Editing/translating Portal

[girish]

@abargel Seems quite hacky to edit a minified file! But that aside, it seems to work for me.

I added the below in /app/data/config.production.json:

  "portal": {
    "url": "https://ghost.cloudron.site/portal.min.js",
    "version": "~1.12"
  }

Then, I uploaded portal.min.js to content/themes/casper.

Then, restarted Ghost. I can see that the browser now downloads portal.min.js from my site instead of unpkg.

[girish]

I recommend testing whether https://ghost.domain.com/portal.min.js works in your browser. I had to restart Ghost for this file to be served up by Ghost after uploading it.

[abargel]

@girish Well, I'm just searching for and translating the text output (hoping not to mess up by translating more, which is why I am also testing the process with an identical portal.min.js file, to begin with).

I've done exactly the same as you, and the browser is directed to <script defer src="https://ghost.anant1.net/portal.min.js", which loads fine on its own, but the portal still won't load from my site (clicking on the button does nothing).

I really don't know what else to try. I am uploading the file to my theme, and editing config.production.json from the Cloudron File Manager. My theme is Casper with some customization, but just to translate some text as well, I haven't edited any code or anything else. The portal file loads in the browser, and is exactly the same file at this point... Racking my brains!

[girish]

@abargel said in Editing/translating Portal:

clicking on the button does nothing

Which button are you referring to? (I feel maybe I missed something in my testing. All I did was check that admin pages load file after setting the portal config).

[abargel]

@girish The "subscribe" button on my site, that normally opens the portal when clicked.

When I click it, the url in my browser does change to /portal.min.js, but the portal doesn't open. If I remove those 3 lines from config.production.json, it opens again from unpkg. And yet, the content of portal.min.js is exactly the same...

[abargel]

@girish Have you had a chance to check this on your end?

[girish]

@abargel Can confirm this behavior. I see an error in the browser console.

[girish]

@abargel Oh, it started working now after removing the version field.

  "portal": {
    "url": "https://ghost.cloudron.site/portal.min.js"
  }

I edited the email label and placeholder (I had to clear browser cache to get it to show the updated page):

[abargel]

@girish said in Editing/translating Portal:

Wow, that is a nice find! Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me... I still have an unresponsibe "subscribe" button after editing config.production.json

I have some errors in the console, but not related that I can understand...

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIContentSniffer.getMIMETypeFromContent]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/FaviconLoader.jsm :: onStopRequest :: line 312"  data: no] FaviconLoader.jsm:312:24
FrameData missing for ncpasswords@mdns.eu page moz-extension://36862037-bf3b-4925-9cb1-71c39839c295/html/popup.html ExtensionPageChild.jsm:457
    initExtensionContext resource://gre/modules/ExtensionPageChild.jsm:457
    initExtensionDocument resource://gre/modules/ExtensionProcessScript.jsm:342

[vjvanjungg]

@abargel you can read more here: https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-publish-with-ghost-button-on-portal/20817/8

i followed the steps , tweaked a bit, running ok on Cloudron

[abargel]

@vjvanjungg Oh, thank you!! I will try it also and report here.

[abargel]

@vjvanjungg I tried following the steps too, but could not manage to have portal.js compiled into assets/built. I am using Casper, so modified the gulpfile as indicated in the post.

Same as with the previous method, I get an unresponsive "Subscribe" button...

[abargel]

Well, after a long night, my update on this is : found a theme with own membership flow (no Portal !), can easily localize those files, a lot more work than necessary overall, but moving on!

Quite disappointed with Ghost support too, who gave a completely irrelevant and unhelpful answer.

Still have to find how to get confirmation emails and other bits and pieces localized. Shouldnt' this all be easier??

[abargel]

@girish In order to customize the email templates (after giving up on portal), one would have to access files in /var/www/ghost/versions/3.18.1/core/server/services/members/emails/*, according to this.

Don't know if that's a stupid question, but is there a way to do that from config.production.json, or another file available from our Cloudron file manager?

[jdaviescoates]

@abargel said in Editing/translating Portal:

Shouldnt' this all be easier??

Yeah, I like the idea of Ghost but it's a pain how hard it is to customise if you're not a coder

[abargel]

@jdaviescoates From making a few websites this summer for my (one-person) business, both on Wordpress and on Ghost, I'm left with the impression that these "open source" publishing tools intentionally leave a lot of essential components to be managed by paying services. Like an implicit paywall, really. I'm using a lot of other self-hosted apps on Cloudron, for various types of use, and even the more complex don't have these restrictions: if you learn how it works, you can do things. With Wordpress and Ghost, I keep learning, and keep finding arbitrary limits to what I can do (except, of course, by buying more services). I would be tempted to dump them if I had the time to learn an entirely new system right now (and would need to be sure that I wouldn't run into the same problem down the line!)

[abargel]

@abargel Well, after doing my best with Ghost, I'm tempted to learn Grav. Seems like one can customize everything freely? Anything I should be weary of?

[frei]

@abargel

Ghost is far more stable than Grav. It's easier to modify the style using Ghost/Handlebars vs. Grav/PHP/Twig (which was a total mess).

Also, if you have any authors who are not you (not technically highly proficient), then they can easily crash your Grav instance --I have yet to crash Ghost.

That's my two cents.

[robi]

@frei Something like this?
https://whitfin.io/safely-creating-custom-handlebars-helpers/

[frei]

@frei I think you just read my mind . .

Trying to figure out the best practices for modifying core templates (eg, content-cta.hbs) without overwriting upon update.

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Correction:

The content-cta.hbs is easily editable --as written directly in Ghost documentation.

Simply reference the default template, modify, and copy to the partials folder.