Hey! Welcome to Ghost, it's great to have you :)
We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site
with some initial Getting Started posts that will help you get familiar with
everything in no time. This is the first one!
There are a few things that you should know up-front:
1. Ghost is designed for ambitious, professional publishers who want to
actively build a business around their content. That's who it works best
for. If you're using Ghost for some oth
Ghost uses a language called Markdown to format text.
When you go to edit a post and see special characters and colours intertwined
between the words, those are Markdown shortcuts which tell Ghost what to do with
the words in your document. The biggest benefit of Markdown is that you can
quickly apply formatting as you type, without needing to pause.
At the bottom of the editor, you'll find a toolbar with basic formatting options
to help you get started as easily as possible. You'll also notic
Sometimes you might want to put your site behind closed doors
If you've got a publication that you don't want the world to see yet because
it's not ready to launch, you can hide your Ghost site behind a simple shared
pass-phrase.
You can toggle this preference on at the bottom of Ghost's General Settings
Ghost will give you a short, randomly generated pass-phrase which you can share
with anyone who needs access to the site while you're working on it. While this
setting is enabled, all searc
There are lots of powerful things you can do with the Ghost editor
If you've gotten pretty comfortable with all the basics
[https://nando.themepen.com/the-editor/] of writing in Ghost, then you may enjoy some more
advanced tips about the types of things you can do with Markdown!
As with the last post about the editor, you'll want to be actually editing this
post as you read it so that you can see all the Markdown code we're using.
Special formatting
As well as bold and italics, you can also u
Ghost has a single, powerful organisational taxonomy, called tags.
It doesn't matter whether you want to call them categories, tags, boxes, or
anything else. You can think of Ghost tags a lot like Gmail labels. By tagging
posts with one or more keyword, you can organise articles into buckets of
related content.
Basic tagging
When you write a post, you can assign tags to help differentiate between
categories of content. For example, you might tag some posts with News and other
posts with Cyclin