dawn-advisory-theme

A highly functional theme that adapts to the reader's preferences. Let them read, search, subscribe, navigate, and more with ease. Completely free and fully responsive, released under the MIT license.

This theme was originally based off TryGhost/Dawn.

Instructions

1. Setup a local Ghost instance.
2. Ensure you have Node v16 installed.
3. From the root directory, execute the zip Gulp task:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Package the theme into a zip archive
npm run zip

4. Upload the zipfile at dist/dawn-advisory-theme.zip onto your local Ghost instance at Settings > Theme > Change theme > Upload theme.

Optionally, if you have access to the Admin panel of Advisory, you can go to Settings > Labs > Migration Options > Export your content in order to export the posts and settings used for the actual website as a JSON file. This file can be imported into your local instance of Ghost, at Settings > Labs > Migration Options > Import content. Take note that this will not remove existing posts/pages.

Dropdown Menu

The theme looks for a menu item with three dots (...) in its URL, and uses that as a dropdown menu toggle. All menu items after the toggle will be added to the dropdown list automatically.

Development

Styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need Node and Gulp installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:

# Install
npm

# Run build & watch for changes
npm run dev

Now you can edit /assets/css/ files, which will be compiled to /assets/built/ automatically.

Speedy Development

To speed up development with a local instance of Ghost, you may use an alternative procedure to directly place the theme directory in the content/themes/ directory of Ghost.

Firstly, use the earlier mentioned process with npm run zip and upload the theme. This is important, as Ghost will not recognise your new theme directory if you do not perform this import first. In the content/themes/ directory from the root directory of your Ghost installation, you should see the dawn-advisory-theme directory. (Do not perform this step by importing a zipfile directly from the GitHub Actions builds; as the zipfile has an appended hash, Ghost will not recognise your new dawn-advisory-theme directory. Make sure to rename the zipfile to dawn-advisory-theme.zip before importing.)

Once you have verified that the content/themes/dawn-advisory-theme/ directory is in place and Ghost recognises the directory as a theme, remove the dawn-advisory-theme directory and clone this repository into the content/themes/ directory under the same directory name dawn-advisory-theme. (Alternatively, if you use an Unix-based system, you may create a symbolic link instead. Windows users may wish to create a shortcut from the Ghost directory instead.)

Finally, run npm run dev in the content/themes/dawn-advisory-theme/ directory and refresh the Ghost admin panel. You should see the correct theme appear. Upon making changes to theme files, npm run dev should build the changed files and the changes should be reflected upon refresh.

This method is not officially supported by Ghost and might break any time (though the theme handling logic is unlikely to be modified in the foreseeable future). Take note that if you add new post templates, you may need to restart Ghost manually for the changes to take place in the Admin panel.

routes.yaml Setup

For the homepage and separate Stories page to be rendered correctly, it is necessary to upload a custom routes.yaml file onto Ghost. Please refer to the instructions here for more details.

Note: The routes.yaml file supplied in the repository is not automatically deployed onto the main website.

PostCSS Features Used

• Autoprefixer - Don't worry about writing browser prefixes of any kind, it's all done automatically with support for the latest 2 major versions of every browser.

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2021 Ghost Foundation, 2021-2022 Advisory Singapore - Released under the MIT license.