Dandelion – Modern Ghost Theme for Personal or Company Blogging

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Introducing Dandelion

Dandelion is a modern Ghost theme perfect for personal or company blogs. It is fully responsive and loads blazing fast (100% Page Speed & SEO Score)! This theme features full Members support, smooth, modern animations, a classic serif font, custom tags and author pages, and a custom search function. Dandelion also supports language translation and multi-authors.

Built by a Certified Ghost Expert and Envato Elite Author with 16k+ in theme sales.

General Features

• Ready for Ghost 5.x
• Members & Subscriptions
• Clean design
• Serif Typography
• Lightweight and minimal
• Super fast loading
• Infinte scroll
• Fully responsive (including video and other embeds)
• Disqus comments
• Compatible with modern browsers
• Updated regularly

Members & Subscriptions

• Custom membership page
• Custom sign-in page
• Custom sign-up page
• Custom Call-to-Action in post for members
• Custom account page
• Pricing tables: Free, Monthly, Yearly
• Sign-in, sign-up, subscribe and checkout notifications
• Cancel & continue subscription options
• Option to edit billing info
• Custom currency support

Unique Features

• Post images with animated hover action
• Smooth page loads
• Custom Tags and Author pages
• Custom Search Function
• Comments with Disqus

Supported built-in Ghost features

• Translation ready
• Cover images
• Koenig editor
• Gallery card in Koenig editor
• Multiple authors
• Featured Posts
• Post, Page, Tag and Author page
• Blog title and description
• Reading time in post view
• Logo support
• Author cover image, avatar, bio, location, website and social links
• Tag cover image and description
• Facebook and Twitter social links
• Next and Previous post navigation in post view
• Post collection in post view
• Animated Subscription form

Tested on

• Pingdom – 94 points, performance grade “A”
• PageSpeed Insights – 100 points for desktop and mobile
• Ghost GScan – 100/100 points

Changelog

February 3rd, 2023 – Version 4.1.0

New Features

• Added native comments support
• Added native search support
• Added custom config option for disabling infinite scrolling
• Added default pagination option
• Fixes various dark mode issues
• Added scroll padding for footnote support

May 26th, 2022 – Version 4.0.0

New Features

• Added support for Ghost v5.x.x
• Added support for new membership plans and benefits
• Added custom config option for color scheme
• Added custom config option for disabling loading animations
• Added custom config option for content key (required for searching)
• Added custom config option to enable disqus comments
• Added custom config option for footer copyright
• Added custom config option to disable footer ghost link
• Added custom config option to disable image hover effects on homepage

Bug Fixes

• Fixed typing effect on homepage newsletter sub title

April 21th, 2021 – Version 3.0.0

New Features

• Update memberships for Ghost v4 compatibility
• Use built-in—ghost-accent-color CSS variable for theme accent colors

April 9th, 2020 – Version 2.0.0

New Features

• Added Members & Subscription support
• Upgraded for Ghost v3.x.x compatibility

November 1st, 2019 – Version 1.4.0

New Features

• Added support for Ghost v3 Members

September 28th, 2019 – Version 1.3.0

New Features

• Added support for Ghost bookmark cards

Bug Fixes

• Fixed responsive bugs

August 19th, 2019 – Version 1.2

New Features

• Add option to enable/disable page loading animations

Bug Fixes

• Fix post animation issue in Safari
• Disable post hover animation on mobile devices

June 4th, 2019 – Version 1.1

New Features

• Allow ESC key to close search popup
• Added 404 error page

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug when themeConfig options are not defined in Ghost admin
• Added documentation for ‘Dark Mode’ setting