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Custom Sections

Beyond the built-in sections, you can add your own. Any page tagged #home-section becomes a block on the homepage that lists the latest posts of a matching tag as a printed contents page: titles, authors and dates, no images.

You can add up to 20 of them. They appear together, below the Frequencies section and above the authors carousel.

Setup Instructions#

  1. Create the tag first: ⛭ Settings → Tags → New tag, for example Design with the slug design
  2. Add that tag to the posts you want listed, in Post settings → Tags
  3. Go to Pages → New page
  4. Enter the page title — this becomes the section heading on the homepage
  5. Open Page settings and change Page URL to the tag slug, design in this example
  6. Add the section description in the Excerpt field
  7. In Page settings → Tags, add the internal tag #home-section
  8. Click Publish

Repeat for every section you want. The page body is not used, so you can leave it empty.

The page slug and the tag slug must be identical. That is how the theme knows which posts to list. A page with the slug design-notes and a tag with the slug design produce a section with a heading and no posts.

What Each Section Shows#

Field in GhostWhere it appears
Page titleThe section heading
ExcerptThe description under the heading
Page URLThe tag whose posts are listed, and the target of View All
Page bodyNot used

The list holds the six newest posts of the tag, arranged in two columns on desktop and one column on phones. Each row shows the post title, the author and a short date. There are no images in this section by design — it is meant to read like a table of contents between the image-heavy sections above and below it.

The View All link opens the tag archive with the rest of the posts.

Ordering the Sections#

Sections are ordered by the publication date of their pages, oldest first. To move a section up, give its page an earlier publication date:

  1. Open the page
  2. Open Page settings
  3. Change Publish date
  4. Click Update

Notes#

  • The page must be published. Drafts and scheduled pages do not appear.
  • Each page is still reachable at its own URL, for example yoursite.com/design/. Keep it out of your navigation if you do not want readers to find it.
  • If no tag matches the page slug, the section renders with its heading and description but without posts and without the View All link.
  • Only the first 20 tagged pages are used.