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# gatsby-ghost-balsa-theme

A Gatsby theme plugin for creating blogs from headless Ghost CMS. 

Turn your Ghost blog into a lightning fast static website. This Gatsby theme is a frontend replacement of the Ghost handlebars engine featuring the standard Ghost Casper skin and functionality. All content is sourced from a headless Ghost CMS.

> This theme is being used at [Draftbox](https://draftbox.co). Get lightning fast, secure front-end for your WordPress or Ghost blog, in 5 minutes or less, without coding. For our fellow devs, we also provide code export feature.

## Demo

Play with the [Demo](https://ghost-balsa-preview.draftbox.co/) to get a first impression.


## Features

- Balsa theme by Draftbox
- SEO optimized
- Fully responsive
- Gatsby images
- Styled 404 page
- RSS Feed
- AMP Pages
- Sitemap
- Contact Form
- Subscribe Form
- Social Sharing
- Composable and extensible


## Quick Start

Head over to the [starter repo](https://github.com/draftbox-co/gatsby-ghost-balsa-starter) to get up and running quickly! The starter is recommended if you are creating a new site.


## Installation

This repository contains the example code **and** the Gatsby theme. If you are here to install the Gatsby theme plugin in your existing project, check out the [theme specific README](/gatsby-ghost-balsa-theme/README.md) for further details.

In case you want to work with this repository (for local development, pull requests, etc.):

1. Clone or fork this repository:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/draftbox-co/gatsby-ghost-balsa-theme.git
cd gatsby-ghost-balsa-theme
```

2. Run `yarn` to install dependencies.

3. Run `yarn workspace example develop` to start the example locally.

## Authors
- Arun Priyadarshi ([@Gunnerforlife](https://github.com/Gunnerforlife)) – [Draftbox](https://draftbox.co)
- Keyur Raval ([@thandaanda](https://github.com/thandaanda)) – [Draftbox](https://draftbox.co)
- Shyam Lohar ([@shyamlohar](https://github.com/shyamlohar)) – [Draftbox](https://draftbox.co)
- Tanmay Desai ([@tanmaydesai89](https://github.com/tanmaydesai89)) – [Draftbox](https://draftbox.co)

## Contributions
PRs are welcome! Consider contributing to this project if you are missing feature that is also useful for others.


# Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2020 [Draftbox](https://draftbox.co) - Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).