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Deprecated. Ghost theme for BigchainDB's blog

BigchainDB Blog

Ghost theme for BigchainDB's blog

Deprecated. For all your BigchainDB blogging needs go to blog.bigchaindb.com.

Ghost in your shell

Install Node.js

We need Node LTS 6.9.1. On macOS you can install that version with either nvm or Homebrew:

# nvm
nvm install node 6.9.1

# Homebrew
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install homebrew/versions/node6-lts
brew link node6-lts

Install Ghost

Use an existing Ghost installation on your machine or download and copy a fresh version and symlink this repository's dist output into the theme folder:

ln -s dist/bigchaindb-blog ~/Sites/ghost/content/themes/bigchaindb-blog

Then go into your Ghost installation root folder and start up Ghost:

# install dependencies
npm install --production

# let's roll
npm start

Theme Development

Clone the repository and make sure to include submodules too:

git clone --recursive [email protected]:bigchaindb/blog.git

Then install dependencies with:

npm i

The following development server proxies to the local Ghost url which you need to setup in the config section of the gulpfile.js:

GHOSTURL = 'localhost:2368'

Finally, spin up the local dev server with livereloading via BrowserSync, reachable under https://localhost:1337:

gulp

Production build

Puts everything together and puts it into a folder under dist/ and makes a zip-package out of it:

gulp build --production

Ghost documentation

• themes.ghost.org
• themes.ghost.org - Templates

blog's Issues

add proper license to repo

most likely MIT

setup a better assets pipeline and document that

goals:

• better local development with browsersync
• get js into pipeline
• get the compiled css & js out of repo for more sane code reviews
• automate final zip-package creation needed for theme upload

Basics fur using gulp-based pipeline are already present: https://github.com/bigchaindb/blog/blob/master/gulpfile.js

output Blog Description

on index pages. While we're at it, also show twitter & facebook links and make optional cover image work.

implement search

Can we use Algolia? Or GhostHunter?

setup Analytics

add tracking code, track sharing button clicks, honor DNT

image captions

Figure something out and display & style them without requiring editors to write HTM markup. Using the image title attribute should be feasible for that.

click on teaser image in index doesn't work