How to Create an Authors Page in Your Ghost Theme

Adding a page to list all the blog authors in your Ghost theme will give your readers the opportunity to discover and browse your authors easily.

In this post, I will share with you how to add a custom authors page to your Ghost theme. I will use the default Casper theme as an example, but all the steps and codes will apply to any theme with a little customization as required.

Create the Authors Page Theme File

In your theme directory, create a new file and name it custom-authors.hbs and then copy the following code inside it. You may need to restart your Ghost server for the new page to take effect.

{{!< default}}

<header class="site-header">
  <div class="outer site-nav-main">
    <div class="inner">
      {{> "site-nav"}}
    </div>
  </div>
</header>

{{#post}}

<main id="site-main" class="site-main outer" role="main">
  <div class="inner">
    <header class="post-full-header">
      <h1 class="post-full-title">{{title}}</h1>
    </header>

    {{#get 'authors' limit='all' include='count.posts' order='count.posts desc'}}
      <div class="post-feed">
        {{#foreach authors}}
          <article class="post-card {{#unless profile_image}} no-image{{/unless}}">
            {{#if profile_image}}
              <a class="post-card-image-link" href="">
                <div class="post-card-image" style="background-image: url({{profile_image}})"></div>
              </a>
            {{/if}}
            <div class="post-card-content">
              <a class="post-card-content-link" href="{% raw %}{{url}}">
                <header class="post-card-header">
                  <h2 class="post-card-title">{{name}}</h2>
                </header>
                <section class="post-card-excerpt">
                  <p>{{bio}}</p>
                </section>
              </a>
            </div>
          </article>
        {{/foreach}}
      </div>
    {{/get}}
  </div>
</main>

{{/post}}

In this code, the get helper used to get the blog users. The include attribute used to get the posts count. The order attribute used to order the users list based on the posts attached to them.

Next, the foreach helper used to loop through each author and render the list with the author profile image, name, URL and bio.

Create the Authors Static Page

Authors Page

• Create a new page and call it Authors for example.
• From Page settings, select the Authors template from the Template dropdown.
• Publish the page.

This is an initial example of what you can do to the authors page. You can take the code further and show the author social media accounts, location, cover image, and posts count. As an example, you can create something like what I have done with the Nubia theme. You can also add the tag page link to the blog navigation.

Nubia Ghost Theme Authors Page

I would recommend checking the official Ghost documentation including the author-context for more information about the list of available attributes.

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