Refreshing staging from your live site
Refreshing replaces staging with a fresh copy of your live site. What comes across, what's deliberately left behind, and when to run one.
Announcing the Magic Pages Open House. Quarterly calls with our team!
Founder of Magic Pages. I build reliable Ghost hosting, so publishers can focus on what they do best − creating. When I'm not improving the platform, I'm probably helping a customer get their site just right.
Refreshing replaces staging with a fresh copy of your live site. What comes across, what's deliberately left behind, and when to run one.
What moves when you publish staging to your live site, what never moves, and why posts you published on staging arrive as drafts.
Staging is a €3 a month add-on you switch on from your billing page. What it costs, which plans can have it, and what happens when you remove it.
A private copy of your site for drafting posts and trying designs, with its own address and an access code. Here's what you can and can't do on it.
All Magic Pages customer websites have been updated to Ghost v6.54.1
Pro plans billed monthly or yearly include a 99.9% uptime SLA. Lifetime and Starter plans don't.
Custom themes are included on Pro. On Starter you can add them for an extra fee, or upgrade instead.
Send a copy of your daily backup to storage you control: S3-compatible providers, SFTP, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox.
All Magic Pages customer websites have been updated to Ghost v6.54.0
Why is Magic Pages, a Ghost hosting company, sponsoring IndieCon — an independent print festival in Hamburg? A solo episode on the shared fight for ownership, what we're bringing (a Ghost workshop, a small magazine, a dinner), and how you can win a ticket.
WordPress can do anything − and maintaining all of it is the job. An honest look at whether moving your blog to Ghost is worth it: what you gain, what you give up, and how to migrate without losing your SEO rankings.
All Magic Pages customer websites have been updated to Ghost v6.53.0
Substack takes 10% of your subscription revenue for as long as you stay. Ghost takes nothing. The honest comparison for a paid newsletter — including what a Ghost host actually charges for, and the point where switching pays off.
Common Pod problems and their fixes — missing episodes on the homepage, a 404 at /podcast/rss/, Apple submission rejections, audio that won't play, chapters not appearing, and the rest.
Deep-dive on the channel-level Podcasting 2.0 fields Pod exposes as custom settings — <podcast:guid>, <podcast:locked>, <podcast:funding> (with Ghost tipjar fallback), <podcast:value> for Lightning. When to care, when to skip, and what's supported per-episode.
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