Introduction

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Template information:

  • Name: Jenifer
  • Tagline: Personal and Professional Ghost Blog Theme
  • Author: the9t9
  • Platform: Ghost
  • Demo: Jenifer
  • Created: 20 April 2021
  • Last Update: 20 April 2021 See Changelog
  • Version: 1.0.0

General Features

  • 100% responsive design for all devices
  • W3 validation code
  • 2 Google fonts
  • Very light-weight theme
  • Fast loading
  • SVG icons
  • Easily customizable
  • Well written documentation
  • Supported with image and without images
  • Translation Ready

Ghost inbuilt features

  • Ghost supported v4.0.0
  • Publication and Description
  • Publication cover
  • Publication logo and icon
  • Social accounts
  • Koenig Editor
  • Primary Navigation
  • Secondary Navigation
  • General posts and pages
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Responsive Content
  • Gallery
  • Bookmark
  • HTML code
  • Code Highlighter
  • Share posts on social media
  • Post Navigation
  • Load more options
  • Translation ready to other language
  • Subscription features
  • Membership
  • Signin
  • Signup
  • Notifications

Pages

  • Homepage
  • Post page
  • Tag page
  • Author page
  • Error
  • Page
  • Error-404

Custom Pages

  • Custom Author list
  • Custom Tag list
  • Custom Contact
  • Custom Account
  • Custom Membership
  • Custom Signin
  • Custom Signup

Additional Ghost Features

  • Disqus comment box
  • Custom Contact promo
  • About section
  • Beautiful footer
  • Documentation load more button
  • Tag list sidebars
  • Copy url with click
  • Formspree for contact form
  • Medium zoom
  • Mobile menu support
  • SVG logo
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Custom buttons
  • Dark Light Mode

Requirements

Jenifer is a Ghost theme so the basic requirements are the same of Ghost

Theme Setup

Install the template

This guide assumes that you already have a Ghost installation ready.

Uploading the theme (v1.0 for Ghost 1.2.x and higher)

  • Log in into your Ghost admin panel.
  • Go to settings (design section) and upload "jenifer.zip"
  • Click Activate.

Uploading the theme on custom hosting (FTP)

The instructions are pretty simple:

  • Login on your FTP account.
  • Unzip the jenifer.zip file and copy Jenifer folder to your /ghost_installation/content/themes
  • Restart your installation if neccesary. You can ask help to your hosting provider if you don't know how to do this step.
  • Login into your ghost admin panel.
  • Go to settings (general) and select theme "Jenifer"
  • Click Save.

Basic theme usage

How to change the logo

Jenifer supports text and image logo. By default text logo is used, if you want a image logo you can do the next steps:

  • Go to Settings/General
  • Go to Blog Logo and click upload image.
  • Click Save.

For logo, please choose SVG format logo, so you will get support for light and dark version. i.e. logo.svg

Setting a post featured image

We recommend to set a post image this will set the image just above the post title, like the next image:

To add the featured image for every post you must follow the next steps:

  • Click the cog icon (on left side of update/save button).
  • You will see a new sidebar has opened.
  • Click on Add post image and upload your thumbnail like the screenshot.
  • Click update/ save.

How to create an static page.

  • Go to New Page.
  • Set a title and content.
  • Go to post settings (cog icon next to save button).

Creating the navigation menu.

Note: This feature is available on ghost 0.5.9 and higher.

  • Login into your admin.
  • Go to "Settings" -> "Navigation".
  • You can create some links like: home, contact or gallery if you are actually using them.

Primary Menu

Secondary menu

How to create a gallery

Jenifer is compatible with the latest gallery feature from Koenig Editor.

First you must click "plus" button and select gallery:

After you select some images you will see a custom grid like this:

Finally click save and you will see you custom gallery on the post content, it is important to know every image can be clicked and displayed on a custom lightbox, so you must upload good quality images.

Dark and Light Mode

Easyart Support Dark and Light mode both. Your visitor can read easily on both mode. Dark Switcher is here

If you want to use only mode, you can easily do that.

  • Go to default.hbs and line number 2
  • use data-theme="dark" as like as following html code
<body class="{{body_class}} bg-white-smoke" lang="{{@site.lang}}">

For dark background you need to change the body class, dark:bg-dark-wrap and normal:bg-white-smoke

Plugins configuration

How to get the Disqus Shortname

Disqus comments works like any JS api. You can create your Disqus code in the next url: http://disqus.com/admin/create/

If you don't have a Disqus account just create it (it's free) then open the url: http://disqus.com/admin/create/

Now you can see something like this:

Your unique "Disqus URL" is your shortname copy that name and click finish registration.

In this case will be disqus-example. Now we have our disqus shortname and we must change our template to view these changes..

  • Go to the directory where is your template.
  • Go to /content/themes/Jenifer/partials/disqus and open the next file: disqus-comment.hbs and git to line number 10 for disqus_shortname = "Jenifer-ghost-themes";
  • Change with your shortname, in this case 'disqus-example';
  • Save the file and upload to your ghost installation.
  • Optional, you can verify if all is correct clicking Verify on disqus steps (where we get our shortname).

Tags

To create tag, go to Dashboard > Tags > New Tag

Footer

1. About text

  • Go to Jenifer/partials/footer/about-widget.hbs

2. Quick Links

These are coming from Secondary menu. To change this go to Dashboard/Design/Secondary Menu

3. Tags

These are coming from Tags. if you used tags then tag list appeared here.

4. Subscribe

These are coming from Member Subscription. if enable member portal then it's appeared here.

Contact

Contact page

To change contact page information, go to partials/contact-info.hbs

Formspree

We used formspree for the form. You can change with your email address. To change to to partials/contact-form.hbs and line number 8

<form class="row" action="https://formspree.io/electronthemes@gmail.com" method="POST"></form>

Membership and Subscriptions

Membership and Subscription feature comes from Ghost V3.0.0. It is an awesome feature for paid publications. You can eaily manage your membership and subscription from Dashboard > Labs

Enable Membership

Enable your membership from Dashboard > Labs > Members

tag

Connect to Stripe

Connect your stripe account api key and publishable key to get payment from members. You will your api key from here

tag

Subscription pricing

Add your price for monthly and yearly from here

tag

Customize your pricing table

To customize your pricing tables, go to Jenifer > partials > members > pricing-tables. You can find 2 pricing table here:

  • Free pricing table: plan-free.hbs From line 15 to 17
  • Monthly pricing table: plan-monthly.hbs From line 14 to 18
  • Yearly pricing table plan-yearly.hbs: From line 14 to 20

For signup card, go to custom-membership.hbs

Edit the information inside {{t "..."}}

Subscriber information

To edit subscriber information, go to Jenifer > partials > members > subscriber-information.hbs

Show Subscription Portal

From ghost 3.37.0, Ghost added subscription portal system where accounts, signup, signin, pricing are showing. You can easily show portals from Labs > Enable Members > Portal settings. It will show a portal at bottom of your site like this

portal

To Customize the portals

1. Go to Labs > Enable members > Portal settings

portal

2. Customize the color and icons

portal

Custom Page and Post Template

Page template is a default settings on Ghost. We have created some custom page and post template for the theme. The page template are as follows:

Page Template

  • Membership
  • Account
  • Signin
  • Signup
  • Authors
  • Contact

Selecting page template

  1. Create a new page
  2. Click on Settings to the right side and scroll down
  3. Select page template i.e. "Membership"

Page URL

When you create page, please keep page slug like this.

Page title Page URl
Membership /membership/
Account /account/
Signin /signin/
Signup /signup/

Author List page

  • Create a new page
  • Click on gear icon from right side and sroll down
  • Select Template Authors
tag

Change header top menu for signin, subscribe and dropdown account details

If you want to change or remove the menumbership navigation, change the code from Jenifer > partials > navigation.hbs file.

tag

Navigation Dropdown card

To change navigation dropdown card, go to {{> members/header-members-details}}

tag

Advanced Setup (code knowledge needed)

How translate the theme

Jenifer supports multiples languages but you need to add your own lang file for this purpose:

  • Go to Settings/General -> Publication Language
  • Click "expand" and change to your correct lang code, for example: French is "fr", Spanish is "es".
  • Click Save.

After that, you need to add an extra files inside Jenifer/locales/fr.json

We recommend to copy en.json file and start translating every text inside this file.

Enable search engine (API Key)

On Ghost v2.12 and later moved the old Beta API to the new Content API, this require some steps if you want to get it work the search engine.

  • Login into your Ghost admin.
  • Go to integrations.
  • Click on "add custom integration" button.
  • Add a name like "Search Engine".

  • Click create.
  • Copy the Content API Key.
  • Go to Code Injection > Site Header and add your content API like below: 
<script> 
    var contentApiKey = "e62572ad9f5d100bb42964b1e"; 
</script>

How to change template main color

Jenifer is working on color, Go at color-three.css where all color are located.

If you want to change the main color you must follow the next steps:

8.- Zip Jenifer Folder and reupload into your Ghost Installation.

Javascript Files

Plugins and libraries

Development mode

IMPORTANT: All external js file is used in js file: plugins.js

Optimization

This section will explain the basics concepts of optimization to get the highest score on Google Page Speed test.

Image Optimization

There is a lot of recommeded tools for this purpose, if you don't want to loss image quality, just skip this section.

Highest compression tool: Toolur

Website: http://compressimage.toolur.com/

We tested several compression tools and toolur online, is one of the best if you want to get 0 errors on Google Insight.

Recommended options:

  • Compression method: C
  • Image Quality: 70%
  • Don't resize and don't enlarge images.

TinyPNG: good quality and weight balance

TinyPNG is one of the most used compressor in the web, has a very basic interface and you will lost almost 10 - 15% quality. Its is highly recommended if you want to optimize your images without loosing quality.

Website: https://tinypng.com/

FileOptimizer: desktop APP

This application has the a good balance pretty closer like TinyPNG but as a desktop app.

Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimizer/

The only one important thing, is to enable "allow lossy optimizations":

JS Minify: https://javascript-minifier.com/

The steps are pretty similar to CSS, you just need to copy your code into assets/dist/scripts.min.js at line nº 100 and it is highly recommended to minify your code.

If you are familiarized with Javascript (developer) and you need to add extra jQuery functions, we recommend you to download Prepos 6 and load the prepos-6.config file into Prepos APP, this will help you to compile js/functions.js and minify all your code automatically.

Credits.

Fonts Icons

By Feather Icon

Images

Unsplash

Pixels

Changelog

We are showing all of our change log here. You can find our regular updates based on version. 

------------  VERSION - 1.0.0: Release on 20 April 2021  ------------
[+] Initial Release

Support

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