Practical guides to building and growing a Ghost site: themes, hosting, newsletters and moving from other platforms.
Build a complete Ghost theme without touching code: start from a theme, edit text and pictures in place, add sections from a library of 270, set colours and fonts, design every page, and publish to Ghost in one click. Step by step, with screenshots.
Michal Wlosik
· 9 min read
Ghost pages all look the same, unless you give them a custom template. Here's what custom templates are, how to build one visually without editing theme files, and how Ectobuilder publishes the page for you when you deploy.
Michal Wlosik
· 5 min read
Ghost has no table of contents. Here's how to add one that builds itself from your headings, highlights the part you're reading and stays in view as you scroll, with no code. Plus the code route, and tips for headings that make a good list.
Michal Wlosik
· 5 min read
Ghost doesn't let readers enlarge your pictures. A lightbox does: click any picture or gallery and it opens full screen, at its original size, with captions, swipe and arrow keys. Here's how to add one to your Ghost site without code.
Michal Wlosik
· 5 min read
Show a tag as a small icon on the post's picture: a diamond for premium posts, a play button for videos, headphones for podcast episodes. Here's how tag icons work in an Ectobuilder theme, how to set them up step by step, and ideas for using them.
Michal Wlosik
· 6 min read
Ghost themes can be light or dark, but visitors can't choose. Here's how a dark mode switch works, what it takes to build one by hand, and how to add one to your header or footer in Ectobuilder, with a dark palette made from your brand colours.
Michal Wlosik
· 5 min read
