Ease theme, tags, and pages

Themes
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Hi again, Ghost community!

So, I wanted to try and use the Ease theme on my site because I thought it would work better considering that the content of the site includes blog posts and lecture notes. I thought I would tag some of the content by course.

However, when I tried it, most of my tags are empty. They’re not supposed to be empty as I’ve already added in some of the pages.

And I think that’s the problem: the ease theme doesn’t recognize pages. Am I correct with this one?

If I am, is there a way to make the theme recognize the pages and not just the posts?

Thank you.

If it helps, my site can be found here, by the way: https://joanadvincula.xyz/.

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That’s typical behavior. Collections like /tag/whatever contain posts, not pages. Its possible for a theme to include pages (by making a separate get request), but I don’t know of many themes that do this.

In general, think of posts as things that get grouped, and pages for single items.

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So, there is no built-in way at present to fetch tagged pages?

The thing is, it won’t work for my website to have the “things that get grouped” as posts. Those pages are class notes, so they are better as pages instead of posts. It will work for the overall schema of the website better that way.

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If you can edit the site, you can certainly create a custom-pagename.hbs that retrieves pages with a particular tag, or edit the tag.hbs file to show pages also.

Why? I maybe don’t understand your use-case, but the only thing that pages can do that posts can’t do is pages can have their featured image and title turned off. Pages don’t get indexed for search, and they can’t be routed as a group. Lots of downsides, few benefits.

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It’s better for the overall formatting/layout of the site.

I don’t want the pages, which are mostly lecture notes, to appear alongside the posts, which are mostly blog/newsletter entries.

I did not, however, know that they don’t get indexed for search. That’s something to consider since I need my students to be able to search my site; more importantly, search the lecture notes.

If it helps add context, the old WP version of the site can be found here: https://old.joanadvincula.xyz/.

This is the site I’m trying to migrate and mirror in my Ghost pub.

Have I approached this all wrong?

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Maybe you could contact the theme author. I usually have found that theme authors have documentation for their themes and are very happy to answer support questions.

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Thanks for the idea, but it’s just one of those built-in themes in Ghost.

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That’s easy to do with routing. :)

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Thanks for sharing!

I’ll look into that.

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Ah I see, sorry I did not realise.