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Common Hours

Common Hours is a Ghost theme with chapter grids, dated diary layouts and newsletter signup. It suits diarists, cooks, gardeners, families, educators and small studios keeping a work journal.

$47 USD

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Best for
Diarists, home cooks, gardeners, family journals, educators, personal newsletters and small studios
Platform
Ghost
Status
On sale
Price
$47 USD
Version
1.0.0
License
Ghost edition: Peachfin Themes Ghost License, included as LICENSE
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code

Page inventory

Home
Home
Entries
Post
Note
Post
Standard pages
Detail
Portrait
About
Index
Archive
Chapter and tag pages
Archive
Author pages
Archive
404
Utility
Error
Utility

Design controls

Palette and accents
Choose Paper, Mist, Evening or Follow system, with terracotta accents or your site accent color.
Titles and heading
Choose Italic or Upright titles, and edit the heading above the chapter cells.
Home layout
Choose Day book or Diary, select the latest featured post or latest post as the opening story, and toggle row photos.
Chapters
Set the three chapter tag slugs and their hours; leave a slug empty to omit that chapter or its hours empty to hide them.
Newsletter
Edit the signup heading and text, and show or hide the signup box at the end of entries.
Writer and credit
Show or hide the writer's author box, related entries and the theme credit.

Features

  • Three chapter cells use tags chosen in the settings, each showing hours, a note, an entry count and the newest entry.
  • The opening story displays your latest featured post or latest post with a 3:2 photograph beside its headline.
  • Chapter sections show their three newest entries as text-first rows with optional small square photographs.
  • The Diary layout lists every entry with weekday, day and month stamps in the margin.
  • Entry headers include a date stamp, reading time and writer beside the headline.
  • The ritual card uses an HTML card with Takes, Needs and When fields. You save it as a snippet in your own site; snippets are not included in the demo import.
  • Numbered lists display steps as 01, 02 and 03, each on a short rule.
  • The Note post template has a centred header and date stamp without a header photograph.
  • The Portrait page template places text beside a tall photograph and styles tables as schedules.
  • The Index page template groups every entry by chapter in three columns, with dates.
  • Nineteen custom settings include Paper, Mist, Evening and Follow system palettes, plus italic or upright titles.
  • Member signup works through theme forms and Portal, with sign-in and account links and calls to action for members-only, paid and tier-specific posts.
  • Newsletter signup appears on the home page, optionally at the end of entries, and above the footer on other pages.
  • Ghost’s built-in search opens from the header, and native comments appear beneath entries under “Letters”.

What the download includes

  • The package contains Handlebars templates and partials and the theme stylesheet.
  • Literata and DM Sans font files are bundled with their SIL Open Font License text.
  • English interface strings are supplied in locales/en.json.
  • README.md covers setup, CHANGELOG.md records releases, and LICENSE contains the Peachfin Themes Ghost License.

Setup

  1. Use Ghost 6.0 or later, and open Settings → Design & branding → Change theme → Upload theme in Ghost Admin.
  2. Upload common-hours-1.0.0.zip and click Activate.
  3. Open Settings → Design & branding → Customize to choose your theme settings.
  4. Create Morning, Midday and Evening tags with descriptions, and match their slugs to the three chapter settings.
  5. Publish Index at contents with the Index template, then create About with the Portrait template and a portrait feature image.
  6. Create an ordinary Contact page, then add primary navigation links and the three chapters as secondary links.

Common Hours by Peachfin Themes offers two home layouts for Ghost. Day book opens with three equal chapter cells, followed by an opening story and chapter sections with text-first rows and small photographs. Diary lists every entry with a date stamp in the margin. You choose the chapter tags in the settings and can name them for times of day, seasons, rooms or subjects.

Entries pair a date stamp with a headline, reading time and writer. An optional ritual card records what a routine takes, needs and when it fits, while numbered lists become steps. The Note template gives short posts a centred header, and the Portrait and Index templates provide layouts for an introduction and a chapter-based contents page.

Nineteen custom settings control the layouts, palettes, title style and other details. Members, Portal signup, newsletter forms, built-in search and native comments connect the writing with its readers. The theme supports responsive images and every Ghost editor card, provides its interface text in a translation file, and includes no theme JavaScript.

Common Hours suits diarists and personal writers, home cooks and bakers, gardeners, parents keeping a family log, and students and teachers keeping a learning journal. Its dated entries and chapter organisation also suit writers of a slow personal newsletter, small studios or shops keeping a work diary, and anyone publishing short dated pages about ordinary days. The demo’s household day book is one example of how to use these layouts.

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