New Features in Ghost 0.4

Ghost now allows you to make some content as a static page. This means two things:

• The static post won’t appear in the blog stream on your homepage.
• The date won’t show on your post.

Simply, this feature is like WordPress pages. It’s designed for your About / Contact / Terms pages.

You can now mark some posts as being “Featured”. Click the small start next to a post and you’ll get the message “Post successfully marked as featured.”

This add a CSS class to that post: <article class=”post featured”> so you can style that post appropriately.

You can now add dates to your post URLs. Click Settings, then Dated Permalinks:

Then the year, month and date will appear in your URLs:

Finally in terms of features, there’s a small extra one to mention. Ghost will now warn you if you leave content before it’s saved:

Ghost is chugging along nicely. These new features aren’t mind-blowing, but they do show slow and steady progress.

Remember that Ghost is only at version 0.4. It really won’t be fair to judge until version 1.0 is out. Momentum for products like this takes years to build.

There does also seem to be community movement. There are nearly 200 themes on http://marketplace.ghost.org/. The forum seems relatively active with a good number of posts each day: https://ghost.org/forum/.

The best thing we can say at the moment is that the Ghost team are off to a really promising start. We’ll keep checking in as every new version comes out.