Ghost + IVEEL
Ghost has acquired IVEEL, one of the most popular premium theme companies out there — and released all its products as free and open source.
New member importer
The new member importer allows you to match your CSV data to the correct fields, and review your import before you run it. You can also add tags to imports with ease!
Member support
Support your members with ease using the impersonation feature. Authentication links are now single-use, and have been extended to 24 hours validity. They can be shared directly with any members who are having login issues, or trouble receiving emails.
June Updates: What's New
We've been hard at work during lockdown, updating Ghost and working on many of your most requested features ✨
Personalise newsletters with email cards
Add custom greetings and unique content to your email newsletters using our new email cards!
Members now supports 5 currencies
Power your membership business with Ghost - now available in 5 currencies to support businesses in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and the UK
Improved member accounts
It's now possible to create a more personalised account page for your members, with added support for Gravatars & updating billing information.
Member impersonation
Provide better support for your members or see how member only content looks when logged in with member impersonation.
Member location in Ghost Admin
Ghost now registers the location your members sign up from, so you can see your members location on their member profile page in Ghost Admin.
Understand your audience better, segment your members using member labels and build more relevant content for your readers!
Segment subscribers with member labels
You can now segment your members list in Ghost using member labels which can be applied from the member dashboard.
Filter posts with sidebar views
Introducing sidebar views in Ghost Admin – giving you even more ways to filter and manage your content effectively.
Complimentary premium plans
It's now possible to offer complimentary subscriptions to your members in a couple of clicks. This means you can give your colleagues, friends or family access to paid-member only content in Ghost, without them needing to sign up or enter any credit card details.
Simply navigate to the member profile you'd like to provide free access to, and toggle "Complimentary premium plan"
Improved members dashboard
We introduced some improvements to the member management dashboard to make it easier to manage your members, and keep track of how your membership business is growing over time 📈
- It's now possible to add members individually directly from the member dashboard, making it easy to add colleagues, friends or people you meet in person as a member of your site
- You can now see Gravatars for your member list when available, so you can put names to faces
- A new member growth chart shows your membership growth at a glance within a selected timeframe
Subscription management for members
Your members can now self-manage subscriptions for any membership publication built with Ghost, with a new helper to cancel or continue billing for any plan.
To find out how to introduce subscription management to your Ghost site, check out the members docs. If you're using the members-enabled theme, Lyra, you can install the latest version of this theme to get access to this feature.
Ghost + Pico
Ghost has acquired (and launched) Pico, from Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis! A brand new premium publishing theme, and more.
Secondary navigation
Ghost Admin now supports secondary navigation, making it fast and simple to add or update links to your site's navigation menus. Head to the Design settings page in Ghost Admin to add your secondary navigation links:
This means you can create a menu in your site's footer, or in the top right-hand corner. Find out how to add secondary navigation support in your theme in the Handlebars Theme docs.
Email newsletters for Ghost (beta)
It's now possible to send email newsletters directly from Ghost. Save time, keep everything in one place and let your subscribers know when you've published new content in a couple of clicks.
Accept payments with Google Pay
Great news! Your readers can now support your creative work using Google Pay to subscribe to one of your premium plans. All Ghost members sites now have Google Pay support via our integration with Stripe.
Learn more about creating a membership and subscription business using Ghost.
Ghost(Pro) users already have access to Google Pay payments. Self-hosted developers can use Ghost-CLI to install the latest version.
New theme helpers
Just before Ghost 3.0 went live we made an update to our handlebars templating to help with generating navigational links and combining values together:
link- Create HTML links with dynamic classeslink_class- Apply dynamic classes to elements depending on the current pageconcat- Concatenate and link multiple things together such as template values and strings of text
More information can be found in our theme documentation:
Ghost
Ghost(Pro) users already have access to these new helpers. Self-hosted developers can use Ghost-CLI to install the latest release!
Ghost 3.0
A new business model for publishing, a new architecture for software, and $5,000,000 of funding.
New bookmark cards
We've introduced a new bookmark card to the editor which allows you to present links in a much richer format!
When using a URL with the right meta information, it can show the page title, excerpt, author, publisher and even a preview image. This is a great way to share links from sites that don't have automatic embeds. Here's an example of a bookmark card in action:
GhostHow it works
There's two ways to add a bookmark card to your posts:
- Paste a link as the first thing in a blank paragraph – if no automatic embed is available, the editor will default to the bookmark card.
- Manually select the bookmark card from the (+) menu or by typing
/bookmarkon a new line and pasting your URL – or for a shortcut/bookmark {url}
Bookmark cards require a minor CSS update in your theme, grab the code here. Ghost(Pro) users already have access to bookmark cards. Self-hosted developers can use Ghost-CLI to install the latest release!
Eleventy and Ghost
We’ve expanded our roster of headless starter repositories with Eleventy – a static site generator that’s swiftly growing in popularity within the JAMstack community.
Custom image alt tags
We just shipped custom image alt tag support in the Ghost editor. This is one of our most requested features – and great news for accessibility and search engine optimisation for your Ghost publication.
Previously, you'd need to use a Markdown card to add an image alt tag. Now you can create alt tags on the go directly from the editor, without the need to add any additional cards or custom tags.
To write your alt tag, hit the alt button on the right in the caption line, type your alt text and then hit the button again to return to the caption text.
Ghost(Pro) users already have access to custom image alt tags. Self hosted developers can use Ghost-CLI to install the latest release!
Ghost Admin design updates
Ghost Admin just had a facelift and some big improvements to usability. It's now much easier to manage your publication's content and keep everything organised.
In addition to a new site preview feature, it's now possible to browse your published posts and drafts in a much more intuitive way with filters for author, tag, status and date.
A new Ghost Admin API
The Ghost Content API makes it possible to pull any content out of Ghost, or use it as a Headless CMS. Today we're excited to be able to share our new Admin API, which does just the opposite: It creates total flexibility around how you get content in to Ghost.