Velora Theme Guide
A quick overview to help you install, customize, and manage the Velora Ghost theme.
Upload velora.zip from Ghost Admin under Design & branding, then activate it.
Customize your logo, site title, accent color, cover image, social links, and optional display name.
Add important links like Home, All Posts, Topics, Authors, Membership, Contact, and Documentation.
Use the homepage hero title, optional search button, cover image background, and featured post carousel.
Mark posts as Featured to show them in the homepage carousel and featured card section.
Use Design & branding to show 3, 5, 7, or 10 featured posts in the homepage hero carousel.
Choose how many regular posts appear on the homepage: 6, 9, 12, or 18.
Each post includes tags, title, author, date, reading time, feature image, article content, and author box.
Enable Ghost Members, create your free or paid tiers, then use the Membership template for signup plans.
Create pages for All Posts, Membership, Topics, Authors, and Contact, then assign their matching custom templates.
Create a page with the slug all-posts, then assign the All Posts template to show the full post archive.
Create a page with the slug topics, then assign the Topics template to show tag archive cards.
Create a page with the slug authors, then assign the Authors template to list publication authors.
Create a page with the slug contact, then assign the Contact template and set your contact email in Design & branding.
Use the theme_tone setting to choose Custom, Pop Citrus, Mint Ink, Berry Noir, Dark, or White.
When theme_tone is set to Custom, use color pickers for website background, body text, post badges, topic cards, author cards, and archive headers.
Use Design & branding to set a background color or image for archive, author, topic, and custom page headers.
Use the layout_width setting to choose Comfortable or Wide page spacing.
On mobile screens, the navigation automatically turns into a burger menu.
Use 1600px wide post images, large cover images, square author images, topic images, and transparent logos.
Upload the new ZIP from Design & branding. Your posts, pages, members, navigation, and Ghost settings stay saved.