Using Ghost Product Cards for things other than products.

How to make a post with multiple updates (like live news pages have)? I suggested a product card for each update and some CSS wizardry.

Using Ghost Product Cards for things other than products.
Some possibilities with just a little restyling of product cards.

There was a question over on the Ghost forum about how to make a post with multiple updates (like live news pages have). I suggested a product card for each update and some CSS wizardry.

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This is a proof of principle post showing some possibilities, clearly not a polished finished product.

Here's an example:

Do you want some introductory text before your updates start? No problem.

Title goes here - or maybe you use this for date?

6/15/2023

You can put entire paragraphs in the description. Links? No problem.

No HTML, but bold and italic and underline are available in the editor.

  • So are bullets.

Could this solve your problem?

Here's an update about my awesome page rank.

6/15/2023

Looks like a good place for some text right here, huh?

Product cards work fine without images, too. (Although some attention to layout is clearly needed.)

6/15/2023

You can put entire paragraphs in the description. Links? No problem.

No HTML, but bold and italic and underline are available in the editor.

  • So are bullets.

Could this solve your problem?

How'd I move the date? Check this out:

<style>
.kg-product-card-description p:first-child  {
    background: pink;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    z-index: 200;
    }
    .kg-product-card-container { position: relative;}
</style>

Here's what the product cards look like when I build them in the editor:

Everything highlighted is the description. Including the date.

A little more styling gives a lot of options! Here's another layout option, still just tweaking the CSS: