eleventy-plugin-ghost

Import your Ghost content directly into Eleventy as global data.

Installation

1. Install plugin using npm:

   npm install @alexs7/eleventy-plugin-ghost

2. Add plugin to your .eleventy.js config, ensuring to add your Ghost url and Content API key. Check out the Ghost docs for how to create a Content API key:

   const pluginGhost = require("eleventy-plugin-ghost");
   
   require("dotenv").config();
   const { GHOST_URL, GHOST_KEY } = process.env;
   
   module.exports = eleventyConfig => {
     eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginGhost, {
      url: GHOST_URL,
      key: GHOST_KEY,
      cache: process.env.DEV
     });
   };

   The example above is using dotenv with a .env file to ensure credentials are not stored in the source code. Here's an example of the .env file:

   GHOST_URL=https://demo.ghost.io
   GHOST_KEY=22444f78447824223cefc48062

3. Run your Eleventy project and use the global ghost data variable to access posts, pages, tags, authors and settings.

The API will default to the latest version, which is v4 presently. However passing version into the plugin options will set the version returned, as shown in the above code sample.

Usage

After installing and running you'll be provided with a global ghost key, which gives you access to the following:

• ghost.posts: An array of all posts in Ghost, including their tags and authors
• ghost.pages: An array of all pages in Ghost
• ghost.tags: An array of all tags in Ghost, including the number of posts within each tag but filtered to only contain public tags
• ghost.authors: An array of all authors in Ghost, including the number of posts within each author
• ghost.settings: All settings set in Ghost

All data is cached using @11ty/eleventy-cache-assets with a duration of 1 minute. This keeps the local builds fast while still inheriting newly applied content.