Instead of hijacking @chrisburton’s thread, I thought I’d just create a new one.
@Joe_Temp asks:
I’ve got a question for you on Ghost themes… Can you please elaborate on what you think should be more robust? Are you missing having access to plugins or what? Are you having trouble themeing Ghost to look exactly like the sites they integrate into? Are you running Ghost on a subdirectory or subdomain? I’d really like to know, as I’m not super deep into Ghost themeing yet and I’m a little curious on how certain things are handled.
As a theme developer, it’s super important to be able to deliver on “features”. But not every customer is going to want every feature enabled. That’s where theme options come into play and the need to have an admin area. At this point, this simply doesn’t exist for Ghost. Right now we’re having to write long instructions on where to edit code, add classes, etc, just to trigger features.
Basic things like the lack proper static pages (not blog posts that have a silly check box), archives, categories, etc.
They only just recently implemented tag pages.
Right now we’re simply trying to port our Tumblr themes over and are required to make tons of compromises. Basically, all of our ported themes are just “light” versions of their Tumblr siblings.
I’m looking forward to following the project and I hope it does well. I just hope they don’t get stuck on this Dashboard stuff for too long.
