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Fixing `ghost 500 select `products`.*...`

I've been tracking analytics ever since I launched a new VM to host my blog. I was surprised that there was no traffic since. I was wondering if whether it was an issue with Google: perhaps not referencing my blog any longer since it somehow detected that the server IP

Redirect an old blog to a new URL

My old blog was at blog.wafrat.com, and I wanted to host the new one at www.wafrat.com, while also preserving the old links. My first idea was to use a CNAME redcord: * Host name: "blog" * Type: CNAME * Data: "www.wafrat.com." And it worked, except for the

Remove "Powered by Ghost" on a Ghost blog

I am grateful that Ghost is open-source and also provided so many tools for free, such as the Docker image on DigitalOcean. Some thanks should also go to DigitalOcean for the tooling. Still, I'd rather have a website that does not say "Powered by Ghost" in the footer. So I

Migrating Ghost content

Today I went from manually running a docker on a VM to running a fully managed Ghost docker image on DigitalOcean. For reference, this is how I initially set up my blog. And this is how I set up the new one. What was left then was to migrate all

Embedding Vega charts in Ghost posts

Setting up a self-hosted Ghost blog in 2021

A lot has changed since I set up this blog back in 2017. Now, DigitalOcean has created a way to get started much faster and with less hassle. See how I did it manually back then at http://blog.wafrat.com/setting-up-the-blog/. This blog post replaces the whole section entitled

Adding a table of contents to a Ghost blog

I recently needed to add a table of contents to my blog post to make it more browsable. To my surprise, there was no built-in way to do it in Ghost, and the solutions on the internet range from terrible to nice and clean. If you're only interested in how

Setting up the blog

Which blogging platform to choose? Choices I could have picked: * a free hosted solution like Medium or Blogger * a paid solution like WordPress.com or Squarespace * a self-hosted solution using an open-source project like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla A quick search shows that WordPress is the dominant blogging platform today. Not