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Introduction
![Picture of theme on my blog.](/VUUFWm2pAD-1611.7c94d52b.webp)
A minimal theme, powered by Ghost. Live demo: (https://silvenga.com) (using the dev branch).
Created from scratch with inspiration from Ms. Qian’s Crisp theme (http://kathyqian.com/) and Roryg’s Ghostwriter theme (https://github.com/roryg/ghostwriter).
Features
- Minimal design to showcase content.
- Responsive design written in HTML5/LESS.
- Full Ajax transitions between posts.
- Built in GitHub’s Gist beautifier.
- Disqus comment support.
- MIT license to customize and distribute.
Install
To reach optimal size the user must reprocess the code after making any edits. Ensure that NPM is installed and working.
- Run
npm install
to ensure that the development environment is ready. - Modify any settings in
./strings.json
. To disable a feature, set the value to""
. - Run
grunt
to process the files and create the theme. - Add the Slight folder to
./content/themes
of your Ghost installation and restart Ghost. - Select theme under the administration tools within Ghost.
Change Log
2.1.0 - 12/24/2014
- Updated for Ghost 0.5.7
- Added string dictionary (data is injected during preprocessing) - no more hard coded html strings.
- Improved to LESS's abilities a little more.
- Improved size of visual assets.
- Improved grunt tasks (a lot faster).
- Improved normalize upgraded to v3.
- Improved style across all pages.
- Improved using grunt's less plug-in.
- Improved comment system can easily be disabled.
- Fixed race condition if Ajax takes longer than 400ms to load.
- Fixed flashing/blinking in Chrome.
- Fixed Social icons being light boxed.
- Fixed footer to stay at bottom.
- Fixed images breaking code blocks.
2.0.0 - 9/18/2014
- Updated for Ghost 0.5.2.
- Complete code rewrite (CSS, HTML, Javascript).
- Uses Fluidbox by Terry Mun (http://terrymun.com) to provide seamless lightbox transitions.
- Streamlined grunt processing.
- Significant speed improvements.
- Source minification improvements.
- Squashed dozens of bugs.
1.0.5 - 6/21/2014
- Fixed comment issues with loading via ajax.
- Streamlined ajax loading.
- Using jquery.lazyView (https://github.com/Silvenga/jquery-lazyView).
- Fixes issues with mobile devices (iPhone).
- Fixed IE11 issues.
- Fixed Webkit CSS issues.
- Streamlined grunt building.
- Javascript fixes.
- Style fixes.
1.0.2 - 6/5/2014
- Javascript issue fixes.
- Page loading is much faster now.
- Reduction in size.
- Simple light box for images.
- Better image handling.
- Many mobile style fixes.
- Many screen size fixes.
- Menu fixes.
1.0.0
- First release.
Download
Ghost 0.5.7 compatibility
License
Slight is under the MIT license.