Practical guides to building and growing a Ghost site: themes, hosting, newsletters and moving from other platforms.
A reading progress bar for long posts, smooth transitions between pages, and alt text written for you by AI. Three small improvements readers notice, each in a couple of clicks.
Michal Wlosik
· 4 min read
Add share buttons for X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, WhatsApp and more to every Ghost post, with no third-party scripts, no cookies and nothing to slow your site down.
Michal Wlosik
· 4 min read
Make your homepage hero fill the screen, add a looping video or gradient background with a shade for readable text, and keep it fast on phones. No code.
Michal Wlosik
· 4 min read
Use any font on your Ghost site without editing theme code: pick from a curated list or upload your own .woff2, .ttf or .otf files. Plus which file to use, licenses, speed and privacy.
Michal Wlosik
· 4 min read
Ghost doesn't color code blocks or let readers copy them in one click. Here's how to add syntax highlighting in your theme's own colors, a language bar with a Copy button, light or dark blocks, line numbers and wrapping. No code.
Michal Wlosik
· 5 min read
Ghost's search only matches titles and excerpts. Here's how to add a search that reads the text of your posts, shows the sentence that matched with your words highlighted, and opens with Ctrl+K or /. No code.
Michal Wlosik
· 4 min read
Collect early users for your app on your own Ghost site: a waitlist that signs people up as Ghost members, shows a live count and each person's place in line, and gives them invite links to move up. No form tools or spreadsheets.
Michal Wlosik
· 5 min read
Build a complete Ghost theme without touching code: start from a theme, edit text and pictures in place, add sections from a library of 270, set colours and fonts, design every page, and publish to Ghost in one click. Step by step, with screenshots.
Michal Wlosik
· 10 min read
A step-by-step guide to the Magazine theme for Ghost: turn sections into tags, set up the navigation, fill the front page, editor's picks and section fronts, add your writers, sell memberships and send a weekly newsletter.
Michal Wlosik
· 8 min read
A step-by-step guide to the Newsletter theme for Ghost: a Substack-style homepage and reading page, then newsletters, paid plans, /p/ addresses, Plans, Welcome and About pages, comments and recommendations.
Michal Wlosik
· 9 min read
Run Ghost on your own Hostinger server with Ghost preinstalled: 4GB of RAM from $6.49 a month, weekly backups and a free domain. Step by step, with screenshots, plus email and theme setup.
Michal Wlosik
· 7 min read
Lighthouse says your llms.txt "does not follow recommendations"? On Ghost, the fix is one switch in Settings, and it isn't labelled llms.txt. Here's where it is, what Ghost serves, and how much it matters for SEO.
Michal Wlosik
· 6 min read
