Ghost themesGhost comes with a default theme called Casper, which is designed to be a clean, readable publication layout and can be easily adapted for most purposes. If you need something a little more customised, it's entirely possible to build on top of existing open source themes, or to build

Work with your existing toolsIt's possible to connect your Ghost site to hundreds of the most popular apps and tools using integrations that take no more than a few minutes to setup. Whether you need to automate workflows, connect your email list, build a community or embed products from your

Sensible taggingYou can think of tags like Gmail labels. By tagging posts with one or more keyword, you can organise articles into buckets of related content. When you create content for your publication you can assign tags to help differentiate between categories of content. For example you may tag some

Make your site privateIf you've got a publication that you don't want the world to see yet because it's not ready to launch, you can hide your Ghost site behind a basic shared pass-phrase. You can toggle this preference on at the bottom of Ghost's General Settings: Ghost will give

Distribute your contentAccess the post settings menu by clicking the settings icon in the top right hand corner of the editor and discover everything you need to get your content ready for publishing. This is where you can edit things like tags, post URL, publish date and custom meta data.

Just start writingGhost has a powerful visual editor with familiar formatting options, as well as the ability to add dynamic content. Select your text to add formatting such as headers or to create links. Or use Markdown shortcuts to do the work for you - if that's your thing. Rich

Sometimes the Koenig editor is too basic to format particular element you need. Time to unveil the options you have when using the Markdown syntax. We built this page as the most exhaustive markdown reference you can find on the web. If something is missing, please let me know in

A few things you should knowGhost is designed for ambitious, professional publishers who want to actively build a business around their content. That's who it works best for. The entire platform can be modified and customised to suit your needs. It's very powerful, but does require some knowledge of code.