Showing all posts tagged: 'ghost'

A 4-post collection

Upgrade Ghost blog running on Azure Web Apps

I've been caught by this time and time again so it's time I blogged about it. My Ghost blog is running on Azure Web Apps and it usually runs flawlessly, unless I do something stupid to break it. And since I like shiny new things, this happens quite frequently because I like to upgrade as often as I can. However, upgrading my blog hasn't proved that easy or smooth as I would like it to be because there's a good chance I may miss a step or 2. So the best way to ensure that this doesn't happen again is …[read more]

Open external links in a new window - Ghost

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I've come to love [Ghost](ghost.org" target="_blank) even with its minor limitations. However, the platform is growing fast and can only get better, so if you're looking to set up a blog, you couldn't go wrong with Ghost. Going back to the limitations I mentioned earlier, one of the problems I've come across recently is opening links on a new page. By default, any hyperlink you define in markdown will open within the same browser tab and there is no way to override this in the editor. Although this is not a bug, it takes your …[read more]

Add search to your Ghost blog with lunr.js and GhostHunter

I have been using the Ghost platform as my main blog engine for over a year now. There have been ups and downs and in general I have enjoyed the features that it offers. However, like many people found along the way, there are features missing, some of them quite important (see 'search'). I admit that Ghost is still a platform in progress and new features are being added with every release, but it seems that in their effort to provide a simple blog engine, they oversimplified things. Up until now I have been using Tapir to provide search results …[read more]

Add search to your Ghost blog with Tapir

If you have decided to use Ghost as your blog engine, you may soon realize that it's missing one vital thing and that Searching. Since I tend to use my blog as a knoweldge base and a repository of things that took effort to implement, I want to be able to search my content at any time with ease. Although I believe that the Ghost developers are actively working on integrating Search in the blog engine, there are only a couple of solutions at the moment to help you implement search yourself. One is Google Search and the other is …[read more]