Editing/translating Portal
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@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
@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...
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@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...
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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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??
@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??
@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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@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
@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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@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?
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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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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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.
@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.hbsis easily editable --as written directly in Ghost documentation.Simply reference the default template, modify, and copy to the
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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.hbsis easily editable --as written directly in Ghost documentation.Simply reference the default template, modify, and copy to the
partialsfolder.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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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.
@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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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.
@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 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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