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@johnonolan man, amazing news. Especially the $9 starter package. While I don't make a business of publishing and the other packages don't really make sense for me, a $9 package would be amazing.
The thing is, I don't see it on the homepage, to see the limits. Any timeline for that? :)
@bobbyvoicu We're setting lots of things live throughout the day! Should show up shortly :)
[edit: live now]
@petecodes Hi Pete. The iveel themes are in there, just by their individual names: Dawn, Alto, Edge, Ease, Ruby, Dope, and Wave. If you sort by "Official" you'll also see them easier. https://ghost.org/themes/
love ghost (tho it's a bit complicated to use)
question - do you guys have automations? (eg. a user signs up for the newsletter, so they will get a 5 email drip sequence over the next 10 days?) Convertkit currently does this well, but it's pretty expensive
@shaanvp Ghost doesn't have this specific feature. By design, there's an abundance of integrations available instead (https://ghost.org/integrations/) and long list of Zapier automations (https://ghost.org/integrations/z...). In case none of these work and you need something unique, there are webhooks (https://ghost.org/docs/webhooks/), which allow to customize reactions to certain events in Ghost as you need.
Jeepers now that's a huge release with some big community earnings to back it - it must be so rewarding seeing creators quit their day jobs after monetizing (with real MRR) on the new platform. Respect and well done.
@robhope Thanks Rob! The last year has been an absolute goldrush for the creator economy. Slowly at first, then all at once. Will be really interesting to see how this ecosystem evolves over the next few years
@robhope I agree! Huge release and an epic way to sell a paid newsletter, member subscriptions etc. I've added to https://servicetoproduct.com/sel...
I'm a sucker for a good looking dashboard – but this is SO much more than that! Congrats to everyone at Ghost on what looks like a fantastic release. This is HUGE!
Started writing on Ghost just a couple of days ago – so far I love everything!
I wanted a tiny blog that is deeply integrated with my site and so I'm using Ghost as a headless blog – I'm using it's Content API to fetch my posts in JSON.
This lets me show my blog posts however I want inside my site – looks like this:
https://microangel.co/blog
For me:
✏️ I love the editor, super nice to write, upload images, set excerpt, etc.
🛠 Content API is very sool and so easy to set up.
💾 I could host it on my own, but I didn't feel like I want to start thinking about how to install, should I take a new droplet on DigitalOcean, etc. So I went with cloud hosted Ghost.
💵 And it's great news that Ghost now has $9/mo starter package!
And I just pushed a button and upgraded to 4.0 👏
@raunometsa Great way to go Raul. What is your stack? How custom is your site in terms of ghosts plans?
@mjsand Hi Mark! Building it with PHP on Laravel. Not sure what you mean by "custom in terms of ghost plans", but I'm using a $9/mo Ghost and fetch posts data through API to show on my custom blog written in PHP. Because: 1) I want the blog to be inside my own site and 2) I don't want to learn how to build Ghost themes.
@johnonolan — this looks awesome. Been wanting to try Ghost, but I can't access the Ghost website at all because it blocks VPNs. Why is this, and is there any way to access it without a VPN? Can't image I'm the only one in the VPN boat unable to access Ghost. 🙁
@hiramfromthechi we regularly block IPs that we get abusive, automated/spam traffic from. Dont really care what else they get used for, more concerned about keeping our network online :)
Hey John congratulations, the new dashboard looks amazing! 🤩
I have a question about the Ghost Pro basic and standard plans. How many members do they include? It’s not very clear.
@andreboso I've updated the page to remove the confusing "+" symbols, sorry about that. Hopefully clear now
@johnonolan got it. If I can give you a suggestion, I think the current pricing tiers are perfectly calibrated in terms of website visitors but a bit short in terms of email subscribers, especially for folks like me with a list in the 2-3k range. Maybe keep the “+” 😝
@andreboso We'll be launching a 2nd pricing update very soon that takes care of exactly this :)
That's it team!
Love the native memberships and the zipless themes, I was just asked by a friend about options for a new site, and I think I know what I'll be recommending then...
Great timing.
@marcperel Zipless themes is huge - solves the most common pain point we saw early users hitting where they were intimidated (understandably) by having to deal with theme files. We're hoping to expand this functionality out to more areas in future, too :)
Super exciting to see one of my favourite pieces of software getting more powerful and useful for creators. It's been a blast following the progress of v4 over the past ~year masquerading as smaller v3 features 😅
I've been betting on Ghost becoming a standard in online publishing since I started working on Cove about a year ago, and I'm glad more and more people are starting to find out about it. It's the future.
Switched our blog from Hubspot to Ghost a year ago -- turned out to be a great decision. Looking forward to this update....the in-platform analytics look especially delicious. :)
@dannygreer Thanks so much Danny, we're stoked we get to help with the Close blog :)
?makers is there a way to curate my posts in one post? I'm thinking of using the cards within a post to import other post
I just set up my instance of ghost with the open sourced version and this is so easy to use! Is it possible to create multiple member tiers (free , paid yearly, lifetime?) I would loveto be pointed to some documentation if there is?
Newsletter curation and discovery is one of the biggest problems facing readers and writers, and Ghost is the best solution I’ve seen. Plus, it’s just beautiful. Congrats!
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.
Hey guys! Amazing update, I've been following Ghost for quite some time but decided to use another platform. But after this update I'm starting to consider switching back to Ghost. Really happy to see products growing and maturing, opening to more and more customers.
Hooray! The membership features have been an absolute game-changer for me. Thank you (and your brilliant team) for the work you do <3
As ever @johnonolan this is another fantastic update, with another significant adjustment to what's been a fascinating product and community. Really happy you and the team are out there in the world.
@johnonolan Is there a place to see a timeline for things to be rolled out. For example, I am looking to see if there is an image manager that I am missing somewhere, but I don't see it. I saw a blog post randomly that said it was coming but it wasn't from ghost itself.
The ghost is a really cool product, and your business model is admired and respected. I wish you endless growth!
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