Writing
Starting a draft from a package, the editor, the cards you may use, images and embeds, and what the site adds to your post.
Starting a draft
- Open Packages in the sidebar, or press New submission on your dashboard.
- Choose a package. Its page says what it includes: the credits a submission holds, how the post is disclosed, whether search engines index it, how its links are marked, the cards you may use, the upload limits and how the site reviews it. The packages your membership does not include are listed after the ones it does, with a link to the site's memberships.
- Press New and the package's name, for example New Sponsored post. The editor opens on your new draft.
- Write your post in the editor (below).
- Preview and submit it for review.
The editor
The editor is the one Ghost's own writers use: type / for the card menu. The package decides which cards you have, typically images, galleries, video and audio, bookmarks and embeds, code, callouts and toggles; some packages also allow buttons, headers, calls to action and product cards. Cards that can carry scripts or raw HTML, and cards meant for the site's own email and membership features, are never available.
Your draft saves itself as you type. You can close the tab and come back; the draft waits under Submissions until you submit or delete it.
Images, video, audio
Upload from the card. The file goes to the site's own storage through the service, which checks its type and size against the package's caps before forwarding it. Sixty uploads an hour and five hundred mebibytes a day per contributor are the limits.
Links and embeds
A bookmark card works for any public page. An embed card works for the providers the site allows (YouTube, Vimeo, X, CodePen, Spotify and SoundCloud by default, plus whatever the owner added). Links to domains the owner blocked are refused when you submit; every link is published with rel="sponsored" when the package requires it.
What the site adds
The published post carries the package's disclosure (for example "Sponsored, by your name (your company)") at the top, bottom or both, the site's internal tag for the package, and, if the package says so, a noindex setting. You cannot remove these; the owner configures them per package. The author shown on the post is the byline the site chose: a Contributor user named after you, or the site's shared byline.