Introduction

Paluto is a minimal personal blog & newsletter ghost theme. It's a hybrid theme & you can use it as a personal journal, blog, or even as a newsletter at the same time. With the power of Ghost you can publish your content on your site & send them to your subscriber..

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Theme Installation

• Download the theme from Dashboard
• Extract the file & You will get a folder called paluto-1.1.0
• On that folder you will get the theme zip as paluto.zip, routes file routes.yaml & a txt file containing the documentation link
• Log in to the admin section of your Ghost blog yourblog.com/ghost.
• Go to Setting > Design
• From the left panel bottom click on Change theme
• On top right corner click the button Upload Theme
• Browse the theme folder paluto.zip

* An upload box will open, then choose the theme paluto.zip
* Once uploaded. Click on Activate now button to activate.

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Theme Setting

In Paluto setting up your theme became super easy, Thanks to ghost custom settings. The Settings contains the following sections.

• Brand (By Ghost)
• Site-wide
• Homepage
• Post

To go setting interface Click the Setting Icon from your ghost admin & then click Design, We will go through step by step available theme setting of Paluto.

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Brand

Under Brand the available options are:

• Site Description Used in your theme, meta data and search results
• Accent Color Primary color used in your publication theme
• Publication Icon Used as Favicon
• Publication Logo Your Site logo
• Publication Cover A large background image used in the Hero Section

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Site-wide Settings

This section contains the settings, that applies to site-wide

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Dark Logo

The theme has option to toggle dark and light mode. So you will need two logo to adjust the color combination of Dark & Light mode

If you want to use an image based logo then please follow the steps below:

• Prepare 2 version of your logo for Normal Mode & for Dark Mode.
• Upload the dark logo

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Enabling the Search

To turn on the search option in the theme you need to create & provide here the Content API Key. To create Content API Key follow the steps below:

• From Ghost admin, click Integrations from the sidebar menu, then click + add custom integration.

• Now, give the new integration a name, for example, Search and click Create.

* Now the new Content API is Created. after created the page will look like below

• Now go to Setting > Design, From left panel Expand Site Wide & Put the Content Api Key to Search API key field

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Homepage Hero Section

On Home Page hero section, the contents (Title & Sub-Title) comes from your publication title & description. You can simply edit those from Setting > Design from Left panel Expand the Homepage Settings. Here You can override the hero Title, Description & can also add an Image Avatar if you want to add.

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Search

After installing & activating the theme the next step is to configure the search. In order to make the search functionality work we need to create Content API from ghost admin & then need to put the API key in Ghost head. To create Content API follow the steps:

From Ghost admin, click Integrations from the sidebar menu, then click + add custom integration.

Now, give the new integration a name, for example, Search and click Create.

Now the new Content API is Created. after created the page will look like below

Now go to Setting > Design, From left panel Expand Site Wide & Put the Content Api Key to Search API key field

Click Save & your search functionality will be working Just Fine.

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