Any creative solutions for large Archives?

Themes
1

I’m just setting up my Ghost website and before I go all-in on a particular Theme, I thought I’d check whether anyone has any suggestions for an installation that’s going to have a lot of archives. (I should note I’m not a coder, and am on a bit of a tight deadline, so at the moment I need off-the-shelf.)

  • I write daily, and am bringing over around 500 posts, bit by bit
  • I will continue to write daily, generating lots of evergreen content that will be spread across three tiers of access (Member/Basic/Premium)
  • I am being diligent about tagging posts, so that I have comprehensively populated tags collections

Has anyone got any creative solutions for how to manage such a large archive that people may want to explore?

At the moment, I’m edging towards the paid-for Brief theme (Brief) because it looks to tackle some of this, but I wonder if there are any others I should consider too?

As a side note, is there any reason I couldn’t create my own “Featured” page by creating a static page that has Headings and Bookmarks to particular posts? (And is there any other way of getting creative with large amounts of content within the limits of a regular “Post” page?

Thanks for any tips!

2

500 posts is nothing. :slight_smile: I’ve seen sites with 50,000. :slight_smile:

Tagging is great. Take a look at the routes.yaml documentation, that can be used to make multiple collections of posts.

Any theme can do an archive page. At the simplest, it’s just the index template. :slight_smile:

1 Like