Lyra

A paid-members publication for Ghost. Can be used with no code knowledge required.

Installation instructions

1. Download this theme
2. Log into Ghost, and go to the Design settings area to upload the zip file
3. Unzip the theme archive on your computer and locate the file called routes.yaml
4. Inside Ghost admin, go to the Labs settings area and scroll down until you see the Custom Routes section
5. Upload the routes.yaml from this theme

That's it! You now have a Ghost publication which supports free and paid memberships. If you need help, check out the <a href="https://ghost.org/docs/members/">Ghost members documentation</a> or chat with other Ghost users on <a href="https://forum.ghost.org">Ghost forum</a>.

Upgrade instructions

1. Download this theme and rename the zip for ease of identification in Ghost later. For example 2022-10-20_Lyra-main.zip
2. Log into Ghost, 4. go to the Labs settings area and scroll down until you see the Routes section
3. Download your current routes.yaml file
4. Next go to the Design settings area and click Change Theme at the bottom of the navigation pane
5. Click the Upload theme button in the top right and upload the zip file you downloaded and renamed earlier (for example 2022-10-20_Lyra-main.zip)
6. You will now see two instances of Lyra similar to the screenshot below
7. Ensure your new Lyra theme is active (based on the renamed zip from earlier, lyra (2020-10-31_Lyra-main) in the screenshot)
8. Delete the previous Lyra theme (lyra (Lyra-master) in the screenshot) 9Upload routes.yaml as required (see Installation instructions above)

Development

Styles are compiled using Gulp/PostCSS to polyfill future CSS spec. You'll need Node, Yarn and Gulp installed globally. After that, from the theme's root directory:

# Install
yarn

# Run build & watch for changes
$ yarn dev

Now you can edit /assets/css/ files, which will be compiled to /assets/built/ automatically.

The zip Gulp task packages the theme files into dist/<theme-name>.zip, which you can then upload to your site.

yarn zip

PostCSS Features Used

• Autoprefixer - Don't worry about writing browser prefixes of any kind, it's all done automatically with support for the latest 2 major versions of every browser.
• Variables - Simple pure CSS variables
• Color Function

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.