Newsletter Archive
Emails and articles read differently, so Wire keeps them apart. A post tagged #newsletter leaves the homepage feed and the /blog/ channel and is collected at /newsletters/ instead, where past issues are listed as a dated ledger with their own RSS feed.
Setup Instructions#
- Write the post as usual
- Open Post settings → Tags and add the internal tag
#newsletter - Publish the post, choosing Publish and email or Email only so Ghost sends it to your subscribers
- The post appears at
/newsletters/and disappears from the homepage and/blog/
Use an internal tag that starts with # so it stays hidden from your public
site. The tag only controls where the post is listed — sending the email is a
separate Ghost step, and you can add the tag before or after the send.
The /newsletters/ route comes from the routes.yaml file that ships with the theme. If you have not uploaded it yet, follow the Getting Started guide, otherwise the archive returns a 404.
What the Archive Looks Like#
The page opens with a Newsletters heading and an RSS feed link, then lists the issues newest first. Each row is a ledger line rather than a card:
| Part | Source |
|---|---|
| Date | The publication date, day first, then month and year |
| Title | The post title, linked to the post |
| Summary | The Excerpt field, or the first 30 words of the post |
There is no image slot, because an emailed issue rarely carries a feature image. Write a short custom excerpt in Post settings → Excerpt if you want the row to read well.
Twelve issues are listed per page. With the pagination feature on, which it is by default, the rest load behind a Load More button; switch it off and the page falls back to numbered navigation. See Features.
RSS Feed#
The archive exposes its own feed at:
https://yoursite.com/newsletters/rss/
Readers who only want the email issues can subscribe to that feed instead of the main site feed. The RSS feed button under the page heading links to it.
Notes#
- The tag is what moves the post, not the email. A post sent as an email but left untagged stays in the main feed; a tagged post that was never emailed still lands in the archive.
- Newsletters are removed from the homepage feed and
/blog/. They still show up on tag and author archives, in search, and in the You might also like carousel at the bottom of a post. - Featured posts fill the homepage cover, so avoid marking a newsletter as Featured unless you want it back on the front page.
- To rename the Newsletters heading or its subtitle, edit the matching strings in the theme's translation file, as described in Section Headings.