Ghost Forum
In this lesson, you'll learn about the Ghost Forum.
Another source of help for Ghost is the Ghost Forum at https://forum.ghost.org/
As with the Ghost Help Center, I encourage you to familiarize yourself with the Ghost Forum before you actually need it. You may also want to create a login. It can be intimidating learning your way around a new forum. What area of the forum should a particular question go in for example? It's tough to know if you haven't already had a look around the site.
In the Ghost Forum, the current areas are:
- News
- Using Ghost
- Marketing & Promotion
- Memberships & Subscriptions
- Share & Showcase
- Bugs
- Ideas
- Off-topic
- Developer Help
- Themes
- Integrations & API
- Contributing to Ghost
I don't find Ghost to be very buggy. It works really well. However, if you find something not working as you think it should, you would report a bug in that forum area.
Be sure to describe the issue you're experiencing in as much detail as you can, and include the ghost version you're on.
Fill out the bug report template as completely as you can. An example of the template with an I reported is below:
Issue Summary
Search is either very slow or not working on Ghost Help Center
I should be able to type in a search, hit Enter, and have possible matches, if there are any, come up. I get a never ending spinner. I’ve tried Firefox and Safari and used terms I know should produce results like “member.”
Steps to Reproduce
Go to Ghost Help Center
Click in the search box at the top of the page
Type in a search term and hit Enter or just let it look for matches
Observe that it says “No matches found” and the spinner just keeps going
Setup information
Ghost Version
N/A I assume the latest since this is on Ghost’s main site.
Node.js Version
N/A I assume the latest since this is on Ghost’s main site.
How did you install Ghost?
N/A This is Ghost’s main site maintained by Ghost.org.
Provide details of your host & operating system
N/A This is Ghost’s main site maintained by Ghost.org.
Database type
N/A This is Ghost’s main site maintained by Ghost.org.
Browser & OS version
Firefox 108.0.2 (640-bit)
Safari 16.2 (18614.3.7.1.5)
iMac running Ventura 13.1
Relevant log / error output
None - I’ll upload an image of the failed search but I haven’t tried to debug.
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I apologize if this is the wrong location for this report. Please direct me to the right area if it is not the right place.
Thanks!
Ted
For hosted Ghost, it's updated weekly, so you're probably always on the latest version.
For a ghost server you're running, log in using Secure Shell (SSH), navigate to the Ghost directory, typically /var/www/ghost/, and type ghost —version. This option is only viable if you’ve created and are maintaining your own Ghost server.
Drop in to the Forum, create an account, and say "hi". Look around and get a feel for the place. Maybe, you can even answer someone else's question since you're becoming a Ghost Pro!
If you have things you'd like to see added to Ghost, submit your thoughts in Ideas.
We'll cover Requesting Features in a future lesson.