I will share the steps I took to publish my new podcast using Ghost CMS.

If you do not understand Handlebars well, I recommend you to read this blog post by Christopher Dodd. It is because you'll need to write some code in the process.

Ghost Theme Development - The Ultimate Guide

In June 2021, I moved the website you’re currently reading this article on from Wordpress to Ghost (Ghost.org). After developing eCommerce websites on Shopify for a few years, I realised just how antiquated a system like Wordpress is. It’s bulky, slow and built with old technology. Ghost by compari…

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Tutorial: How to make an iTunes Podcast RSS feed with Ghost

Ghost comes with automatic RSS feeds for your content, but you can also create a custom feed using the flexible dynamic routing layer to support a podcast 👉

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routes:
  /podcast/rss/:
    template: podcast/rss
    content_type: text/xml
collections:
  /podcast/:
    permalink: /podcast/{slug}/
    filter: tag:podcast
    template: dining-table
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

Now, you can understand what this route.yaml file does for your website. If so, apply that route configuration from the settings of your Ghost website and go ahead to edit your Ghost theme.

Edit Ghost Theme

Our next objective is to host podcast/rss.hbs on our site. Head to GitHub and download the source code of your website's theme.

Create a local development environment

npm install ghost-cli@latest -g
mkdir ghost-dev && cd ghost-dev
ghost install local
ghost start

Customize a Ghost Theme: Create a Custom Theme!

Ghost Theme Development: This how-to guide demonstrates how to create the perfect custom theme for you Ghost blog site.

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Populate the template with values intrinsic to your podcast and save it as ghost-dev/content/themes/Casper/podcast/rss.hbs. Visit http://localhost:2368/podcast/rss. If the server returns the RSS XML, you are on the right path.

Create a post on Ghost as usual and attach a tag: podcast. Then, visit http://localhost:2368/podcast/rss again to see if an entry has been added. There are some problems in ghost-dev/content/themes/Casper/podcast/rss.hbs if you just copied and pasted the template from the Ghost official. For example, the audio file location might be empty. Here, you have to roll up your sleeves to tinker the rss.hbs file. Your Ghost website will be working as a RSS publisher after complete this task.  Good luck.