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Blog Casa Theme Guide

A quick overview to help you install, customize, and manage the Blog Casa Ghost theme.

Section Summary
Install The Theme

Upload blog-casa.zip from Ghost Admin under Design & branding, then activate it.

Setup
Branding

Customize your logo, site title, accent color, cover image, social links, and website name.

Design
Navigation

Add important links like Home, Contact, Documentation, Membership, Topics, and Authors.

Menu
Homepage Layout

Choose between Split hero, Grid only, Mixed rows, 3 columns, or 2 columns layouts.

Homepage
Post Cards

Use image cards for posts with feature images, or color cards when no image is available.

Posts
Post Pages

Each post includes a large hero, tag label, title, author, date, reading time, and rounded content area.

Article
Membership

Enable Ghost Members, create free or paid tiers, and display plans on the membership page.

Members
Custom Pages

Create pages for All Posts, Membership, Topics, Authors, and Contact, then assign their matching custom templates.

Pages
All Posts Page

Create a page with the slug all-posts, then assign the All Posts template to show the full post archive.

Archive
Theme Tone Presets

Use the theme_tone setting in Design & branding to choose Custom, Sage Editorial, Warm Sand, Soft Blue, Dark, or White.

Colors
Custom Colors

When theme_tone is set to Custom, use the color pickers for background, body text, post badges, topics cards, and authors cards.

Pickers
Featured Hero Carousel

Mark posts as Featured to show them in the homepage hero carousel. You can configure how many featured posts appear.

Hero
Homepage Post Count

Use Design & branding to choose how many posts appear on the homepage: 8, 12, 16, or 24.

Layout
Mobile Menu

On mobile screens, the navigation automatically turns into a burger menu.

Mobile
Image Sizes

Use 1600px wide post images, landscape hero images, square author images, and transparent logos.

Media
Updating The Theme

Upload the new ZIP from Design & branding. Your posts, pages, members, and settings stay saved.

Customize your logo, site title, accent color, cover image, website name, theme tone, colors, and social links.

Update