Polar - Minimal Blog and Magazine Ghost Theme

Compatible with Ghost version 5.0 and up

Polar is clean content focus theme for ghost blogging platform. It is 100% responsive means it will fit in various device of different size. Using polar theme you can transform your regular ghost blog into a eye soothing web appearance. It is not only beautiful but also nice user experience for your audience. This theme is multi-user ready so you can setup a multi-user blog or journal with no extra effort. Polar is suitable for any kind of personal or travel, hobby, tutorial blog / magazine.

Installing and customizing this theme is very easy. All required information are provided in documentation.

IMPORTANT

This is not a HTML template or WordPress theme. This is a ghost theme. It works with Ghost. We follow Envato Market Refund Rules. So no refund request will be accepted for mistaken purchase.

If you need WordPress theme then check our WordPress theme collection

Why this notice is here? It is because many people do not pay attention and purchase Ghost theme without knowing about Ghost. Later they realize and asks for refund.

Features

• Ready for latest version of Ghost 3.0
• Fully support new membership and subscription feature.
• Members only post example
• Paid members only post example
• Clean and modern design.
• Minimal and reader friendly.
• 100% responsive.
• Translation Ready
• supports image logo.
• Previous and next post link in single post view.
• Supports inbuilt navigation system.
• Blog Cover and blog description.
• Tag image and tag description.
• Author cover image, avater, bio and social links.
• New author archive and tag archive page template.
• Widgetize Footer.
• Add, Remove or Reorder Widgets.
• Multi author support. See this post.
• search functionality.
• Responsive youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, mixcloud.
• Beautiful Code Highlight.
• static pages.
• Author page
• Tag page
• Custom error page.
• Cross-Browser Compatibility Chrome, FireFox, Safari, IE9, IE10, IE11, EDGE
• Comment with disqus
• Post sharing.
• Ghost subscription.
• Google font.
• Font Awesome icons.
• Well commented and well structured coding
• LESS (CSS) file included, Easily achieve any color
• Easy to customize
• Valid HTML5 coding.

Attributions & Credits

• Fontawesome icon font
• Bootstrap
• Fitvids
• Highlight js
• GhostHunter
• Preview Images form unsplash.com

Images Used only for preview purpose. Images are not included in main download.

Support

For any help regarding this theme, please feel free to contact me through my profile page and I will be glad to offer support.

If you like this theme then please don’t forget to rate it at your download page.

Changelog

V 5.0.0 - 8th June, 2022
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[ - ] - Removed deprecated API version in package.json
[ - ]-  Removed deprecated helper.
[ * ] - Modified pricing table to support pricing tires with newly released helpers.
[ * ] - Updated minimum required Ghost version to 5.
[ - ] - Removed API version from package.json
[ * ] - Modified paid member CTA in post.
[ * ] - Updated translation file en.json

V 4.0.1 - 23rd March, 2021
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[ * ] - Fixed public content preview encoding.
[ * ] - Fixed image being stretched in post content.

V 4.0.0 - 22nd March, 2021
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[ * ] - Updated Ghost engines and API to v4
[ * ] - Replaced deprecated @site.lang with new @site.locale
[ - ] - Removed hard coded $ symbol and @price.currency_symbol helper, both are replaced with new price helper to show currency symbol.
[ - ] - Removed @lab.members condition checking members are always enabled in Ghost 4.0.
[ * ] - Updated single post view for properly showing the content preview above the subscription CTA.
[ * ] - Small css change for standard form elements.
[ * ] - Updated Google font code.

V 3.1.0 - 14th October, 2020
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[ + ] - Added subscriber info in account page.
[ + ] - Added loading spinner to various members related buttons.
[ + ] - Added new notifications.
[ * ] - Removed fuse Js and added searchinGhost for search.
[ + ] - Added navigation widget at footer to show secondary navigation.

V 3.0.1 - 4th November, 2019
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[ * ] - Fixed recent post widget in footer only showing public post.

V 3.0.0 - 3rd November, 2019
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[ * ] - Replaced deprecated {{code}} helper with {{statusCode}} helper.
[ * ] - Updated API uses to v3.
[ + ] - Added new Membership feature.
[ * ] - Modified Subscribsion widget to use new members feature.
[ + ] - Added new custom pages Account, susccribe, Sign in pages.
[ + ] - Added custom call to action for membership and paid membership in single post.

V 2.6.1 - 6th July, 2019
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[ * ] - Fixed auto focus the search input on click on the search button.

V 2.6.0 - 25th May, 2019
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[ * ] - Replaced deprecated {{lang}} helper with new {{@site.lang}}
[ * ] - Added German translation contributed by Marcel Ashun.

V 2.5.1 - 28th January, 2019
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[ * ] - Fixed issue, custom author archive was not showing authors list after updating API
[ * ] - Removed deprecated @blog helpers and added @site helpers in place of those.

V 2.5.0 - 26th January, 2019
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[ * ] - Added small css to fix layout issue in safari browser.
[ * ] - Theme now uses Content API version 2.

V 2.4.1 - 14th October, 2018
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[ * ] - Replaced GhostHunter with Fuse and rewrite Search function.

V 2.4.0 - 2nd September, 2018
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[ + ] - Added CSS and Js to support Gallery card.
[ + ] - Improved images card CSS.

V 2.3.0 - 22nd August, 2018
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[ * ] - Upgraded the theme to use with Ghost 2.0.0 and above. For older ghost version please use older version of the theme.
[ * ] - Removed cover-author.hbs file from partials folder. Added code of those file to author.hbs file.
[ * ] - Changed author helper in author.hbs to make it compatible with Ghost 2.0.0
[ * ] - Fixed RSS FEED link in subscribe box at single post view.
[ + ] - Added keyword "ghost-theme" in package.json file

V 2.2.0 - 1st August, 2018
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[ + ] - Added Koenig Editior's Image card's different image widthe support CSS.
[ + ] - Added Koenig Editior's Embed card's support CSS.

V 2.1.0 - 31st March, 2018
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[ + ] - Added two new custom template, custom-author-archive.hbs and custom-tag-archive.hbs
[ + ] - Added translation support.
[ + ] - Renamed "subscribe-form.hbs" file to "subscribe-form-box.hbs".
[ + ] - Ghost 1.22.0 new feature multiple author on single post. Added support for showing multiple author on a single post view.
[ + ] - Ghost version 1.22.0 depricated {{author}} helper and added new helper {{authors}}. Made requirer changes to few files to replect this new feature.

V 2.0.0 - 17th July, 2017
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[ * ] - This version is a major update. It works with Ghost version >= 1.0.0. It will not work with older version of ghost ( ghost version < 1.0.0 ).
[ - ] - Removed favicon from default.hbs template. Ghost >= 1.0.0 automatically handle it. Upload publication icon from General setting page, in your dashboard.
[ * ] - Rewritten package.json to be compatible with ghost 1.0.0
[ * ] - jQuery library updated to v2.2.4

V 1.0.0 - 2nd May, 2017
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[ + ] - Initial release