Groovy – Modern & Lightweight Blog for Ghost

IMPORTANT: this template is for Ghost CMS not WordPress. We don’t offer refund for mistaken purchases.

Groovy is super modern Blog created by EstudioPatagon following all the latest trends. Highly focused in Speed and Vivid Colors, the template fits perfectly any kind of blog specially personal, travel, technology, comics/anime or biography blogs. Also offers 2 schemes “Solid Border” or “Soft Shadow” to fit perfectly any kind of images. This theme is focused in the content, speed, code quality and SEO in mind.

Note: All options in the Demo Options (left tool icon) are available in the Ghost Admin (no coding is required).

It is compatible with Ghost 5.x (membership tiers by default) and works with every Koenig Widget.

For more lightweight & fast themes, visit us on estudiopatagon.com

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Support:

We offer direct help via our support system, just submit a ticket if you have any question.

Features

• Ghost 5.x Compatible
• Highly optimized for speed.
• Unlimited Post and Background colors (fully customizable from Admin).
• Modern & Funky Design.
• Native Search.
• Native Comments and Disqus compatibility.
• NEW! Secondary Navigation support.
• NEW! About Me Widget.
• Compatible with Memberships see here..
• Full Koenig Editor Support, check demo here..
• Pre packaged with SASS (SCSS), Prepos 7 config file included.
• Syntax Highlight see here.
• Custom Subscribe Page see here..
• Custom Sign In Page see here..
• Constantly updated.
• Translation ready (English and Spanish Included).
• Minified and Optimized code.
• HTML5 & CSS3 ready.
• 4 Single post dispositions:
  • Vertical (default): see here.
  • Classic: see here.
  • Fullcover: see here.
  • No Sidebar: see here.
• Custom Tag page, see here.
• Custom Author page, see here.
• Custom 404 Page see here.
• Blog Cover support.
• Search Widget.
• All Koening blocks supported: Callouts, Toggles, Gallery, Audio, File, etc.
• Advertising sections.
• Lazy Disqus Support.
• Fully responsive.
• Video Support (Vimeo, Youtube, etc).
• Retina Display Ready.
• Font Awesome icons.
• Works on Android, Ipad and Iphone.
• Documentation included.
• Clean Design.
• Well Coded.
• Navigation Menu.

Theme Test Scores “Without members feature”

• Google Insights – 99 points for desktop
• Pingdom Tools – 92 points, performance grade A
• Ghost GScan – 100/100 points
• W3C HTML 5 Validation – Fully validated

Membership Payment testing

Our demo website is in “test mode”, so no genuine cards will work. Try using one of these Tests Cards in case you want to fully experience our theme features.

Changelog

v1.4.5 - 02 November 2023
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- Fixed: DOM mutation observer Google Insight warning.
- Updated: Twitter icon to new version "X".
- Added: Compatibility for new option  "Show title & feature image" on pages.

v1.4.2 - 22 September 2023
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- Fixed: Scroll to top issue when clicking sign in/up buttons.
- Fixed: Twitter URL warning from Ghost 5.5
- Improved: Reduced container width on Notebooks.

v1.4.1 - 26 November 2022
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- Fixed: Minor CLS logo warning on Google Insight.
- Improved: How CSS is loaded (critical-path) so the rendered time is slighty better.
- Improved: How Google Fonts are loaded, so the blocking time is slighty better.

v1.4.0 - 31 October 2022
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- Fixed: Some missing translations for tag.hbs template.
- Fixed: Some custom JS cards scripts.
- Improved: Now signin (magic email link) will redirect to home.
- Added: New widget "About me", which can be disabled on Ghost admin -> Settings -> Design.
- Added: Secondary Navigation into Footer area.
- Added: New custom settings to display Facebook and Twitter widget into the sidebar area.

v1.2.0 - 21 October 2022
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- Improved: Now Featured articles widget will be used by default on sidebar, instead of recent articles.
- Improved: Recent, Featured and Related articles widget visibility (if not posts are found, the widget will remain hidden).
- Improved: Footer text logo.
- Added: New Featured Articles widget.

v1.1.0 - 04 October 2022
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- Added: Native Comments as option (Disqus can be used as well).

v1.0.0 - 28 September 2022
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- Initial release.

Fonts:

• Jost – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Jost
• Outfit – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Outfit

Fonts icons by: Remix icons and Fontawesome icons