I love Ghost, but the main thing I’m missing to fully embrace it is the ability to add custom fields to posts/pages. I’ve had a good search of the forum and it looks like there was previously a workaround by using “ gaspr.io ”, but that site now seems to be down. Has anyone else managed to find a way…

My best idea is to use another tool that generates structured HTML or Markdown, which is then put into Ghost manually or through the API. This is cumbersome and lacks the ability to target the custom data in queries when you are done. I see no way to add true custom fields to Ghost. For the speci…

That’s an interesting idea - thanks for posting about this. Unfortunately I would be trying to call the custom field data from the category pages (per post), so wouldn’t be able to get it working via this mechanism. I’m really glad you found a way to get schema markup working this way though - you’v…

Has anyone found out how to do Custom Fields? Really loving Ghost so far, but need to have ACF type of functionality if I’m going to be able to move away from WP.

I think lack of this feature blocks a big potential for using Ghost in many type of publications. Recipes is a good example but more interestingly, Ghost provides 2 official Podcast themes and 2 tutorials about how to use Ghost as a podcast website. But with a remark: Because Ghost doesn’t have cu…

They are cooking something up: [image] Ghost @Ghost so should we add custom fields? 11:05 PM - 6 Oct 2024 300 16

Thankfully, this is the one missing feature stopping me from going fully ghost for my brand

Yes, custom fields is a needed addition. Also, I need them to store ZIP codes of our members, so need them in the member records as well.

That’s what I was thinking, the possibility of adding some custom fields on the signup page would be great.

The closest thing I can generate to custom fields is an outside database solution. For example, I link to a Grist form for user registration to collect all of the other information I need (address, phone, etc). From there, N8N automates the account creation and sends the email confirmation. A sim…

Have raised this as an idea here: [image] Custom field for members Ideas We’d like to be able to capture some extra data, perhaps a phone number or date of birth. I see a few threads about this over the years but, thought I’d raise this as an idea people can …

Custom Field workaround?

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jesse_nz June 19, 2026, 5:51am 11

Have raised this as an idea here:

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Custom Field workaround?

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