Video band
Your three newest films on the homepage, each with a thumbnail and a month, plus an All videos link once the channel page exists.
A row of three film cards, newest first, drawn from your posts tagged #video.
Create it
#home-videosPublish at least one film: a post tagged #video. See The video channel.
Go to Pages → New page. The title becomes the small uppercase label, for example Videos or Films.
Under Tags, add #home-videos.
Publish.
Editor: the video band - Editor
The video band
What each field becomes
| Field | On the page |
|---|---|
| Title | The small uppercase label, followed by the film count |
| Excerpt | One larger line under it, usually your channel's name |
| Body | An optional short line under the heading |
The band has no feature image of its own: the pictures are the films' own thumbnails.
The tag is #home-videos, whatever you call the band
Quiet uses the word videos everywhere it needs a name of its own, which is why the tag is #home-videos. What readers see is your page's title, so a site that prefers Films simply writes that.
What appears automatically
- The three newest films, each with its thumbnail, its title and the month it was published.
- A play mark on each card, and a padlock on any film that is members-only.
- The film count beside the label.
- An All videos link, once a page exists at
/videos/.
There is no duration and no view count, because Ghost stores neither.
A film with no thumbnail still lines up
Each card keeps its 16:9 box whether or not the post has a feature image, so a missing picture leaves a plain panel rather than knocking the row out of alignment. Setting a feature image on a film is still worth it: the same picture becomes the poster the player shows before playback.
The band needs at least one film
With no #video posts published, the band renders nothing.
Related
- The video channel, for the page at
/videos/and how films work. - The persistent player, for the floating player.