This is something that might be a bit of a dealbreaker for me using Ghost and I can’t find any information on it here.
I often faced the situation where I am in correspondence with a client or a potential client and there is a very specific article of mine that I wish to share with them, because it is so pertinent to their situation.
However, using Ghost, that article or post is very likely to be behind the paywall in the future. .
What is the mechanism for sharing a paywalled post with somebody who is not on a paid tier?
This is going to be absolutely essential for my business, and if there is not an officially sanctioned way, I need to find a workaround.
Can anyone offer any advice as to how this would be done, or know of anyone who would be able to help me achieve this?
A workaround would be to make a copy of the post and then send a preview link to the copy (left in draft mode).
Or you could make a tier just for these clients. If your other content is tier-restricted (not just restricted to paying), you could add this tier to the access list of the post you wanted to give access to, and give the client a week’s complimentary subscription. If this is a rare thing, that might work ok, although you’d have to remove the added tier permissions next time you wanted to share a different article. This wouldn’t scale well.
Another options would include a custom cloud function that stored your gift links and provided access. (That would be custom work, afaik.)
Or printing to pdf a copy and emailing it. (How well Ghost prints will depend on the theme.)
Draft mode I could do easily enough. PDF I could do, from my offline version in Scrivener.
I’m not sure I fully yet realise the difference between “tier-restricted” and “just restricted to paying” (aren’t all tiers above Free, “paying”?) – besides, I think I’ll run out of tiers, as I’m on Publisher.
Can specific content be shared on the basis of Labels?