Ghost Publish

Publish your vault notes to a Ghost blog with configurable presets. Each preset captures a publication target — tags, newsletter, canonical-URL strategy, status — and shows up as a tab in the side panel.

Features

• Presets — define one or more publication profiles (Blog post, News, Microblog, …). Each preset has its own tags, optional newsletter slug, and publication status.
• Side panel — one tab per preset, with sub-tabs for Triage (review candidate notes), Queue (notes flagged for sync), and Recently published.
• Triage — pick notes to publish from a time-range filter, with one-click publish, publish + email and ignore actions.
• Idempotent sync — each note's body is hashed (SHA-256); unchanged notes skip the round-trip. Ghost post ids are recorded in frontmatter for in-place updates.
• Auto-fetched tag and newsletter lists — connect once, click Refresh tags & newsletters, and the preset editor offers autocomplete + dropdowns from the cached data.
• Image upload — every ![[image]] embed is uploaded to Ghost and rewritten to a Ghost image card.
• Wikilink resolution — known-URL map, optional public-mirror lookup, bold-text fallback.
• Embed upgrades — YouTube links become Ghost oembed cards; LINK: blocks become bookmark cards.
• Configurable frontmatter keys — bring your own property names so existing vaults can keep their conventions.
• Listing notes (optional) — per preset, maintain a markdown index of every post currently published.

Install

isDesktopOnly: true — the plugin needs network access to Ghost and reads GHOST_ADMIN_KEY as an optional env fallback.

Manual install:

1. Build the plugin (bun install, then bun run build).
2. Copy dist/main.js, dist/manifest.json, dist/styles.css to <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/ghost-publish/.
3. Reload, then enable Ghost Publish in Settings → Community plugins.

Quick start

1. Open Settings → Ghost Publish: fill in Ghost URL and the Admin API key (id:secret from Ghost Admin → Settings → Integrations).
2. Click Refresh tags & newsletters to populate the autocomplete cache.
3. Add a preset (e.g. "Blog post"): pick tags, optionally a newsletter, status, canonical URL strategy.
4. Open the panel (the send ribbon icon).
5. On the preset tab → Triage sub-tab, pick notes to queue. Switch to Queue and click Sync to Ghost.

Privacy & network

This plugin is desktop-only and makes network requests only to the Ghost site you configure. It does not collect telemetry, does not call any third-party analytics service, and never reads files outside your vault.

External services used:

• Ghost Admin API at your configured Ghost URL — for creating / updating posts, fetching tags & newsletters, uploading embedded images, and triggering optional newsletter dispatches. Authentication uses an Admin API key you provide (either pasted into settings or read from the GHOST_ADMIN_KEY environment variable).
• Public mirror URL (optional, per preset) — when a preset enables canonical_url, the plugin performs a HEAD/GET probe against the canonical URL to verify the public version is reachable before publishing. No vault content is sent in this probe.

The plugin never executes remote code and updates only through normal Obsidian releases.

Documentation

• User guide (published via GitHub Pages).
• Technical documentation (architecture, business rules, history).
• Contributing.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.