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How to Add Disqus Comments to Your Ghost Blog

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Ghost  by default allows many customizations  but unfortunately it doesn't have a default commenting system like WordPress . But the good news is you can use other third party commenting systems to your ghost blog like Disqus, Google+, Facebook and more. In this tutorial you will learn how to add Disqus commenting system to Ghost blog. How to add Disqus Commenting to Ghost About Disqus Disqus is a blog comment hosting service for Web sites and online communities like blogs. Disqus is very popular among most of the bloggers and many blogs use it. First you will need a free Disqus account. Go ahead and register your new Ghost site while you're there. Note down Disqus shortname is; you'll need it later. Follow below steps to add Disqus to your Ghost blog Open your post.hbs file and look for {{/post}} . Place the following code just after that,but before </article> : <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div id="disqus_thread"></di...

How to Host Ghost Blog for Free

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Want to host your Ghost blog free? here are some quick suggestions about free ghost hosting providers. Ghost is a clean Blogging platform and if you want to host your own ghost blog for free, here are top free ghost hosting providers. Hosting and running a free Ghost blog is quiet easy. Here  we are going to review ghostify.io , ghoster.io freeghostblog.com and some others. Host your Free Ghost - Ghoster.io Ghoster.io is the perfect free cloud service for your ghost blog. they can host your one Ghost blog for free, even with your own custom domain. Ghoster.io Features Your own domain name ; you can set up your own custom domain name. Pre-bundled themes: A set of free themes pre-bundled. Daily backups of your ghost blog. Automated upgrades Ghoster.io limits Minimum one post a week. Max 1K views per month. No custom themes. Promote ghoster with a link at footer and below every post. Ghostify.io - managed Ghost hosting ghostify.io  also provides ghost hosting...

Show Full Post on Front Page of Ghost, Not Excerpt

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I love writing about the Ghost platform. Its simple and just focused on blogging and that's why I love this platform. Some bloggers like to show full posts on homepage instead of post excerpts . By default Ghost(with default theme) displays excerpts on homepage. However if you would like to show full posts and not excerpts on the front page on your blog there is an easy way to change from excerpts to full posts on Ghost Homepage. Show full posts on Ghost Homepage : Tutorial Its very easy if you have access to your ghost blog by ftp/sftp or have Ghost hosted on your computer. you just have to be able to edit the index.hbs file. First open the index.hbs file. Find the above code: < section class="post-excerpt" > < p>{{ excerpt }}… » < /section > Replace it with: < section class="post-content" > {{ content }} < /section > You are done now, just save and restart Ghost. Warning: If you are displaying too much pos...

Adding Favicon To Your Ghost Blog

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Ghost is a new blogging platform  for bloggers. If you are one of those bloggers who are using ghost for publishing their blog and you want to add a favicon image to your blog then this tutorial is for you. A Favicon file is normally a 32X32 square image that is displayed before your page title in open windows and tabs and also used by some other tools. Adding your own favicon image to ghost blog is quite easy. Follow above steps and make your blog more adorable. Editing the default template : Casper For adding the template we will have to edit the template files (you can use a ftp server for that, or sftp). Open default.hbs file, you can locate it at content/themes/casper/default.hbs Upload your favicon.ico file to content/themes/casper/assets/images/ (you can also use favicon.png or any other name for your image file but favicon.ico is recommended.) There you will find code something like this {{! Page Meta }} <title>{{meta_title}}</title> <meta n...

Ghost The New Blogging Platform Dedicated To Publishing

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"A beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing" That is how  ghost  describes it. What Is Ghost ? Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time making your blog work and more time blogging. Why Choose Ghost ? Many of the bloggers may ask a question that why should i use ghost, so i have got some benefits of  using ghost. 1. Revolutionary Dashboard : Ghost grabs all the important data about your blog and pulls it into one place. No more clicking through tens of browser tabs to view your traffic, social media subscriptions, content performance or news feeds. 2. Best Writing Experience : ghost provides a real time post writer/editor which automatically generates preview of what you are writing on the right side as it is going to be published . 3. Fully C...