Astro is a content focused responsive theme for the Ghost blogging platform. Designed from the bottom up to be high performance, user friendly, and accessible on all platforms. Astro adapts to the users device, so it looks great on smartphones, tablets, TVs, and even the latest 4K monitors. Taking advantage of the ghost platform, Astro has two different post styles. The standard style is great for smaller update posts and short articles, while featured posts have full page titles with image backdrops, which works great with large articles, tutorials and other documentation. Supports the latest features added in the latest Ghost 0.4.0 release and includes compatibility support for future versions.
Features
Fully Responsive
Designed for Mobile, Tablets, Notebooks, and Desktop Devices. Astro will dynamically adjust to any devices viewport.
Resize the width of your browser window on the live preview for a demonstration.
High Resolution Support
CSS3 elements & SVG icons scale perfectly on all resolutions, including high resolution devices such mobile phones, retina displays, and 4K monitors.
Customization Options
Enable/disable theme features by editing a simple configuration file.
Featured Posts
Feature posts have a full page title design with customizable image header. Make your articles and guides stand out. (Preview)
Code Syntax Highlighting
Posts containing code are styled and highlighted with the Google Prettify plugin. (Preview)
Social Profiles
Author description includes editable social profile links for major platforms. (Preview)
Disqus Comments
Allows user comments and administration on individual posts via Disqus.
High Performance
Optimized for fast page load times, completely imageless layout, javascript degrading, and CSS3 styling. Google Speed Test score of 94.
Simple Install & Detailed Documentation
Installation takes just a few minutes. Email support is available.
Article Flow Bar
Navigating large articles is made simple with the floating article bar which activates as you scroll down the post. It will update to show the current header section.
Simple Install & Detailed Documentation
Installation takes just a few minutes. Email support is available.
Major Browser Support
Fully tested & confirmed working on all major browsers. IE9+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.
Compatibility Updates
Astro will be updated regularly to ensure it is compatible with future versions of Ghost. This theme has currently been tested in version 0.3.3, and the latest 0.4.0 build.
Changelog
v1.2 - 27/01/2014 + Added Reading Time Indicator + Updated Documentation + Updated Google Analytics Code v1.1 - 23/01/2014 + Added Google Comments + Updated Documentation - Fixed Disqus iFrame Bug v1.0 - 22/01/2014 + ReleasedSupport
The documentation included provides all the information needed to get the theme installed and customized. However, if you have any questions you can email support@ecko.me, and we will be happy to help.
If you have any bug reports, or feature requests, please let us know!
Credits
Unsplash – http://unsplash.com/
FontAwesome – http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
FitVid.js – http://fitvidsjs.com/
jQuery Waypoints – http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/
Google Prettify – https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/
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