raivis-vitols / ghost-theme-willow

Personal, responsive, minimalist and open-source theme for Ghost blogging platform.

Willow Ghost Theme 4.1

Personal, responsive, minimalist and open-source theme for Ghost blogging platform. Lightweight - only 3KB of CSS and 820B of JavaScript. No jQuery, vanilla JS only. Starting version 2.0 theme is built with SASS in BEM style using ITCSS (http://itcss.io/) architecture.

Theme Compatibility

Theme is fully compatible with Ghost 1.X versions. The 0.X version compatible theme can be found in "version-0.X" branch.

Theme Demo

This theme is currently being used on my personal blog - https://raivis.com/. Sorry, demo is no longer available - check the screenshots below or see this page for more detailed theme overview - https://raivis.com/willow-free-responsive-minimalist-ghost-blog-theme/

Compiling SASS & Minifying JavaScript

Requires Grunt task runner & NPM to be installed.

$ cd content/themes/[theme-folder]
$ npm install
$ grunt

Editing Social Links and Promo Links

Edit the content/themes/[theme-folder]/partials/sidebar.hbs file. Social links are in DIV with class c-sidebar-contact-links and promo links are in c-sidebar-promotion-links DIV - just edit the anchors added inside them.

Enabling Disqus Comments Box

1. Edit the content/themes/[theme-folder]/post.hbs file, uncomment <!--{{> "comments"}}--> partial inclusion.

2. Replace Disqus embed code with your site code. Edit content/themes/[theme-folder]/partials/comments.hbs file and replace loadDisqusComments function body with Disqus embed code function.

Screenshots