Speckle Website Theme

Local development

Installing ghost

We first need to install ghost locally to then work on our custom theme. Use Node 16.13.0.

• npm install ghost-cli@latest -g
• ghost install 4.48.2 --local (or update to match the curret versionnpm run dev)
• Set up you Ghost site
• You can import stuff from our live website from https://speckle.systems/ghost/#/settings/labs > Export your content and import into your local site
• Note: images are not exported automatically unforch
• ghost stop
• On windows: npm install -g win-node-env

Theme setup

• Clone this repo somewhere on you machine

• npm install

• npm run zip

Now, in order to trigger Ghost load our theme and use it live as we're editing it, we need to first upload it as a zip.

• in the ghost admin setting upload the zip file just generated inside your ghost-theme\dist folder
• set it as active theme
• got to YOUR-LOCAL-GHOST-INSTALLATION-FOLDER\ghost-local\content\themes
• replace the newly created speckle-starter-theme folder with your actual ghost theme repo folder (I had to rename it to speckle-starter-theme)
• alternatively create a symlink
• npm run dev inside you theme folder
• now it should be up and running