Pages
Signal's special pages, Subscribe, Guests, Hosts, Contact, and Library, and the two ways they switch on (a route, or a page slug).
Beyond ordinary episodes, Signal ships a set of purpose-built pages. They switch on in one of two ways:
- By route, defined in
routes.yaml: the URL exists with no page to create. - By slug: create a Ghost Page with a specific slug and Signal applies the matching design automatically.
| Page | URL | Switches on by | What you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episodes | /episodes/ | Route | Nothing, it's the episode archive |
| Blog | /blog/ | Route | Nothing, it's the blog archive |
| Subscribe | /subscribe/ | Slug subscribe | Create a page slugged subscribe |
| Guests | /guests/ | Slug guests | Create a page slugged guests |
| Hosts | /hosts/ | Slug hosts | Create a page slugged hosts |
| Contact | /contact/ | Slug contact | Create a page slugged contact |
| Library | /library/ | Slug library | Create a page slugged library |
Your About page is just a normal page
Signal has no special About template. Create an ordinary Ghost page for it: give it the slug about and the homepage About the show section will pull from it automatically.
Routes file required for Episodes & Blog
/episodes/ and /blog/ come from the bundled routes.yaml. If they 404, upload it once. See Installation.
Slug-activated pages
For Subscribe, Guests, Hosts, Contact, and Library, just create a Ghost Page and set its URL slug to match. Signal applies the right design automatically, with no template to choose.
Create a new Page in Ghost.
In Page settings → Page URL, set the slug to subscribe, guests, hosts, contact, or library.
Publish. The page now uses Signal's matching layout.
On every one of these pages, the page's own title and excerpt become the on-page heading and intro, and its SEO fields feed the page's metadata, so each special page is still fully yours to word.
The pages in depth
- Subscribe, your membership tiers, listen links, and newsletter signup in one place.
- Guests, the searchable A–Z guest directory. Hand-pick the list, or let it build itself.
- Hosts, your show's hosts, managed in one place.
- Contact, a working contact form plus your own "reasons to get in touch".
- Library, each visitor's saved episodes and watch progress.
Related
- Homepage, several homepage sections are fed by these same pages.
- Content model, how episodes, hosts, guests, and shows map to Ghost.