White – Electronthemes

Getting Started

White is minimal and Lightweight Ghost theme. It is highly focused on bloggers, readers, writers, authors, etc. White is a super fast and mobile responsive theme that will encourage the visitor to read your blog. 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.

Support includes

Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
Fixing bugs and reported issues
Feature Request
Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

Item support does not include

Customization and installation services. (You can ask for paid support here; support@electronthemes.com )
Support for third party software and plug-ins

Template Information

Name: White
Author: Electronthemes
Platform: Ghost
Demo: White
Created: 15 September 2018
Last Update: 18 June 2022
Version: 4.3.0

Theme Setup

White theme setup is very easy. If you have already installed a server for Ghost you can easily setup White 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 Dashboard > 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 white.zip file and copy White 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 “White“
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

Logo

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

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 > Meta Data

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

Ghost only supports two types of Navigation. Primary and Secondary Navigation Menu. On the header, primary navigation is showing, and On Footer secondary navigation is showing. Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > 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 author in your site from 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 Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > Code Injection

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 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 Icon > Labs

Import Content
Export your content
Delete All Content
Tiers
Redirects
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 header, we have used {{> header}} partials in folder partials/ headerHome.hbs In this file you can change the followings:

Logo
Primary Navigation
Dark Light Icon
Search
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}}" class="site-logo">
         {{#if @site.logo}}
          <img src="{{ @site.logo }}" alt="{{ @site.title }}"> {{else}}
          <h2 class="logo-text">{{ @site.title }}</h2>
          {{/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

Dark Light Feature

White Theme 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 17 to 26

<script>
        if (typeof (Storage) !== 'undefined') {
            if (localStorage.getItem('selected-theme') == 'light') {
                document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-theme', 'light');
            }
            else if (localStorage.getItem('selected-theme') == 'dark') {
                document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-theme', 'dark');
            }
        }
</script>

Signin and Signup

You can change Members Menu from {{> members/members-navigation}} partials. You can easily change signin and signup links from partials > members > members-navigation.hbs file at line number 12 to 15

<li>
        <a href="{{@site.url}}/signin/">{{t "Signin"}}</a>
        </li>
        <li>
        <a href="{{@site.url}}/account/">{{t "Subscribe"}}</a>
</li>

Homepage

In homepage, you will get some sections.

Featured Posts
Daily Update News

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.

Footer

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

Copyright text

You can change at footer.hbs file line number 6

<div class="col-md-10 mx-auto footer-text-wrapper">
   <p>                     {{t "Copyright"}} &nbsp; {{ date format="YYYY" }} , {{ @site.title }} - {{ @site.description }}. All Right Reserved.</p>
</div>

Change the text inside {{t ""}}

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
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 page.

Post Template

Post Full Width
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 > Settings Icon > Membership

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.

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 Line Number 8 to 16

<div class="price-box-inner">
            <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>
</div>

Monthly Plan: For monthly plan {{> members/pricing-tables/plan-monthly}} partials is used. You will find partials > members > pricing-tables > plan-monthly.hbs Line Number 8 to 16

<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 Line Number 8 to 16

<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 configured and add content api key on conde injection

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 white > custom-contact.hbs file at line number 28.

<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 the information. Line Number; 55 to 81

<h4>{{t "Contact Us"}}</h4>
    <p>{{t "Our Support is open 24/7 call us anytime :-)"}}</p>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="single-info">
<div class="info-icon">
     <i class="fa fa-volume-control-phone"></i>
</div>
     <p>{{t "+ (123) 7859 5624"}}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="single-info">
<div class="info-icon">
    <i class="fa fa-envelope-open-o"></i>
</div>
<p>{{t "Youremail@gmail.com"}}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="single-info">
<div class="info-icon">
    <i class="fa fa-paper-plane-o"></i>
</div>
     <p>{{t "11/7 Saint Archas, Sydney"}}</p>
</div>

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 white/partials/disqus and open the next file: disqus-comment.hbs and git to line number 11 for disqus_shortname = “white-5”;
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 short name).

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 newsvolt.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. Line number; 7 to 12, example:

// Primary and Secondary Color
:root {
    --color-primary: #2821fc;
    --color-text: #343f44;
    --color-heading: #002b41;
}

Credits

LIBRARIES/TOOLS

Bootstrap
jquery
Owl Carousel

FONTS

Lemon/Milk
Libre Baskerville
Noto Sans

IMAGES

All images those are included in live preview are taken from unsplash.com

VERSION – 3.0.0: Release on 15 October 20

CHANGE LOGS:

VERSION – 4.3.0: Released on 18 June 2022

* Added Support for Ghost 5.0
* Removed all deprecated code
* Small css issues fixed
* Updated English translation file

[+] CHANGED FILES
    assets/scss/_membership.scss
    assets/scss/_header.scss
    assets/css/theme.css
    partials/members/pricing-tables/pricing-free.hbs
    partials/members/pricing-tables/plan-table.hbs
    partials/social-share.hbs
    custom-membership.hbs
    custom-account.hbs
    partials/footer-scripts.hbs
    default.hbs
    package.json
    locales/en.json

Version 3.0.0
---------------------------------------
[+] NEWLY ADDED
    Subscription and Membership
    Dark and Light Version
    Updated styles
    Updated SCSS
    svg logo

[-] DELETED FILES
    routes.yaml

Version 2.1.0
---------------------------------------
Upated with ghost new version 2.23.2
Bug fixed and performance upgrated

----------------------------------------
Language support added
compatible with new ghost version
post card and author page design upgraded
prev and next post navigator changed

Version 2.0.0
---------------------------------------
Upated with ghost new version 2.13.1
Bug fixed and performance upgrated

----------------------------------------
Whole design updated
3 author list page style added
404 page updated
Contact page design updated
Search problem fixed with the new version
Documentation updated
Online Documentation added

White Documentation

Table of contents

Getting Started

Support

Support includes

Item support does not include

Template Information

Theme Setup

Upload the theme

Uploading the theme via (FTP)

General Setup

Publication Info

Favicon Icon

Logo

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

Routes

Headers

Logo

Primary Navigation

Dark Light Feature

Signin and Signup

Homepage

Featured Posts

Footer

Copyright text

Custom Templates

Page Template

Selecting page template

Page url

Post Template

Membership and Subscriptions

Stripe connection

Subscription Pricing

Post Access

Pricing Tables

Account Informations

Free Subscriber information

Paid subscriber information

Third Party Plugins

Search Options

Contact form

Disqus Comment box

Development and Customization

Changing Primary and Secondary colors

Credits

LIBRARIES/TOOLS

FONTS

IMAGES

CHANGE LOGS:

VERSION – 4.3.0: Released on 18 June 2022