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Am I the only one who had to dig through the comments to find about the tag support? Totally didn’t realise they are above titles (‘Developer Workflow’, ‘Programming patterns’, ...). How about doing something more conventional and putting them right next to the post date?
Its used as a Category header, and its pretty common to have it placed away from the post meta data. Another reason is design variation, if every theme followed convention there would be very little variation. Our other Ghost theme, ‘Orca’, has tags next to the post date if you prefer that format.
Theme looks great, but I would like to see masonry type of frontpage with facebook comments support
I just transferred my blog from the hosted Ghost platform to the self hosted version. It all works except for the big cover images. Any idea what I could be doing wrong or how can I debug that?
Ensure that you have marked the post as featured by clicking the star icon for each post you wanted to have the cover images, and that a post image has been set for the post.
If you’re still having issues send me an email (support@ecko.me).
Is there a way to have the unminified sass/js included in the download?
Hey enlivenhq,
Send me an email to support@ecko.me, and I’ll get the files sent over.
Thanks!
Hi
Same question as tcervo: is it possible to set the width of images on a per case basis?
Hey DanieleSalatti,
Send me an email to support@ecko.me and I’ll send over the same information.
Another question: is it possible to disable auto-resizing of certain images? Some of my posts have smaller images within the post (a company logo, for example), and it looks bad fully stretched to the width of the page. Can this be changed on an image-by-image basis?
Hey tcervo,
I just replied to your email.
Nice looking theme. Quick question: do you do video embeds (YouTube, Vimeo) with just the URL, or is iframe required?
Thanks.
Hey tcervo,
Its works with whatever HTML snippet the website you used to host the video provides you with. For example, if you go to an YouTube then click ‘Share’ -> ‘Embed’, you can see the code you would paste in your posts.
Hi!!
Is it possible to have an image header on first page, just like on post pages?
Thanks!
Hey jclimac,
Its currently not possible in the current version, however it is a planned feature which I hope to include in an upcoming update.
i really appreciate your work (i’m still costumizing my self your theme… can u send me the unminified JS and the SASS files)
so here (on the blog i’m costumizing) i write an “hack” for the costum Opengraph meta http://frnwtr.com/adding-opengraph-to-ghost/ if you wanna implement 
Hey Walter,
Sure, send me an email to support@ecko.me and I’ll send the SASS and unminified JS files over.
Will the theme be updated for the recent Ghost update and support of tags?
Hey simplifiedfun,
I wasn’t even aware the update was live! I’m signed up to receive emails from Ghost when there are updates, but I didn’t receive one. I presume they only send these for major versions.
Anyway, I’m working on it now. Look out of the update in the next few days, hopefully sooner. I’ll keep this comment thread updated.
I received the update email but I think I had to subscribe more than once. Thanks for the speedy response! Looking forward to the new version.
https://gist.github.com/ErisDS/9784942Done. The update has been pushed to ThemeForest for review and should be available shortly. You can check out a preview on the live demo.
Thanks for informing me about the update!
Awesome, thank you very much!
Good design, can be used on another platform than Ghost? I want to use in your own cms.
It also has a version designed dark?
Hey Zephiro,
Thanks for your comments.
You could recode the theme into another CMS, but out of the box it is only compatible with the Ghost platform.
Currently only a light version of the theme is available.
Thanks EckoThemes. Congratulate you on the good work, the design is very clean I love.
Is it possible to add Google Plus and Pinterest to the theme?
Hey simplifiedfun,
Do you mean social links, or their plugins?
Currently there are social links for Google Plus, as well as Google Plus comments.
I just released an update which adds a Pinterest Social Link to the profile section. You can see the change log at the bottom of the Item Description Page.
Hi, thanks! Yeah, I was actually referring to the “share” section on the bottom of a post. I only saw Facebook and Twitter, unless the others are disabled on the demo. Thanks again.
No plans to add them to the share section until Ghost releases theme options so users can disable/enable them easily. Otherwise if the user didn’t want them showing they would have to edit code.
An alternative untill then could be adding the ShareThis widget to the bottom of your posts.
Interesting, thanks. I’m actually pretty excited about Ghost and really hope it keeps gaining popularity. I’ve looked through all the themes available and this one has been my favorite. It might have won the Evato theming contest had it been made back then. Thanks for the fast responses; I’m buying it. 
Awesome, thanks for the comments! If you have any questions the best way to contact me is email (support@ecko.me).
Plans on including the ability to filter by tags… or even more importantly, the ability for a reader to quickly go to the next/previous post (or even quickly back to the blog roll) at the end of an article?
Non of these features are supported by the Ghost platform yet. You can check out the Ghost roadmap for more information and when/if they are planned.
When major features are implemented, Astro will be updated to include support.
Hey,
Awesome and stylish theme. Thanks! May I also please have the SASS files for customization?
Also the JS file please. Thanks again.
No problem, send me a message to support@ecko.me and I’ll email the files over.
I was just about to purchase your theme, and tried the demo page on some of my devices and noticed a problem on my iPad with Retina running iOS 6.X. When viewing stories that have a large header image, the title disappears. I don’t know if this is by design, but just wanted to point that out, and tell you that this is the only thing that is making me wait before I buy your theme.
Hey frwickst,
Could you be awesome and send me a screenshot to support@ecko.me and I’ll get it fixed.
Thanks for reporting the bug.
Sent
Just bought your theme, love it. I’m running my blog on the ghost hosting platform. how can I change the Social Network Profiles on this setup? Thanks for help!
Hey Daniel,
Unfortunately Ghost doesn’t yet support theme options in the Admin dashboard, so it’s not possible to change the social settings via that. The roadmap for Ghost ( https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/wiki/Roadmap ) states that increased theme functionality will be coming in version 5, so hopefully that will add support for this.
Changing the social links currently means you have to open the relevant theme file and edit the links within. Its actually really simple, and the documentation provided with the theme will walk you through it.
If you have any issues you can email support@ecko.me
Hi,
Is it possible to get an un-minified version of the JS and CSS files?
I want to make some tweaks to the design and it would be easier if I had the regular version.
Hey Won,
Sure, I’ve sent you an email. The CSS files are however SASS based (SCSS) files, so these will need to be compiled to CSS before you use them within the theme.
My search for the best Ghost theme ended here.
Not only has Astro itself been a pleasure to work with, but support has been prompt, extremely receptive to feedback, kind, and encouraging. Exceptional service all around.
Ultimately, any limitations in what you can do with this theme are basically just limitations present in Ghost itself. As Ghost evolves, I’m confident that Astro will too, and I’ll be happily along for the ride.
I love the simplicity of this theme and the large cover images. However, I’ve noticed a few usability issues.
One is that the menu seems to disappear on mobile or tablet. It makes it so the back button is the only way to get to home page or any other pages.
The other UX feature that would be great is a small arrow at the bottom of cover images so users know to scroll down, or click to take them down. This is implemented well on Medium. You can see an example here https://medium.com/philosophy-logic/cc30a963f7c3
Hey Jason,
Thanks for your comments.
The menu is switched to the footer of the page when the view-port is small. The logo/icon at the top of the page can still take you to the index, this is present on any view-port size.
I’ve considered adding an arrow, and still may add the option to enable it in the configuration. I’ve never really seen it as a UX issue though, the scrollbar is the indicator that there is more content below. Its on my list of things to look into for the next update.
Is it possible to add Moot discussions as an option? http://suksit.com/integrating-moot-into-ghost/
I’ve not used this comment system before so I’ll have to do some research before I add it to the theme options. I’ll keep you updated in this comment thread.
Of course, if you wanted to add it yourself, I don’t see why you would run into any issues.
