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Basic Setup

Tags & authors page

Available since Bright v2.0.0

Creating the tags page

Open Ghost Admin, go to Pages, and create a new page. Give it a title, then open the page settings and change the page URL (slug) to tags. You can optionally add a feature image and an excerpt.

If you want the page description to include links or formatted text (bold, italic, etc.), remove the excerpt entirely and instead add the text directly in the page content, applying your links and styles there.

This template currently only supports 100 tags

Creating the authors page

Open Ghost Admin, go to Pages, and create a new page. Give it a title, then open the page settings and change the page URL (slug) to authors. You can optionally add a feature image and an excerpt.

If you want the page description to include links or formatted text (bold, italic, etc.), remove the excerpt entirely and instead add the text directly in the page content, applying your links and styles there.

This template currently only supports 100 authors

Migrating from Bright v1.x.x

If you haven’t made any changes to the default routes.yaml file before, you can simply upload the new file included with v2.0.0 to Settings > Labs > Routes and skip the rest.

If you have previously modified the default routes.yaml:

  1. Go to Settings > Labs > Routes in Ghost.
  2. Click "Download current routes".
  3. Open the downloaded file in a text editor.
  4. Add the new tags and authors pages under routes: (not under collections:) .
routes:
  /rss/:
    template: rss
    content_type: text/xml

  /contact/:
    template: contact
    data: page.contact

  /tags/:
    template: tags
    data: page.tags

  /authors/:
    template: authors
    data: page.authors

collections:
  # ...
  1. Save the file and upload it to Settings > Labs > Routes by clicking "Upload routes file"
If you're self-hosting, you might need to restart your Ghost server using ghost restart