Overview
Meet Flora, a Ghost theme from Theme Up Studio crafted to bring your content to life with a splash of color and impressive speed. It’s built on a simple philosophy: your writing should be the star of the show. Flora wraps your words in a vibrant, fast-loading design that makes for a delightful reader experience.
Features
- Optimized for Speed: Flora is built with clean, optimized code, ensuring your website loads quickly and runs smoothly.
- Vibrant Post Cards: The theme can use a tag's specific accent color to style your post cards, creating a bold and modern homepage grid.
- Dynamic Tag Menu: A sleek dropdown menu beautifully organizes all your content tags, making it easy for readers to find exactly what they're looking for.
- Custom Page Layouts: Enjoy polished, pre-built templates for your archive, tag, and author pages, creating a consistent and professional look across your site.
- Built-in Image Lightbox: Let your visuals shine by allowing readers to view images in a beautiful, full-screen gallery without leaving the page.
- Code Syntax Highlighting: If you write about code, the built-in Prism.js integration will display it beautifully, perfect for technical blogs and tutorials.
Possible Use Cases
A quick look at the Flora demo reveals a clean, content-focused design that uses strong visuals and colorful accents to great effect. It’s a fantastic fit for any publication where both readability and a strong visual identity are important.
- Personal & Lifestyle Blogs: The visually engaging layout is perfect for topics like travel, food, or design, where great images and a vibrant aesthetic help tell the story.
- Online Magazines: With its structured organization, dedicated author pages, and clear tag navigation, Flora is well-equipped to support publications with multiple writers.
- Digital Newsletters: If you want a professional web presence for your newsletter, Flora provides an excellent home for your archive with a strong focus on readability.
Performance & Technical Details
Flora is built for performance. It passes Ghost's official theme validation with a perfect 100/100 GScan score, meaning it's fully compatible and built to modern standards. The theme is designed to be fully responsive, ensuring your content looks fantastic on any device. It's built for Ghost version 5.0 and newer.
Setup & Customization
Getting started with Flora is straightforward. You can install it by uploading the theme's .zip file right in your Ghost admin panel. To unlock all the theme’s features, you’ll also need to upload the routes.yaml file that comes included.
All customization happens in the familiar Ghost Admin area:
- Site-Wide Settings: Easily set up a "Topics" dropdown menu, choose custom fonts for headings and body text, and decide whether to use tag accent colors for posts.
- Post Settings: You can globally turn on or off the image lightbox, code syntax highlighting, and the option for external links to open in a new tab.
- Custom Pages: Activate the unique layouts for your archive, tags, and authors just by creating new pages with the right slugs (
archive,tags,authors).
Support & Updates
Your purchase includes limited support from the developer for bug fixes and basic usage questions. You'll also receive email notifications whenever a theme update is available, so you can keep your site running on the latest version. A standard license grants you use of the theme on a single website.
Conclusion
Flora offers a wonderful combination of high-speed performance and a lively, content-forward design. It gives you the power to build a beautiful publication that is a true pleasure to read. Take a look at the live demo to see how Flora can make your content shine.
