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Ghost CMS News: Newsletter settings and post analytics
Today, we'll explore some exciting features to help you engage and grow your audience,
such as post analytics exports, including your…
How to Serve JSON or XML Data in Ghost
Ghost CMS is a popular content management system that is widely used for creating
and managing dynamic content such as blog posts or…
Ghost CMS News: Automatic list cleaning & email troubleshooting
The newsletter feature has matured a lot and the Ghost team is adding even more features
and some quality of life improvements. Let's…
How to Change Your Default Post Template in Ghost
In Ghost CMS, the post.hbs file is a handlebars template file that is used to
display individual blog posts on the website and contains…
Ghost CMS Price Helper Overview & Tips
The price helper is a function in Ghost that allows you to display prices on your
website in a consistent and user-friendly format. Ghost…
Ghost CMS News: Member Growth Sources & Audience Feedback
The membership feature is a game changer, allowing you to monetize your content
and grow in a sustainable manner. Ghost recently added…
How to Open External Links in a New Tab in Ghost
By default, all links in your posts are opened in the same browser window. There are advantages
and disadvantages for both cases, but since…
Ghost CMS News: History Log & Newsletter Analytics
Another productive month from the Ghost team as they released a new official theme
called Solo , a new History Log for an overview
of…
How to Automatically Add Member Labels From Referral Traffic in Ghost?
Referral traffic is an important metric to watch as it sends potentially valuable
visitors to the website from trusted websites. Referral…
Ghost CMS News: Free trials & email notifications
After the release of the native search function in July,
and the native comments in August, the Ghost
team has added even more…
Ghost CMS Match Helper Usage & Tips
The match helper allows comparing two values, in a way, it's similar to the
{{#has}} helper but it's useful in much more situations and…
Ghost CMS News: Native Comments
After the release of the native search function in July, the Ghost team released
another great feature: native comments . Comments were…
Ghost CMS News: Ghost Explore & Premium Newsletter Previews
The latest Ghost CMS news and updates with Ghost Explore
and Premium Newsletter Previews. Ghost Explore Ghost added a new directory to…
Ghost Snippets: Custom Progress Cards & Steps
You can use progress indicators to add visual elements in your post and to inform
users about state or progress. We have two types of…
Ghost CMS News: Native Search
The Ghost team released one of the most requested features since the platform
was launched: a built-in native search function. The search…
Ghost Snippets: Custom Stylish Tables
The HTML table is used for arranging data into the tabular design. Tables consist
of rows and columns and are often used on websites for…
How to Add a Scroll Top & Progress Indicator Button in Ghost
When your page is very long you may want to give your users an option to quickly
scroll back to the top of the page. In such cases, the…
Ghost Snippets: Accordions
Accordions are on almost all websites in one shape or form, as it's a great way
to create an FAQ section or collapsible sections of text in…
Ghost 5.0 released 🎉
The Ghost Team announced the release of Ghost 5.0 as the next generation of powerful technology for independent publishers. This release…
Ghost Snippets: Custom Subscribe Forms
In content subscribe forms are ideal for prompting your readers to opt-in/subscribe
to your newsletter. Creating snippets will make it easy…
How to Self-Host Google Fonts in Ghost CMS
Google Fonts are widely used nowadays, many Ghost
Themes have such fonts integrated by default and this can be an issue because
Google…
Ghost CMS News: Membership, Tiers & Activity Feed
The latest Ghost CMS news and updates are all about membership and tiers. Date-based member filtering Some new member filtering options were…
Custom Pages in Ghost CMS Themes
Pages in Ghost CMS are basically a subset of posts, the difference being that they
are excluded from all collections and feeds. Pages are…
Ghost CMS Search Using Fuse.js
Search is becoming more popular than ever, consumers have become so accustomed to
searching for information that providing a search…
Ghost CMS News: Offers and Discounts & New Cards
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Create offers & discounts Now you can run promotions in Ghost, with the new Offers feature.
You can…
Ghost Custom Theme Settings
With Ghost 4.20.0 custom settings are added to Ghost and these new settings will be available in the Ghost Admin UI, which makes theme…
Self-Hosted Ghost CMS with DigitalOcean
There are a lot of managed hosting options for Ghost out there,
but if you are looking to save some money, there are alternative options…
How to Add Different Logos for Dark & Light Themes in Ghost
Many Ghost themes provide different themes or color schemes, like dark & light theme.
These usually detect the user preference and show…
Ghost CMS News: Membership tiers, email CTA & filters
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. New membership tiers (beta) It's now possible to create multiple tiers and offer your audience more…
How to Create a Custom Navigation Template in Ghost
Little things can make a big difference. Your website navigation is a great example.
The navigation structure and UX have a huge impact on…
How to Segment Subscribers with Member Labels in Ghost
Labels are useful for managing, segmenting, and keeping track of your members. Labels can be applied manually in Ghost Admin, going to a…
How to Use the Ghost Subscription Forms in Your Theme & Posts
Subscription forms are an essential part of Ghost, especially with the addition of the membership feature, allowing you to grow an email or…
Ghost CMS News: Grammarly Support & Feature Image Captions.
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Grammarly support The Ghost editor officialy added support for Grammarly . What you have to do is…
How to Add Breadcrumbs to Your Ghost Theme
Breadcrumbs are series of navigational links that connect together to show you
exactly where you have navigated on a website and can be a…
How to Hide a Post From the Home Page in Ghost CMS
Most Ghost themes will show the latest posts on your home page by default,
but there are a number of reasons you might want to hide certain…
Ghost Snippets: Custom Alert Boxes
The Ghost editor is really great, providing many options for different types of
content that could go into posts. However sometimes you…
Ghost CMS Dynamic Routing & routes.yaml
Ghost first started as just a blogging platform, but slowly it evolved into something bigger.
After some major updates to Ghost's API…
How to Update Your Ghost Theme When We Release New Versions
Ghost CMS is constantly developed, new features being added regularly. To keep up
with these changes we maintain and update our themes to…
How to Add Members Specific Section in Your Ghost Template
Starting with Ghost 4.0 memberships and newsletters are natively part
of the platform, Ghost is not just a blogging platform anymore…
How to Show Post or Newsletter Issue Number in Ghost
You might want to display the issue number for your newsletters or posts on your
site and there are different ways you can do that in Ghost…
How to Use the Public Preview & Custom Content CTA in Ghost CMS
Starting with Ghost 4.0 one of the new features is the the public preview card/divider
which can be used on any post or page to make some…
Ghost 4.0 Was Launched With Native Newsletters & Membership
Ghost v4 launched and besides the new look and design improvements there are a
lot of useful features that were added as well.
Let's have a…
Ghost CMS News: Cancellation Feedback & Newsletter Stats.
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Cancellation feedback Portal now supports a cancellation reason field when ever a member decides to…
How to Create a Featured Post Slider in Ghost
Having a featured post section on the homepage is a good way to highlight some of your content and with the featured flag in the post…
How to Add Reading Time to Ghost Blog Posts
When you get a visitor to your site, most probably you want them to stay on your website as long as possible and nowadays visitors often…
How to Create a Post Archive for Your Ghost Theme
Many readers want to browse old posts or find posts that they read but don't have
the the link for anymore. Even though blogging favors…
How to Add Tag Dropdown to Your Ghost Theme
There are a lot of ways you could list your tags in Ghost , one of
the most common ways is creating a tag cloud (or a list of tags) while…
Ghost CMS News: Member Support, Portal & Content Snippets.
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Member support With the new impersonation feature you can support your users easier, by being
able to…
Ghost CMS News: Referral Programs & Responsive Images.
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Custom from-addresses for email newsletters It's now possible to send newsletters from any address, after…
The Best Ghost CMS Hosting Options
There are many different places where yo can host your Ghost CMS, so it can be hard to decide which one to use. You can host Ghost by…
How to add Image Lightbox to Ghost Themes
First of all what is Lightbox? Lightbox is a basically a window overlay that appears on top of a webpage, usually dimming the background and…
How to Deploy Your Ghost Theme with GitHub Actions
The Deploy Ghost Theme GitHub action is a great tool to improve the usual workflow when it comes to updating Ghost Themes. The most common…
How to Add Google Fonts to Ghost Themes.
Google Fonts is one of the most popular services when it comes to adding custom fonts to websites. In fact, most of our Ghost Themes are…
How to Audit & Test a Ghost Theme
Whether you want to test your theme for compatibility with the latest Ghost CMS version or you are looking to buy a Ghost Theme and want to…
How to Configure Ghost with Mailgun
If you are using Ghost Pro Mailgun is configured by default and works out of the box but if you use the Self Hosted version of Ghost for…
Ghost Theme Structure & Organization
In this tutorial we will explore the basics of a Ghost Theme, more specifically the file structure and organization. Ghost themes use the…
How to Make Custom Templates in Ghost Themes
By default every Ghost Theme contains post.hbs file which defines how your posts are rendered, but a great feature in Ghost Themes is the…
How to Use Ghost Filter Expressions
Filtering content is an important part of any website, and the filter parameter in Ghost Themes gives us the possibility to fetch content…
The Best Ghost CMS Search Plugins & Libraries
Having search functionality can be a really useful for viewers in order to find
content on your site. In this post we are going to explore…
Ghost Themes as Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps are web applications that have been designed with three main ideas behind: capability, reliability and installability…
Ghost CMS News: Improved Member Accounts & Personalized Newsletter.
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Member location in Ghost Admin Ghost added location and now new members will have the location saved when…
How to Install Ghost CMS via Ghost-CLI
To install Ghost CMS you need a supported version of Node.js .
Check the supported Node versions by Ghost. With Node.js installed we get…
Ghost CMS News: Improved Member Dashboard & Sidebar Views.
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. Improved members dashboard The Ghost team introduced some improvements to the member management dashboard…
Ghost CMS News: Google Pay support, email newsletters & secondary navigation
Latest Ghost CMS news and updates. New theme helpers 3 new handlebars helpers have been added: link - is a block helper that creates links…
Ghost 3.0 is here with brand new features
Ghost 3.0 was released recently.
Let's take a look at what is new in this release. Membership & subscriptions The major feature in this…
How to Show Related Posts in Ghost
How do I get users to read more of my content? you may think sometimes.
Well, one of the methods that can help on this is Related Posts…
Ghost 2.0 is here with new features
Ghost 2.0 was released a couple of days ago.
Let's take a look at what is new in this release. The new editor There is a new editor in…
How to Integrate Google Analytics with Ghost
Adding Google Analytics to Ghost blog is really easy, especially since we have
the Code Injection feature in Ghost. First, let's make…
How to Add Search to Ghost Using ghostHunter
Having search functionality is quite important for a blog or any website with a
lot of content. Even though Ghost does not has this feature…
How to Add Syntax Highlighting to Ghost
Ghost is a great publishing platform, but by default it
doesn't include syntax highlighting. If you run a code related blog on Ghost you…
How to Add Facebook Comments to Ghost
Ghost doesn't come with a built-in comment system. We already made a tutorial how to add
Disqus commenting system to your Ghost theme…
How to Add Disqus Comments to Ghost
Ghost does not have a built-in comment system yet, so in this post I will show you the steps to setup Disqus Comment System on your Ghost…