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Organizing Ghost Posts in Tag Subdirectories

Organize your Ghost posts in subdirectories of their primary tags (ex. jesseweb.com/shell/create-an-array/)

Jesse Torres

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Ghost is a great free and open source blogging platform. By default, Ghost serves all posts under the root domain (ex. jesseweb.com/some_post). Like storing all your computer files in a single folder, this can lead to all sorts of problems.  Good news is that you can easily configure Ghost to serve posts under their primary tags (ex. jesseweb.com/some_tag/some_post).

  1. Under the Ghost admin section, go to Settings | Labs
  2. Click Download current routes.yaml to download the current routes file
  3. Edit the file and change the collections section to the exact contents below:
collections:
  /:
    permalink: /{primary_tag}/{slug}/
    template: index
  1. Save the file
  2. Go back to Settings | Labs, click Upload routes YAML, and upload the file you just edited
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For this to work, ensure all your posts are tagged with at least one tag (the first tag given to a post is its primary tag).

That's it! From now on, every post will be served under their primary tag.