Theme Modification

Themes
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I’m in the process of creating a blog. While I am designing a completely custom theme, it will take some time to completely design and develop the theme. I noticed that the Casper theme is quite clean, and with some HTML/CSS modifications, it’ll work quite well until I can complete the work on my long term theme.

Few questions:

  1. Is there a chance that I’ll be violating any usage rules by doing this?
  2. What would be the best way to go about doing this without putting myself in a place to completely screw up my site if Ghost v2.5 drastically changes something that affects the design or functionality?

Thanks for the help!

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  1. Absolutely not, Casper is designed specifically for this purpose and is MIT Licensed so you’re all good :smile:
  2. Ghost follows semver so won’t introduce any breaking changes for themes until the next major release (3.0.0) and we tend not to have major releases too often - there was ~1year between 1.0.0 and 2.0.0

The worst that can happen within the 2.x series for theme compatibility is that a new feature is introduced that requires some additional CSS/JS or a bit of HTML to implement - the recent gallery feature in 2.1.0 is a good example Ghost Handlebars Themes - Building a custom Ghost theme - Docs

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Hello!

I think of creating a theme based on Casper.
Two questions: :slight_smile:

  • Is it possible to copy/paste/rename the folder and, then, make the customizations?
  • What changes are necessary to avoid conflict between them?

Thanks!

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Absolutely

If I’m understanding the question correctly then a folder rename is enough, you may also want to change the theme name in package.json

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Exactly!
I found this site now.
It’s so simple… :flushed: :flushed:
Thanks a lot @Kevin