Installation

Install Enova in four steps — upload enova.zip in Ghost Admin, activate it, and add the routes.yaml file that powers the newsletter archive.

Quick start

Four short steps and your new theme is live.

Check Compatibility First

Before installing, make sure your Ghost installation is Ghost 6.x — Enova's minimum requirement is v6.0.0, and we recommend v6.27.0 or later so the native share button on posts works. See the Compatibility Guide.

Open Theme Settings

Go to Settings → Theme in Ghost Admin and click "Change theme".

Upload the zip

Click "Upload theme" and select enova.zip.

Activate

Click "Activate" when the upload finishes.

If you plan to use Enova's Newsletter Archive at /newsletters/, upload the bundled routes.yaml once. Skip this step if you're not using the archive — the rest of the theme works without it.

You have two ways to get the file:

Grab it from the theme zip — routes.yaml lives at the top level of enova.zip. Extract the archive and pick it up from there.

Download or copy it from here — same file, no extraction needed:

Download routes.yaml

routes.yaml

routes:

collections:
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: 'tag:-newsletter'
    
  /newsletters/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: newsletter-archive
    filter: 'tag:newsletter'
    data: page.newsletters

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

In Ghost Admin, go to Settings → Labs → Beta features → Upload routes file and choose the routes.yaml you just saved.

Uploading routes.yaml in Ghost Labs

Skip this step and /newsletters/ returns a 404. You only need to do it once per install — re-upload only if the file changes between releases.

See the Newsletter Archive guide for the rest of the setup (tag posts, create the newsletters Page, choose a layout).

Installation

Quick start

Open Theme Settings

Upload the zip

Activate

Upload the routes file (for the Newsletter Archive)

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