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# Casper
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The default theme for [Ghost](http://github.com/tryghost/ghost/). This is the latest development version of Casper! If you're just looking to download the latest release, head over to the [releases](https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/releases) page.
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# First time using a Ghost theme?
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Ghost uses a simple templating language called [Handlebars](http://handlebarsjs.com/) for its themes.
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This theme has lots of code comments to help explain what's going on just by reading the code. Once you feel comfortable with how everything works, we also have full [theme API documentation](https://ghost.org/docs/api/handlebars-themes/) which explains every possible Handlebars helper and template.
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**The main files are:**
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- `default.hbs` - The parent template file, which includes your global header/footer
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- `index.hbs` - The main template to generate a list of posts, usually the home page
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- `post.hbs` - The template used to render individual posts
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- `page.hbs` - Used for individual pages
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- `tag.hbs` - Used for tag archives, eg. "all posts tagged with `news`"
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- `author.hbs` - Used for author archives, eg. "all posts written by Jamie"
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One neat trick is that you can also create custom one-off templates by adding the slug of a page to a template file. For example:
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- `page-about.hbs` - Custom template for an `/about/` page
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- `tag-news.hbs` - Custom template for `/tag/news/` archive
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- `author-ali.hbs` - Custom template for `/author/ali/` archive
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# Development
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Casper styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need [Node](https://nodejs.org/), [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/) and [Gulp](https://gulpjs.com) installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:
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```bash
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# install dependencies
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yarn install
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# run development server
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yarn dev
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```
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Now you can edit `/assets/css/` files, which will be compiled to `/assets/built/` automatically.
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The `zip` Gulp task packages the theme files into `dist/<theme-name>.zip`, which you can then upload to your site.
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```bash
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# create .zip file
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yarn zip
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```
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# PostCSS Features Used
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- Autoprefixer - Don't worry about writing browser prefixes of any kind, it's all done automatically with support for the latest 2 major versions of every browser.
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- Variables - Simple pure CSS variables
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- [Color Function](https://github.com/postcss/postcss-color-function)
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# SVG Icons
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Casper uses inline SVG icons, included via Handlebars partials. You can find all icons inside `/partials/icons`. To use an icon just include the name of the relevant file, eg. To include the SVG icon in `/partials/icons/rss.hbs` - use `{{> "icons/rss"}}`.
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You can add your own SVG icons in the same manner.
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# Copyright & License
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Copyright (c) 2013-2020 Ghost Foundation - Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
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