Build a Ghost website, so you can focus on content (not plug-ins)

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Dave Swift

Күн бұрын

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@theapefromspace 5 ай бұрын

Really helpful video. Clear, calm and concise. Good work Dave

@paradox_productions 10 ай бұрын

This was a well constructed video and great visuals man. Good job on the reoccurring revenue too!

@dave-swift 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ravindulakshitha3902 Күн бұрын

Great Video 👍

@dave-swift Күн бұрын

Thanks 👍

@MarkIsero 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding video, thank you.

@dave-swift 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@tubeMonger 7 ай бұрын

Thanks! I needed this.

@dave-swift 7 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@terrylina.8366 7 ай бұрын

Hi Dave! Thank you for sharing this valuable content with us. I'm looking at the three courses you offer. What is the difference between the Ghost Mastery course and the Self Host course?

@dave-swift 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for asking @terrylina.8366 Ghost Mastery is focused on using Ghost and building out a site with the front-end features. Self Host Ghost is about how maintain a server running Ghost if you choose to not use Ghost Pro, and instead install Ghost on a server from some place like Vultr or Digital Ocean. This is a more technical course for people learning about server administration. I hope that helps, let me know if you have other questions.

@terrylina.8366 7 ай бұрын

@@dave-swift thank you for your response, David! That makes sense

@98SilverPhantom 8 ай бұрын

Regardless of which theme I choose it does not provide an option to toggle off images for posts. Mine's appearing different from yours not sure why. So sick of seeing this "hello" image lol.

@spreadthegarden Жыл бұрын

I may have just missed this, but I am wondering if email subscribers can be added manually by me? Do those email addresses require double opt in? I'll get to that eventually as I have your courses, but I thought I'd ask here as well. Apologies if you covered that in the video. The purpose would be to move a list from elsewhere or to add people that tell me on the phone or in person or other person that they want to subscribe (yes, in my use cases that is likely to happen). 😁

@dave-swift Жыл бұрын

Hey Jon, Yes, they can be added manually by you... either one at a time or via csv upload. No double opt-in required.

@dave-swift Жыл бұрын

Here is how: share.clientamp.com/jk0T98bX

@AngelaHollowell 27 күн бұрын

Also, how robust are analytics? Substack doesn't allow you to toggle posts by highest viewed or allow you to see aggregated stats by month and I would really love those two things.

@dave-swift 26 күн бұрын

The analytics are very helpful, I'm not sure if they're exactly what you're looking for but I think they're quite good for native analytics. Of course you can always use third party analytics like GA4, Fathom, etc. Helpful links: ghost.org/help/website-analytics/ ghost.org/help/post-analytics/ I cover this in depth in my premium Ghost course: clientamp.com/details/ghost-mastery/

@redsondancer 4 ай бұрын

I want to do a photoblog of our travels for friends to follow. I want to post photos in a continuous scroll with captions or longer paragraphs for each. Mostly for mobile use. I want to place them chronologically with the ability to insert posts made later into the order by their date. Also the ability to send subscribers a notice that there are new posts to see. Then possibly tag posts like "Arizona", "Grand Canyon", "mountain" etc. Can you tell me where to learn this?

@dave-swift 4 ай бұрын

Hey @redsondancer, I cover adding posts with photos, adding captions, changing their post dates, tagging, email newsletters, and much more in my course Ghost Mastery: clientamp.com/details/ghost-mastery/

@OccultTeachings Жыл бұрын

Any plans for comparing using AWS vs digital ocean to see if there is a large price difference?

@dave-swift Жыл бұрын

Hey Occult -- Good question. With Ghost, you can get by with very minimal server specs. Especially when you use a CDN like Cloudflare. Because of the UX, I wouldn't recommend AWS to people unless they're already AWS fluent. In which case, they don't need me. I have a video here on setting up on DO: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnKoqYxqqbR0raM In my Self Host Ghost course, I run the site on Vultr. Even a $6/mo Vultr box can handle multiple Ghost sites. Here is that course: profitabletools.com/product/self-host-ghost/ And the demo site that is running on Vultr: nimblesound.com I'm also running this site on that same server, using an Cloudflare Reverse Proxy to install Ghost into a Subfolder (covered in course) brainrevenue.com/blog/

@CliffLawrence7 6 ай бұрын

Very helpful!

@dave-swift 6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@SabineWildemann-l9q 9 ай бұрын

Great one!

@dave-swift 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@davidegeaarrebola1506 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! This was really useful :)

@dave-swift 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@jamess5542 7 ай бұрын

Great video! What would you recommend is the best way to optimize the SEO for the site? I want to add more structured data and the current Ghost offerings are very limited.

@dave-swift 7 ай бұрын

Thanks! You'd need to use the code injection feature. You could write a schema template and then paste it into each posts code injection and update the contents for the relevant post. WordPress definitely wins for structured data! Maybe Ghost will catch up with version 6? 🤞

@jamess5542 7 ай бұрын

@@dave-swift thanks for that, Dave. What’s the best way of creating structured data for code injection that you would recommend?

@dave-swift 7 ай бұрын

www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0/ Test with: validator.schema.org Check my SkillJet course on Schema: skilljet.io/courses/schema-markup-guide/

@samuelonthewall 8 ай бұрын

How to create a top menu option that says "Articles", and once clicked it reveals a few options in the drop down menu?

@dave-swift 8 ай бұрын

You can add items to your menu from Settings > Navigation. Sub menus aren't support but you can add them by modifying your theme. Exactly how to do that will depend on the theme you're using. It might be easiest to look for a theme that has this feature if you don't want to write the code yourself.

@sallym3994 11 ай бұрын

Hi, can you explain how to connect a domain to ghost. I need real basic steps because I'm not really tech savvy I just signed up for ghost trial but want to connect a domain later on. I dont know all the technology terms, so help on this matter would be great appreciated. I enjoyed your video on how to get started in ghost. I thought I'd mention I do have a domain already bought on namesilo, but not sure how to connect to ghost with all the codes and however this works is beyond me. Please explain how to connect a domain to ghost and if anything else I have to do in my domain provider to get it connected. Thank you, SM

@dave-swift 10 ай бұрын

Hi Sally -- thanks for watching and commenting. Go to Ghost(Pro) > Domain to connect your domain. You'll need to create some DNS records on Namesilo Here are the details from Ghost: ghost.org/help/using-custom-domains/ Here is how to create DNS records with Namesilo: www.namesilo.com/support/v2/articles/domain-manager/dns-manager If you have trouble, I recommend connecting with Namesilo support as they will have access to your account and can probably set these up for you.

@IdeaSpotOrg Жыл бұрын

Dave. how do you back up your ghost website? In WordPress, there are solutions like Updraft Plus, All in One WP Migration, etc. to backup complete website. I couldn't find a similar solution in Ghost.

@dave-swift Жыл бұрын

Hey Sachinkhyalia, there is a script on Github called Wraith. It automates the backup process to nearly any cloud provider. I go through the setup and automate cloud backups to Google Drive in my course. You can find it here: profitabletools.com/product/self-host-ghost/

@joshuafcenters 11 ай бұрын

How do you make it so if someone buys my newsletter outside of ghost to zap them in that? I dont see that in zapier.

@dave-swift 10 ай бұрын

Hi Joshua, You can create a sales page in Ghost (I cover this in my course: profitabletools.com/ghost-5-mastery/) so I'm not sure why you'd need to sell outside of Ghost... it just adds complexity. One situation I could see is wanting to sell lifetime access to your newsletter -- for this you'd use a Stripe payment link, then have a webhook trigger (somewhere - could be Zapier/netlify/etc) that responds to the stripe payment by creating the Ghost user with a forever complimentary account. Theoretically you could probably take a similar approach for removing accesss, so if you really didn't want to use Stripe you could create another webhook to remove complimentary access.

@joshuafcenters 10 ай бұрын

So I can use something other than stripe to collect?

@dave-swift 10 ай бұрын

You'd have to built something with Zapier or a custom integration with the Ghost API, but there is no reason you couldn't.

@CoachLou17 6 ай бұрын

Great video. One question that I can't seem to find an answer to - is there an affiliate program built in? Not for me to promote Ghost, I see that. But a way for me to have affiliates promote my Paid content...

@dave-swift 5 ай бұрын

No there isn’t. You’d have to use a 3rd party SaaS.

@CoachLou17 5 ай бұрын

@@dave-swift Any recommendations? Have you used any for your biz?

@dave-swift 5 ай бұрын

I like (& have used) Rewardful: profitable.tools/rewardful

@hackmedia7755 3 ай бұрын

it's free to download and install onto my own server right?

@dave-swift 3 ай бұрын

Yes, I have a video on how to install it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnKoqYxqqbR0raM I also have a full course (paid) on managing self-hosted Ghost websites: clientamp.com/product/self-host-ghost/

@themediamoses Жыл бұрын

Hi Dave I've migrated a bunch of articles from WP to ghost, but none of them are connected to main page by tags or any other meta data. So nobody can explain how to connect them to the homepage. Do I have to make tag pages? Do they automatically populate after that?

@dave-swift Жыл бұрын

Hey Jon, I'm not sure I totally follow. You imported some posts and you want the to show up on your Latest Posts in your home page but they don't? Covering the basics here, but did you make sure they didn't import as unpublished? Also, you mention tags. When you import the articles form WP to Ghost, you can import the existing categories & tags. Did you import any of that data? Tag pages are created automatically. It's not something you should have to do manually.

@ultimateownsz 8 ай бұрын

What happened to the videos sound?

@dave-swift 8 ай бұрын

Sounds fine to me? What did you notice?

@ultimateownsz 8 ай бұрын

@@dave-swift not sure why but when I open up your video it has no sound.

@samuelonthewall 8 ай бұрын

I just had the same problem when trying to watch this video on the big screen TV. It seems to be fine now that I'm on my iMac. Something to look into though.