Auden

🎨 Overview

Auden is a sleek and speedy theme crafted by Bright Themes for Ghost 5.0. It's perfect for any site, offering full support for Ghost's membership and subscription features. 

✨ Features

• Custom Theme Settings: Easily tweak the theme's style directly from the Ghost Admin panel.
• Light & Dark Modes: Switch between light and dark themes with a click, or let your audience choose their preference.
• Membership Ready: Fully supports Ghost's membership features, with custom pages for sign-in, sign-up, account management, and membership.
• Progressive Web App (PWA): Transform your site into a PWA, allowing users to install it on any device and access it offline.
• Translation Support: Comes with translations in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
• Custom Layouts: Offers three homepage layouts and three post templates, including options with or without sidebars and a table of contents.
• Fully Responsive: Designed with a mobile-first approach, ensuring a great experience across all devices.
• Syntax Highlighting: Built-in Prism for syntax highlighting, making code snippets look sharp.
• Related Posts: Automatically suggests relevant articles to keep readers engaged.
• Featured Posts: Highlight important posts with a unique style.
• Native Comments: Integrated with Ghost's native comment system, with options for Disqus and Cove.

🛠️ Use Cases

Auden is versatile, making it ideal for:

• Magazines and blogs seeking a clean, modern look.
• Sites aiming to monetize content through memberships and subscriptions.
• Publishers wanting a fast, responsive, and SEO-friendly platform.

🚀 Performance

Auden is built with performance in mind, passing audits for:

• Valid HTML.
• Properly sized images.
• Deferred offscreen images.
• Minified CSS and JavaScript.
• Removal of unused CSS.
• Avoidance of large network payloads and excessive DOM size.
• Efficient JavaScript execution.
• Ensuring all text remains visible during webfont loads.

🔧 Compatibility

Auden is compatible with Ghost 5.x, ensuring seamless integration with the latest features.

📦 Theme Setup

Setting up Auden is straightforward:

1. Install the Theme:
   • Log in to your Ghost admin panel.
   • Navigate to Settings > Design.
   • Click "Change theme," then "Upload theme," and select the auden.zip file.
   • After uploading, click "Activate" under Installed themes.
2. Routes Setup:
   • Upload the routes.yaml file located inside the auden.zip to ensure proper functionality.
3. Custom Settings:
   • Access custom design settings via Settings > Design & Branding in the Ghost Admin panel.
4. Fonts:
   • Auden integrates Google Fonts like Poppins, Open Sans, and Playfair Display.
   • To change fonts, modify the default.hbs file and update the settings.css file accordingly.
5. Post Templates:
   • Auden offers three post templates: default (with sidebar), without sidebar, and with a table of contents.
   • Select the desired template under Post Settings in the Ghost Admin panel.
6. Custom Pages:
   • Create pages like Contact, Tags, Authors, Membership, and Archive by setting the appropriate Page URL and publishing them.
7. Sidebar Banner:
   • Add a sidebar banner image and link through Settings > Design > Homepage in the Ghost Admin panel.
8. Translations:
   • Auden supports multiple languages.
   • Set the desired language in Settings > General Settings > Publication language.
9. Social Links:
   • Add social links like Facebook, Twitter, and RSS in the footer by editing the partials/social-links.hbs file.
10. Comments:
    • Enable Ghost's native comment feature via Settings > Membership > Access > Commenting.
11. Icons:
    • Auden uses Tabler Icons.
    • Add new icons by editing the icon-sprite.svg file in the /assets/icons/ directory.
12. Theme Development:
    • For advanced customization, use Gulp tasks for compiling JavaScript and PostCSS.
    • Ensure Node.js and npm are installed.
    • Run npm install and gulp in the theme directory to compile assets and watch for changes.

For detailed instructions, refer to the Auden documentation.