Hey! Welcome to empress-blog, it's great to have you :) We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site with some initial Getting Started posts that will help you get familiar with everything in no time. This is the first one! There are a…
empress-blog uses a language called Markdown to format text, and so does the original Ghost 🎉 The main difference between the hosted Ghost platform and empress-blog is that we just use files on disk, so you can either edit your Markdown files directly or you can use a desktop…
empress-blog has a single, powerful organisational taxonomy, called tags. It doesn't matter whether you want to call them categories, tags, boxes, or anything else. You can think of tags a lot like Gmail labels. By tagging posts with one or more keyword, you can organise articles into buckets…
empress-blog does not, and will never have the concept of user roles! This is because it is entirely a static system. You can assign authors to posts and generate new ones using ember generate author but if you need full user permissions (outside of something like Github) and collaboration…
Ember is a powerful Javascript Framework that is designed to maximise developer productivity. Ember also has one of the best plugin experiences in the industry, which means you can get a whole lot of functionality with just a simple npm install. If you want to check out the power of…
There are lots of powerful things you can do with the Markdown If you've gotten pretty comfortable with all the basics of writing in Markdown, then you may enjoy some more advanced tips about the types of things you can do! As with the last post, you'll want…
empress-blog currently only supports 2 themes, the default Casper template and the Attila template. If you want to swap between templates it is as simple as installing a different npm dependency 🎉 The empress-blog documentation recommends that you use the default theme called Casper, which is designed to be…