Hi! I’m using the content Toggle to collapse my podcast transcripts (example on the site I’m currently migrating: Productivity Tips for Entrepreneurs: Do Apps Work? · Women Conquer Business (under “subscribe to the show” you’ll see a transcript button that, when collapsed shows the episode transcript).
In my testing, when I email the new episode out, I noticed that the Toggle is expanded, which makes the message incredibly long. Is there a way to collapse the Toggle for the newsletter/email?
I have this same problem, and haven’t found a real solution.
My current workaround is send out the episode email with a direct link to the post (e.g. “Read the transcript at Opsy.work.”) and then I edit the post to add the transcript toggle after the fact.
This is obviously not ideal because it means I can’t schedule the posts, but I’d rather manually send and edit than include the long, uncollapsed transcript.
Hopefully, someone else will have a better workaround…
Thanks! I read elsewhere that the send/then edit was the current workaround. It’s funny because I guess I’d assumed (incorrectly) that the toggle would be collapsed upon sending. I’d love to see your website if you have a link to share. It sounds like you’re a podcaster too. Seems like a good way to get some ideas. Thanks again for your reply! Jen
Yeah, for sure! Hopefully, we’ll get a setting to auto-collapse in emails (or something) at some point.
My Ghost site is Opsy.work and here’s a recent ep of the podcast with my show notes and everything. Always cool to see more podcasters on Ghost. It’s such a great platform for it imo.
Very cool. I just followed you on Twitter. I like your site and the episode format is similar to what I’ll do once my info is migrated from WP. I agree it’s great for podcasters and creators. I think that once there are child themes (or something similar) and a couple of wrinkles like closed toggles fixed it will be a great platform for less technical people. I’m really enjoying the creator experience tho.
@jmac@carolinesyrup this is a limitation of email in general. Ghost uses a battle-tested email template to deliver your newsletters so they look great across many clients and devices.
If you include a toggle card in a newsletter then it is delivered with some extra styling, but there is no interactivity/click within an email, so the content is shown expanded.
Super excited. Finally out and live. Here’s my site Women Conquer Business. And here’s an example of a podcast episode page with the transcript toggle. I’m really enjoying my Ghost experience. First-class all the way.
I came to this thread, looking for the Toggle-behaviour-in-Newsletters answer myself.
That’s a great-looking website you’ve got there @jmac! I’m just starting out and it’s confirmed for me that the “Brief” theme is the way forward. Looks like it can handle pretty much anything.
Any tips or tricks, or “I wish I’d known this” bits of advice, feel free to message me – I’m on a steep learning curve here!
