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  • A 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??

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    @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?

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      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??

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      @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 😕

      I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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        @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 😕

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        @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!)

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        • A 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!)

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          @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?

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            @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?

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            frei
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            @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.

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              @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.

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

              Conscious tech

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                @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.

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                @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.


                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.

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                  @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.


                  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.

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                  frei
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                  It seems like the only / best way of modifying core files is adapting the Dockerfile and building a new image, as per the instructions here: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3102/building-custom-packages

                  Move the files from origin location to /app/data and replace with symlinks.

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                    @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.

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                    @frei Thanks for the feedback. On my end, I had a nice time setting up a site with Grav. Easy to edit everything. No paywalls or unchangeable parts in English only. I am a single author/user, but I see a nice set of permissions if I have to create other users with limited abilities to destroy things. Best experience so far amongst WordPress/Ghost/Grav (for someone not "technically highly proficient", just basic).

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                    • F frei

                      It seems like the only / best way of modifying core files is adapting the Dockerfile and building a new image, as per the instructions here: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3102/building-custom-packages

                      Move the files from origin location to /app/data and replace with symlinks.

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                      @frei said in Editing/translating Portal:

                      It seems like the only / best way of modifying core files is adapting the Dockerfile and building a new image

                      If you specify all the files that need to be modified for this, the Cloudron team can update the App with those files symlinked in /app/data

                      Conscious tech

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                        @frei said in Editing/translating Portal:

                        It seems like the only / best way of modifying core files is adapting the Dockerfile and building a new image

                        If you specify all the files that need to be modified for this, the Cloudron team can update the App with those files symlinked in /app/data

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                        frei
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                        @robi, very cool.

                        Usually, when I spend enough time getting familiar with the applications, I find that the Cloudron team has already dialed it in.

                        Will keep this in mind

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