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# Ghost Homepage Shows Tags Alphabetically Instead of Latest Posts: Fix
- URL: https://blog.melardenio.com/ghost-homepage-shows-tags-alphabetically-instead-of-latest-posts-fix/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:20:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:33:08.000Z
- Author: Rommell Ardenio
- Tags: Software & Homelab

After I imported my old blog into Ghost, the homepage was a list of tags in alphabetical order instead of my latest posts. New posts never showed up on the front page. If your Ghost homepage looks like that, the cause is almost certainly the theme and not a setting you broke.

## What I saw

My theme was "Ease-main" version 1.0.0\. It builds the homepage as an alphabetically sorted index of every tag. With a handful of posts that is harmless. After I imported 1,286 posts from Blogger, it became a real problem. A brand-new post with a brand-new tag got buried under hundreds of tags from the old archive, so new content effectively never reached the front page.

## The fix

I switched the active theme to **Casper**, Ghost's official default theme (version 5.12.2). In Ghost Admin that is Settings, Design, Change theme. Casper's homepage is a normal reverse-chronological feed. I confirmed it live: the next post I published led the homepage automatically, with no extra steps.

## Why this is easy to miss

The theme worked fine on a nearly empty blog, so nothing looked wrong until the archive arrived. If you are about to import a large archive into Ghost, preview the homepage with a few hundred posts first, or start on a stock theme and change it later.

## What the fixed homepage looks like

This is the live homepage today. The newest post leads the feed, and each older one follows in order.

![The blog homepage with the latest posts listed first, newest at the top.](https://blog.melardenio.com/content/images/2026/10/home-tall-1.png)

blog.melardenio.com on October 13, 2026.

## How to check your own theme

In Ghost Admin, go to Settings, then Design, to see the active theme and switch to another one. If you can open the theme's files, look at `home.hbs` and `index.hbs`. A homepage built from posts loops over posts with `{{#foreach posts}}`. One built from tags will loop over tags instead, for example with `{{#get "tags"}}`. I did not read the code of my old theme, so that is what to look for, not what I found. I judged the old theme by what it showed on the page.

## Test with a throwaway post

1. Publish a short test post with a brand-new tag.
2. Load the homepage in a private window and see where it appears.
3. If it is at the top, the theme works. If it is buried, you have my problem.
4. Unpublish the test post.

## Why this matters for search

The homepage is usually the page Google visits most. If it lists only tags, new posts are one step further from it than they should be. This was one piece of a bigger cleanup: I also removed more than a thousand near-empty tag pages, which I wrote up in [I Deleted 1,313 Tags From My Blog, and It Felt Great](https://blog.melardenio.com/i-deleted-1-313-tags-from-my-blog-and-it-felt-great/).

## Related reading

- [When 'Success' Isn't: Chasing Down a Ghost Theme Install That Lied to Me](https://blog.melardenio.com/when-success-isnt-chasing-down-a-ghost-theme-install-that-lied-to-me/)
- [Fifteen Years of Blog Posts and the Migration That Fought Back](https://blog.melardenio.com/fifteen-years-of-blog-posts-and-the-migration-that-fought-back/)
- [I Deleted 1,313 Tags From My Blog, and It Felt Great](https://blog.melardenio.com/i-deleted-1-313-tags-from-my-blog-and-it-felt-great/)
- [Ghost Import Error: ValidationError: Invalid Lexical Structure](https://blog.melardenio.com/ghost-import-error-validationerror-invalid-lexical-structure/)