Public preview for *premium* members only

Memberships & subscriptions
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Hi. New Ghost (Pro) user, currently using the “Edition” newsletter theme.

I want in public posts to drive readers to the premium subscription after a few paragraphs of text. The obvious thing to do would be to add the ‘public preview’ widget/button, but that only says “this post is for subscribers only” and I want to emphasise that the rest of the post is only for premium/paying subscribers. Is it possible to edit the public preview text or is there another workaround?

Thanks in advance, love the CMS, great to be part of the community.

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Out-of-the-box, this depends on the theme, but can be done. However, to do this you need to edit the theme files.

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OK thanks. I’ll have a dig. A little frustrated at how little fluidity/UX help there seems to be vis-a-vis ways to nudge people to paid.

It’s easy to email content to premium subscribers only, but in an ideal world gating content to paying subscribers would be a simple thing.

e.g. Currently if I add the public preview I get this when you click it.

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I presume that even if I edit the theme files to change the wording of the public preview button so it says “this post is for [premium] subscribers only” there would still be the “already a member: sign in” button at bottom which would allow non-paying members to click through. I’d love to see a super easy way in most themes to gate content to paying subscribers only…

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If you set post access to paid, you’ll get the public preview working how you expect in many themes.

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I’m not experiencing these issues with the themes I use. If a non-subscriber or subscriber views a paid-only post, they will see the preview and an appropriate message, which changes according to their membership. Signed-in users won’t see a message for posts in their tier.

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Folks thanks so much. I’m an idiot. In my theme, when writing a post there are prominent “preview” and “publish” buttons and the publish button did not have the options to do what I wanted. But after further exploring and reading your comments I can see this function in the additional small menu at top right which allows that setting for posts and not just newsletters. All fixed. Thanks again.

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