Novaryn

Novaryn is a modern, customizable Ghost theme for editorial blogs, magazines, creators, newsletters, and membership-based publications. It includes a split featured hero, cover and studio-collage hero styles, responsive post grids, custom archive pages, topic and author sections, creative color tone presets, DNS-based tone switching, membership support, Docker deployment files, GitLab CI/CD configuration, automatic fallback logo initials, and full Ghost Design & branding controls.

General Features

• Ready for Ghost 5.x and later
• Modern editorial sidebar design
• Lightweight Ghost theme structure
• Fully responsive layout
• Mobile burger navigation
• Sticky topbar navigation
• Modern browser support
• Ghost GScan compatible
• SEO-friendly Ghost template structure
• Search button support
• Responsive images
• Split featured post hero
• Cover hero style
• Studio collage hero style
• Configurable homepage post count
• Author carousel section
• Topic sections
• Newsletter section
• Custom color tone system
• DNS-based tone switching support
• Automatic fallback logo initial from site name
• 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
• Publication title
• Publication logo
• Accent color
• Ghost Portal links
• Ghost Members
• Koenig editor content
• Normal, wide, and full-width editor cards
• Ghost card assets support

Members & Subscriptions

• Ghost Members support
• Sign-in link
• Sign-up link
• Account link for signed-in members
• Custom membership page
• Portal signup links
• Portal signin links
• Portal account management link
• Member-ready navigation

Custom Pages

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

Homepage Features

• Split featured hero layout
• Large featured post card
• Secondary featured post stack
• Cover hero visual style
• Studio collage hero visual style
• Configurable featured layout toggle
• Responsive latest posts grid
• Configurable home post count: 8, 12, 16, or 24
• Configurable grid layout: 2 columns, mixed rows, or default grid
• Image post cards
• Tag chips
• Author metadata
• Reading time display
• Authors carousel section
• Per-tag post sections
• Newsletter signup section

Post Features

• Editorial post header
• Feature image support
• Tag labels
• Post title
• Author list
• Publish date
• Reading time
• Author box
• Wide and full-width content support
• Responsive article content
• Share links

Design & Branding Options

• Custom display site name
• Publication logo support
• Automatic text-logo initial fallback
• Ghost accent color support
• Theme tone selector
• Website background color picker
• Body text color picker
• Post badge background color picker
• Topics card background color picker
• Authors card background color picker
• Homepage hero style selector
• Homepage featured layout selector
• Homepage post count setting
• Homepage grid layout setting
• Newsletter heading setting
• Newsletter subtitle setting
• Footer note setting
• Contact email setting
• Social profile URL settings

Theme Tone Presets

• Sand & Ink
• Midnight Blue
• Forest Green
• Rose Gold
• Slate Gray
• Warm Amber
• Custom

Archive & Directory Features

• All Posts archive page
• Topics directory page
• Authors directory page
• Contact page with configurable email
• Author archive pages
• Tag archive pages
• Pagination support

Deployment

• Dockerfile included
• Custom Docker entrypoint included
• GitLab CI/CD configuration included
• Docker Hub image build pipeline support
• VPS deployment workflow support
• MySQL production compose configuration generated by CI/CD

Performance & Testing

• Lightweight Handlebars templates
• Minimal JavaScript
• CSS-only responsive layout behavior where possible
• Ghost image size configuration included
• Ghost card assets enabled
• Validated with Ghost GScan
• Modern responsive CSS layout

Compatibility Notes

• Requires Ghost 5.0 or later
• Uses Ghost Portal for members, signup, signin, and account actions
• Uses Ghost Design & branding custom settings
• Works with modern desktop and mobile browsers
• Docker deployment setup included
• GitLab CI/CD deployment setup included