Bastard: A Free Boilerplate Theme For Ghost

I just moved my site to use Ghost, and built my own theme for it. I want it to have a short catchy name that fits the theme, so I named it — Bastard. It is available to download from GitHub for free. 🙂

The theme was built using Bootstrap 3, SASS, Font Awesome, Bower, and Gulp. Gulp is used to automate tasks for compiling and minifying the theme components and Bower to manage package dependencies. You can use the theme as is, or customize it by editing the bastard.js and /assets/sass/*.scss files.

This site, karloespiritu.com, is using the Bastard theme.

You can download the theme here.

Theme Features

Developed using Bootstrap 3, SASS, Font Awesome, Gulp, and Bower
Organized CSS3 stylesheets using SASS
Fully responsive layout
Retina display ready, looks great on any device or resolution
Full screen cover page with parallax effect
Syntax highlighting using Highlight.js
One file css/js for performance optimization
Automatic linting, compiling, and minification of SCSS and JS files using Gulp
Automatic image file size optimization using IMGMin and SVGMin for jpeg, png, and svg images
Easily update theme dependencies using Bower package manager
Google Analytics integrated
Includes FitVids.Js for fluid video embeds
Clean and well-documented code
It’s free:)

Using Bastard Theme

Copy the theme folder inside /content/themes of Ghost.
Restart Ghost and then go to Ghost’s Settings (http://your.domain.com/ghost/settings/general/). Choose “Bastard” from the theme dropdown menu and save your changes.
Optionally, you can update the background cover with your own image to replace the default cover image.
Have fun 🙂

Customising Bastard Theme

Bastard theme uses Gulp to lint, compile, and concatenate the javascript and SASS

components. Customize the theme by editing the assets/js/bastard.js and sass/*

files. Run gulp to compile your changes or use the gulp watch while you build your

own theme.

Make sure you have Node.js, Bower and Gulp installed on your system. Copy theme folder to Ghost themes directory /content/themes. Open your terminal and make the theme’s folder your current working directory. Run bower install to install package dependencies. Run npm install to install Gulp components. Restart Ghost and switch the theme to use Bastard in the Ghost’s Settings. Make your changes by updating /sass/*, /assets/*, and *.hbs files of the theme. Run gulp watch to start watching for file changes or run gulp to build your latest changes. If you have new images for the theme, just place them inside image_sources folder and Gulp will handle the optimisation automatically and store the optimized version inside assets/images/. Update the social media icon links by updating partials/social.hbs.

Resources & Dependencies

To Get In Touch

To get in touch, you can drop me an email or find me on Twitter.