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Elvara Theme Guide
A quick overview to help you install, customize, and manage the Elvara Ghost theme.
Upload elvara.zip from Ghost Admin under Design & branding, then activate it.
Customize your logo, site title, accent color, cover image, social links, and optional website name.
Add important links like Home, Contact, Documentation, Membership, Topics, Authors, and All posts.
Use a featured-post carousel, or turn featured posts off to show the custom hero image, title, description, and signup button.
Mark posts as Featured to show them in the homepage carousel and featured card grid.
Use Design & branding to show 3, 5, 7, or 10 featured posts in the homepage hero carousel.
Choose whether 2, 3, 4, or 5 featured cards appear below the hero area.
Choose how many latest posts appear on the homepage: 6, 9, 12, 16, or 24.
Use Image or color, Images only, or Colors only to control how homepage and archive cards display.
Each post includes a large article header, feature image, tag labels, author, date, reading time, content, and related posts.
Enable Ghost Members, create free or paid tiers, then use the Membership template for your plans and signup content.
Create pages for All Posts, Membership, Topics, Authors, Contact, and Documentation, then assign their matching custom templates.
Create a page with the slug all-posts, then assign the All Posts template to show the full post archive.
Create a page with the slug topics, then assign the Topics template to show your tag archive cards.
Create a page with the slug authors, then assign the Authors template to list publication authors.
Create a page with the slug contact, then assign the Contact template and set your contact email in Design & branding.
Use the theme_tone setting to choose Custom, Sage Editorial, Warm Sand, Soft Blue, Dark, or White.
When theme_tone is set to Custom, use the color pickers for background, body text, accent buttons, badges, topic cards, author cards, and fallback post cards.
Use the site_width setting to choose Comfortable, Wide, or Full page spacing.
On mobile screens, the navigation automatically turns into a burger menu.
Use 1600px wide post images, landscape hero images, square author images, topic images, and transparent logos.
Upload the new ZIP from Design & branding. Your posts, pages, members, navigation, and Ghost settings stay saved.