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How To Customize your Ghost Instance

• Ghost is an Open Source application created and
  dedicated to blogging.
• It allows us to write and publish our own blog,
  giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun
  to do.
• It is simple, elegant, and designed so that we
  can spend less time making our blog work and more
  time blogging.
• In this tutorial, we are assuming that we have
  already installed and configured ghost on our
  Ubuntu 12.04 server and we will be focusing on
  using ghost customization like setting up our own
  theme or other settings specific for our instance
  only.
• One of the cool features that ghost offers is
  theme support.
• We can completely change the look and feel of our
  blog simply by choosing different themes.
• There are a lot of themes available for ghost.
• Some of them are free and for some of them, we
  must pay if we want to use them.

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How To Customize your Ghost Instance

• In order to choose our theme, we should visit the
  official Ghost website where themes and lots of
  other stuff can be found.
• We will choose on the free themes, named mtheme.
• If we click on it, we will be redirected to the
  themes GitHub page.
• Before we install the theme, we need to make sure
  that we have git binaries installed on our
  server.
• In order to install it, we should execute the two
  following commands to update our sources and make
  sure that git is installed
• apt-get update apt-get install -y git-core

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How To Customize your Ghost Instance

• Once we are sure that we have git installed, we
  should change to our theme directory and clone
  the project directly from its git repository
• cd /var/www/ghost/content/themes git clone
  https//github.com/readypress/mtheme.git
• The GitHub URL for the project can be found on
  the GitHub home page.
• After it is cloned, we should change the
  ownership of the theme directory and set Ghost as
  owner.
• Once done, we will restart Ghost to make the new
  theme available
• chown R ghostghost mtheme
  /etc/init.d/ghost restart
• After, that, we all we need to do in order to
  change the theme, is to open our website in the
  browser, and access the following URL
• http//yourdomain.com/ghost/settings/general

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How To Customize your Ghost Instance

• If we scroll down, we will find the theme
  section. We should simply choose our newly
  installed theme from the combo box and click
  save. That is all.
• The next time we visit our blog, it will be using
  the new theme.
• We can repeat this procedure to install and apply
  any other theme.
• We can use the same URL that we used to set the
  theme, in order to change some other blog-related
  settings. Once we navigate to
• http//yourdomain.com/ghost/settings/general
• We will be able to set the following settings
• Blog title to set the name of our blog
• Blog description to describe what is about blog
  about
• Blog logo to upload the logo for our blog
• Blog cover to upload cover images for our blog

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How To Customize your Ghost Instance

• If we click on the User tab on the left side we
  have the ability to change our personal
  information and insert information like our real
  name, email, location, etc. On the bottom of the
  users page, we also have the ability to change
  our password.
• We can see how easy it is to use Ghost for
  blogging. It is completely focused on users
  needs, making everyone able to present their
  ideas to the world without having to deal with
  all technicalities.