Creator — Building a Ghost Theme (Work Log)

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Building Creator, a free open-source multipurpose Ghost theme — documented step by step, in the open.

Build log 19 Jul 2026 1 min read

Part 19 — Creating tag-driven collections

Used tags as the routing key so content sorts itself into sections.

The pattern

  • Internal #hash tags (hidden from readers) drive collections.
  • A post tagged #project lands in /projects/ automatically.
  • Public tags do the human-facing labelling.

Nested collections

/project-steps-index/:
  permalink: /projects/{primary_tag}/{slug}/
  filter: tag:hash-project-detail
  order: published_at asc

So a project's build-log steps live inside the project URL, ordered by date.

This is exactly how this very log is structured — Creator is its own container, each part a #project-detail step.

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