Upgrading Legacy Ghost Themes to 6.x: A Practical GScan Checklist
Legacy Ghost themes need more than a version bump. A GScan-driven checklist for Ghost 6—helpers, cards, members, AMP removal, and deploy verification.
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Harish Chouhan
ActivityPub for Publishers: What the Social Web Changes About Distribution
Ghost 6.0 adds ActivityPub so publications reach the fediverse without giving up domain, email, or memberships. What the social web changes about distribution.
Ghost 6.0: Social Web Distribution and Native Analytics
Ghost 6.0 (August 2025) adds ActivityPub social web distribution, first-party Tinybird analytics, Lexical editor upgrades, and Docker Compose as the forward deployment path.
Newsletter Deliverability on Ghost: DNS, SPF, and What Actually Matters
Ghost newsletters land in spam when DNS auth fails—not when subject lines do. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and the deliverability habits that actually matter.
Custom Ghost Themes: routes.yaml Patterns for Magazine Sites
Magazine Ghost sites need more than a blog feed. routes.yaml maps URLs to collections and templates—here are practical patterns for homepages, verticals, and landing pages.
SQLite vs MySQL for Self-Hosted Ghost: When to Switch
SQLite is perfect for local Ghost dev; MySQL 8 is the production standard. Here is when to switch, how migration works, and what Ghost 5.0 clarified.
Ghost 5.0: MySQL 8, Faster Boot Times, and Stable APIs
Ghost 5.0 (May 2022) standardized on MySQL 8 for production, simplified API versioning, and delivered measurable boot-time and memory improvements for busy member-driven sites.