Curious Documentation

Theme Installation

To install Curious on your Ghost site, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your Ghost Admin at yoursite.com/ghost.
2. In the left sidebar, go to Settings → Theme.
3. Click on Change theme.
4. Click on Upload theme.
5. Drag and drop your theme’s .zip file, or click to browse and select it.
6. Once the upload is complete, click Activate to apply the theme immediately, or Close to activate it later.

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Getting Started

Uploading a Favicon

To add a favicon:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Click Upload icon next to Publication icon.
4. Save changes.

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Uploading a Publication Logo

To add a logo:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Click Upload logo next to Publication logo.
4. Save changes.

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Uploading a Publication Cover

The publication cover image is displayed in the background of the homepage hero and error pages.

To add a publication cover:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Click Upload cover next to Publication cover.
4. Save changes.

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Adding Navigation

The theme supports primary and secondary navigation. Primary navigation appears in the site header and slide-out sidebar, while secondary navigation appears in the footer.

Please note that Curious shows up to four primary navigation items in the header. If you add more than four items, a “More+” button appears and opens the slide-out sidebar with the full primary navigation.

To set up navigation:

1. Go to Settings → Navigation under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Add your navigation items by entering a page name in the label field and a destination URL in the URL field.
4. Once finished, click Save.

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Adding Social Links

Curious supports Ghost’s native social links. These links are displayed in the slide-out sidebar and footer of the theme.

To add social links:

1. In Ghost Admin, go to Settings → Social Accounts under the General Settings section.
2. Enter the URLs of your social profiles.
3. Save changes.

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Editing Section Above the Post Feed

The section above the post feed can display the site title and description, a featured posts carousel, or nothing at all.

To switch between the available variations:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Switch to the Theme tab.
4. Select the option from the Section above post feed dropdown.
5. Save changes.

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Adding Cover Images

You can add cover images to posts, pages, tags and author archive pages.

To add a post or page image:

1. Navigate to Posts or Pages in your Ghost Admin.
2. Create a new post (page) or open an existing one.
3. Click Add feature image located above the post (page) title and upload your image.
4. Save changes.

To add a tag image:

1. Navigate to Tags in your Ghost Admin.
2. Create a new tag or open an existing one.
3. Click Upload tag image and upload your image.
4. Save changes.

To add an author image:

1. Navigate to Settings → Staff under the General Settings section.
2. Select the author you want to edit.
3. Click Upload cover image and upload your image.
4. Save changes.

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Members

Ghost Members allows you to turn your site into a membership business with member signup, paid subscriptions and email newsletters.

If Members is enabled on your site, the theme displays Subscribe and Sign in links in the header and slide-out sidebar, connecting visitors directly to the Ghost Members portal.

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Changing Post Layout

In addition to the default post layout, Curious includes four alternative layouts that can be enabled using internal tags: #post-vert-right, #post-vert-left, #post-horiz-top, #post-horiz-bottom.

To apply an alternative layout, add the desired internal tag, such as #post-vert-right, to your post:

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Enabling Comments

Curious supports Ghost native comments. To enable them:

1. Navigate to Settings → Access under the Membership section.
2. Select the suitable option from the Who can comment on posts? dropdown.
3. Save changes.

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Sidebar

The theme sidebar contains your site navigation, member actions and social links.

Please note that the sidebar is always available on small screens. On larger screens, it appears only when the primary navigation has more than four items.

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Editing Footer Sections

The site footer can display an authors list, a popular posts list (posts tagged with #popular), a tag cloud and about information.

To enable or edit any of these sections:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Switch to the Theme tab.
4. Turn the relevant options on or off and fill in the text fields.
5. Save changes.

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Editing Copyright Information (Footer)

You can edit the copyright information in the .json translation file located in the /locales folder, or directly in the /partials/footer.hbs partial with the Ghost theme editor.

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Adding Google Analytics

To add Google Analytics to your site, please follow the Google Analytics Integration guide by Ghost.

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Theme Customization

Changing Color Scheme

Curious is available in light and dark color schemes. To change the theme color scheme:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Switch to the Theme tab.
4. Select the option from the Color scheme dropdown.
5. Save changes.

Changing Accent Color

To change the theme accent color:

1. Navigate to Settings → Design & branding under the Site section.
2. Switch to the Brand tab.
3. Choose your color.
4. Save changes.

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Changing Posts Per Page Number

You can set the number of posts displayed per page in the package.json file of the theme. For example, to show 12 posts per page:

"config": {
    "posts_per_page": 12
}

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Theme Translation

The Curious theme is ready for translations. You can find the default file in the locales folder. Copy locales/en.json to locales/[language_code].json, replacing “language_code” with a valid language code. You can edit the renamed translation file with any plain text editor.

Even if your site is in English, you can customize any theme texts by simply editing the default English file ( locales/en.json ), without modifying the theme templates.

You can find more information on how to translate the theme in Ghost documentation.

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Adjusting Style

To customize the theme style, use the Code Injection tool and place your CSS rules in the Site Header field.

For instance, to adjust the site title size:

1. Navigate to Settings → Code Injection uunder the Advanced section.
2. Add the necessary CSS rules to the Site header field.
3. Save changes.

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Credits

• Montserrat font: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat
• Simple icons: https://simpleicons.org/
• Reframe.js plugin: https://github.com/dollarshaveclub/reframe.js
• Swiper plugin: https://swiperjs.com/
• SimpleLightbox plugin: https://simplelightbox.com/

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Support

This documentation provides the information needed to install and customize the theme. If you have any questions, email us at support@justgoodthemes.com, and we will be happy to help.

If you have any bug reports or feature requests, please let us know.

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Updates

As the Ghost platform grows, so will this theme. We’re dedicated to keeping Curious up to date.