kaschber

Kaschber

Kaschber is a Jekyll port for Ghost's default theme Casper https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper. It's unopinionated and tries to stick as closely as possible to the Casper stylings and layout. It only comes with three pre-defined plugins: jekyll-feed, jekyll-paginate-v2 and jekyll-seo.

The overall goal is to be a simple default theme like minima, looking closely to Casper and trying to be as lean and flexible as possible.

For a demo of Ghost see https://demo.ghost.io/.

Features

• (Auto) dark mode
• Full author pages & information via Jekyll collections
• Auto generated tag pages plus custimisation via Jekyll collections
• Pagination via jekyll-paginate-v2
• Atom Feeds by Jekyll-feed

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "kaschber"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Change the theme in your config file to Kaschber

theme: kaschber

Then change your index.html or index.md to look like this

---
layout: home
current: home
class: 'home-template'
---

If you have a custom index.html, you will have to copy the index.html from the Git repository and add your changes manually.

Customisation

You can specifiy these customisation options in your _config.yml for site-wide options

Config	Default	Options
title_font	System default	Elegant serif
body_font	System default	Modern sans-serif
header_style	Center aligned	Center aligned, Left, aligned, Hidden
show_logo_in_navigation	false	True, False
feed_layout	Classic	Classic, Grid, List
color_scheme	Auto	Light, Dark, Auto
post_image_style	Wide	Wide, Full, Small, Hidden
navigation_layout	Logo on cover	Logo on cover, Logo in the middle, stacked

You can specifiy these additional customisation options per post or in the default section for posts _config.yml

Config	Default	Options
show_recent_posts_footer	True	True, False
post_image_style	Wide	Wide, Full, Small, Hidden
custom_excerpt	""

Kaschber also features several points to inject your custom code into the template. You can create

• _includes/custom-head.html to include custom css or any other tags which get rendered in the head section
• _includes/custom-js.html to include any additional Javascript at the bottom of your page
• _includes/custom-post-content.html to include any custom post-specific content which gets inserted in every post. E.g. a table of content tag

Navigation

Per default, Kaschber will include all files in your root folder in the header navigation bar. You can customise this with the setting header_pages in your _config.yml. E.g.

header_pages:
  - my_page.md
  - about.md

Colours

You can overwrite any colours and styles by just adding css files and include them in your custom-head.html. To overwrite the default accent colour #ff0095, do the following

1. Create a file in your assets folder with the following content

:root {
  --ghost-accent-color: #6D7C86;
}

1. Create custom-head.html in your _includes folder
2. Include the new css file in your custom-head.html

Authors

To include author information, just create a folder called _authors and create your author information via markdown or html files. E.g.

---
username: Ghost
name: Casper Ghost
website: https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/
bio: The professional publishing platform
picture: assets/images/ghost.png
facebook_url: ghost
twitter_url: tryghost
cover: False
---

Then include the following Jekyll config in your _config.yml

collections:
  authors:
    output: true

defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "authors"
    values:
      layout: author
      current: author
      cover: false
      class: 'author-template'
      label: Author

Tags

To create tags specifically, create a folder _tags and insert your tags there as markdown or html file. E.g.

name: speeches
description: Some of the greatest words ever spoken.
cover: assets/images/speeches.jpg

Then include the following Jekyll config in your _config.yml

collections:
  tags:
    output: true

defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "tags"
    values:
      layout: tag
      current: tag
      cover: false
      class: 'tag-template'
      label: Tag

Contribute

If you would like to contribute, please keep the files as closely as possible to the original Ghost handlebar files. This will make maintenance easier. This is also the reason why the files haven't been really broken down into smaller parts.

Build

To build the files locally, you have to have npm and gulp installed.

$ gulp build

To test your changes locally execute

$ gem build
$ gem install kaschber-<current-version-in-gemspec>

Acknowledgements

This theme was heavily inspired by Jasper2.