Show specific tags in homaepage

Developer help
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New here, just getting setup. I looking to migrate my online education business to Ghost which will entail blog posts (public) and course content (private). The way I believe this would work best is if I only show posts with a specific tag on the homepage. I did see some posts about editing the code, but I’m not clear how that works when doing the ghost-hosted solution versus self-hosted.

Please help!

Ben

2

Hi @bsullins and welcome!

While I am new as well, I will do my best to help any way that I can.
What theme are you using? I am asking since premium themes and customization work for such themes are usually better answered by the theme author / developer.

If you’re using a free theme, which one are you using? I can install it on my local Ghost and try to help you that way.

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Thanks there. I’m using the default theme, whatever that is. And basically the idea is I only want the posts to show that are tagged “blog”. My intent is to use this for an online academy so a series of posts will essentially be lectures in a course. I could perhaps, create pages for that instead, but it seemed to make more sense as just simply using posts with specific tags.

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Okay, this was solved by adjusting the routes.yaml file with a collection that pulls in the posts with the tag I want. By putting this new collection above the index it removes it from that feed apparently.

routes:

collections:
  /courses/:
    permalink: /courses/{slug}/
    filter: tag:courses
    template: index

  /courses/excel-2021-tips-tricks/:
    permalink: /courses/excel-2021-tips-tricks/{slug}/
    filter: tag:excel2021tips+tag:lesson
    template: index

  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index


taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/
5

Good to know. You might wanna double check with a Ghost staff member if this approach is the best suitable in terms of not making / creating issues elsewhere.

6

They were the ones that showed me that, yes