Absolutely amazing. Ghost should be the new standard for anyone starting an online publication of any kind. If not all features are available yet, there's a good chance they will be in the future.
I really mess with Ghost because of @johnonolan
Forget the product, listen to a few of the podcast interviews he's done (especially the Indie Hackers one) and you'll see what John's about.
š¤ Twitter doesn't try and gobble it up.
Congrats on the launch guys... The new dashboard seems amazing and all the features looks really cool.. and with the new pricing no more excuse to start blogging
Hey, will Ghost ever allow custom content blocks?
i.e., say people wanted to create a content block for "a custom slider", or an element which has variable content (such as a stock ticker)?
@builtformars It's already possible right now, to some extent, by using HTML cards and saving them as content snippets - which are effectively custom content blocks. Assuming you're comfortable with a little code, there's no drawback to this approach. We'll definitely come up with something that's more friendly to non-developers in future, too.
@johnonolan Thanks for the reply.
I considered shifting builtformars.com to Ghost, but after looking at the custom blocks it just wasn't possible in the way I needed.
- Admin (author) selects the content block of "BlockX"
- Enters data for the fields pre-set for "BlockX"
- Block appears just like any other content block
The HTML card approach requires authors to be comfortable with code. So HTML cards are okay for individual-ran sites, but not for sites expanding into multiple journalists.
Would love you to add this.
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Love Ghost and the 4.0 update looks great!
Edit: Removed my complaint on staff limits because it was unintentionally harsh and John's response below is 100% cool with me. Love this company, love Ghost software.
@lesliescamacho We set up our own plans based on what makes economic sense for us, and people who value the features that align with that generally have no issue with the price points we've chosen.
If you feel self hosting is a better fit for your needs, there's nothing wrong with that and we're very happy for you to host elsewhere - that's part of the freedom of open source.
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@johnonolan Fair and wise. I edited my comment because this is a great response and I didn't intend to come across has harsh.
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I do love ghost. I just stoped using because of a language issue, it was dificult for me to translate all touch point to Braziliam Portugues. How is it now, @John O'Nolan?
@john@leonardo_camacho3 We still don't have many volunteer contributors helping with i18n. Contributors are always welcome to get involved with the project :)
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