Commune + Ghost
Ghost sends it. Commune gets it found.
Connect your Ghost newsletter and every issue gets a public page, a conversation, and a spot in front of people who read newsletters like yours. Anyone new who subscribes on Commune becomes a Ghost member, labelled Commune.
Free. About two minutes. Your members stay in Ghost.
How it works
Keep writing in Ghost. Commune does the rest.
Step 1
Paste your Admin API key
Enter your Ghost site's address and its Admin API key. Commune takes your site's name and logo from Ghost.
Step 2
Your archive goes live
Pick the published posts to bring over. Each one becomes a public page with a conversation under it. From then on, every post Ghost emails shows up on Commune by itself.
Step 3
New readers flow back
When someone new subscribes on Commune, they're added to your Ghost members with the label Commune.
Between Ghost and Commune
What comes in, and what goes back.
From Ghost
- The published posts you pick from your archive
- Every new post Ghost emails, through one member Commune adds to your site
- Your subscribed members' email addresses, once a day, so readers already on Commune are subscribed to you there too
Back to Ghost
- Readers new to your site who subscribe on Commune, as Ghost members labelled Commune
- A deleted member, when a reader leaves your newsletter on Commune
Discovery
Get read by people who already read newsletters like yours.
Sending is solved. Getting found isn't. On Commune, your Ghost issues sit next to other independent newsletters, and readers move between them through the feed and the conversations under each post.
Step 1
A reader comes to Commune for another newsletter.
Step 2
Your latest post is right there in the same feed.
Step 3
One click, and they're your subscriber.
Every newsletter here sends readers to the others, yours included. The more it grows, the more it sends.
Your Admin API key
Exactly what Commune does with it.
Here is the whole list of what Commune uses your Admin API key for.
Commune will
- Read your site's name and logo, and your published posts
- Read your subscribed members to bring your readers into your community
- Add people who subscribe on Commune as members, with a Commune label it creates
- Delete a member who unsubscribes on Commune, and its own address when you disconnect
- Add one Commune member to your site, so new posts reach Commune by themselves
Commune will never
- Publish, edit or send a post
- Change your site's settings, tiers or prices
Disconnect any time from your Commune dashboard, then delete the integration in Ghost if you like.
When you're ready
Or move your sending to Commune.
Questions
The short answers
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Connecting Ghost to Commune is free. Sending from Commune instead is the Creator plan.
- Do I change anything in Ghost?
- No. You write and send exactly as before. Commune adds one member of its own, called Commune Inbound, so new posts reach it, and deletes it when you disconnect.
- Which posts come in?
- When you connect, you pick which published posts to import, with public ones selected for you. After that, every post Ghost emails comes in by itself, whatever its access level, and is public on Commune. Pages never come in.
- What happens when a reader unsubscribes on Commune?
- Commune deletes them from your Ghost members.
- What happens if I disconnect?
- Your posts and their conversations stay on Commune. Readers Commune added to Ghost stay on your list there.
Connect Ghost in about two minutes.
Free, and nothing changes in how you write or send. Every issue gets a conversation and a place in the network.