Using the Casper theme, is there a simple way to make a nav menu item link to a page with all posts?

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I’m using the most recent version of Ghost and an up to date Casper theme (modified a little bit).

Is there a simple way to make a nav menu item link to a page with all posts?

So I want an item in the top nav menu “Blog” to link to example.com/blog/ that contains a list of all posts (not just ones with a specific tag). I know I could just add a “Blog” tag every post manually, but I’m trying to avoid this if possible, and I would much rather the link be example.com/blog/ rather than example.com/tag/blog/

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You could use the Content API for this as an option. Imagine the following:

  • A call to /ghost/api/v4/content/posts, using below query parameters
  • Using limit=all (this will be slow)
  • fields=url,title,featured,published_at,custom_excerpt,visibility
  • key=xxx (Your content api key)

This would basically expose all posts, with those following fields in a little JSON blob that you could wire up to do what you are wanting.

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Thanks! I’m a little surprised that there isn’t a more straight-forward way to do this. I would have thought that most or many people would want to have a page on their site that has a list of all their posts, like this blog articles | Derek Sivers (although if I do this, I will probably add a little more info about each post than Derek has, and use pagination so that the resulting page doesn’t end up becoming ridiculously long).

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Well if you add pagination and a bit more info. It almost seems like you are describing the home/index page of a blog :slight_smile:

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Isn’t what you’re describing the “home” feature of every basic setup, in it’s most simple, uncomplicated way? There you have all posts in chronological order…

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Yes, I think that you and @Caucasus-and-Mercury are both right. The reason I wasn’t thinking of it like this is that my site isn’t like a typical blog with all the posts on the homepage. The blog is just part of a larger site, similar to Derek’s website that I linked to above, and I only want to have 7 or so posts featured on the homepage.

By the way, do you know if Casper adds pagination to the homepage when you exceed the maximum number of posts, which I think is 15? So people can click “see more posts” or “next” or something to see another page of older blog posts in chronological order.

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Can’t you just put the for loop in index.hbs in a new .hbs file, hook up the routes and make it work?