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  • How to run gulp on the computer?
  • Ghost Theme Installation
  • Ghost Contact Page
  • Disqus Comments
  • Featured Post in ghost
  • Set up the Navigation menu in ghost

How to run gulp on the computer?

Have you install Gulp on NPM?. If not, do the following.

Install the gulp command line utility

npm install --global gulp-cli


Verify your gulp versions

gulp --version

Install NPM Packages

npm install

Now run Gulp command

gulp

If you see any error for node-sass or gulp-sass please install it, by using the following command npm install node-sass , npm install gulp-sass


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Ghost Theme Installation

Here following the easy steps for the ghost theme installation :

1. At first login to the admin panel of your Ghost blog. If you dont have the blog ready then complete the ghost installation first.  

Now login  to your blog. Example URL: yourwebsite.com/ghost

2. Select the Settings option from the left side of your ghost admin panel  and then navigate to the themes section.

Ghost Theme Installation
Select Themes Option from the Settings

3.  Click on the Upload a Theme button.

4. An upload option should appear. Now drag the theme ( theme_file_name.zip ) file in that area. You should get that zip file from our downloaded package.

5. Once completed the theme upload, click on Activate Now button and then activate the theme.

Ghost theme installation is really easy task. But if you are unable to do that. Please feel free contact us. We would happy to help you free for Ghost theme installation.


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Ghost Contact Page

Please follow the steps bellow to create ghost contact page :

  • Create a new story called Contact for example.
  • Now add your desire content in that page by using the ghost editor.
  • If you want to add functional contact form then i would recommend you 3 best options.
  1. Google Form
  2. Jotform
  3. Formspree.io
  • Google form or Jotform can be easily embeded  in your page as iframe.
  • For the formspree.io you have to add the following code in your page :
<form action="https://formspree.io/[email protected]" method="POST">
 <input type="text" name="your-name" placeholder="Your Name">
 <input type="email" name="_replyto" placeholder="Email" class="float-right">
  <textarea name='message' placeholder="Message"></textarea>
 <button type="submit" class="btn-c buttonfx curtainup">Send Message</button>
  <input class='btn-c buttonfx curtainup' type="submit" value="Send">
 </form>

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Disqus Comments

Disqus allows you to embed comment threads within Ghost posts and pages, including additional functionality like upvoting and adding Emoji reactions. The platform is widely adopted and relatively easy to set up, so you’ve probably come across it before.

This theme comes with Disqus comments enabled. You may change it to other comments platform /plugin too. To change the disqus settings please open the file partials/disqus_comments.hbs and then change the value

https://xxx-themeix-1.disqus.com/embed.js

to your own disqus url (make sure you have the disqus account already) .

Here is the quick start guide for disqus.

That’s all you need to setup Disqus from the theme side. If you get any issue feel free contact us.


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Featured Post in ghost

You can trun your general post to a featured post in ghost easily.

To set a post as featured, check the box next to “Feature this post” in the post settings menu. When a post is featured, a class of feature will be added to the  {{post_class}} in the HTML code for the post.


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Set up the Navigation menu in ghost

To set up the navigation menu in ghost, open your Dashboard first.

The url of admin dashboard will be like https://yoursite.com/ghost

Now click the setting icon fom the bottom left panel.

You will get a screen where you can change your primary navigation menu items. Just setup navigation from there for your blog.

If you need any help to create custom style navigation in ghost, feel free to contact us


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