The archives

Quiet's archive is a reading index rather than a wall of cards: posts filed under the month they were published, one line each. The posts you mark Featured get a strip of picture cards at the very top, so a first-time reader sees your best work before the list begins. On a site with a few hundred essays that is the difference between a page you can scan and a page you scroll past.

Tag pages and author pages use the very same list, so a reader who has learnt to read one has learnt them all.

Set it up

The archive lives at /articles/, which needs the routes file and a page slugged articles. Both are covered in Installation, steps 4 and 5.

What is on the page

• The heading and the count. "Articles · 47 posts", taken from the page's title and Ghost's own total.
• The filter row. Pills for your five most-used public tags, most used first, plus an All pill. It hides itself on a site with no public tags.
• The Featured strip. On the first page only, your three newest starred posts as picture cards: see below.
• Month sections. A month and year on the left, that month's posts on the right.
• Each row: the post's category, its title, its date, its reading time, a padlock if it is members-only, and a small star if it is featured.
• Pagination, at twelve posts a page.

Featured posts

Mark a post as Featured in the editor's settings panel (the star) and two things happen on the archive:

• It joins the Featured strip at the top of the archive's first page: a row of up to three cards, each with the post's picture, category, title, date and reading time, newest first. On a phone the row scrolls sideways, one card and the edge of the next, like the topic tiles on the homepage. Deeper pages do not repeat the strip.
• Its line in the month list gets a small star before the title. The post stays exactly where its date puts it, so a reader scanning a month still reads it in order; the star is a pointer back to the strip.

Three details are worth knowing:

• Three at most. The strip shows your three most recently published starred posts. Star a fourth and the oldest drops out of the strip (it keeps its star in the list). To change what the strip shows, star and unstar posts.
• A post with no picture still gets a card, with a plain block where the picture would be, so the row stays level.
• No starred posts, no strip. The heading and the row appear only when there is something to show. Podcast episodes and films are never in it, even when starred: they have their own homes.

The strip is the article archive's own. Tag pages and author pages show the star on the list line only. The homepage's Latest writing band has its own way of using the star: see Latest writing.

Tag pages and author pages

Both list posts the same way as the archive: month by month, one line each, a star on a featured line. Two small differences:

• A tag page shows no category on its lines. Every post there already shares the tag named in the heading, so the label would only repeat it.
• An author page opens with the author's picture, name, bio, location and post count, then a row of icons for every account on their staff profile (X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and their website), then goes straight into the months. It no longer has a picture grid or a signup panel of its own; the footer's form is the signup route, as on the archive.

The filter row is automatic

There is nothing to curate. Quiet asks Ghost for your five most-used public tags and shows them in that order, so the row follows what you actually write about. Clicking a pill goes to Ghost's own tag page, which lists that tag's posts month by month, exactly like the archive.

To send readers somewhere richer than a tag page, build the topic tiles band on your homepage instead: the tiles use each tag's own picture and description.

What is not in the archive

Podcast episodes and films. Both are posts, but the routes file keeps them in their own collections, so /articles/ lists your writing only. Their homes are /podcast/ and /videos/.

Your feeds

Installing the routes file moves your feed. Worth knowing exactly where things end up:

The empty state

A brand new site with no posts, a tag with nothing published under it, or an author with no published work shows a short "nothing here yet" panel rather than an empty page.