Summary: This article outlines how Ghost Theme items need to be prepared and the technical requirements expected for this item type. Ghost is a completely customizable and open source platform solely dedicated to blogging, allowing users to easily write and publish their own blogs.
Please note: There are three parts to preparing your item to sell on Envato. This process includes the item preparation and technical requirements for certain items (as shown below). Make sure to also review our overall Quality Requirements and Technical Requirements as well as Legal Requirements to cover all the bases and get through review!
Technical Requirements
Following are the upload requirements for Ghost Themes category submissions:
- Submissions must include a single Ghost Theme, consisting of a series of .hbs handlebars files along with all of the necessary stylesheets, scripts, images, fonts, and other assets required by the theme.
- Submissions may also optionally include Layered PSD files to allow users to customize the theme images.
- The item must include documentation.
- Item previews must include rendered screenshots of all template layouts.
- You must provide a URL to a live preview demonstrating your theme’s functionality on your own server.
- The item description must list and link to any non-standard or third-party fonts/scripts/assets used in your theme. If you include the third-party fonts/scripts/assets in your theme .ZIP package, ensure you have the legal rights to do so.
- Please include a message to the reviewer in the upload comment box specifying if your Ghost Theme is based off one of your existing ThemeForest items (e.g. a Wordpress Theme or Site Template) including a link to the existing item.
- Ghost themes must be written in the handlebars templating language.
- Themes must include a default.hbs, index.hbs, and post.hbs handlebars files.
- Classes and IDs must be properly scoped to avoid clashes (e.g. “#themename-my-id”).
- New submissions and theme updates must be compatible with the latest public minor release of Ghost.
- Theme internal folder structure should follow this general format:
- default.hbs
- index.hbs
- post.hbs
- /partials
- /assets
- /css
- style.css
- post.css
- /fonts
- /images
- /js
- /theme-name
- The main theme folder must be the name of your theme.
- Theme names must be lowercase, and contain letters, numbers and hyphens only (e.g. “my-ghost-theme”).
Documentation Requirements
Following are the documentation requirements for Ghost Themes category submissions:
- You must provide sufficient documentation to help customers with installation, setup, and customization.
- The full installation process of the theme must be documented.
- Sample content and any advanced styling/layout instructions must be included in the documentation.
- Any non-standard or third-party fonts/scripts/assets used in your theme must be listed, linked to, and appropriately credited in the documentation.
- Theme version notes must be documented, including:
- Version number
- Date of release
- List of all updates and fixes included in the release
- Past version history
Refer the ThemeForest General File Preparation Guidelines for instructions on how to format your document.