There's nothing wrong with Feedly

It seems I was incorrect about Feedly. It does show updates. However, I am also using Feedburner to syndicate my blog. It looks like Feedburner may be the culprit. When I changed my blog, nothing changed in my Feedburner feed.…

Michael Earls 23 July 2017

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Using Prism Syntax Highlighting instead of Google Prettify

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…

Michael Earls 12 February 2016

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Standardizing Ghost Client Development

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…

Michael Earls 09 February 2016

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Am I abusing Ghost?

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…

Michael Earls 08 February 2016

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Dynamically adding icons to a Bootstrap nav menu in Ghost

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…

Michael Earls 05 February 2016

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Creating a Bootstrap Theme Selector for your Site

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…

Michael Earls 29 January 2016

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Integrating Bootstrap Pagination with Ghost

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.…

Michael Earls 28 January 2016

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Integrating Bootstrap with the Casper Ghost Theme

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…

Michael Earls 26 January 2016

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