A lot of fixes and a fun new tool: Polls are in Labs as a beta , just ahead of the midterms in the U.S. (Luna-only for the beta)
You can now ask your audience a question from a block inside a post, and send it in the newsletter, where readers can vote (and change their vote) right from the Ghost newsletter.
A bunch of fixes are included in the release; but nothing that changes what you do every day, unless you want to try out the polls.
Note we are documenting two release here: 3.26 and 3.27. Someone forgot to send last week...
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The Polls are Open
Polls are in beta in Outpost as of today, Wednesday October 21. These can go in posts on your sites and in newsletters, where readers can vote straight from the newsletter without logging into Ghost. Defaults now are polls are for only for members, but that includes free and paid. Anonymous or non-anonymous polls. Single choice or choose more than one option. Would you use this poll feature?
Click an option to vote.
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Polls are out and the fixes are in
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Highlights
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🗳️ Reader polls, in beta
Ask readers a question: include it in a post or a newsletter or both. Readers vote from wherever they see it. It's in beta, but already has some nice features including being able to choose multiple optoins, auto-closing of the poll, and your choice whether votes are anonymous or not. There's a small fix for dark mode in Gmail on mobile coming, so you might want to wait til Friday to use this in production. VOYAGER and LUNA+ only.
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📋 A little more control over campaigns
You can now clone a campaign instead of rebuilding it, and if your campaign is about getting people to register for an event, emails won't go to those who already registered.
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⏳ Trial reminder emails by tier
You can now write a different message for each tier in the trial welcome email and the second and third trial reminders.
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ADDED 8 items
| 🗳️ Reader polls (beta, under Labs): show a poll as a CTA or paste it into a post, where it is live on the site and has direct voting links in the newsletter |
| ✉️ Campaign emails linked to an event can skip members already registered for that event |
| 📋 Publishers can clone a campaign to run a version of it again |
| 🗂️ The email templates list shows each template’s ID, which flows, campaigns and autoresponders send it, and which templates aren't in use |
| 🏷️ Different messages for each tier on the free trial welcome email and the second and third trial reminders |
| 🗓️ Events whose sign-up happens on another site, such as Eventbrite, which still appear in your events listing, event cards and homepage rail |
| 🧾 Company name, VAT ID and address fields for group subscription buyers at checkout for self-serve, plus an optional company name on direct invoices |
| 🏠 Homepage curation got more flexible with how items in sections work |
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CHANGED 2 items
| 🔔 New sites start with the renewal reminders and the later free-trial reminders turned on |
| 🔢 We now enforce that email flow steps must be scheduled in order when you save a flow |
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FIXED 23 items
| 🚦 Fixed an issue where some readers trying to unsubscribe were being refused with “Too Many Attempts” after a single try |
| 🧱 Fixed how the metered registration walls and metered paywalls counted, so readers now get the set number of free posts in any rolling 30 days |
| 👋 Fixed readers who start a paid plan on a free trial getting no welcome email if the site’s Trial emails were off |
| 🤝 Fixed an issue where complimentary members who start paying didn't get a thank-you email and stayed marked as complimentary in Outpost |
| 📅 Fixed readers on a free trial of an annual plan getting renewal reminders during the trial |
| ⏰ Fixed the third free-trial reminder going out only an hour before the trial ends on sites that never set its timing, so it now goes out two days before |
| 🌐 Fixed the custom sending domain check reporting success when a setup step had failed, and it now names each failed step and each failing DNS record |
| 🧵 Fixed members who are partway through an email flow losing their place when the flow is edited |
| 👥 Fixed missing or archived offers not loading on the group subscriptions page |
| 🎟️ Fixed complimentary members, including gift recipients, being turned away at checkout before their access ended |
| 🧭 Fixed signups made through Outpost CTAs, popups and paywalls showing blank signup attribution in Ghost, which now records the post or page, referrer and UTM values for them |
| 🔀 Fixed turning off an advanced flow with the Enabled switch in the flow editor not asking what should happen to members partway through it, as the flow list already does |
| 🎯 Fixed advanced flows saving with nothing ticked under “Apply to”, which sent them to every member, and the flows page now stays on the editor when a save fails |
| 🎧 Fixed readers missing the Supercast player on their account page, with the Supercast feed now saved for every reader and missing ones repaired nightly |
| 💳 Fixed members keeping an active subscription in Outpost after it had ended in Stripe |
| 🔗 Fixed campaign “Register for Event” buttons leading to a “Link not recognized” page for events whose sign-up happens on another site |
| 🔄 Fixed paid readers who had turned off auto-renew getting an unsubscribe confirmation telling them their subscription will still renew |
| 🎫 Fixed the third ending reminder for cancelled subscribers having an offer button that went nowhere on sites that set up cancellation offers during onboarding |
| 💌 Fixed members who have cancelled getting the card-expiry reminder |
| 📊 Fixed the Plausible Signup goal missing new members whose Ghost signup attribution had no page |
| 🍪 Fixed the unsubscribe pages loading Stripe’s payment script and setting Stripe cookies |
| 🎁 Fixed the setup wizard’s gift subscriptions step not advancing when Continue was clicked |
| 🧙 Fixed the setup wizard’s group subscriptions switch never saving and always coming back off |
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IMPROVED 1 item
| 🖼️ The email editor now says why an image upload failed, such as a file that is too large or an unsupported format, instead of one generic message |
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