🎁 Build with Ghost: Wrapped 2023
Explore the highlights of 2023 in our final Build with Ghost issue of the year, including all the features shipped, tutorials published, and links you clicked. We also have some brand new resources and ideas to check out if you aren't one to live in the past 📟
Welcome to the final issue of 2024 🥂 Here's what we have in store:
- A rundown of everything that came to Ghost in 2023
- Learn how Rob Conery transformed his Ghost site into a course platform and other resources on style and design
- Sites featured
- Our most popular links
- Tutorials published
Every new feature in Ghost from 2023
It was a busy year for Ghost. Here is every major feature we shipped this year 🚢 Kind of makes you excited for what we've got planned for 2024, right?
January
February
March
- Include latest posts in newsletters
- Add subscription details to newsletters
- Invite members to reply in the comments
- Minimalist newsletter settings
April
May
June
August
October
- Refreshed settings
- The new Ghost editor
- Ghost Bookmarker
- Post history
- Native image editing
- Source: Our new default theme
November
Ideas and tools 🛠️
- Rob Conery turned his Ghost site into a full-fledged course platform. Learn about the engineering behind it in "Hacking Ghost for Fun and Profit."
- Style external links distinctly (with the little arrow denoting you're leaving the site) with this guide by CSS in Real Life.
- If you're writing CSS, you've likely used some of its many units like
px
,rem
, andvw
. But have you used the new line height unit? Andy Bell breaks down everything you need to know aboutlh
. - BrandGuide is a repository of company design identities, that is, the company's guides to logos, typefaces, color, and everything else that makes them what they are.
Featured sites
Featured sites from the above image, starting from the upper left. Many featured sites are found on the recently redesigned Ghost Explore.
- 404 Media
- Android Wedakarayo & Thimira Thenuwara
- Erin Mikail
- Liz Rowe
- Gorilla Sun
- Architecture Notes
- Airtable
- Maker Stations
Most popular links
These are the most clicked links from previous issues of Build with Ghost.
- State of CSS 2022: Features
- Graphic design trends
- Website typography examples
- 50 essential graphic design resources
- Modern CSS principles
- Bento grids 🍱
- Scroll progress animations in CSS
- Curated web design examples
- Typescript library for Ghost
Tutorials
We published these tutorials in 2023 to give you a few more moves when building with Ghost 💃 (Many of these tutorials also had accompanying YouTube videos.)
- Custom settings are the ultimate power-up for themes
- How to debug your theme
- The art of the post template
- Build a custom sign-up form
- A complete guide to partials
- A comprehensive guide to the default template
- A comprehensive guide to the index template
- Essential concepts to know when building a Ghost theme
- Install Node on macOS, Windows, and Linux
- How to install Ghost locally
- How to create a read-next section
Thanks for building with us.
See you again in 2024 🙂
If you're itching for a Ghost fix before then, head over to our official Forum, where we're always talking about Ghost, from debugging problems to discussing clever tips and tricks.