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A handful of custom fields that can be attached to post objects, defined by the theme.
A teeny bit more ability to do code-like things with handlebars, like check if a string is in a list of strings, set and increment a variable that persists outside the hashtag#get request, loop over some strings (hashtag#foreach loops over LETTERS not words)
More customizability of the newsletter.
Welcome drip.
Digest emails.
A way to wipe a Ghost install all the way back to zero (clears newsletters, tiers, metadata, etc, not just content).
An exporter for images - setting up a dev environment for a site on Ghost Pro is a real nuisance. (Yeah, one of these days I’m just going to write a script…)
Oops, you said ‘feature request’, not ‘feature requestS’, huh?
@RyanF, I’ve had a number of times when a custom field would have been useful. Here are a few examples that have come up in various projects:
location
date (for blog posts about future events)
URL (for example to store a podcast URL)
uuid or similar (to be used to associate a post to some content that lives elsewhere)
a string longer than custom_excerpt, for example for building custom RSS feeds ( I wand description AND summary)
It doesn’t have to get crazy or complicated - a handful of fields (on each post) to type a string in would be awfully nice! And if the theme could LABEL those fields, that’d be epic.
collaborative writing/editing, and/or some kind of notes system (as in advanced TK Reminders / internal comments)
integration with Discrouse (such as integrating Discourse on Ghost into Ghost)
dark mode capability for Portal
simple way for emails of posts to exclude post content and instead include a custom message
ability to place unpublished posts into an unpublished section (or something along those lines) rather than into drafts
option to randomise embedded Recommendations (so it doesn’t look like a list of favourites – most favourite at top, least favourite at bottom)
ability for Ghost(Pro) users to turn set imageOptimization to false (as its accessibility in the config.production.json file is currently only available to self-hosters)
(MAJOR) Ability to have authors (w/ author cards) without putting the person(s) on staff. (I have a LOT of outside writers and sources; doing fake email addresses for all of them is too much of a pain.)
Custom fields, for sure. I would like to have ZIP as a field on sign-up, for example.
An internal bookmark card that is different from the external bookmark card. (Probably unique to my situation, so would go way down the backlog.)
Perhaps an easier way to do tables. (Again, probably unique to our publication.)
+1 for a custom field, even that it opens up a can of potential worms ;)
but that would be my "stop everything - lets do this! " order right after coffee
