Making my homepage look like a landing page instead of a blog

Using Ghost
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I’m using the free ghost theme “edition” and I am not on the pro plan.

I would like to make my homepage more like a landing page. I want to feature the work I do as a coach, who I work with, and so on, instead of having the homepage be my blog page. The first thing I want people to do is to consider learning more about my coaching, or booking a discovery session with me.

Is there a way for me to do this, or with another free theme, or is my only option to go to ghost pro and buy a custom theme that supports that option?

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By ‘not on the pro plan’ do you mean you are self-hosted or not on the paid plans?

You don’t need to buy a paid theme to make your homepage a landing page. You can create custom landing pages using Ghost’s page editor-just check out this guide: Build better landing pages.

Once you’ve built your landing page, you’ll need to update your routes.yaml file so that this new page becomes your homepage instead of your blog. This step is important to make sure visitors land on your custom intro page: Ghost Themes - Dynamic URLs & Routing

Of course, if you want something ready-made or with more advanced features, buying a theme designed for landing pages is always an option, but it’s definitely not required. Good luck with your coaching site!

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Thanks! I mean that I am on the Starter Plan. Which I guess is Ghost (Pro) and I just confused myself. However, I can’t change the home page based on what you’ve suggested. Unless I’m missing something, I can only create landing pages like domain.com/landingpage, but not at the domain.com level.

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No worries – you can certainly do all of these on the Starter plan.

Create a new home page (which by default will be at yourdomain.com/new-home), design it to your heart’s content, and then use routes to point to this new homepage, which will be live at yourdomain.com.

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Thanks, Roy. I had to get help via ChatGPT and dig into Ghost support to better understand. Thankfully, I figured things out. The Edition theme was still affecting the new home page but I found a workaround for that as well. :slight_smile:

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No worries mate. I hope it worked.