🎁 Build with Ghost: Wrapped 2023

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🎁 Build with Ghost: Wrapped 2023

Welcome to the final issue of 2024 Here’s what we have in store:

• A rundown of everything that came to Ghost in 2023
• Learn how Rob Conery transformed his Ghost site into a course platform and other resources on style and design
• Sites featured
• Our most popular links
• Tutorials published

Every new feature in Ghost from 2023

It was a busy year for Ghost. Here is every major feature we shipped this year Kind of makes you excited for what we’ve got planned for 2024, right?

January

• Ghost VS Code extension
• Automatic list cleaning

February

• Email troubleshooting

March

• Include latest posts in newsletters
• Add subscription details to newsletters
• Invite members to reply in the comments
• Minimalist newsletter settings

April

• Add signup terms to Portal
• Post analytics exports

May

• Duplicating posts
• Bulk actions on posts
• Announcement bar

June

• Signup cards
• Embeddable signup forms
• Portal translations (beta)
• The new Ghost editor (beta)

August

• Header card improvements
• Build better landing pages

October

• Refreshed settings
• The new Ghost editor
• Ghost Bookmarker
• Post history
• Native image editing
• Source: Our new default theme

November

• Emoji autocomplete
• Recommendations (beta)

Ideas and tools

• Rob Conery turned his Ghost site into a full-fledged course platform. Learn about the engineering behind it in “Hacking Ghost for Fun and Profit.”
• Style external links distinctly (with the little arrow denoting you’re leaving the site) with this guide by CSS in Real Life.
• If you’re writing CSS, you’ve likely used some of its many units like px, rem, and vw. But have you used the new line height unit? Andy Bell breaks down everything you need to know about lh.
• BrandGuide is a repository of company design identities, that is, the company’s guides to logos, typefaces, color, and everything else that makes them what they are.

Featured sites from the above image, starting from the upper left. Many featured sites are found on the recently redesigned Ghost Explore.

• 404 Media
• Android Wedakarayo & Thimira Thenuwara
• Erin Mikail
• Liz Rowe
• Gorilla Sun
• Architecture Notes
• Airtable
• Maker Stations

Most popular links

These are the most clicked links from previous issues of Build with Ghost.

• State of CSS 2022: Features
• Graphic design trends
• Website typography examples
• 50 essential graphic design resources
• Modern CSS principles
• Bento grids
• Scroll progress animations in CSS
• Curated web design examples
• Typescript library for Ghost

We published these tutorials in 2023 to give you a few more moves when building with Ghost (Many of these tutorials also had accompanying YouTube videos.)

• Custom settings are the ultimate power-up for themes

• How to debug your theme

• The art of the post template

• Build a custom sign-up form

• A complete guide to partials

• A comprehensive guide to the default template

• A comprehensive guide to the index template

• Essential concepts to know when building a Ghost theme

• Install Node on macOS, Windows, and Linux

• How to install Ghost locally

• How to create a read-next section

Thanks for building with us.

See you again in 2024