Why your Ghost page is not on the homepage

You published a page in Ghost, but it is missing from your homepage’s article list. The page may load at its own URL. Why does it not join that list?

Ghost keeps pages separate from posts. The default homepage feed lists posts. Publishing a page does not add an article card to that feed. Ghost works this way by default.

What did you mean to publish? An article may belong with your latest posts. About or Contact information may need a standalone page. Start by checking the content type.

Why pages stay outside the homepage feed

Ghost’s default site structure lists posts on the homepage, newest first. Essays, news stories, and announcements can join that feed beside your other articles.

A page has its own address. Publishing it does not add it to the homepage feed or menu. It also stays outside tag and author collections. Ghost’s page documentation explains this distinction.

An About page can stay at /about/ while the homepage shows your latest articles. An essay created under Pages works the same way. Its content may read like an article, but its type is still a page.

Check that you published a page

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

The About page on Aspire Themes’ Hakone demo opens at /about/. It stays separate from the homepage’s post feed. Use the Admin checks above to confirm your own page’s status and address.

If the public URL opens, your page is available outside the feed. If you see a 404, check the status and address first. The page-versus-post distinction does not explain why a URL fails to load.

If the content is under Posts, this page-type explanation does not apply. Check that you have published the post to the website. Then check whether your theme or routing rules limit which posts appear on the homepage.

Use a post for content that belongs in the feed

Use Posts to put an essay or announcement beside your latest stories. The same applies to other articles. Start a new article from Posts → New post in Admin.

Ghost’s post documentation explains where posts appear. Published posts normally appear on the homepage and in post collections. A custom homepage or filtered collection may show a different set.

Do not delete a published page just to add its article to the feed. First, plan how the replacement post will keep or redirect the original page’s URL. Readers may already have links to that address.

Keep standalone pages and link to them

Use a page for About, Contact, or similar information. A menu link makes the page reachable from the homepage. The page stays outside the article feed.

Copy the public URL from View page. Open Settings → Site → Navigation → Customize. Add a Primary item with a clear Label and the page’s URL. Select Save. Ghost’s navigation guide covers these steps. You can also use secondary navigation if your theme supports it.

Hakone’s About menu link points to https://hakone.aspirethemes.com/about/. On your site, follow the saved link on desktop and a phone. Check that it reaches the right public URL.

A Ghost Forum question about a missing Now page shows this distinction. The author had already published the page. Their reply says a menu link fixed the issue.

A custom homepage

Showing a page at your site’s root, such as example.com/, needs a separate setup. Publishing the page or adding a menu link does not make it the homepage.

Start with your theme’s homepage documentation. A custom route may be needed to replace the default feed. Posts can then live at another address, such as /blog/. Ghost’s routing documentation explains this setup. Ask your theme developer or host to help. The setup needs a suitable page layout and rules that choose the content for each address.