Jamify Tutorials

You deserve your own audience!

If you are following this newsfeed, you already know that audience building has become a new strategic focus for Blogody. Today, I am announcing the delivery of the very first membership feature: subscriptions. Start growing your own audience with Blogody today!

Images

Blur-up image loading effects with Blogody

A state-of-the-art lazy blur-up placeholder technique for feature images now significantly improves perceived loading performance. This feature is delivered to all users and works out of the box - no configuration needed. Learn about what makes Blogody's solution special.

Images

Image Uploads with Blogody

The ability to upload images into your Blogody posts has been a long awaited feature. Starting today, image uploads are fully integrated into Blogody. This is the second article of the series on how to best work with images in Blogody.

Images

How to work with images in Blogody

This is the first article of a new series on working with images in Blogody. Learn about what you can do with images in Blogody today. From the integrated Unsplash image selector to adding images from your private photo gallery, there are many ways to make your articles stand out.

Web Development

On-demand Static Regeneration: How Blogody serves multi-zone blog sites

Never heard of On-demand Static Regeneration, or OSR? No wonder! It's a new acronym that we invented for this article in order to describe an exciting new evolution of how we can generate and publish blazing fast static web sites on the web.

Blogody

Building a Rich-Text Editor for Modern Publishers

An inside look into the making of a flexible Rich-Text editor that will be shipped as an integral part of Blogody - the new blogging platform I am building. It's been a bumpy path to choose the editor technology best suited for modern publishers. Sneak preview into the final result...

Technology

Blogody - Tune into the melody of a new blogging platform

It's official now. The new blogging platform that I am creating is called Blogody. Learn how I came up with that name and what might help you in creating great names for your own product ideas.

Technology

Creating a new blogging platform

I am going to create a new blogging platform in 2021! It will allow publishing articles with Jamstack benefits built in: namely extremely secure and blazing fast sites. No code or development skills needed. For publishers who want to focus on writing and care about their content ownership.

Technology

Gatsby or Next?

This year has seen overwhelming advances in static site builders which makes choosing the right system harder. Most comparisons on the web are outdated. That's why we take a fresh look at Gatsby versus NextJS. Take advantage of the lessons we learned in 2020 and make your own choice!

Workflows

Running a professional blog for free

Ever wanted to run a blog site with zero costs? This tutorial explains how to do this in minutes with Jamify! If you follow along with the instructions in this tutorial, you'll have your own zero-cost setup by the end of this article featuring professional class speed, availability and security.

Getting Started

Getting started with Jamify

Proudly introducing Jamify: A modern tool-set for publishing flaring fast blogs with Gatsby and Ghost. Start here to learn how Jamify enables you to deliver content at stellar speeds and why it makes your site more secure. Surely, you'll love its amazing flexibility. Join the Jamstack hype here!

Marketing

Newsletter marketing with Jamify

Learn how to initiate, organize and maintain newsletter marketing campaigns with Jamify! It may surprise you that membership subscriptions on your static site are readily possible. Best of all, you can manage members in your Ghost CMS. Start creating professional newsletter campaigns today!

Performance

Incremental Builds with Jamify

With Jamify, you can now fully leverage the new Gatsby Cloud incremental builds feature to build your sites even faster! We are proud to be the first organization to bring this exciting feature to your publication pipeline when sourced from a headless Ghost CMS.

Themes

Add comments with Commento

This guide explains how you can easily add the commenting system Commento to blog posts of your Jamify site. You'll learn how to add the theme and how to connect to managed or self-hosted back-ends. Get informed about other commenting systems and see how Commento fares against them.

Themes

Add a contact page to Jamify

A contact page is a great way for your readers to interact with you directly. In this tutorial you will learn how easy it is to add a standard contact page to your Jamify website. Choose a backend that best fits your needs and learn how to connect to it, so your contact form is fully functional.

Dynamic Routing

Routing with Jamify

This tutorial is a primer on dynamic routing with Jamify. Learn the basic concepts of routing and URL pattern matching and apply your knowledge to common use cases: Add a landing page to your blog, look into the structure of permalinks and learn how to create multi-language sites with collections.

Themes

Adding a table of contents

Learn how you can add an auto-generated, interactive Tables of Contents pane within seconds. That's why I have plenty of time to delve into more advanced customization techniques. Learn how to write your own plugin for chapter numberings and make use of component shadowing to customize styles.

Workflows

Continuous content publishing

Setup a continuous deployment pipeline, so your content gets automatically published on a global content delivery network. This tutorial explains how you achieve full automation, so any update to your content will propagate smoothly to your public site.

Getting Started

Ghost CMS on Hetzner Cloud

Learn howto install and run a headless Ghost content management system in the cloud. Deploy Ghost in a Docker container and make it accessible to your teams. This guide focuses on the specifics of a headless configuration and fully prepares you for the awesome Jamstack.

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