New Things Custom Social Data Ghost automatically creates rich structured data for all of your blog posts, but what if you want to customise that data for each of the social networks which you share to? Now: You can.
New Things Post Code Injection We've just added Code Injection to posts and pages in Ghost, so you can add custom styles and scripts to the header and footer of individual articles. A while back we introduced Code
New Things Custom Excerpts Following on from Ghost 1.0 and Hemingway Mode, today we're releasing Custom Excerpts for Ghost. By default, Ghost will pull out the first few words of your post (usually around 55) to
New Things Hemingway Mode Following the release of Ghost 1.0 last week, we're trying to get back into the habit of doing smaller, simpler releases and getting them out into the wild. So today we're releasing
New Things Announcing Ghost 1.0 About four years ago we launched Ghost on Kickstarter as a tiny little prototype of an idea to create the web's next great open source blogging platform. In the early days we really
New Things Announcing Ghost for Journalism This year we're very excited to be dedicating our entire 10 person full-time Ghost team to helping grow three independent publications, along with $45,000 in resources toward their efforts. We're calling it
New Things Blazing fast mobile performance: AMP for Ghost Ghost has already had great mobile performance from day one, with a responsive admin area and default theme - but now we’ve stepped that up a gear once more with full support
New Things Scheduling your posts for future publication You can now schedule posts in Ghost to be published at a predetermined date in the future! This is one of our most requested features of all time, so we're really happy to
New Things Sending posts to Slack, and even better structured data support As hinted at a few weeks ago in our 3rd birthday post, you can now send posts from Ghost directly into your Slack team via a simple webhook integration! This is our very
Transparency It's our birthday! Three years down, $600,000 annual revenue, and what's coming next On the 29th of April in 2013, I sat down in a beautiful little co-working space in Austria called Daxbau, and launched the Ghost Kickstarter campaign. Almost precisely 3 years later, I've returned
Desktop Apps Ghost Desktop Using Ghost in your browser is great, but wouldn't it be useful if it had its own app to keep it separate from the noise of all your other tabs - while providing
Writing 5 books, 10 days: my DIY writing education It's around 3pm on Sunday afternoon when I slam closed my paperback copy of Stephen King's oft-recommended writing guide, On Writing. I don't have a problem dog-earing a book or bending its pages—
New Things Help us Translate Ghost.org Ghost has been an international project since day 1, with team members, contributors and users from all over the world who care deeply about online publishing. Until now, though, Ghost.org has only
Building Ghost Moving to Singapore In the next couple of months we’ll be reincorporating the Ghost Foundation in Singapore and closing down all operations in the UK. This is easily the biggest business change we've made to
Writing 3 Ways to Collect Source Material for Creative Work It took me a long time to understand that writing is a task best undertaken alone. And I don't just mean in solitude, I mean as an individual errand. One of the biggest
New Things Public API in Labs Ever wanted a latest posts list? Or a featured posts list? Or a list of your tags? The API makes all of this (and much more) possible... Since day one, Ghost has been
Where our favourite swear words came from, and why they're so much fun to say (obviously NSFW) Just a heads up: there are lots of swear words in this article. I'm not using dashes or asterisks or anything to censor the words. This is a grown-up piece talking about words
Transparency Ghost monthly blog report - September 2015 Every month I publish a report on my progress with content at Ghost. Check out last month's report here. How much work did we get done? Posts published: 12 (1 less than last
Content Marketing Metrics that matter: what we're tracking on the Ghost blog and why Since joining Ghost my focus has been on developing and improving our content marketing strategy. Or, as I like to think of it, writing cool stuff and sharing it with the right people.
Inspiration How to turn your company reports into content marketing As more startups turn to content marketing to attract other startups to be their customers, we see more content emerging from what's happening inside these companies. Sometimes it's the results of an experiment.
Writing What are you waiting for? How to overcome the hurdles holding you back from writing If you're not writing as much as you want to, it's time to take a look at what's stopping you. No matter what's holding you back, you can write more if you really
Content Marketing A beginner's guide to guest posting: why it's useful and how to get started Whenever someone asks me (or asks all of Quora) what they should do to drive traffic/build their blog/grow an audience as a beginner in content marketing, I suggest guest posting. I
Transparency Ghost blog report August 2015: 160% more content, 114% more traffic, and 9% subscriber growth Every month I publish a report on my progress with content at Ghost. Check out last month's report here. August was my first full month at Ghost, so we saw a dramatic increase
Productivity How to find the focus you need to write great content One of the biggest struggles I've had in the past few weeks is finding focus. When I know I need to knuckle down and get some work done, I get myself all pumped
Content Marketing The apps it takes to run a content marketing machine Since settling into my role at Ghost I've found I rely on a small group of apps every day to do my job. When I shared a couple of these in my recent
