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# Ghost 2.0: Custom Routes, Multilingual Sites, and the Rich Editor
- URL: https://discoverghost.com/blog/ghost-2-0-release-guide/
- Published: 2018-08-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T21:33:57.000Z
- Description: Ghost 2.0 (August 2018) replaced the single blog feed model with MobileDoc editing, YAML routing, content collections, and multilingual URL structures.
- Author: Harish Chouhan
- Tags: Ghost Releases, #Import 2026-10-22 16:21

Released **21 August 2018**, Ghost 2.0 stopped treating every site like a single reverse-chronological blog. Block-based editing, flexible routing, and multilingual URLs opened the door to magazines, marketing sites, and newsrooms on one stack.

## Structured writing by default

Markdown remained available, but the primary editor stored posts as **MobileDoc** JSON—structured documents that could render to HTML, RSS, AMP, or custom outputs. That decision foreshadowed today’s Lexical-based editor.

![Screenshot-style graphic of the Ghost 2.0 rich text editor](https://discoverghost.com/blog/content/images/2026/07/ghost-2-0-feature.png)

Ghost 2.0 made visual, block-oriented editing the default author experience.

## Routes and collections

YAML-driven `routes.yaml` enabled curated homepages, standalone landing pages, and tag- or author-specific templates without forking core—ideal for publications that outgrew a lone post stream.

## Multilingual URLs

Translated content could live on dedicated URL patterns with SEO-friendly templates, helping publishers compete in regional search without running separate installs.

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