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Ghost Simplex Theme.

build status

preview

Demos: Light Theme, Dark Theme

Simplex is heavily based on the shipped Casper theme for inspiration.

What you get.

A fully responsive, easily themeable, customizable theme that is built and minified for speed.

Currently there is a dark theme and a light theme available for download.

Progress.

Theme

  • Sidebar
  • Default & Index Templates
  • Post Excerpt Template
  • Compatibility with .kg-gallery-*
  • Single Post Template
  • Author Template
  • Category/Tags Template
  • Responsiveness
  • Provision for Featured Posts
  • Light Theme
  • Dark Theme

Meta

  • Build theme off scss instead of postcss
  • Setup Gulp as buildtool
  • Setup Travis to verify builds with Ghost's provided gscan util
  • Break scss into understandable / maintainable partials
  • Break templates (hbs) into understanable / maintainable partials
  • [?] Setup Gulp to build both the light and dark themes as part of the build process
  • Clearer commenting
  • Setup linting

Customizing.

  1. (Optional) Setup a local ghost environment.
  2. Clone this repo into content/themes
  3. Install devDependencies
  4. Set your theme in assets/screen.scss
  5. npm run develop

When finished you can run npm run build to output your customized theme .zip to dist.

Libraries Leveraged.