In Ghost 3 you could choose whether the members area was activated or not in the Labs section. With Ghost 4 this has been disabled and members are on by default. However, I’d argue most existing Ghost users aren’t using the members feature. If you’re running a portfolio or a corporate website having…

@Mathieu_Rouault - you are right. There are themes which don’t have any subscribe functionality. But, even for those themes, the portal.js script is still loaded, and this can cause SEO problems. There’s a ticket about this here: Seeing HTTP 401 on an XHR request while not using Portal (the portal …

If I want members, I want them to interact with me, with the article, to express their opinions and Ghost doesn’t have a comment system. Users have been asking for this for a long time.

I agree, it would be nice to have by default in the portal.js a way to be GPDR compliant, by adding a checkbox and a link to privacy policy. But it’s another question, and I cannot see why someone who doesnt want to use members functionnality would complain about this anyway. Moreover, it is still p…

Hello @bop ! I may be wrong but I think that even portfolio or corporate blogs owners want to keep their audience informed, occasionnaly or frequently, about the content they published. So I would tend to think that the members functionnality (paid or not) covers a large number of various situations…

Hey @Mathieu_Rouault , I just want to add my voice to this convo. I recently spun up a ghost blog purely to use as a portfolio of sorts. I need a central hub where I can link social media accounts/communities together and promote compositions for video game music and show some graphic work. Essentia…

For completeness here some related topics: [image] Ghost 4.0 - Really Terrible for Personal Blog Using Ghost I’ve been using Ghost since 2014. It’s been good all the way, until version 4.0. The theme update breaks some custom code injections. OK, we can just use the 3.x …

I’m also a great fan of Ghost and I’ve been using Ghost for years by now. I live in a country that Stripe (the only payment method that is available on Ghost) doesn’t support and currently, I do not have the ability to use the most useful feature of Ghost, the membership feature. Since I could not …

I agree with the idea, I like the new updates but there should be a way to disable the members / subscription capabilities without having to resort to hacks: removing the template blocks is a start but the scripts are still included in the HTML document.

I also wish to turn off the subscribe buttons. The toggle under “Look & Feel” turns off the floating one, so why not the ones in the header and footer too? I am perfectly happy with the default Casper theme and have no wish to change theme simply to get rid of these buttons that were not there prev…

Add toggle to turn off members feature

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Kevin March 22, 2021, 8:02am 15

I’ve updated the topic title to better reflect the proposed idea

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Add toggle to turn off members feature

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