The canvas fills your pages with demo posts, tags and authors until you choose your own Ghost site as the source. The same menu shows the page as a visitor, a free member or a paid member sees it, so you can check members-only blocks and the paywall. These choices change only the preview, never the theme.
At the top of the right sidebar, click the icon next to Download, a dashed square with lines in it. The Preview data menu opens under it.
Under Preview data, select Connected site. The canvas redraws with your site's posts, tags, authors, title and logo.
If the project has no Ghost site yet, Connected site opens the Ghost page of Project settings to connect one. Select Demo data to go back to the demo posts. With Connected site selected, the icon shows a plug.
What comes from your site
The preview copies part of your site: your 20 latest published posts, up to 30 public tags, up to 20 staff users (the authors on your site), and your site settings such as the title, logo and navigation. Drafts and members do not come over.
When the copy is more than a day old, Fantasma refreshes it when you open the project. To update it at once after you publish a post in Ghost, click Project settings in the icon rail, open Ghost, and click Refresh next to Site data.
When the connected site cannot be read, point at the plug icon to see why, such as "Ghost admin URL unreachable. Check the site, then reconnect." Fantasma can't connect to my Ghost site covers the fixes.
See the page as a member
Open the Preview data menu.
Under Preview as, select Visitor, Free member or Paid member. Blocks shown only to some readers appear or disappear on the canvas.
Optional. With Paid member selected, a Tier name field appears. Enter a tier's name as it is in Ghost, such as Gold, to see blocks shown only to that tier.
Open the Preview data menu and select Locked post. A check mark shows it is on. On the Post and Page templates, the post or page then shows as content the reader cannot open, so its Paywall block appears. A connected post or page keeps its members, paid members or chosen tiers access. A public post or page previews as paid content. That is the part that tells the reader to subscribe. Change what readers see on a locked post shows how to design it.
Preview as, Tier name and Locked post work with demo data and with your own posts. They stay in this browser and apply to every project you open. The choice between Demo data and Connected site also stays in this browser, separately for each project.
The canvas fills your pages with demo posts, tags and authors until you choose your own Ghost site as the source. The same menu shows the page as a visitor, a free member or a paid member sees it, so you can check members-only blocks and the paywall. These choices change only the preview, never the theme.
Show your own posts
Before you start, connect your Ghost site to the project: Connect your Ghost site.
If the project has no Ghost site yet, Connected site opens the Ghost page of Project settings to connect one. Select Demo data to go back to the demo posts. With Connected site selected, the icon shows a plug.
What comes from your site
The preview copies part of your site: your 20 latest published posts, up to 30 public tags, up to 20 staff users (the authors on your site), and your site settings such as the title, logo and navigation. Drafts and members do not come over.
When the copy is more than a day old, Fantasma refreshes it when you open the project. To update it at once after you publish a post in Ghost, click Project settings in the icon rail, open Ghost, and click Refresh next to Site data.
When the connected site cannot be read, point at the plug icon to see why, such as "Ghost admin URL unreachable. Check the site, then reconnect." Fantasma can't connect to my Ghost site covers the fixes.
See the page as a member
Gold, to see blocks shown only to that tier.Show content only to members or some tiers explains how to set those blocks up.
See a locked post
Open the Preview data menu and select Locked post. A check mark shows it is on. On the Post and Page templates, the post or page then shows as content the reader cannot open, so its Paywall block appears. A connected post or page keeps its members, paid members or chosen tiers access. A public post or page previews as paid content. That is the part that tells the reader to subscribe. Change what readers see on a locked post shows how to design it.
Preview as, Tier name and Locked post work with demo data and with your own posts. They stay in this browser and apply to every project you open. The choice between Demo data and Connected site also stays in this browser, separately for each project.