My old CMS had link posts. Then I migrated to new a new CMS and they broke. I’ve migrated several other times.
Now, in my self-hosted Ghost.org CMS, it’s fixed…mostly. Right now I only have it implemented on the pages that pull in all of my content, like my main index.hbs page. I still need to apply this support to my post pages, but will do that soon.
It was ridiculously easy. I wish I had adopted Ghost years ago. Here is how I did it in 3 simple steps…
Step 1: added #link to every post that I wanted to show up as a link post.
Step 2: to each post added the canonical URL to use Ghost’s support for canonical URL’s.
Step3: I added this #has handlebars helper within the loop that pulls my posts to my index page. This identifies which posts have canonical urls to display the correct link for each title type in the feed of posts on index.hbs.
{{#has tag="link"}}
<h1 class="post-title"><a href="{{canonical_url}}" style="text-decoration: underline #dfdfdf">{{title}}</a></h1>
{{else}}
<h1 class="post-title"><a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a></h1>
{{/has}}I’ve been using a theme from the marketplace while I develop my own. So, I did need to hack in a way to underline the link post title url. I’ll address that in the future.