Curious – Blog and Magazine Ghost Theme

Curious Ghost theme v 3.1.0 supports Ghost v5.x.

THIS IS NOT A WORDPRESS THEME. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT PROVIDE REFUNDS FOR MISTAKEN PURCHASES.

Curious is a well-structured, content-focused and easy to set up Ghost theme with a bold design. It is fully responsive so you are guaranteed that your website will fit gracefully on any screen size it is viewed on. To make your content look outstanding Curious provides big cover images for posts, tags and author pages, custom styles for quotes (standard, left aligned, right aligned) and image alignment (standard, wide, left aligned, right aligned).

Curious is a perfect theme for an online magazine, journal or even a personal blog. Explore it yourself.

Important to note! Curious is not a WordPress theme, this is a theme for Ghost CMS. To learn more about Ghost CMS, please check the Ghost website.

The following is a list of main theme features:

• Works with Ghost >= v5.x
• Responsive layout – your blog will be accessible on various devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.)
• Cover images support
• Featured posts carousel
• Author page support (useful for multi-author blogs)
• Multiple authors support
• Tag page support
• Search functionality
• Ghost members feature support
• Code syntax highlighter
• Disqus or Ghost native comments
• Sharing post integration
• Social media icons
• Tag cloud and recent posts widgets
• Easy setup with easy to follow instructions

What people are saying about Curious

Updates

We’re dedicated to keeping Curious Ghost theme up to date.

Changelog

Version 3.1.0 – August 31, 2023

- brightened post images
- added post header layout variations via hash tags

Version 3.0.1 – May 25, 2023

- Fixed subscribe link in hero.hbs
- Updated featured.js

Version 3.0.0 – November 9, 2022

- Ghost 5.x support
- design improvements
- added custom settings 
- added Ghost native search
- added Ghost native comments
- removed jQuery
- updated plugins

Version 2.1.0 – July 6, 2020

- fixed issue with post access if members not enabled
- updated account details
- added edit billing and cancel subscription buttons to the account page
- added custom currency (symbol) support
- added post excerpt for member-only posts
- removed border from thumbnails in latest posts widget
- updated Google fonts link

Files updated:

- assets/css/style.css
- default.hbs
- locales/en.json
- members/account.hbs
- package.json
- partials/custom-fonts.hbs
- partials/member-notifications.hbs
- partials/membership-free.hbs
- partials/membership-monthly.hbs
- partials/membership-yearly.hbs
- partials/post-author-list.hbs
- partials/post-share.hbs
- post.hbs

Version 2.0.2 – November 28, 2019

- fix the if statement in the account.hbs template

Files updated:

- package.json
- members/account.hbs

Version 2.0.1 – November 16, 2019

- hide the subscription form in single post if members not enabled

Files updated:

- package.json
- post.hbs

Version 2.0.0 – November 15, 2019

- support for Ghost 3.x added
- translation support added
- plugins updated
- CSS adjustments
- Instagram widget removed due to Instagram API changes

Version 1.9.0 – August 18, 2019

- deprecated {{@blog}} and {{lang}} updated

Version 1.8.0 – February 7, 2019

- Content API v2 support added
- search functionality requires Content API Key
- reading time JS script replaced with native Ghost helper
- Instagram related styles updated
- {{ghost_foot}} moved before closing body tag

Files updated:

- default.hbs
- package.json
- post.hbs
- assets/css/style.css
- assets/js/custom.js
- assets/js/plugins.js
- partials/search.hbs

Version 1.7.0 – October 10, 2018

- Ghost gallery support added
- Google+ sharing icon removed
- few small CSS adjustments

Files updated:

- package.json
- post.hbs
- assets/css/style.css
- assets/js/custom.js
- assets/js/plugins.js

Version 1.6.0 – 23 August 2018

- the theme updated to support the latest Ghost version 2.0.x

Files updated:

- package.json
- assets/css/style.css

Version 1.5.2 – July 4, 2018:

- fixed missing authors in the featured posts slider

Files updated:

- package.json (theme version changed)
- home.hbs

Version 1.5.1 – June 17, 2018:

- Post reading time plugin updated to support IE

Version 1.5.0 – April 21, 2018:

- jQuery plugins updated
- Multiple authors support added
- LinkedIn share link added

Version 1.4.0 – October 2, 2017:

- jQuery library updated
- jQuery plugins updated
- Search added
- Patreon and Bloglovin icons added
- FontAwesome icons for navigation changed to CSS icons
- other improvements

Files updated:

- package.json (theme version changed)
- default.hbs (search partial included, jQuery library updated)
- page.hbs, post.hbs (scroll down link icon markup changed)
- partials/comments.hbs (comments title icon markup changed)
- partials/footer.hbs (back to top link icon markup changed)
- partials/header.hbs (sidebar toggle link icon markup changed, search toggle link added)
- partials/pagination.hbs (next/prev links icon markup changed)
- partials/search.hbs (new partial added)
- partials/sidebar.hbs (sidebar toggle link icon markup changed)
- assets/fonts/ (font files updated)
- assets/js/jquery-3.2.1.min.js (jQuery library fallback added)
- assets/js/plugins.js (plugins updated, search plugin added)
- assets/js/custom.js
- assets/css/style.css

Version 1.3.0 – July 26, 2017:

- the theme updated to support the latest Ghost version 1.0

Version 1.2.0 – July 9, 2017:

- optional featured posts slider added
- 'tag-links' class changed to 'post-tags' to avoid conflicts with automatically generated Ghost classes
- theme documentation updated
- some other CSS improvements

Files updated:

- package.json
- home.hbs
- page.hbs
- post.hbs
- partials/loop-archive.hbs
- partials/loop.hbs
- assets/js/custom.js
- assets/js/plugins.js
- assets/css/style.css
- assets/images/ajax-loader.gif

Version 1.1.0 – January 6, 2017:

- template files updated to meet accessibility guidelines
- tag and recent posts widgets are now displayed using Ghost API
- footer widgets code moved to footer-widgets.hbs file
- jQuery updated
- Rainbow plugin updated
- basic SASS support added
- theme documentation updated

Version 1.0.4 – June 6, 2016:

- Facebook and Twitter support added (Ghost 0.8.0)
- subscribers feature support added (Ghost 0.8.0)
- jQuery updated
- Disqus comments section improved
- some other CSS improvements

Files updated:

- author.hbs
- defapret.hbs
- home.hbs
- package.json
- post.hbs
- partials/comments.hbs
- partials/footer.hbs
- partials/sidebar.hbs
- assets/css/style.css
- assets/js/custom.js
- icon font files in assets/fonts/

Version 1.0.3 – January 10, 2016:

- fixed an issue with the Instagram widget caused by Instagram API update
- jQuery updated

Files updated:

- package.json
- default.hbs
- partials/footer.hbs
- assets/js/custom.js
- assets/js/plugins.js
- assets/css/style.css

Version 1.0.2 – December 22, 2015:

- fixed an issue with the latest posts and tags widgets which appeared in the latest Ghost version (0.7.3)

Files updated:

- package.json
- assets/js/custom.js

Version 1.0.1 – November 2, 2015:

- SoundCloud icon added
- other small fixes regarding theme sidebar

Version 1.0.0 – October 5, 2015:

- initial release