Elvara

Elvara is a modern, customizable Ghost theme for editorial blogs, magazines, creators, newsletters, and membership-based publications. It includes a featured post carousel, custom editorial intro hero with image or fallback moodboard, flexible featured sections, responsive post grids, custom archive pages, newsletter signup, custom auth modals, post reactions, share and comments modals, color tone presets, DNS-based tone switching, membership support, and full Ghost Design & branding controls.

General Features

• Ready for Ghost 6.x
• Distinct editorial design
• Lightweight theme structure
• Fully responsive layout
• Mobile burger navigation
• Fixed frosted navigation on scroll
• Modern browser support
• Ghost GScan compatible
• SEO-friendly Ghost template structure
• Search button support
• Responsive images
• Featured post hero carousel
• Editorial intro hero with custom image
• Editorial fallback moodboard image when no hero image is set
• Configurable featured posts section
• Flexible homepage post grid
• Newsletter signup section
• Custom color tone system
• DNS-based tone switching support
• Dockerfile included
• GitLab CI/CD configuration included

Ghost Built-In Features Supported

• Posts
• Pages
• Tags
• Authors
• Primary tag in post cards
• Multiple authors
• Featured posts
• Reading time
• Post feature images
• Page feature images
• Tag archive pages
• Author archive pages
• Primary navigation
• Secondary navigation
• Publication title
• Publication logo
• Accent color
• Ghost Portal account links
• Ghost Members
• Ghost comments
• Koenig editor content
• Normal, wide, and full-width editor cards
• Ghost card assets support

Members & Subscriptions

• Ghost Members support
• Custom sign-in modal
• Custom sign-up modal
• Footer sign-in and sign-up modal triggers
• Homepage signup modal trigger
• Account link for signed-in members
• Custom membership page
• Member-only content CTA
• Member-ready navigation

Custom Pages

• Custom All Posts page
• Custom Membership page
• Custom Contact page
• Custom Topics page
• Custom Authors page
• Custom Recommendations page
• Custom Documentation page
• Default page template
• Tag archive template
• Author archive template
• Post template

Homepage Features

• Featured hero carousel
• Manual carousel controls
• Configurable hero featured post count
• Editorial intro hero layout
• Custom hero image support
• Fallback editorial moodboard hero image
• Hero title and description settings
• Signup modal CTA
• Configurable featured card count: 2, 3, 4, or 5
• Equal-size featured cards
• Creative featured card border radius
• Four topic pills section
• Configurable home post count
• Image post cards
• Color fallback post cards
• Card style options
• Newsletter signup form

Post Features

• Large editorial post header
• Feature image support
• Color fallback when no feature image exists
• Tag badge
• Post title
• Author list
• Publish date
• Reading time
• Wide and full-width content support
• Author and tag footer
• Related posts section
• Like and dislike reaction buttons
• Exclusive reaction state with second-click reset
• Share modal with copy link, X, LinkedIn, Email, and native share
• Comments modal with member gate

Design & Branding Options

• Site width control
• Custom display site name
• Website background color picker
• Body text color picker
• Button background color picker
• Post badge background color picker
• Shared card background color picker
• Hero style selector: Carousel or Editorial
• Hero image setting
• Hero title setting
• Hero description setting
• Featured section toggle
• Featured posts count setting
• Hero carousel post count setting
• Homepage post count setting
• Post card style setting
• Footer note setting
• Contact email setting

Theme Tone Presets

• Custom
• Sage Editorial
• Warm Sand
• Soft Blue
• Frost Editorial
• Soft Chrome
• Powder Journal
• Blush Ice
• Arctic Rose
• Dark
• White

DNS-Based Tone Switching

Supported tone domains:

• blog-elvara-sage.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-sand.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-blue.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-frost.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-chrome.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-powder.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-blush.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-arctic.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-dark.ghostheme.com
• blog-elvara-white.ghostheme.com