Why Your Ghost Page Is Not on the Homepage

You published a page in Ghost, but it is missing from the list of articles on your homepage. The page may open perfectly at its own URL. Why does publishing it not add it to that list?

Ghost keeps pages separate from posts. The default homepage feed lists posts, so publishing a page does not add an article card to it. This is expected behavior.

The next step depends on what you meant to publish: an article that belongs among your latest posts, or standalone information such as About or Contact. Start by checking which content type you used.

Why Pages Stay Outside the Homepage Feed

Ghost’s default site structure uses the homepage to list posts, with the newest first. A post is part of that publishing stream: an essay, news story or announcement can appear alongside your other articles.

A page serves a different purpose. It has its own address, but publishing it does not automatically place it in the homepage feed, tag collections, author collections or menu. Ghost’s page documentation describes this separation.

For example, an About page can stay available at /about/ while your latest articles appear on the homepage. If you created a new essay under Pages, it follows the same standalone-page behavior, even though its content reads like an article.

A menu link gives readers a route to a page. It does not change the page into a post or put it in the latest-post feed.

Check That You Published a Page

Open Pages in Ghost Admin and find the content. If it is listed there, you created a page. Open it and check its publication status, then select Settings to find Page URL and View page.

The example is the About page on Aspire Themes’ Hakone demo. It is listed under Pages as Published, uses the Default template and opens at /about/. Its ordinary page content stays separate from the homepage’s post feed.

If your page opens at its public URL, it is available even though it is absent from the feed. If that URL returns a 404, check the publication status and address first; the page-versus-post distinction does not explain an unavailable destination.

If you find the content under Posts instead, this explanation is not the cause of its absence. Check whether it is published to the website and whether your theme or site’s routing filters the homepage content.

Use a Post for Content That Belongs in the Feed

For an essay, announcement or other article you want alongside your latest stories, use Posts, rather than Pages. New articles start from Posts → New post in Admin.

Ghost’s post documentation explains that published posts normally appear on the homepage and in the site’s post collections. This applies to the default feed; a custom homepage or filtered collection can display a different selection.

If the article is already a published page, do not delete it just to make it appear in the feed. Plan how the replacement post will preserve or redirect its existing URL first; readers may already have links to that address. This guide explains the content-type choice, rather than the replacement procedure. Adding navigation alone will leave the content as a page, so it cannot produce the feed entry you wanted.

Keep Standalone Pages and Link to Them

For About, Contact or similar information, a page is the appropriate format. You can make it reachable from the homepage through the menu while keeping it outside the article feed.

Copy its public URL from View page. Then open Settings → Site → Navigation → Customize, add a Primary item with a clear Label and the page’s URL, and select Save. Ghost’s navigation guide explains the setup. Secondary navigation is also available when your theme supports it.

Hakone’s menu already has an About link pointing to https://hakone.aspirethemes.com/about/. That link opens the standalone page; it does not add it to the post feed. Follow your own saved link on desktop and on a phone to check that it reaches the intended public URL.

A Ghost Forum question about a missing Now page illustrates this choice: the page was already published, and its author reported resolving the issue by adding a navigation link.

If You Want the Page Itself to Be the Homepage

Displaying a page’s content at your site’s root address, such as example.com/, is a separate setup. Publishing a page or adding it to the menu does not assign it as the homepage.

Check your theme’s homepage documentation first. Where a custom route is needed, Ghost’s routing documentation explains how a custom homepage can replace the default feed while posts live at another address, such as /blog/. That requires a matching theme template and routing configuration.