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For Cove's marketing website (this site you're on!), I wanted to use a single Ghost installation to power three different 'sites':
- the marketing site, which explains the product
- a blog containing Ghost-related articles
- an area for self-serve help and support documentation
- a second blog of product updates
I decided having a single Ghost site would be the best option, using it as a centralised place to contain all posts and pages together. I didn't want to set up four different sites and have to handle domain names, installing sites, and duplicating design/styling.
Using Ghost routes it's reasonably easy to serve four different “sites” from the same installation.
The desired setup
cove.chatwould be the main product homepage- Pages like
cove.chat/page/would let me add pages to the marketing site - The blog root would be
cove.chat/blog/, with post URLs likecove.chat/blog/post-title/ - The help docs would be at
cove.chat/help/, with post URLs likecove.chat/help/post-title/ - A simple Changelog page listing quick product updates would be at
cove.chat/changelog/
Updating routes.yaml
To get the desired split of content between the three collections of posts (and to push posts down a level away from the homepage), I edited the routes.yaml file.
To work on this file, you need to download the current version from the Labs section of your Ghost admin and open it in a text editor.
Using Ghost's documentation plus some trial and error, this is how the file ended up:
The homepage is a page I created with a URL of /home/. Using the data attribute, I can tell Ghost to bring in the data from that page. I specified to use the template home.hbs for this page.
To split posts between the blog, help docs and changelog, I used the collections section of the file. What this does is tell Ghost to use the URLs /help/, /changelog/ and /blog/ as the bases for each collection and pull in different posts for each plus use different templates for the post list (index) view.
The filter specifies which posts to bring in to each area of the site. All I have to do is tag any help posts with the internal tag #help and any changelog posts with #changelog; every other post is shown in the blog.
This system uses basic Ghost filtering. tag:hash-changelog+tag:-hash-help means “pull in all posts with the tag hash-changelog but not posts tagged with hash-help” (note the - before hash-help). I used internal tags for these collections, which start with the # character. Internal tags are never shown in Ghost themes and can be used to organise posts behind the scenes.
Something to note here is that I had to put the help and changelog sections above the blog section in the file to get every other post to go into the blog by default (I don't want to have to manually add a #blog tag to every blog post).
I left the taxonomies section of the file the same.
Now if users visit cove.chat/help/, they will see a section of only help posts, and at cove.chat/changelog/, there is a list of changelog posts. cove.chat/blog/ shows all other posts.
Different layouts
I mentioned briefly above about using different templates for each collection of posts. I wanted different designs for the blog, changelog and help docs, so I built out three slightly different 'index' template files called index.hbs, index-changelog.hbs and index-help.hbs (these are all in the theme's root folder).
I also created different partials for each type of post; on the blog, I want a featured image, title and date, whereas the help docs only shows the post title.
index.hbs
partials/post-card-blog.hbs
index-changelog.hbs
post-card-changelog.hbs
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This is a super simple template that displays the full post in the list page. As these posts will be at most a couple of paragraphs, it makes sense to show the whole post.
index-help.hbs
The help docs page has custom lists of posts. I use tags (like Memberships and Billing) to categorise all posts within the help section and then simply add a header and a {{#get}} block to get the related posts. Only the title is shown for each post.
post-card-help.hbs
And there you have it! Cove.chat is now split into four “sites”, powered by different collections of posts and a custom homepage template.
If you’ve ever used a dating app (and let's be honest, who hasn’t?), then chances are you've had the oh-so-wonderful (sarcasm!) experience of chatting with someone and starting to like them, only to have them up and disappear on you. No warning, no explanation, just gone. Ghosting is the worst, because not only is it confusing, but because there's no guidebook on what to do when someone ghosts on a dating app. Do you send them a follow-up message? Do you just shrug and get back to swiping? It’s frustrating.
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As annoying as it is to have someone pull a Casper on you, at least you're not alone. Julie Spira, online dating expert and author of Love in the Age of Trump: How Politics is Polarizing Relationships, tells Elite Daily that being ghosted is far from rare. “These days it's common to ghost someone you've met both on dating apps and offline,” says Spira. Why it happens varies from ghost to ghost, but Spria says what it really comes down to is the abundance options and opportunities to meet people, now that ghosting has become a natural byproduct of online dating. “While the abundance of choices in matches makes it easier to chat with or meet so many more people, it's the same quantity of users that often results in disposable behavior if someone just isn't feeling it, or if they've found someone else,” she says. Ugh.
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While it's reassuring to know it’s not just you getting the ghost treatment, it would still be really nice to know how to handle that situation — and if possible, how to avoid it in the future. Here's what Spira recommends when it comes to getting ghosted.