Casper multi-language and without subscription portal

This is an alternative version of Ghost's default theme Casper v. 4.0.4 (see below for more info). The main purpose of this version is to enable multi-language text across Casper out of the box, for those people who are not familiar with coding.

I decided to develop this version of Casper for all non English creators, as it's weird to write all articles in a language and then having other areas of the website in English. This will open Ghost to a much wider public.

The subscription area and Portal are also disabled, see below for the reasons behind and the how-to.

How to add a translation

Just take the file en.json from the locales folder and translate all instances on the right side of the ":" sign. Please keep the "" and the comma at the end of each line It would be great if you could upload your new language into the locales folder into this repository, so that the next Ghost user dealing with this issue will have it ready.

Currently I have created a Polish version saved as pl.json.

Example:

English version en.json

    "A collection of % posts": "A collection of % posts",
    "Back": "Back",
    "Enter your email": "Enter your email",

Italian translation (you have to Save as... "it.json" - or if you use another language, use the code for that language, e.g. "fr.json" for a French translation or "de.json" for a German one etc...- target directory is called "locales")

    "A collection of % posts": "Una collezione di % post",
    "Back": "Indietro",
    "Enter your email": "Inserisci la tua email",

Once you are done with the translation, select your Casper folder including these modified files and save the whole folder as a .zip file. Then go in the Ghost settings and upload this zip file in the Upload Theme section. Activate it.

Finally, you have to set the language of your site to "it" in the General settings area of your Ghost control panel. Or "fr" in case of French language, "de" in case of German etc...

Subscription Portal

This version of Casper removes all subscription-related buttons and sections. Main reasons:

GDPR-related topics are not clear with Ghost as I am writing this, and I have seen many requests in the Ghost forum for disabing all subscription-related buttons and sections.
It is not possible to translate subscription-related areas (onboarding, newsletter).

To complete the effort, you will have to:

Disable Google Analytics in your Ghost Settings
Add the following code into your Ghost "Code Injection" header section in the Settings menu:

<style>

.footer-cta {
    visibility: hidden;
    padding: 1vmin 1vmin 1vmin;
    }    
    
.footer-cta h2 {
    visibility: hidden;
    padding: 1vmin 1vmin 1vmin;
    }      

.footer-cta-button {
    visibility: hidden;
    padding: 1vmin 1vmin 1vmin;
    }         
    
.gh-portal-triggerbtn-iframe {
    visibility: hidden;
    }

</style>

To re-activate all the subscription-related sections:

delete the code above from the Code Injection section
in the default.hbs file, remove lines 54 and 62 (or just "uncomment" the lines in-between)

And now the original Casper documentation:

Casper

The default theme for Ghost. This is the latest development version of Casper! If you're just looking to download the latest release, head over to the releases page.

First time using a Ghost theme?

Ghost uses a simple templating language called Handlebars for its themes.

This theme has lots of code comments to help explain what's going on just by reading the code. Once you feel comfortable with how everything works, we also have full theme API documentation which explains every possible Handlebars helper and template.

The main files are:

default.hbs - The parent template file, which includes your global header/footer
index.hbs - The main template to generate a list of posts, usually the home page
post.hbs - The template used to render individual posts
page.hbs - Used for individual pages
tag.hbs - Used for tag archives, eg. "all posts tagged with news"
author.hbs - Used for author archives, eg. "all posts written by Jamie"

One neat trick is that you can also create custom one-off templates by adding the slug of a page to a template file. For example:

page-about.hbs - Custom template for an /about/ page
tag-news.hbs - Custom template for /tag/news/ archive
author-ali.hbs - Custom template for /author/ali/ archive

Development

Casper styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need Node, Yarn and Gulp installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:

# install dependencies
yarn install

# run development server
yarn dev

Now you can edit /assets/css/ files, which will be compiled to /assets/built/ automatically.

The zip Gulp task packages the theme files into dist/<theme-name>.zip, which you can then upload to your site.

# create .zip file
yarn zip

PostCSS Features Used

Autoprefixer - Don't worry about writing browser prefixes of any kind, it's all done automatically with support for the latest 2 major versions of every browser.
Color Mod

SVG Icons

Casper uses inline SVG icons, included via Handlebars partials. You can find all icons inside /partials/icons. To use an icon just include the name of the relevant file, eg. To include the SVG icon in /partials/icons/rss.hbs - use {{> "icons/rss"}}.

You can add your own SVG icons in the same manner.

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