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In a previous post, I discussed how to add code formatting (syntax highlighting) to your Ghost blog. Since then, I've decided to switch to using Prism syntax highlighter. Prism uses more standards-compliant mechanisms for marking up code. Specifically, it uses a class on the code element to mark what language…
While Ghost is a great blogging platform, developers of custom themes may find themselves reinventing some common blog functionality (Google analytics, blog comments, etc.) Each developer has most likely come up with their own way to implement each of these features in their blog. But what happens when the blog…
I have been working steadily on creating my new Ghost blog to be exactly what I want. However, I have found myself dipping into JavaScript to sew up the loose ends that I perceive with Ghost's built-in functionality. Too much WordPress? Am I trying to create a blog that has…
Update: I have written another post about an alternate approach to defining the link-to-icon mapping. Note: I wrote this post to describe how I added icons to my Ghost navbar, but this process can work with any website that uses unique classes for links. Technically, it can bind an icon…
I have recently converted my Ghost blog to use Bootstrap. As part of that, I decided to add a little toy to the sidebar that would allow users to change the Bootstrap theme that the site uses to display its content. All code for my custom theme can be found…
In my previous post, I discussed how to integrate Bootstrap into the default Ghost theme. This post will cover the way that I modified pagination to use Bootstrap's pagination control. To start, you will need to create a new pagination.hbs file in the partials folder in the root of…
I have been working on my blog lately to customize the theme and provide some features that I wanted. I started with the default Ghost theme (Casper) and modified it to suit my needs. I have shared my theme (I named it "Ghost Cerkit Theme") on GitHub in a new…
I just ran a quick test of a page running on WordPress with the same page running on Ghost. Here is the result: On WordPress, the page took 13.2 seconds to load (4.53 seconds cached). On Ghost, the same content took .98 seconds to load (.86 seconds cached)…