Candidus

An approachable and minimalistic blogging theme for Ghost

Documentation

About the Project

Candidus is the result of careful planning and dedicated work. It's a versatile Ghost theme with a minimalistic and approachable design, but a lot of power under the hood.

A few of its features include:

• Bookmarks
• Dark-theme
• Reading indicators
• Customizable texts
• A direct link to ChatGPT

and many more.

Built With

• Handlebars
• SCSS
• Typescript / Javascript
• feat. Ghost CMS

Get started

Link to latest release

Link to documentation

Quickstart

1. Upload the candidus.zip to your blogging site under https://your-domain.com/ghost/#/settings/design/edit
2. Change the accent color to #bdc5d4 or
3. Check our documentation and start customizing Candidus to your liking

Development

To develop Candidus locally, you need to install Docker

1. Fork and clone this repository
2. Run cd /content/themes/candidus && npm install && cd ../../../
3. Run docker compose up

Docker will start a Webpack development server in watch-mode and a Ghost instance. You can then start developing on the theme by opening http://localhost:2368 in your browser.

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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