Gro

Big Bold Content focus Ghost Blog and Magazine theme

Spooky Themes Review

Clean look. Flows well. Columns are a bit narrower compared to similar themes.

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Author Theme Description

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Compatible with Ghost version 4.0 and up

Gro is a clean reader friendly, content focus theme for ghost blogging platform. This theme is 100% responsive which means it will fit in various device of different size. Using Gro theme you can transform your regular ghost blog into a eye soothing web appearance. It is not only beautiful but also nice user experience for your audience. This theme is multi-user ready so you can setup a multi-user blog or journal with no extra effort. Storymag is suitable for any kind of personal or travel, hobby, tutorial blog. You can also use this theme for online journal, magazine or company blog.

Installing and customizing this theme is very easy. All required information are provided in documentation.

IMPORTANT

This is not a HTML template or WordPress theme. This is a ghost theme. It works with Ghost. We follow Envato Market Refund Rules. So no refund request will be accepted for mistaken purchase.

If you need WordPress theme then check our WordPress theme collection

Why this notice is here? It is because many people do not pay attention and purchase Ghost theme without knowing about Ghost. Later they realize and asks for refund.

Features

  • Ready for latest version of Ghost 4.0 and above.
  • Fully support new membership and subscription feature.
  • Clean and clutter free modern design.
  • Masonry style layout
  • Minimal and reader friendly. No unnecessary element used.
  • 100% responsive.
  • Fast page loading, takes less than a second. See Pingdom page speed result. and Google page speed result.
  • Translation Ready theme. Translate into any language.
  • Supports image logo. In live demo no image used to show how it looks by default using site title text.
  • Supports the new Koenig editor’s all feature
  • Previous and next post link in single post view.
  • Supports inbuilt navigation system.
  • Blog description under the logo.
  • Tag image and tag description.
  • Author cover image, avater, bio and social links.
  • Author archive and tag archive custom page template.
  • Multi author support.
  • Search functionality.
  • Responsive youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, mixcloud, codepen, twitter embed.
  • Beautiful Code Highlight.
  • Static pages.
  • Author page. Shows all post by selected author.
  • Tag page. Shows all post which has selected tag.
  • Custom error page.
  • Cross-Browser Compatibility Chrome, FireFox, Safari, IE9, IE10, IE11, EDGE
  • Comment with disqus
  • Post sharing on social media.
  • Supports Ghost’s inbuilt subscribers feature.
  • Google font.
  • SVG icons.
  • Well commented and well structured coding
  • SCSS (CSS) file included, Easily achieve any color (has detailed documentation).
  • Valid HTML5 coding.

Members

  • Members only post example
  • Paid members only post example

To test the paid subscription do not use actual card details. Use the live demo site using any of the stripe’s test card numbers and details. Here you can find the test card list.

Attributions & Credits

All Images in the live demo are form unsplash.com

Images Used only for preview purpose. Images are not included in main download.

Support

For any help regarding this theme, please feel free to contact me through my profile page and I will be glad to offer support.

If you like this theme then please don’t forget to rate it at your download page.  :)

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Change log

V 3.0.0 - 31st March, 2021
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[ * ] - Updated all development dependency in the package.
[ * ] - Updated Ghost engines and API to v4
[ * ] - Replaced deprecated @site.lang with new @site.locale
[ - ] - Removed hard coded $ symbol and replaced with new price helper to show currency symbol.
[ - ] - Removed @lab.members condition checking members are always enabled in Ghost 4.0.
[ * ] - Updated single post view for properly showing the content preview above the subscription CTA.
Removed visibility="all" attribute in foreach loop.
[ * ] - Updated account page, it now shows full account details.
[ * ] - Updated translation file en.json.
[ + ] - Added secondary navigation support in footer.
[ + ] - Added loading spinner in pricing table button.
[ * ] - Fixed image being stretched in post content.
V 2.0.0 - 18th November, 2019
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[ * ] - Replaced deprecated {{code}} helper with {{statusCode}} helper.
[ + ] - Added CSS for bookmark card.
[ * ] - Updated API uses to v3.
[ * ] - Updated search functionality to use API v3.
[ + ] - Added new Membership feature.
[ * ] - Modified Subscription widget to use new members feature.
[ + ] - Added new custom pages Account, subscribe, Sign in pages.
[ + ] - Custom Call to action for membership and paid membership in single post.
[ + ] - Added extra translation.
[ + ] - Removed Google+ from social widget and sahre links.
[ + ] - Updated Gulpfile.js
V 1.5.0 - 24th May, 2019
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[ * ] - Replaced deprecated {{lang}} and {{url}} helper with new {{@site.lang}} and {{@site.url}} helper.
[ * ] - Cleaned javascript commented code
V 1.4.0 - 1st February, 2019
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[ * ] - Theme now supports and uses Ghost content API version 2
[ * ] - Replaced GhostHunter with Fuse and rewrite Search function. Now We need to set an API key ( please see the "API key for search function" in the documentation ).
[ * ] - Removed deprecated @blog helpers and added @site helpers in place of those.
[ * ] - Fixed issue, custom author archive was not showing authors list after updating API. Removed users endpoint from old API and using new authors endpoint from new API
V 1.3.0 - 3rd September, 2018
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[ + ] - Added CSS and Js to support Gallery card.
[ * ] - Improved images card CSS.
V 1.2.0 - 22nd August, 2018
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[ * ] - Upgraded the theme to use with Ghost 2.0.0 and above. For older ghost version please use older version of the theme.
[ * ] - Removed cover-author.hbs file from partials folder. Added code of those file to author.hbs file.
[ * ] - Changed author helper in author.hbs to make it compatible with Ghost 2.0.0
[ + ] - Added keyword "ghost-theme" in package.json file.
[ * ] - Refactored theme's css. Now the screen.css is in a different file. This is done because ghost 2.0 need to detect .kg-width-wide and .kg-width-full clss class.
[ * ] - Made some changes in gulpfile.js. It was needed for css file refactoring.
[ * ] - Removed some dev dependency which is no longer required.
V 1.1.0 - 8th July, 2018
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[ * ] - Updated the CSS class for Koenig Editor's Image Cards.
V 1.1.0 - 8th July, 2018
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[ * ] - Initial release

Rating

Number of Sales

32

Last Updated

March 31, 2021

Published

July 20, 2018

Author

GBJsolution

Tags

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  • blog
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  • magazine
  • minimal
  • mobile
  • modern
  • personal
  • responsive
  • simple
  • typography