Post features

A post in Wire carries more than the article itself. This page covers everything the theme adds around your writing, what switches each piece on, and what a reader can do with it.

What A Post Page Contains#

In order, top to bottom:

1. The header — title, the excerpt you wrote in Post settings, the byline, the date, the reading time, the share and bookmark buttons, and the feature image with its caption
2. An in-article ad, if you have enabled one (see Advertising)
3. The table of contents and the body of the post
4. The post's tags
5. Links to the older and newer post
6. Comments
7. You might also like — a carousel of other posts
8. A subscribe section

Table Of Contents#

A panel headed On this page, listing the headings in your post so readers can jump between sections. It also shows the reading time, and a small ring that fills as the reader moves through the article.

It is on for every post out of the box.

To switch it off site-wide:

1. Go to ⛭ Settings → Design → Customize → Theme
2. Add toc to Disabled features
3. Click Save

To keep it on one post or page after that:

1. Open the post or page
2. Click Post settings → Tags
3. Add the tag #toc
4. Click Update

Notes on the panel:

• It only appears when your content has headings. A post written as unbroken paragraphs shows no panel, however it is tagged.
• The heading levels you use become the levels of the list, so structure your post with H2 for sections and H3 beneath them.
• The progress ring is filled by the scroll-progress feature. Add scroll-progress to Disabled features and the panel still works, but the ring stays empty.

Drop Caps#

An oversized first letter on the opening paragraph. On for every post and page out of the box.

To switch it off site-wide:

1. Go to ⛭ Settings → Design → Customize → Theme
2. Add drop-caps to Disabled features
3. Click Save

To keep it on one post after that:

1. Open the post
2. Click Post settings → Tags
3. Add the tag #drop-cap
4. Click Update

The drop cap applies to the first paragraph of the content only. If your post opens with an image, a quote or a callout card, there is no drop cap to set — the effect needs a paragraph first.

Updated Dates#

When you edit a post on a later day than you published it, the date shown switches to the date of that edit. Readers see when the piece was last worked on rather than when it first went out, and the machine-readable date changes with it.

• The swap applies wherever Wire prints a post date — the post header and the post cards in every list and carousel — so a revived post reads as current across the site.
• Fixing a typo the same day changes nothing: the theme compares calendar days, so an edit made on the publication day keeps the original date.
• The change is automatic. There is no setting, and nothing to tag.
• To keep the original date after a substantial edit, publish the correction as a new post instead.

Sharing And Bookmarks#

Both buttons sit in the meta row of the post header, beside the date and reading time.

Share. The share button on a post opens the site's share dialog. Post cards elsewhere on the site carry the same icon, and it opens a small menu with:

Bookmark. The bookmark button saves the post for later. Saved posts are counted on the bookmark icon in the header, listed in the panel behind it, and collected on the /bookmarks/ page.

• Bookmarks are stored in the reader's own browser. Nobody has to sign in, and nothing is sent to your server.
• They are per browser and per device, and clearing browser data clears them.
• The /bookmarks/ page comes from the routes.yaml file that ships with the theme. If that file has not been uploaded to Ghost, the page returns a 404 while the bookmark buttons still work. See Bookmarks.

Related Posts#

Under the comments, a carousel headed You might also like. It holds the eight most recent posts on your site, with the post being read left out.

There is nothing to configure and nothing to tag. It fills itself from your publishing, so it is never empty for long and never shows a post twice on the same page.

Comments#

Wire uses Ghost's native comments, placed between the older / newer links and the related posts.

1. Go to ⛭ Settings → Membership
2. Find the Commenting section
3. Choose All members or Paid members only
4. Click Save

Set commenting to Nobody and the section disappears from every post. Comment moderation, notifications and member permissions are all handled by Ghost — see Comments for the details.