Add guests
Create a guest in your Ghost staff as a credited Contributor — with bio, photo, and social links — straight from Signal Tools, then edit them in Ghost like any author.
The Guest Importer adds a guest to your Ghost staff as a Contributor — Ghost's staff role for credited authors without a login — so you can assign them to episodes without the manual staff-invite dance.
Open the Guest Importer and fill in the guest's name (the only required field).
Optionally add a photo, location, bio, website, and social links — X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, TikTok, and YouTube. Each social field is checked against Ghost's own rules as you type, so they'll display correctly on your site.
Click Add to Ghost.
Write a bio with one click
Don't have a bio handy? Enter the guest's name, then use ✨ Generate with AI to draft a short bio you can edit. (It uses your AI key, same as episode imports.)
What gets created
The guest is created as a locked Contributor — a credited author with no login and no email sent. You can assign them as an author on any episode right away. If a guest with the same name already exists, Signal Tools flags a possible duplicate so you can either open the existing person in Ghost or add this one as a separate Contributor.
On success you'll see a confirmation card with the guest's details and an Open in Ghost staff button.
Adding guests needs a Staff Access Token
This tool requires a Staff Access Token from an Owner or Administrator (set in Setup). With only an integration Admin API key, the guest tool is unavailable — that key can create episode drafts but not staff.
Editing guests afterward
Once a guest is in Ghost, they're an ordinary author. Edit everything about them — including their social links — in Settings → Staff, and it flows into the theme automatically: their profile at /people/{slug}/, the homepage Recent guests grid, and their social icons. See Social links and Content model.
The extension fills the fields; Ghost owns them
Signal Tools is just a faster way to enter a guest. After import you can edit, re-tag, or remove them in Ghost Admin at any time — with or without the extension.
Related
- Content model — hosts vs. guests, and curating who appears.
- Social links — where the guest's social links show up.
Import episodes
Turn a YouTube video, an audio file, or a podcast link into a ready-to-publish Signal episode — transcript, chapters, show notes, and cover — then send it to Ghost as a draft.
Podcasts
Save a podcast feed in Signal Tools and batch-import new episodes as they're released, with an option to re-host audio on Ghost.