Goblin

👋 Overview

Meet Goblin, a versatile Ghost CMS theme crafted by the creative minds at Visioun. Designed to seamlessly blend newsletters, blogs, and magazines, Goblin offers a hybrid solution for content creators aiming to engage their audience effectively.

✨ Features

• Content-Focused Design: Goblin's clean and minimalistic layout ensures your readers stay immersed in your content without unnecessary distractions.
• No-Code Customization: Tailor your site effortlessly using Ghost's custom settings—no technical expertise required!
• Responsive Layout: Whether on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone, Goblin adapts flawlessly to any screen size, ensuring a consistent user experience.
• Membership Integration: Fully compatible with Ghost's membership features, Goblin includes custom sign-in and sign-up pages, user account management, and a pricing page for paid publications.
• Public Previews: Tease your exclusive content by showcasing snippets to the public, enticing them to subscribe for full access.
• Two-Column Layout: The right sidebar features a subscription form visible only to non-logged-in users, encouraging new sign-ups.
• Author and Tag Archives: Display all your authors and tags on dedicated pages, enhancing site navigation and content discovery.
• Native Comments and Search: Engage your audience with built-in commenting and provide seamless content discovery with native search functionality.
• Additional Perks: Enjoy features like landing page support, translation readiness (English included), featured posts, lightweight design, responsive images, primary and secondary navigation, lazy loading for images, SVG icons, well-structured and commented code, comprehensive documentation, easy customization, tag accent colors, social sharing support, responsive embeds, and developer-friendly architecture.

🎯 Use Cases

Goblin is perfect for:

• Newsletters: Build and manage both free and paid newsletters with ease.
• Blogs and Magazines: Create engaging content platforms that captivate your readers.
• Personal Sites: Showcase your personal brand or portfolio with style and simplicity.

⚙️ Compatibility

Goblin is compatible with Ghost version 5.x.x, ensuring you have access to the latest features and improvements.

🚀 Theme Setup

Setting up Goblin is a breeze:

1. Download and Upload: Grab the theme from your Visioun dashboard and upload the goblin.zip file via your Ghost admin panel.
2. Activate: Once uploaded, activate the theme to start customizing.
3. Logo Configuration: Prepare two versions of your logo (for light and dark modes) and upload them in the site-wide settings.
4. Homepage Hero Section: Customize the hero section's title, description, and avatar image through the homepage settings.
5. Search Functionality: Enable search by creating a Content API key in Ghost's integrations and inputting it into the theme's search API key field.
6. Membership Features: Upload the provided routes.yaml file to set up custom sign-in, sign-up, and account pages. Create a new page with the "Membership" template to showcase your subscription plans.
7. Author and Tag Archives: Create new pages using the "Authors" and "Tags" templates to display comprehensive lists of your site's authors and tags.

For detailed instructions, refer to the Goblin Setup Guide.

Embrace the power of Goblin to transform your Ghost publication into a dynamic and engaging platform that resonates with your audience.