How to customize the newsletter email template HTML

Developer help
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Hi, I’m using Ghost Pro and I’d like to customize this email template’s HTML:

email-template
email-template1480×822 111 KB

Is this possible?

I asked ChatGPT and it seems to think you can just install node locally, install ghost-cli, clone an existing theme, create a “newsletter.hbs” file, zip up the theme, upload it, and set it to active… but I did this and the previews on ghost.io still show the attached image above, not the newsletter.hbs that I created in my cloned theme. Do I need to self-host or go some other route in order to edit this email template HTML? I’m very familiar with having to use tables/inline styles/all that jazz, just can’t figure out where to go to edit this.

Any pointers would be much appreciated!

  • What’s your URL? N/A
  • What version of Ghost are you using? latest on ghost’s site

And

  • How was Ghost installed and configured? N/A using Ghost Pro
  • What Node version, database, OS & browser are you using? N/A
  • What errors or information do you see in the console? N/A
  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having?
    • Visit ghost’s site → Newsletters → Edit
2

This is an example of why you should not trust chatGPT, btw. That’s 100% hallucination. Themes cannot change the newsletter template that gets emailed out. That’s not part of the theme, but part of the Ghost core.

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No, editing how the newsletters look is not possible outside of the parameters you see in the settings on the right.

ChatGPT hallucinated a bit there, unfortunately.

4

Okay sounds good, thanks so much! Stupid AI making stuff up! :dotted_line_face: