, writers, developers. Quando is fully responsive, light-weight, superfast ghost theme and built with HTML, CSS, JS, SCSS and ready for premium subscription 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: support@electronthemes.com Our support team will reply to you within 6 hours.

    Template Information

    Theme Setup

    Quando theme setup is very easy. If you have already installed a server for Ghost you can easily set up Quando theme. If you don’t have server supported 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 the ghost dashboard. To do this

    • Log in to your Ghost admin panel.
    • Go to Settings Icon > Design > Change Theme > Upload theme > Upload
    • Click Activate.

    Uploading the theme via (FTP)

    Follow the instructions

    • Login to your FTP account.
    • Unzip the quando.zip file and copy quando 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 “quando“
    • 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 > Settings Icon > General > Publication Info. Here you can change the followings:

    • Title
    • Description
    • Site Timezone
    • Publication Language

    Favicon Icon

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

    We have used SVG Logo for the theme. You can change SVG Logo from Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Publication Logo

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

    Publication Cover

    This is for showing site bookmark image. If you upload a cover image, it will in your site bookmark or go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > Design > Publication Cover

    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 > Settings Icon > General > Site Meta Settings

    Social Accounts

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

    Primary Navigation

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

    Secondary Navigation

    You can change menu item on secondary Dashboard > Settings Icon > 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 authors in your site from the dashboard. Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > 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

    Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > Code Injection

    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 third-party plugins or API using integrations. To check the integrations, go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > 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 > Settings Iocn > Labs

    1. Import Content
    2. Export your content
    3. Delete All Content
    4. Tiers
    5. Redirects
    6. Routes

    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 the header, we have used {{> header}} partials in folder partials/ header.hbs. 

    1. Logo
    2. Primary Navigation
    3. Dark Light Icon
    4. Search
    5. Signin/Signup

    Logo

    To change the logo markup or text, find this structure on header.hbs file. We have used 2 logos for Dark and Light mode. Light mode logo is a default logo. You can change the logo:

    • To change light mode logo: Dashboard > General > Publication Logo
    • Dark mode logo is a custom logo. To change this logo, go to theme-file > assets > img > logo folder and you will find the dark mode logo logo-dark.svg for dark mode. Use same size logo as light mode
    <a href="{{@site.url}}">     
  <img class="logo-light" src="{{@site.logo}}" alt="{{@site.title}}">     
  <img class="logo-dark" src="{{asset "/img/logo/logo-dark.svg"}}" alt="{{@site.title}}"> </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

    Footer

    We used very minimal footer in our theme. You will get all footer code partials > footer.hbs file. Here are the following parts:

    1. Secondary Menu
    2. Footer Social Profile
    3. Copyright text

    Secondary menu

    Useful Link comes from the secondary menu. You can change the secondary menu link from

    Dashboard > Design > Primary Navigation

    Footer Social Profiles

    Change footer social profile links at partials > footer.hbs Line Number; 24 to 47 and you can add more links after copying this. Change # with your links.

    <div class="col-md-6">
                <ul class="social-links-media">
                    {{#if @site.facebook}}
                    <li><a href="{{facebook_url}}">
                        {{> icons/social-icons/facebook}}
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    {{/if}}
                    {{#if @site.twitter}}
                    <li><a href="{{twitter_url}}">
                        {{> icons/social-icons/twitter}}
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    {{/if}}
                    <li><a href="#">
                        {{> icons/social-icons/linkedin}}
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <li><a href="#">
                       {{> icons/social-icons/instagram}}
                        </a>
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </div>

    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

    Copyright text

    You can change at footer.hbs file line number 21

    <div class="copy-right-text">
 <p>{{{t "© Copyright 2020 Quando. Proudly published with {ghostlink}" ghostlink=" <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ghost.org\">Ghost</a>"}}}</p>
 </div>
    Change the text inside {{t ""}}

    Homepage

    In homepage, you will get some sections.

    1. Featured Posts
    2. Regular Post
    3. Popular Authors
    4. Popular Tags
    5. Subscribe

    Featured Posts

    We have shown a slider on the homepage will the featured posts. If you set a post as featured, it will be added automatically in the slider.

    Featured slider post limit is 3. If you want to increase or decrease the post limit, go to partials/featured-posts.hbs line number 2 and edit limit="3".

    {{#get  "posts" filter="featured:true" limit="3" include="authors,tags"}}
    Add minimum 3 posts as featured posts to get the slide view as the demo

    Regular Post

    All your post will be shown here

    Popular Authors

    We have shown 4 limited tags on the popular tags section.

    Popular Tags

    We have shown 4 limited tags on the popular tags section.

    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.

    Page Template

    • Membership
    • Account
    • Contact
    • Authors
    • Tags
    • Signin
    • Signup
    Selecting page template
    1. Create a new page
    2. Click on Settings to the right side and scroll down
    3. Select page template i.e. “Membership”
    Page url

    When you create page, please keep page slug like this.

    Page titlePage URl
    Membership/membership/
    Account/account/
    Signin/signin/
    Signup/signup/

    For other custom pages, you can add Authors, Tags, Contact page.

    Post Template

    1. Post Full Width
    2. Post Left Sidebar

    We have used 1 posts page style in this theme. You can choose as following:

    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

    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.

    Pricing Tables

    Here we have used 3 pricing plans.

    1. Free/Basic Plan
    2. Monthly Plan
    3. 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 > membership > pricing-tables.hbs Line Number; 10 to 18

    <ul>
                <li>{{t "Full access to all premium posts"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Weekly email newsletter"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Support independent publishing"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Simple, secure card payment"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "One easy payment instead of 12!"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "No advertising"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "24/7 Support"}}</li>
</ul>

    Monthly Plan: For monthly plan {{> members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly}} partials is used. You will find partials > membership > pricing-tables.hbs Line number 32 to 40

    <ul>
                <li>{{t "Full access to all premium posts"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Weekly email newsletter"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Support independent publishing"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Simple, secure card payment"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "One easy payment instead of 12!"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "No advertising"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "24/7 Support"}}</li>
</ul>

    Yearly Plan: For yearly plan {{> members/pricing-table/plan-yearly}} partials is used. You will find partials > membership > pricing-tables.hbs Line Number; 53 to 61

    <ul>
                <li>{{t "Full access to all premium posts"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Weekly email newsletter"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Support independent publishing"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "Simple, secure card payment"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "One easy payment instead of 12!"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "No advertising"}}</li>
                <li>{{t "24/7 Support"}}</li>
</ul>

    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 searches. When you will type, you will get instant results. When you install the theme file, you have configure and add content api key on conde injection

    1. Create a custom integrations
    2. Copy Content Api Key from your created custom integration
    3. Go to Code Injection > Site Header as follows
    <script>
    var contentApiKey = "your content api key"
</script>

    Credits

    Fonts and Icon Fonts

    Images

    Plugins and libraries

    VERSION – 1.1.1: Release on 11 Oct 2020
    [+] Initial Release