Full text search
Disqus comments
Highlight.js integration
Google analytics
Top pinned navigation bar and off-canvas menu
Minified css and js
Casperion is a free Ghost theme powered by SASS. The theme is based upon original Ghost theme Casper with some minor modifications and extensions.
Casperion is a lightweight and speed optimized theme for Ghost. Casperion theme gets Grade A for both PageSpeed and YSlow reported by GTmetrix.
Casperion theme is packaged with full powerful features so you can get started building your blog easily. It's planned to update this theme consistently depending on Casper theme changes.
Casperion supports latest Ghost version.
The top navigation menu bar contains the off-canvas menu button, social media icons and the search button.
Casperion uses additional meta tags for google webmaster tools and twitter.
GhostHunter provides Casperion full text searching right in the blog without having to resort to any third-party solutions, by utilizing the rss feed.
Google Fonts offers hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web. Just one quick step on changing Casperion configuration file and you are ready to have Google Font presented on your blog.
Casperion uses the asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code, the fastest and most reliable tracking code Google Analytics offers.
A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds, to achieve fluid width videos in your responsive blog. FitVids.JS support YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Viddler, Kickstarter, and even your own video vendor.
Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting your blog and your commenters across a thriving discussion community. The Disqus widget for Casperion seamlessly integrates with your blog post using the Disqus API and is only loaded if the user want it.
Highlight.js highlights syntax in code examples on Casperion blog. It's very easy to use because it works automatically: finds blocks of code, detects a language, highlights it. Highlight.js is only loaded if a code block was detected in blog post.
Gulp is an intuitive, code-over-configuration, streaming build system. We use Gulp to build Casperion theme package and all its related files.
Don't make any changes in assets
folder. Only use src
folder and use gulp watch
to automatically update assets on changes.
Please have a look at the following files to configure this theme to your needs.
default.hbs
navigation.hbs
- files under
partials/all
The original Casper theme CSS has split in several SASS files.
◻️ Use more configuration variables
◻️ Use more SASS variables
◻️ Optimize own added CSS
◻️ Optimize own added JS
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