I’d like to be able to redirect people to Portal or to an upsell membership page in two places:
after people successfully submit their email in the inline subscribe form (it currently does… nothing, except show a success message)
after people click on the double opt-in in their inbox (it currently forces a recommendations popup, even if you don’t have any recommendations to show. Love my indies but my priority is my own funnel, not other people’s growth…)
Any advice on how to implement this? Please break it down for a non-coder.
It’d be great to have these things out of the box in Ghost. Currently the only path to a halfway decent audience funnel is an email welcome cycle, for which you have to pay yet another subscription to Zapier or Outpost. Love Ghost but this is a serious limitation to building a business here, it has got to prioritise monetisation…
You can set a welcome page (it’s in the portal settings) that people will be redirected to.
If portal is showing recommendations when there aren’t any to show, that’s a bug - please consider making a post about that over in the Bugs part of the forum, or on https://github.com/tryghost
The behavior of the inline subscription form is something your theme controls – it could attempt to upsell, although the problem with doing that at this point is that the user is not yet logged into Ghost, so they’d have to enter their email a second time.
Update: actually I stand corrected, the double opt-in does redirect to the welcome page I had set up in Portal. I hadn’t noticed because it’s hidden behind that empty recommendations box. I’ll report the issue under Bugs.