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Editions

Editions let you publish in issues, the way a magazine does. An edition is a normal public tag whose slug starts with issue-, and Wire collects every one of them into a carousel on the homepage.

The section shows up to 12 editions, newest first, and ends with a Browse issues link to /issues/.

Creating an Edition#

  1. Navigate to ⛭ Settings → Tags
  2. Click New tag
  3. Enter the name readers should see, for example Issue 01
  4. Set the Slug to issue-01 — the slug must start with issue-
  5. Add a Description and a Tag image
  6. Click Save
  7. Open the posts that belong to the issue and add the tag in Post settings → Tags

Do not put a # in front of the name. That would make the tag internal in Ghost, and internal tags never become editions.

Only the slug decides whether a tag is an edition. The name can be anything — Issue 01, Spring 2026, The Music Issue — as long as the slug reads issue-01, issue-spring-2026, issue-music and so on.

What Each Card Shows#

  • Tag image — the card background
  • Tag name — for example Issue 01
  • Post count — the number of posts carrying that tag
  • Description — trimmed to two lines, so keep it to one short sentence
  • Accent color — fills the card and carries the name when the tag has no image

Clicking a card opens that edition's tag archive with all of its posts.

Editions Elsewhere in the Theme#

  • /issues/ lists every edition with a preview of up to six posts each. Editions without posts are skipped there.
  • The tag archive of an edition shows the other editions as pills, so readers can move between issues.
  • At the bottom of a post that belongs to an edition, a More from Issue 01 carousel offers up to eight other posts from the same issue.

See Issues for the Issues page itself.

/issues/ only works once the routes.yaml file that ships with the theme has been uploaded, see Getting Started.

Editions Stay Out of Normal Tag Lists#

Because every edition would otherwise crowd out your topics, tags with an issue- slug are filtered out of the homepage tag carousel and of the Tags page. They appear only in the places listed above.

If you want a topic to show up in the ordinary tag lists, do not give it an issue- slug.

Notes#

  • A new edition with no posts yet still gets a card on the homepage. Tag at least one post before you announce it.
  • Editions are ordered by the date the tag was created, so create them in the order you publish them.
  • The heading Editions comes from the translation file. To rename it, see Section Headings.