The Post Content section shows the body of a Ghost post or page: the text, images and cards you write in Ghost Admin. You can add it to the Post and Page templates and to the post and page templates you create. Every block you add to it, except the Paywall, becomes a widget, such as a table of contents, in a sidebar beside the post or in a row above or below it. Click the section on the canvas to open its settings panel.
The post's words come from Ghost, and you change them in Ghost Admin. Their look follows your Styles: the text styles, and the default look of the Paragraph, Heading, Button and other blocks. Design your post pages shows how to style them.
Patterns
The Content category of the pattern picker has two Post Content sections: With Sidebar, which has a widget sidebar, and Narrow, a single reading column.
General
Setting
What it does
Drop Cap
Makes the first letter of the post's or page's first paragraph large and bold, with the first lines of text wrapping around it. Off by default.
Under Widgets, three settings place the blocks you add to the section:
Setting
What it does
Position
Where the widgets go: Up (above the post), Down (below the post), Left or Right (the default). Left and Right put them in a sidebar about 316 px wide when the section is at least 1024 px wide. A full-width section is as wide as the browser window. In a narrower section, a Right sidebar moves below the post and a Left one above it.
Sticky
Shows when Position is Left or Right. Keeps the sidebar in view while the reader scrolls through a long post. On by default.
Wide-screen sidebar layout
Shows when Position is Left or Right. Keeps the post column in the middle of the window and puts the sidebar to its side when there is room. Turned off, the post column and the sidebar are centered together, so the post sits left of center. When the window is too narrow to keep the post centered, the section lays out the same way. On by default.
When no widget has anything to show, such as a Table of Contents on a post without headings, the sidebar takes no room. In a section narrower than 1024 px, a sidebar that holds only a Table of Contents hides.
Colors
Setting
What it does
Color Scheme
The section's background and text colors, from your color schemes, with Inherit, Light and Dark icons beside Theme in its list for light or dark colors. Default uses the site's scheme.
Background
A color that fills the section in place of its scheme's background. None by default. Add it from the + beside Colors.
Gradient
A gradient over the section's background. Add it from the + beside Colors.
Text color
The color of the section's text, and of the blocks inside that have no Text color of their own. Add it from the + beside Colors.
Layout
Setting
What it does
Width
How wide the section's box is, background included. Full by default.
Content Width
How wide the post column can grow: Narrow (720 px) by default. Standard (1140 px), Wide (1400 px), Full or a length you enter make it wider. The sidebar sits outside this width.
Min Height
The least height of the section. None by default.
Align
Where the post column sits: Left, Center (the default) or Right.
Regular (40 px) at the top and bottom and Small (24 px) at the sides by default.
Margin
Space outside the section.
Appearance and advanced
Corners rounds the section's corners. The + beside Advanced adds CSS classes and Custom CSS.
Locked posts
When a reader cannot open a post, because it is for members or paid members, the section shows the post's public preview, the part before the members-only content in Ghost, fades its last lines out, and shows the Paywall block under it. Every Post Content section holds one Paywall, at the top of its block list. It shows only on locked posts and never in the sidebar. Select it to change what readers see, such as the sign-up message and buttons. Change what readers see on a locked post explains it, and Paywall lists its settings.
Blocks
A Post Content section holds up to 21 widgets at its top level, the Paywall included:
The Post Content section shows the body of a Ghost post or page: the text, images and cards you write in Ghost Admin. You can add it to the Post and Page templates and to the post and page templates you create. Every block you add to it, except the Paywall, becomes a widget, such as a table of contents, in a sidebar beside the post or in a row above or below it. Click the section on the canvas to open its settings panel.
The post's words come from Ghost, and you change them in Ghost Admin. Their look follows your Styles: the text styles, and the default look of the Paragraph, Heading, Button and other blocks. Design your post pages shows how to style them.
Patterns
The Content category of the pattern picker has two Post Content sections: With Sidebar, which has a widget sidebar, and Narrow, a single reading column.
General
Under Widgets, three settings place the blocks you add to the section:
When no widget has anything to show, such as a Table of Contents on a post without headings, the sidebar takes no room. In a section narrower than 1024 px, a sidebar that holds only a Table of Contents hides.
Colors
Layout
Layout settings lists the values of each.
Spacing
Appearance and advanced
Corners rounds the section's corners. The + beside Advanced adds CSS classes and Custom CSS.
Locked posts
When a reader cannot open a post, because it is for members or paid members, the section shows the post's public preview, the part before the members-only content in Ghost, fades its last lines out, and shows the Paywall block under it. Every Post Content section holds one Paywall, at the top of its block list. It shows only on locked posts and never in the sidebar. Select it to change what readers see, such as the sign-up message and buttons. Change what readers see on a locked post explains it, and Paywall lists its settings.
Blocks
A Post Content section holds up to 21 widgets at its top level, the Paywall included:
To show posts below the body, such as related posts, add a Section with a post list under the Post Content section.