Velora

Velora is a warm, customizable Ghost theme for editorial blogs, magazines, creators, newsletters, and membership-based publications. It includes a background-image hero, featured post carousel, responsive post grids, custom archive pages, topic and author pages, creative color tone presets, DNS-based tone switching, membership support, Docker deployment files, GitLab CI/CD configuration, and full Ghost Design & branding controls.

General Features

• Ready for Ghost 6.x
• Warm editorial design
• Lightweight theme structure
• Fully responsive layout
• Mobile burger navigation
• Modern browser support
• Ghost GScan compatible
• SEO-friendly Ghost template structure
• Search button support
• Responsive images
• Featured post hero carousel
• Configurable featured post count
• Configurable homepage post count
• Popular topics section
• Newsletter 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
• 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
• Custom Docs page
• Default page template
• Tag archive template
• Author archive template
• Post template

Homepage Features

• Background-image hero layout
• Hero title setting
• Optional hero search button
• Featured hero carousel
• Manual carousel controls
• Configurable featured carousel count: 3, 5, 7, or 10
• Featured posts section
• Popular tags section
• Newsletter signup section
• Latest posts layout
• Configurable home post count: 6, 9, 12, or 18
• Responsive post grid
• Image post cards
• Tag chips
• Author metadata

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

Design & Branding Options

• Layout width control: Comfortable or Wide
• Custom display site name
• Website background color picker
• Body text color picker
• Post badge background color picker
• Topics card background color picker
• Authors card background color picker
• Archive header background color picker
• Archive header background image setting
• Hero title setting
• Hero search toggle
• Featured heading setting
• Featured carousel post count setting
• Homepage post count setting
• Newsletter heading setting
• Footer note setting
• Contact email setting

Theme Tone Presets

• Custom
• Pop Citrus
• Mint Ink
• Berry Noir
• Dark
• White

DNS-Based Tone Switching

Supported tone domains:

• blog-citrus.ghostheme.com
• blog-mint.ghostheme.com
• blog-berry.ghostheme.com
• blog-dark.ghostheme.com
• blog-white.ghostheme.com

Archive & Directory Features

• All Posts archive page
• Topics directory page
• Authors directory page
• Contact page with configurable email
• Author archive pages
• Tag archive pages
• Configurable archive header background color
• Configurable archive header background image

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
• Compatible with Ghost 6.x

Compatibility Notes

• Requires Ghost 5.0 or later
• Tested for Ghost 6.x compatibility
• 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