Larua

A Ghost theme with a card based UI, fresh looks and fancy fonts.

Main Features

  • UI optimised for different form factors (phone/tablet/pc)
  • Ability to set your own publication icon and publication logo.
  • Set site cover.
  • Set cover- and featured-post images for tags, author and single post pages.
  • Navigation configurable via navigation-section in Ghost panel.
  • Author section at the bottom of each post includes avatar, user bio and socials.
  • Shows related posts (by primary tag) below a post.
  • Set social media links through Ghost settings panel (they will show in the header)
  • Translation support!
  • Custom AMP, tag, author and error page designs.

Larua's base

Larua uses the following libraries;

  • Font Awesome 5
  • Bootstrap 4
  • JQuery (3.1.x)
  • Webfontloader 1.6.28

Theme requirements

  • Larua requires Ghost version 2.1.0 to install and work as intended.
  • In case it's not enabled: enable Ghost API in the Ghost settings panel -> Labs -> Ghost API for the full featureset (although it's likely on by default if you run the latest version).

Release

This theme is currently marked 'stable'. Unless a new Ghost update introduces major new features or rewrites it's about as stable as can be ;).

Use

  • Download the package from the releases page
  • Go to your Ghost-panel and to the Design-tab
  • Upload the theme .zip
  • Activate the theme

Tested:

Browsers

  • Microsoft Edge (November 2018 Update)
  • Google Chrome 70
  • Firefox 63

Customization

Google Analytics

To use Google Analytics, please parse the analytics code through Ghost's dashboard -> 'code injection'.

GitHub