Howdy.
I am not looking to make any money from my site. I would like to collect emails from people that choose to sign up for the newsletter, but would like to never have them create an account.
Is that possible? I found the toggle to turn off the sign up/in, but that also turns off the ability for people to subscribe.
Thanks
A free account on Ghost is just the member’s email and optionally their name.
It doesn’t make sense to say that you don’t want to have users create an account, but you want them to get the newsletter. Subscribing /is/ creating an account.
“Sign in” and “account” infer username/password in most contexts, which I do not want.
Subscribing within the context of newsletters should be a required email, and optional name.. but wouldn’t necessarily mean that there’s a cost, email/password requirement, etc. While internally to Ghost or site admins, I agree that “account” could mean a password-less method of subscribing it’s confusing to the users I have shared this with thus far.
I think this might be what I’m looking for:
Removing the sign up and account concept.
Ghost does not even support email/password for member accounts. It’s enter your email (and optionally name), and click an emailed link to get in.
You certainly can build a custom flow. But you should probably try what’s already available in Portal (the default membership management app) before you do, because you’re complicating things here.
(Staff accounts, like the website owner, are totally different.)