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Author Brady, Kezz, author

Title Getting started with Ghost : reach out to the world and publish great content with the power of Ghost / Kezz Bracey, David Balderston, Andy Boutte
Published Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Community experience distilled
Community experience distilled.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The First Steps with Ghost; Automated installation of Ghost; A background on Ghost's hosting; Using Ghost's hosting solution; Creating a blog on Ghost(Pro); Creating your user account; Configure settings; General settings; User settings; Content management; The content management area; Creating and deleting posts; Converting a post to a page; Modifying the permalink or publishing date; Featured posts; Editing existing posts; The post editing area and inline preview
Setting the titleSaving a draft; Adding tags; The word count display; Publishing and unpublishing posts; Converting a post to page, plus permalink and date modification from the post editor; Markdown, image upload, and inline HTML; Image upload; Inline HTML; Hosting Ghost on other providers; DigitalOcean; Amazon EC2; Summary; Chapter 2: Manual Installation and Configuration of Ghost; Manually installing Ghost on your local computer; Command-line interface and SSH access; Identifying your VPS operating system; Installing Ghost on Ubuntu (VPS and local); Configuring Ghost on Ubuntu for VPS
Installing Ghost on CentOS (VPS and local)Configuring Ghost on CentOS for VPS; Installing Ghost on Mac OS X (local); Configuring Ghost on OS X; Installing Ghost on Windows (local); Configuring Ghost on Windows; Additional configuration for VPS usage; Pointing a custom domain at Ghost (VPS); Hosting multiple Ghost blogs on the same VPS; Nginx; Keeping Ghost running (VPS); The forever process manager; Adding SSL for security; Upgrading Ghost; Troubleshooting; listen EADDRINUSE IN USE; listen EADDRNOTAVAIL; Command not found; Places to find help; Summary
Chapter 3: Preparing for Theme DevelopmentHandlebars' logic-less templating; Double and triple curly braces; Handlebars' paths; The each and foreach block helpers; The if helper; The unless and else helpers; Template tag parameters; Comments; Creating CSS via the Stylus preprocessor; Variables; Stylus syntax; Mixins; Setting up your environment; Sublime Text 2 and Package Control; Installing Stylus and highlighting Handlebars syntax; Creating your project environment; Installing Grunt; Creating a project folder; Installing the project compiler; Set project options; Run the watch task
Minifying JavaScriptSummary; Chapter 4: Beginning Ghost Theme Development; An overview of the currently available design options; The themeable areas of a Ghost blog; The primary theme design building blocks; Extra design tools; The current exclusions in Ghost; Quick start theme quiz; Default; Index and tag archive; Tag archive; Post and page; Post; Creating your theme shell; The setup file and folder structure; Running the first CSS and JS compile into theme; Adding basic code to template files and package.json; package.json; default.hbs; Extra notes; index.hbs; post.hbs; tag.hbs; page.hbs
Summary If you are new to Ghost, this book is ideal for you. You might be completely new to content management systems or you might have experience with others such as WordPress. Some knowledge of web design basics such as HTML and CSS will be useful, but the book is designed so you can enter at the point relevant to you
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed December 18, 2014)
Subject Blogs -- Computer programs
Blogs -- Design
Blogs -- Development
Electronic publishing.
electronic publishing.
COMPUTERS -- General.
Electronic publishing
Form Electronic book
Author Balderston, David, author.
Boutte, Andy, author
ISBN 9781783985197
1783985194
1783985186
9781783985180
Other Titles Reach out to the world and publish great content with the power of Ghost