# Custom Theme Tutorials

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-theme-tutorials/26447>\
**Category:** Themes\
**Created:** [October 24, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-theme-tutorials/26447 "2021-10-24T08:30:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Musel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/musel/32/15533_2.png) [@Musel](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Musel)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-theme-tutorials/26447/1 "2021-10-24T08:30:22Z")

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Hi I am new this Ghost and I am wondering if anyone knows of any good videos or full online course that cover coding using Ghost to make a full theme?

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**Author:** ![DonaldH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/donaldh/32/13880_2.png) [@DonaldH](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DonaldH)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-theme-tutorials/26447/2 "2021-10-24T09:06:41Z")

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Hi, and first of all, welcome to the Ghost forum!

There is some official documentation on developing custom themes [here](https://ghost.org/docs/themes/) as well as the official documentation for [Handlebars](https://handlebarsjs.com/guide/expressions.html), which is the templating language used for Ghost. You might also find a lot of value (as I certainly have) in reading through @ahmadajmi’s series of “[Ghost Tips & Tricks](https://forum.ghost.org/search?q=%22Ghost%20Tips%20%26%20Tricks%22%20in%3Atitle%20%40ahmadajmi%20order%3Avotes)”.

The way I got started with developing my own “custom” themes… note that I’m far from an expert in this area, but am not aiming to become one 😂 is by installing and running Ghost [locally](https://ghost.org/docs/install/local/) on my computer, starting with the default theme called “Casper”, downloading that theme and just playing around with the code in my favorite text/code editor.

The Ghost team also provides an open source development “Starter” theme on [GitHub](https://github.com/TryGhost/Starter).

I hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![Musel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/musel/32/15533_2.png) [@Musel](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Musel)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-theme-tutorials/26447/4 "2021-10-26T04:35:04Z")

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Hi DonaldH,

Thank you and I am happy to be here. Thank You for those resources. Thus far I was able to get Ghost running locally without much issue and its running smooth. I also was able to Download some themes and install them plus view it all via VS Code.

I will take a look at the Github Starter now and report back my progress!