Welcome to the Ghost blogging platform
Yeah, the blog is live! The goal of this post is to introduce you to the Ghost editor and help you get up to speed quickly. You can log in to the admin panel and manage your blog content via <your blog URL>/ghost/. Once you enter the admin area, you’ll see this post listed in the post list on the left, with its preview shown on the right. Click the pencil icon in the upper-right corner of the preview pane to open the content editor.
Quick Start
Ghost uses Markdown syntax for writing content. Simply put, Markdown is a simplified writing format!
Writing with Markdown is easy. The left side of the editor is where you write. Whenever you need to, you can use the following syntax to format your content. For example, here’s an unordered list:
- Item number one
- Item number two
- A nested item
- A final item
You can also create an ordered list:
- Remember to buy some milk
- Drink the milk
- Tweet that I remembered to buy the milk, and drank it
Links
If you want to link to another page, you can paste the page URL directly, for example http://www.ghostchina.com - it will be automatically recognized as a link. But if you want to customize the link text, you can do it like this: Ghost China. Pretty simple!
Images
Inserting images is no problem either! As long as you know the image URL in advance, you can write it like this:

What if the image is on your local hard drive? That’s easy too! Write it like this to reserve a placeholder for the image, then keep writing and come back later to upload the image to the server by dragging and dropping it.
![An image]
Blockquotes
Sometimes we need to quote what someone else said. You can do it like this:
Wisdomous - it’s definitely a word.
Code
Maybe you’re a developer and need to include some code in your post. You can use two backticks (the key above Tab) to add inline code like <code>. If you need to include a larger block of code, indent it with 4 spaces before the code. That’s Markdown syntax.
.awesome-thing {
display: block;
width: 100%;
}
Horizontal Rules
Enter 3 or more hyphens (minus signs) on any new line to create a horizontal rule.
Advanced Usage
Markdown also has a special capability: you can write HTML directly whenever you need to.
Once you’ve mastered the basics above, you’re ready to get started! Keep writing!
