# View in browser link with custom page.home

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/view-in-browser-link-with-custom-page-home/63955>\
**Category:** Routing\
**Created:** [October 10, 2026, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/view-in-browser-link-with-custom-page-home/63955 "2026-10-10T01:59:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![disgustipated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@disgustipated](https://forum.ghost.org/u/disgustipated)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/view-in-browser-link-with-custom-page-home/63955/1 "2026-10-10T01:59:30Z")

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I’m using the source theme and im trying to have a custom page editadble from a user perspective. I’m using the dynamic routes like this

```auto
routes:
  /: 
    data: 
      post: page.home
    template: page

collections:
  /events/:
    permalink: /events/{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: primary_tag:events
  /newsletter/:
    permalink: /newsletter/{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: primary_tag:newsletter

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

```

When this is used, posts are made and emailed out and the “View in Browser” link doesnt work. but if you go directly to the post view. Am i doing something wrong in the routes? i think ive worked around this in a previous theme by using a custom page template and then using {content} of a #page somehow but cant recall how that was used either. im mostly confused why the view in browser link is going to a 404 with the above routes.

how this differs is with the default collection base url

```auto
collections:
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

```

if i have the above in the collections along with the events and newsletter filters mentioned previously they do not display any posts but the view in browser link in the email does work.it does look like its loading the partials/components/post-list.hbs in the default source theme as it does display the sidebar section and there is a main.hg-main element when looking in dev tools.

another way to explain what im seeing i guess is say a post is created without the proper tag to have a permalink. the post gets emailed, and someone clicks on the link, it goes to a 404. the view in browser seems to not be stored correctly im guessing in the reference url which looks like some sort of guid that gets stored somewhere. if you add the proper tag later how do you update that?

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**Author:** ![disgustipated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@disgustipated](https://forum.ghost.org/u/disgustipated)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/view-in-browser-link-with-custom-page-home/63955/2 "2026-10-10T12:01:50Z")

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ok i found where to edit that so that the email links work under post analytics \> newsletter \> newsletter clicks \> edit button. so this is how you can fix it after its sent.

im still curious though, this makes the person creating posts required to enter in a tag for any post to display correctly. if they add a post without any tags and it gets emailed how do i have the theme have a fallback url for the post without a tag? if i do an email only post the link to the view in browser in the email does work as expected.