It’s been asked many times and the staff’s response has been [image] Sort posts by popularity Developer help @afern247 Ghost doesn’t track views. Typical use-case is having Ghost behind a CDN or cache so most page views won’t actually hit the Ghost server for it to be able…

[image] calvinpark: Client side helpers go into core/server/helpers Client-side in this case refers to scripts that run in the web browser, not server-side scripts or helper files. [image] calvinpark: there’s no place to store secrets. The credentials for fetching the view data (from Goo…

My mistake on the wordings. I meant client side as is us the Ghost(Pro) user’s side, but I’ve used the wrong term to describe it. [image] Kevin: The secrets would be stored in the mentioned microservice, there are no helpers involved. Can you please elaborate? Where would the microservice li…

Another example of secret management pain points [image] Using Ghost on GitHub. How do I prevent API keys from being exposed? Can I use dotenv? Developer help Hello everyone, I have been manually having to delete all my API keys from my ghost theme every time I upload it …

To be clear, there’s a difference between secrets management and key management, especially in this context - secrets cannot be exposed, so they wouldn’t be used in a theme, while keys sometimes can be (in the example you linked to, the keys are public - one was for Google Books (which should be ori…

I understand what you’re saying but those keys aren’t public. We can make repeated API calls with the keys, get them rate limited, and break the site. A key having access to only public data doesn’t make the key itself public. Rather, a key is public only when it’s meant to be used by the public - …

Your “example” is a topic which was resolved based on secrets being misused and not needed in the first place. It really doesn’t seem like you understand what you’re asking. Kevin’s answer in the previous topic was correct. If you want to build a popular posts list then you can: Write one statica…

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calvinpark September 11, 2020, 11:43pm 4

Another example of secret management pain points

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