How to make a new post on my Ghost blog?

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Hello, would you be able to help. I’m new to blogging and just getting started with my website. My question is how to make a new post on my Ghost blog?

Any help much appreciated.

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This is such a good question that I also posted it here on the influencerTips blog to share with all influencerTips members https://www.influencer.tips/crafting-and-emailing-your-next-blog-post-on-ghost-a-step-by-step-guide/ - the post on the blog also contains extra information like formatting and publishing tips.

First, what is a Ghost blog?
At influencerTips, we recommend using Ghost as a platform for content, subscriber and email automation management. You can read more about Ghost here https://ghost.org/

Getting Started
You could just say: why not just Google it - there are heaps of great tips and tricks on this topic, and I encourage you to have a look.

Step-by-step guide to creating a Ghost blog post:

  1. Log in to Your Ghost Admin Dashboard - Navigate to your Ghost admin URL (e.g., https://yourwebsite.com/ghost/) and enter your login credentials to access the admin panel.
  2. Start a New Post - In the dashboard, click on “Posts” in the left-hand menu, then click the “New post” button in the top-right corner.
  3. Write Your Content - Add content, a title, and if you have one a featured image to your post.
  4. Add Post Settings - Click the “Settings” button (gear icon) in the top-right corner and fill in the key details including: the excerpt which is a short description or summary of the post and tags which help people find similar on your website.
  5. Save and Preview - Click the “Save” button in the top-right corner to save your draft. To preview your post, click the “Preview” button (eye icon).
  6. Publish Your Post - When ready, click the “Publish” button in the top-right corner.

Hopefully this helps.

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@Rowdy here is the recording from our influencerTips digital marketing Q&A session on creating a Ghost blog post draft.

As discussed, start setting your posts up as drafts. Then in the next workshop we can have a look at publishing them. Use this link to get an invite to the next Digital marketing inspiration workshop 🚀💡✨ | influencerTips | Cal.com

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Hi Panda123 - as one of Matt’s subscribers and followers I can assure you that you couldn’t be in better “hands and mind” to help you get started writing a blog.

I was in your position 7 years ago though I did have a little knowledge having already built my firwt website to showcase my paintings. But when Matt suggested I start writing a bog I completely rejected the idea partly because I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to learn “how to do it” and also I wasn’t that keen at the time with being part of social media platforms etc.

I can now say that it was one of the best experiences I have ever been involved with and Matt and I, 7 years on, are still the best of friends. I’ve stopped writing the daily, or near daily posts after 7 years (there’s a challenge for anyone to try to beat!!!) but I am now building with Matt a new site just for once again showcasing my paintings. And once more Matt is there with his wonderful tech support and other ideas - my blog team call him The Interwebs Wizard!!

But back to writing a blog. I totally agree with Matt that you have to be consistent and frequent in posting because this is the way you attract followers. I also agree that it is best to keep the posts fairly short as most followers don’t want to read endless lines of your thoughts. And lastly, I think it is very important to include images (obviously in my AnArt4Life blog it was predominantly images) but I think any blog needs images as we live in a visual world.

Good luck with what you are doing - and do have fun!!

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Thanks @Anne for a couple of kind words there, the key takeaway - have fun blogging - you will meet so many people with interesting points of view on the journey.