A video post can play its video at the top of the post, where the feature image usually is. Its cards on your home page and in other post lists can also play the video in place of the image. You turn each on once in Fantasma, then mark each video post with a tag in Ghost Admin.
Turn the video features on
Open your project in Fantasma.
Click the project name at the top of the right sidebar. Project settings opens.
Click Features.
Under Media, turn on Featured video to play the video at the top of the post.
Optional. Turn on Featured video preview to play it on the post's cards.
Both are off by default. They reach your site when you publish the theme.
Mark a post as a video post
In Ghost Admin, open the post.
Make a video the first thing in the post. Nothing, not even a line of text, may come before it.
Open the post's settings and add the internal tag #video under Tags. For the moving preview on cards, add #video-preview. Each tag works on its own, and a post can have both.
Update the post.
The video can be a video card with a file you upload, or an embed card that Ghost makes from a link. A link that Ghost turns into a bookmark card does not count. These video sites work: YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Dailymotion, Kickstarter, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Bunny Stream. A video from another site stays in the post text.
On the post page, the video then moves out of the post text and plays where the feature image was. The Featured Image block's Aspect Ratio sets its shape, and with Auto, the default, the video is 16:9. The post in Ghost Admin and its newsletter email stay as you wrote them. Keep the post's feature image in Ghost: it still shows on cards without the preview and when the post is shared.
How the preview plays on cards
With Featured video preview on, a post tagged #video-preview plays the video at the start of its text in place of the image on its cards. A card is the box that stands for one post in a post list, such as on your home page, and the preview needs the card to show a Featured Image. An uploaded video, a YouTube video and a Vimeo video play on their own, without sound, on a loop. A video from another site shows its player, and the reader starts it.
Check where the video goes
On the post page, the video takes the place of the first Featured Image block that is not part of a card. The default Post template has one in its Featured Media section. If you removed it, add it back: in the Sections list, point at the Featured Media row, click the + at its right end, and click Featured Image under Data. Without it, the video stays in the post text.
On post cards, the default templates show a small video icon before the byline of each post tagged #video. It is an Icon block with the content condition Video post under Display. To remove it, select it on the canvas and press ⌫ (Backspace). Display settings explains Content conditions.
A video post can play its video at the top of the post, where the feature image usually is. Its cards on your home page and in other post lists can also play the video in place of the image. You turn each on once in Fantasma, then mark each video post with a tag in Ghost Admin.
Turn the video features on
Both are off by default. They reach your site when you publish the theme.
Mark a post as a video post
#videounder Tags. For the moving preview on cards, add#video-preview. Each tag works on its own, and a post can have both.The video can be a video card with a file you upload, or an embed card that Ghost makes from a link. A link that Ghost turns into a bookmark card does not count. These video sites work: YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Dailymotion, Kickstarter, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Bunny Stream. A video from another site stays in the post text.
On the post page, the video then moves out of the post text and plays where the feature image was. The Featured Image block's Aspect Ratio sets its shape, and with Auto, the default, the video is 16:9. The post in Ghost Admin and its newsletter email stay as you wrote them. Keep the post's feature image in Ghost: it still shows on cards without the preview and when the post is shared.
How the preview plays on cards
With Featured video preview on, a post tagged
#video-previewplays the video at the start of its text in place of the image on its cards. A card is the box that stands for one post in a post list, such as on your home page, and the preview needs the card to show a Featured Image. An uploaded video, a YouTube video and a Vimeo video play on their own, without sound, on a loop. A video from another site shows its player, and the reader starts it.Check where the video goes
On the post page, the video takes the place of the first Featured Image block that is not part of a card. The default Post template has one in its Featured Media section. If you removed it, add it back: in the Sections list, point at the Featured Media row, click the + at its right end, and click Featured Image under Data. Without it, the video stays in the post text.
On post cards, the default templates show a small video icon before the byline of each post tagged
#video. It is an Icon block with the content condition Video post under Display. To remove it, select it on the canvas and press ⌫ (Backspace). Display settings explains Content conditions.