Shoji

Magazine Ghost Blog Theme

Spooky Themes Review

Comes with both a light and a dark theme. Nice masonry layout on home page. Great typography. Post layout accommodates wide images.

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Author Theme Description

THIS IS NOT A WORDPRESS THEME. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT PROVIDE REFUNDS FOR MISTAKEN PURCHASES.

Hi, I’m fueko. I create Ghost themes that are easy-to-use, without compromising the design and code quality. You can find more from me at fueko.net and on Twitter at @fuekothemes.

Meet the Shoji

Shoji

is a magazine Ghost theme with a clean, modern design suitable for everyone who wants to share their stories about design, fashion news or the hottest products.

General features

  • Light and Dark version
  • Ready for Ghost 5.x
  • Compatible with Ghost 4.22.0 or later versions
  • Clean design
  • Lightweight and minimal
  • Super fast
  • Fully responsive
  • Compatible with modern browsers
  • Updated regularly
  • Fast support

Supports inbuilt Ghost features

  • Translation ready English included
  • Membership tiers
  • Accent color
  • Publication title and description
  • Publication logo and cover
  • Post, page, tag and author page
  • Author cover, avatar, bio, location, website and social accounts
  • Tag cover and description
  • Primary tag in post-cards
  • Multiple authors
  • Koenig editor
  • Markdown card
  • Bookmark card
  • Gallery card
  • Image card with normal, wide and full width
  • Secondary navigation
  • Featured post and page
  • Reading time
  • Next and previous post navigation
  • Custom excerpt
  • Social accounts

Members & subscriptions

  • Custom membership page
  • Custom account page for member
  • Custom account page for paid-member
  • Custom sign-in page
  • Custom sign-up page
  • Custom subscribe page
  • Custom Call-to-Action in post for member
  • Custom Call-to-Action in post for paid-member
  • Pricing tables in custom account and membership page
  • Sign-in, sign-up, subscribe and checkout custom notifications
  • Custom Call-to-Action
  • Account details
  • Cancel & continue subscription button
  • Members and Paid-members labels in post-cards
  • Option to edit billing info
  • Custom currencies
  • Public preview for members posts
Payment testing

Genuine card information cannot be used in test mode. Instead, use any of the following test card numbers.

Additional theme features

  • Dark version
  • Half and full width image in post view
  • Pinned section for 4 posts and 2 pages
  • Custom tags page
  • Custom authors page
  • Custom contact page with Formspree
  • Custom error page
  • Related posts
  • Special section for posts based on tag
  • Reading progress indicator in post view
  • Four columns in the footer
  • Image zoom in post and page view
  • Dropdown navigation for many items
  • Search function
  • Share post on Facebook and Twitter
  • Copy link function for share section in post view
  • Comments with Disqus
  • Responsive video
  • Responsive tables
  • Automatic dark version depending on the system settings
  • Additional social links
  • Scroll to top button

Theme tested on without Members feature – Ghost adds scripts that affect the result

  • PageSpeed Insights – 97 points for desktop
  • Pingdom – 92 points, performance grade „A”
  • Ghost GScan – 100/100 points
  • W3C Markup Validation Service – correct validation

Credits

All photos used in the theme demo are from Unsplash

Supported Ghost versions

5.2.x, 5.1.x, 5.0.x, 4.48.x, 4.47.x, 4.46.x, 4.45.0, 4.44.0, 4.43.x, 4.42.x, 4.41.x, 4.40.x, 4.39.x, 4.38.0, 4.37.0, 4.36.x, 4.35.0, 4.34.x, 4.33.x, 4.32.x, 4.31.0, 4.30.x, 4.29.0, 4.28.0, 4.27.x, 4.26.x, 4.25.x, 4.24.0, 4.23.0, 4.22.x

Changelog

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  Version 3.0.0  May 24th 2022
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∙ Added: Support for Ghost 5.0
∙ Removed: Deprecated {{monthly_price.value}} and {{yearly_price.value}} helper
∙ Removed: Deprecated {{name}} value for {{benefits}} helper
∙ Removed: API versioning from search function
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

- Changed files:
    assets/css/screen.css
    locales/en.json
    partials/members/cta.hbs
    partials/members/tiers.hbs
    partials/header.hbs
    partials/search.hbs
    package.json

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  Version 2.2.1  May 13th 2022
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∙ Removed: Deprecated {{@price}} helper
∙ Updated: English translation

- Changed files:
    locales/en.json
    partials/members/tiers.hbs
    package.json

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  Version 2.2.0  Apr 27th 2022
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∙ Added: Support for 'Tiers'
∙ Added: 'Standard load more button' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Added: Ability to change plan on the account page via Portal
∙ Improved: The message of the notification has been changed for logged in members after Stripe checkout
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Removed: Deprecated 'ghost-api' property
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

- Added file:
    partials/members/tiers.hbs

- Changed files:
    assets/css/screen.css
    locales/en.json
    partials/members/cta.hbs
    partials/members/notifications.hbs
    partials/members/visibility_label.hbs
    partials/pagination.hbs
    partials/pinned.hbs
    partials/post_related.hbs
    partials/sections.hbs
    custom-membership.hbs
    custom-account.hbs
    default.hbs
    package.json

- Removed files:
    partials/members/plan_free.hbs
    partials/members/plan_monthly.hbs
    partials/members/plan_yearly.hbs

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  Version 2.1.4  Jan 15th 2022
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∙ Added: Ability to add caption/alt text for the cover image associated with the post/page
∙ Added: 'Wide' and 'full' option for 'Video' card
∙ Improved: Visual fixes for new cards
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

- Changed files:
    assets/css/screen.css
    assets/js/post.js
    partials/images/post_feature_img.hbs
    page.hbs
    post.hbs
    package.json

Changelog Archive

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  Version 2.1.3  Dec 14th 2021
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∙ Added: Initial support for 'Product' and 'Audio' card
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 2.1.2  Dec 13th 2021
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∙ Fixed: Inactive 'hover' selector for links within a post

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  Version 2.1.1  Dec 12th 2021
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∙ Added: Initial support for 'Button', 'Callout', 'Toggle' and 'NFT' card
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 2.1.0  Nov 19th 2021
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∙ Added: 'Color scheme' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Added: 'Navigation on the right side' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Added: 'Search API key' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Added: 'Contact form endpoint' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Added: 'Footer copyright' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Added: 'Disqus shortname' option to custom settings in the Ghost Admin
∙ Improved: merged custom-contact-formspree.hbs and custom-contact-getform.hbs to custom-contact.hbs file
∙ Deprecated: '#dark-version', '#auto-dark-version' and '#nav-right' options is no longer supported
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Removed: formspree.hbs, getform.hbs and search_api_key.hbs files
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 2.0.1  Oct 6th 2021
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∙ Improved: Google fonts optimization
∙ Updated: lightense-images.js to v1.0.17
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 2.0.0  Mar 16th 2021
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∙ Added: Support for Ghost 4.0
∙ Added: Support for 'Public preview' for members posts
∙ Added: Support for 'Accent color'
∙ Added: Support for new {{price plan}} helper
∙ Added: Support for native lazy loading behaviour to images
∙ Added: Support for 'preconnect' attribute for Google Fonts
∙ Added: default-custom.hbs template in root folder
∙ Improved: The search function now sorts posts by date
∙ Improved: The search function now includes 'html' field instead 'plaintext'
∙ Updated: {{@site.locale}} helper replaces deprecated {{@site.lang}} helper
∙ Updated: clipboard.js to v2.0.8
∙ Removed: Deprecated {{@labs.members}} helper and visibility="all" parameter
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.3.3  Jan 6th 2021
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∙ Added: YouTube Music icon
∙ Improved: The free plan is hidden on membership page if member is logged in
∙ Improved: The search function now includes 'custom_excerpt' field
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.3.2  Nov 27th 2020
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∙ Added: Google Play and BandCamp icons
∙ Updated: Instructions for adding a Formspree contact form

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  Version 1.3.1  Nov 20th 2020
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∙ Restored: Custom notifications
∙ Updated: English translation

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  Version 1.3.0  Nov 5th 2020
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∙ New: Custom contact page with Getform
∙ Added: Support for 'Name' field in 'Subscribe' and 'Sign-up' page
∙ Improved: Center aligned Facebook, Twitter and Instagram embeds
∙ Updated: Font 'Muli' renamed to 'Mulish'
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Removed: Custom notifications
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.2.3  Jul 15th 2020
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∙ Added: Notification if the magic link has expired

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  Version 1.2.2  Jul 4th 2020
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∙ Fixed: Issue with access to posts when members function is disabled
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.2.1  Jun 22th 2020
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∙ Fixed: The height of the images in the post content

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  Version 1.2.0  Jun 8th 2020
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∙ Added: 'Back to top' button
∙ Added: Line.me icon
∙ Updated: Google fonts to API v2
∙ Removed: Outdated prefixes from screen.css
∙ Removed: foreach.js script from global.js
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.1.2  Apr 15th 2020
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∙ Added: Buy me a coffee, Etsy, Notion, Riot, TikTok, Quip icons
∙ Updated: Kickstarter, Gitlab, Facebook, Reddit icons
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.1.1  Mar 20th 2020
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∙ Improved: {{get}} helpers optimization
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Removed: Ability to activate links with internal tags [#authors-link, #tags-link]

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  Version 1.1.0  Mar 10th 2020
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∙ Added: Ability to edit billing info on the member's account page
∙ Added: Custom currency support for member's plans
∙ Updated: English translation
∙ Updated: clipboard.js to v2.0.6
∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.0.1  Mar 5th 2020
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∙ Small bug fixes and performance improvements

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  Version 1.0.0  Mar 3rd 2020
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∙ Released

Rating

Number of Sales

249

Last Updated

June 3, 2022

Published

March 3, 2020

Author

fueko

Tags

  • blog
  • blogging
  • clean
  • dark
  • elegant
  • fashion
  • ghost
  • journal
  • lifestyle
  • magazine
  • masonry
  • minimal
  • mobile
  • modern
  • photo