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GEO in Ghost

Back in July, Ghost launched some features to support GEO. What are these features and what are they doing for your site right now? GEO, if you're not familiar with it, is "Generative Engine Optimisation"—helping content to get found, indexed, and used by LLMs. So,

GCTools update: seed demo

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GCTools update: seed demo

seed-demo has shipped — it's the latest feature I've added to GCTools. seed-demo allows you to quickly spin up a Ghost site with dummy content. ⁉️GC what now? GCTools is a collection of command line utilities for working on content in Ghost. It's

GCTools update: remove tags

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GCTools update: remove tags

remove-tags is another new feature I added to GCTools. This one helps manage tags by allowing their removal from posts. ⁉️GC what now? GCTools is a collection of command line utilities for working on content in Ghost. It's particularly useful for folks who are migrating to Ghost

GCTools update: clean up canonical URLs

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GCTools update: clean up canonical URLs

I added a new feature to GCTools last month to help folks update canonical URLs across their site. ⁉️GC what now? GCTools is a collection of command line utilities for working on content in Ghost. It's particularly useful for folks who are migrating to Ghost or doing a

Generating author bylines in Ghost without inviting new staff members

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Generating author bylines in Ghost without inviting new staff members

🤫This is a quick guide to silently adding contributors to your Ghost site—no invitation emails needed—so that you can generate bylines on contributors' work Most Ghost themes use the staff user's metadata to generate bylines on their stories, and every staff user on your site

Counting posts on Ghost

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Counting posts on Ghost

⏳tldr: you can use Ghost's content API to quickly grab key stats about your writing output (how many posts, how many posts this year, how many posts by a specific author etc.). Ready to use examples are at the bottom of the post. Ghost has some great analytics

Simple "sign-up" pop-up for Ghost

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Simple "sign-up" pop-up for Ghost

💡This is a quick post to support something I am writing on the Ghost forum, as I needed a demo 😄 Folks often ask how to force a "sign up now" pop-up on their Ghost site. This is a design choice, so it falls into themes and customisation