# Bookmarks not working Source theme

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [November 6, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266 "2024-11-06T21:57:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jazzy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@jazzy1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jazzy1)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266/1 "2024-11-06T21:57:13Z")

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Hello new to ghost and new to the forum.

I have ghost installed locally to learn on, I want to add a bookmark from one ‘post page’ to another, the bookmark shows correctly in the editor but doesn’t show correctly when viewing the live post page in a browser??

What am i doing wrong :(

I assumed something simple like this would work straight out the box being that it’s a clean install of ghost and ghost theme?

Sorry if posted in the wrong place, thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266/2 "2024-11-06T23:17:18Z")

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Screenshot please?

Local installs can be a bit fussy.

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**Author:** ![jazzy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@jazzy1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jazzy1)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266/3 "2024-11-07T07:46:16Z")

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Thank you Cathy, I managed to follow a guide to install ghost in a docker at the weekend so just tried it on the live (private) site and it works correctly I didn’t think to try that yesterday.

Do you know why it doesn’t work locally? I like to test and layout everything locally then transfer to the live site i’m building.

Many thanks for the help :)

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266/4 "2024-11-07T09:56:26Z")

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So there’s a known bug where assets (necessary to style most of the cards, including the bookmark) don’t get correctly generated on Windows. @9larsons has a patch for it, but it hasn’t been merged. I don’t know if that’s the bug you’re seeing, because you haven’t included enough information about your setup, but that’d be consistent with the behavior you’re describing.

For local testing, I run on a Windows laptop, but I use WSL2 with Ubuntu, so I’m effectively running on Linux, which has better support than Ghost on Windows does. I highly recommend that, if you’re on Windows!

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**Author:** ![jazzy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@jazzy1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jazzy1)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266/5 "2024-11-07T14:56:24Z")

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that makes sense, thanks for the reply, hopefully anyone who has the same issue will find this post now, I did think it was odd for something so simple to not working correctly.

thanks again

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bookmarks-not-working-source-theme/52266/6 "2024-11-07T16:15:41Z")

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It’s been discussed a number of times on the forum, but I think its not obvious to anyone searching what exactly they’re looking for.

> [@CSS and js for cards are not being loaded in local development mode](https://forum.ghost.org/t/css-and-js-for-cards-are-not-being-loaded-in-local-development-mode/27410/8):
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> I think there’s an issue filed for this - [Cannot generate assets (cards, admin-auth, etc) on local windows install · Issue #14278 · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/14278)
