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Posts about the Ghost blogging platform that runs this site.

Automating Event Reminders with Ghost and Warp

Automating Event Reminders with Ghost and Warp

I use the Ghost blogging platform to organize monthly potlucks. I like that the same post can both published to the site and to email. Ghost also supports scheduled posts and has a "duplicate post" feature that makes it easy to use a post as a template. Today

Ghost as blog and newsletter software for a local political campaign

Ghost as blog and newsletter software for a local political campaign

Yesterday Hopi Stosberg won her primary in a location election. I volunteered to setup web software for her. Here's what worked. Local campaign software goals In this small, local campaign there was no paid staff, so the candidate would be posting website content and sending out newsletters herself,

My Ghost Headline theme fork with dark mode

This blog is powered by the free, open source Ghost blogging software. Why I like the Headline theme For my personal site I wanted a dark mode theme that would work well for writing about a range of unrelated topics. I also go for months without writing anything at all,

Self-hosting Matomo with a shared MySQL database

The official way to self-host Matomo Analytics is using it's own dedicated MySQL container along with a container for Matomo. I'm hosting it on a VPS with limited resources that's already running a MySQL database, so I wanted Matomo to connect to the MySQL

Reverting to previous post revision in Ghost using SQL

Ghost 5.2 stores the last 10 revisions of blog posts in the database, but currently there's no interface to revert to a prior version using the web interface. Here's how you can restore a previous revision if it's not too later. What to

Fresh baked bread loaves

How to Add Recipe Schema Markup to your Ghost Blog

When it comes to food blogging, Wordpress is king. But if you only have a few recipes to add to your blog, perhaps like me you've chosen Ghost as your blogging software instead. What is Recipe Schema Markup While humans will read the your recipe blog post, software