Running a second site from the same Ghost (Pro) subscription using Ghost as a Headless CMS

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Hello,

I have a publication set up with Ghost (Pro) managed hosting, and am looking to start a second publication on a different URL, using the same Ghost subscription to manage content, newsletters and memberships for both sites in one centralized place. I have some experience with Ghost theme development, but have little familiarity with managing memberships and newsletters directly.

I understand how this works for serving content – using Ghost as a Headless CMS with something like Gatsby, then filtering posts by author or tag for each site. I also believe memberships can be kept site-specific by creating different tiers for the new site and in the sign-up flow, only showing the tiers that correspond to each.

The point of confusion for me is how the second site would handle memberships and newsletters. I found this blog post about using the Admin API to sign up new members on a headless Ghost site, but it’s a few years old and still leaves me with a few questions:

Assuming I use the standard sign-in email link functionality on the new site, is there a way to make the link send them to the new domain?

Can Stripe be set up on the second, headless site to support paid memberships?

Is there a way to make newsletters that go out to subscribers of the second site link them there, rather than the primary site attached to the managed Ghost instance?

Any help would be appreciated here <3

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Ghost sends email as one domain only. I think that’s going to be a problem for this plan, both newsletters and transactional.

You could possibly stick a reverse proxy in front of ghost and use it to capture and redirect clicks coming from email to get them to the right domain, but it’s going to be wrong on the email.

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