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A collection of 9 posts

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Differences in page load times with using Ghost instead of WordPress

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

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New Blog

Goodbye, WordPress! After much internal mental debate, I have decided to restart my blog from scratch. The blog has been powered by WordPress for a very long time (since I converted it from

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