Publishing Options
The post settings menu within the editor allows you to fully optimise your content. This is where you can add tags and authors, feature a post, or turn a post into a page.
Here are all of the available options in the post settings menu:
Set a feature image
To set a feature image to be displayed with your post, open the post settings menu by clicking the gear icon and click the “Upload post image” button to upload an image from your file system.
To use the Unsplash integration to select a post image, click the camera icon in the post image box and select an Unsplash image.
Customise the Post URL
Ghost will use the title of your post to generate a Post URL. To change the Post URL, click inside the Post URL field in the post settings menu and type the new URL. Blank spaces will automatically convert to “-” in the URL field.
Change the publish date
To set the publish date of a post, click inside the date field within the post settings menu, and use the calendar to select a date. Publish dates can be future dated or back dated.
To set the time of a published (or scheduled) post, click inside the time field, and enter a time in 24hr 00:00 format. If the timezone is incorrect for your location, change your publication timezone in the settings.
Set a tag
To set a tag with your post, click inside the tag field within the post settings menu and begin typing your tag. If a tag already exists, it will populate the dropdown below.
Add a custom excerpt
To include a custom excerpt with a post to be displayed across your theme, enter the excerpt in the excerpt field. There is no limit on excerpt length. HTML will not be rendered in the custom excerpt.
Set multiple authors
By default, Ghost assigns post authorship to the logged in user creating the post. To change the author, use the author field in the post settings menu. Multiple authors can be assigned to a post by selecting the name of the author from the author list or typing the author name in the author field.
Customise meta data
Meta data and social sharing card details can be customised by clicking on the “Meta Data,” “Twitter Card,” or “Facebook Card” options from the post settings menu. Each option will allow you to customise the title and description of the post, as well as the image to be shared if customising social sharing cards.
Add custom canonical URLs
Ghost automatically generates canonical links and specifies the page or post as the preferred URL. If you need to override this automatic feature and set your own canonical link, you can enter the preferred URL in the Canonical URL field, below your custom meta data:
Common use cases for this include posting guest content on your site, working with multiple versions of the same content or generating reading lists with links to external content.
Inject custom code
To include custom scripts or styles with a post, use the “Code Injection” option from the post settings menu. Custom code can be added to the header or footer of the post. This feature is useful when adding additional tracking scripts to a post or making custom CSS changes that only apply to a single post.
Set a custom template
To use a custom post or page template with your content, select the custom template from the "Template" dropdown.
For details on creating custom templates in the Ghost theme layer, refer to our tutorial.
Turn a post into a page
To convert a post into a page, check the box in the post settings menu. Once converted to a page, the post will no longer appear in your list of posts on your homepage or elsewhere on your site and is only accessible via a direct link. To add a navigation link to your page, use the design settings menu.
To create static pages using custom theme templates, check out this tutorial.
Set a featured post
To set a post as featured, check the box next to “Feature this post” in the post settings menu. When a post is featured, a class of feature will be added to the {{post_class}} in the HTML code for the post. This will allow you to target the post differently for theme development.