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Want to send a digest email in Ghost? Here's a quick workaround
Make this quick theme edit for a copy-and-paste-able list of your recent posts
Here's a great idea from my client Dave over at B Square Bulletin. Dave sends a news round-up newsletter with Ghost, instead of emailing each individual post. I've shared some ideas for how to fake a digest before.
The idea that Dave had was that it'd be much easier to make his daily digest if he could just do one copy paste. So... we made a page on his Ghost site that has exactly what he wanted, and that copies perfectly into his newsletter. And so here it is, ready for copy and paste!
It isn't exceptionally pretty, but it doesn't have to be. The point is that it can be perfectly copy and pasted into Dave's Ghost newsletter drafts.
Want one of your own? If you can open a zip file and copy-paste, you can do this!
- Grab a copy of the file below. Open it with any text editor. (Not Word. Windows users can use Notepad.) See the comments in the file for how to customize it. Save it.
- Download your theme.
/ghost > settings (gear) > theme > installed (tab at top) > ... > download - Unzip the file. (Use whatever software is on your computer.)
- Copy the custom-recent-posts-basic.hbs file into the outermost directory of your theme.
- Zip the theme folder, with whatever software you used in step #3.
- Upload the theme.
/ghost > settings (gear) > theme > upload theme - Create a page in Ghost, and choose the "Recent posts basic" template for it.
That's it! You're all set!
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