Make it your own

In case you haven’t noticed, a little over a week ago we put in a new theme editor, which lets you fully customize your design using the neat templating language Liquid.

Using this editor, you can completely alter the look of every reader-facing piece of the site. You start by cloning an existing theme, and from there you can do anything from merely tweaking the CSS to creating new partial templates that can be reused across the site. Very powerful stuff.

You will have a number of variables available. Some are always there, like ‘site’, which gives you access to things that relate to your entire publication. Others depend on which page you’re on.

We’re still working on some of the innards of these variables, and for this reason, we ask you to still be patient with us and not kill us if we break your pages occassionally. We will be sure to let you know when the interface is finally locked down and stable.

Once that happens, we will also provide some documentation for all of that, so you don’t have to fumble about blindly. We’re as anxious as you are.

If you make a great theme and would like to share it, please get in touch. We want to make a nice gallery of top-notch themes available for everyone.

Find all the good stuff on the Design tab from your Dashboard.