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    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 18
    • Last Update: 15 October 20
    • Version: 4.1.0

    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

    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 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 Footer secondary navigation is showing. Go to Dashboard > Settings Icon > 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 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

    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 header, we have used {{> header}} partials in folder partials/ headerHome.hbs In this file you can change the followings:

    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}}" 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.

    1. Featured Posts
    2. 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

    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 > 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.

    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 > 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

    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>

    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.

    1. You can create your Disqus code in the next url: http://disqus.com/admin/create/
    2. Add a short-name for Website Name
    3. 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:

    1. Unzip newsvolt.zip (this is the template only file) and remember where is the folder location.
    2. Install a SASS compiler, we recommend you to use Prepos 6, you can download it here.
    3. 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 3.0.0
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[+] NEWLY ADDED
    Subscription and Membership
    Dark and Light Version
    Updated styles
    Updated SCSS
    svg logo

[-] DELETED FILES
    routes.yaml

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

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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
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Upated with ghost new version 2.13.1
Bug fixed and performance upgrated

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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