Managed apps / Websites & publishing
Managed Ghost_
Publish, send newsletters and take paid memberships
Ghost is a publishing platform for professional blogs and newsletters, with a clean editor, built-in memberships and paid subscriptions, and SEO handled for you.
From £5 a month, VAT included. No server to run.
- HTTPS and your own domain
- Health checks and restarts
- Security updates underneath
- Professional blogs
- Paid newsletters
- Membership sites
- Publications with several authors
First steps
- Sign in. When the app is live, open it in the console and choose Reveal admin password; it is shown once, so save it in your password manager. Then sign in at your-name.apps.fresh.dev/ghost/. The email shown in the console (a placeholder at your app’s address)
- Sign in at /ghost/ and change your sign-in email in your Ghost profile.
- Add SMTP details in the app’s Email section: staff invites, password resets and member sign-in links need them.
- Rename the site, upload a logo and pick a theme under Settings › Design.
- To send newsletters, connect your own Mailgun account under Settings › Newsletters; to take payments, connect Stripe under Settings › Membership.
Use your posts elsewhere
Create a custom integration under Settings › Integrations to get a Content API key, then read your published posts from any site or app:
curl "https://your-name.apps.fresh.dev/ghost/api/content/posts/?key=YOUR_CONTENT_API_KEY"Good to know
- Without SMTP, Ghost’s emails fail rather than being sent.
- Ghost sends bulk newsletters only through Mailgun.
- Ghost’s social web (ActivityPub) features are turned off.
The Ghost project
Ghost is open-source software, licensed under MIT. Fresh runs version 6.71.0 of the upstream release for you. Fresh is not affiliated with the Ghost project; for questions about the software itself, its documentation and community are the best place to start.
