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Moving? Read this first.
How to move your existing blog/newsletter without losing readers or page rank.
Ghost
Ghost is the ultimate platform for blogs and newsletters. Super fast, easy to use, and no nonsense with perpetual security updates and incompatible plugins. Check it out!
Importing posts, and only posts, into Ghost.
If you've ever wanted to import a JSON file straight into Ghost, rather than using the Admin API, this post is for you.
Sign up cards broke my search
Turns out the sign-up card doesn't play nice with the Algolia fragmenter -- at all.
Why Ghost's magic links don't work well with social media sharing
Magic links are great, unless you have mobile users with in-app browsers...
2023 year in review
Just the highlights
How to upload a members CSV file using Node
I needed Stripe customer IDs in Ghost and this is the only method that works for me.
Recommendations, wrangled
An update on the lack of posts, and some discussion of recommendations, some of it misplaced.
Introducing our "Retainer" plan
Focus on creating. Put a Ghost Expert on retainer and we'll handle the technology!
How I built that: Layouts for Ghost
How can you build interesting page layouts in the Ghost editor? Several options!
Making Ghost and Algolia work better together
(Post in progress! Writing in public!)
A better related block for Ghost
Many themes offer a "read more" or "related posts" section at the bottom of each post. I unpack what it's doing, why yours might not be working so well, and some possible fixes.
Life without {{ghost_head}}
If you want to customize more fully, you might want to replace {{ghost_head}} with your own code. Here we break it down.