Hosts & guests
How the Meet the hosts and Recent guests homepage sections are built from your Ghost staff and guest authors.
Two homepage sections introduce the people behind your show: Meet the hosts and Recent guests. Both build themselves from the authors in your Ghost site — you don't arrange them by hand.
Meet the hosts
Your show's regular hosts, shown as a grid of cards with each person's photo, role, short bio, and social links.
Signal treats your staff members as hosts — anyone on your team with a normal staff role (Owner, Administrator, Editor, and so on). Add or edit them in Ghost Admin → Settings → Staff, and they appear here automatically.
The role line comes from Location
The small line under each name (for example "Host & Producer") is the person's Location field in their Ghost staff profile. Fill it in to label what they do on the show.
Recent guests
The people who've joined you on the show, shown as a row of avatars. Guests are contributor authors in Ghost — a separate role from your staff, so they're never mixed up with your hosts.
Guests are usually added with Signal Tools
The Signal Tools browser extension (included with Signal) creates a guest as a Ghost Contributor — photo, bio, and social links filled in — in one step. You can also add them by hand in Settings → Staff.
Choosing exactly who appears
By default both sections list everyone with the matching role. If you'd rather hand-pick who shows up — for instance, to leave a developer or a one-time guest off the homepage — you can create a curation page:
- A page slugged
hostslimits Meet the hosts to just the people assigned to it, and powers a full/hosts/page. - A page slugged
guestsdoes the same for Recent guests, and powers a full/guests/page.
Meet the hosts
Recent guests
Full instructions for the roles and the curation pages live in the pages below.
Related
- Content model — hosts vs. guests, roles, and curating who appears.
- Page templates — the Hosts and Guests pages.
- Social links — the icons on each person's card.