Ghost 6 Coming This Summer

Contributing to Ghost
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Just seen a Tweet about Ghost 6 coming this Summer. :grin:

As existing users, do we get to know in advance what’s coming when they make big updates like this?

Does anyone know any tit bits what is coming with this major update?

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I don’t know this entirely just yet since I’m new… But it seems like Ghost is a little hush about this because they rather focus more on building than answering people over and over again. Moreover, they don’t want to promise something that ends up half baked from what it seems like. It’s best to keep an element of surprise for these things I guess.

You can watch updates as they are released in GitHub since the development itself is OpenSource. Another avenue to check in is the Changelog.

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(Reminder: I’m not the core team and I don’t work for ghost.org.) Best guess: analytics, activitypub out of beta, some more newsletter styling options.

I’m hoping they merge my theme translation overhaul, which would allow making the official themes translatable. But we’ll see!

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Any guess about being able to make changes in the login/subscribe windows besides translation?

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I had a client a couple months back who wanted the ability to customize portal (color scheme and placeholder text), and was told that I should fork portal. So I suspect that the answer is “no one is working on it right now, other things are higher priority.”

Wording changes in portal are easier than they used to be, IF you’re comfortable with development and have a Ghost dev environment already set up. For that matter, they’re not all that bad if you just download the minimized portal and search and replace the specific text you want to change. (All you need there is a little attention to detail and a text editor.)

If you want to load a custom version of portal:

  • self hosters can just change the url it loads from. (I think this might also be an option at Magic Pages, @jannis ?)
  • anyone (with custom theme permissions) can download their theme, make changes, and upload again. Specifically, you’d change change the line with {{ghost_head}} to {{ghost_head excludes="portal"}} and then add a separate line that loads the portal. It would look like this:
  <script defer src="https://YOURURL/portal.min.js" data-i18n="true" data-ghost="{{@site.url}}" data-key="{{content_api_key}}" data-api="YOURBACKENDDOMAIN/ghost/api/content/" data-locale="YOUR TWO LETTER CODE LIKE en" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
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Yes, that’s possible at Magic Pages :slight_smile:

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Hey Jannis!
Do you have a tutorial on your site on how to make necessary customizations with this feature implemented? I notice there is a mention for “Portal” but no hyperlink.
Would be great for a complete noob :slight_smile:

Thanks Jannis!

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No, sorry. This is generally not my area of expertise. Changing the portal isn’t rocket science, but it’s also not something you can quickly whip up without basic coding experience, in my eyes.

Basically, you’ll need to modify and build your own version of this React app:

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