Spectral Web Services
Member webhooks
When exactly does Ghost's member-updated webhook fire?
Advanced Topics
Wait... Ghost can do that? Advanced topics for Ghost, the blogging and newsletter platform. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the code with your favorite editor, this is the category for you!
Posting via Ghost API gone wrong
An Admin API error I hadn't seen before, and what caused it.
How to use the Ghost API to schedule an email-only newsletter
Documentation? Sorta. Here's what works.
How to load custom styling for Ghost comments
Restyling your built-in comments is possible!
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.
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.
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.