"channels" or "collections" for my blog?

[jsh4]

I’m enjoying diving into Ghost this morning…

In short, I’d like to have a homepage of recent content, with a separate archive page - similar to what you can see on ZenHabits…

Am I right in saying that, to do this, I should use ‘Collections’ rather than ‘Channels’?

thx,

Jas

[John]

There are quite a few ways to do this! I would probably stick a channel on /archive/ and then follow this guide for styling ideas:

Monthly Archive Index Pages

Hi. I’m relatively new to Ghost—I’m working on my second site with it, and my second custom theme—and I’ve run into a dead end. (I’m prototyping the site on Glitch using Ghost 3.0.0) I want to have an archive index page with no individual entries, but rather a list of months/years, i.e. “January 2020”. Following a month link would then bring you to a page containing all the posts for that month. I’m having trouble figuring out how to do either of these things. There doesn’t seem to be a way to…

[jsh4]

thanks v. much @John! I’ll see how I get on