Combine features from different themes into one?

Using Ghost
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Hi there! I am planning to start using Ghost. After exploring themes on marketplace, I am thinking if it’s posible:

  1. to have bottom nav bar on themes on mobile view where tab bar doesnt exist in theme itself/theme demo? I saw tab bar on a few themes that doesnt work for me, but on themes that I like, there is no tab bar.
  2. can I use adsense in any theme, where I want on the site (after every 4th card or in the header or between every X paragraph inside blog post etc)?
  3. regarding ghost platform pricing, “number of members” is number of site visitors or like a newsletter memebers or publication payed users?
  4. can I upload and use custom fonts?
  5. why there is no make.com integration on the platform?

Tnx!

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1 - You can certainly edit a theme to add features from elsewhere. [I’m assuming you’re self-hosted or on a hosting plan that allows uploading a custom theme.] Sometimes this is straightforward, and sometimes it’s a giant mess of conflicting styles. You probably won’t know which until you try it. :)

2 - You can edit the theme to put an ad slot after every 4th card, or in the header. To insert within a post itself, either you’d make a snippet with the ad slot and add it manually, or you’d create some javascript that does that for you. You could also try auto ads. I’m not a huge fan, but they’re certainly easy if they work.

3 - You’ll need to direct that question to your host. This is a community support forum with users who self-host and with folks on multiple different managed hosting platforms. (Without knowing whose plans you’re on, it’s probably everyone who has signed up on your site – that includes people receiving the newsletter and people who aren’t signed up for your newsletter but are signed up on your site, for example, for purposes of leaving comments.)

4 - Yes. You can add it to your customized theme, or you can even pull it off by uploading the file within a post, noting the link url, and then adding the required css to code injection. But first, I’d try the existing font selections and see if one of them works, because that’s super convenient – you’ll find them in /ghost > settings > design & branding (customize)

5 - Ghost works fine with Make.com.

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Ghost CMS have a custom integration, so I think it is possible integrate not only make (zapier included by default), but also n8n like free alternative (if we speak about you own vps) or any other service which have api…

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