Connect Ghost

01Before you start

• You need to be an Administrator or Owner in Ghost — only they can add integrations.
• Your Ghost site must be reachable over https on the standard port (443). Ghost(Pro) sites (*.ghost.io) always are.
• StrideRank uses the Admin API key, not the Content API key. The Content API key can only read.

02Connect step by step

1. 1

   Add a custom integration

   In Ghost Admin, open Settings → Integrations and click Add custom integration. Give it a name such as “StrideRank” and click Create.

2. 2

   Copy the Admin API key and API URL

   Ghost shows the keys of the new integration. Copy the Admin API key — it looks like two codes joined by a colon — and the API URL.

3. 3

   Open the publishing settings

   In StrideRank, open Autopilot → Settings and go to Publishing. During setup, the step-by-step guide on the connect step does the same. Only owners and admins of the account can change the connection. Choose Ghost.

4. 4

   Enter the details

   Paste the API URL into Ghost address (without /ghost at the end) and the key into Admin API key.

5. 5

   Save and test

   Click Save connection, then Test connection. The test reads one post through the Admin API and reports the first problem it finds.

03Good to know

• Each article arrives as one HTML card, so its layout stays exactly as written. You can still edit it in the Ghost editor.
• The featured image is linked from our image storage; images inside the text stay where they are.
• Structured data for the article goes into the post’s own code injection (head), so search engines see it.
• You can choose to have articles created as drafts in Ghost instead of published straight away.
• If your Ghost runs headless and the articles appear on another website, enter that site’s blog address as the canonical address so search engines know where the article lives.