Displaying the extracted Ghost version

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200711

So, this blog runs on Ghost. At the footer of this website, I wanted to keep the message "Ghost version self-hosted on DigitalOcean distributed by Cloudflare." But that meant every time I updated Ghost, I had to manually update that string in my theme package and re-upload those. While I automated theme deployment with GitHub Actions (you can find the post here), it was a hassle to ① clone the theme package ② fix the string ③ commit and push it back. Then I thought it would be great to automatically insert the current Ghost version so that I don't have to update it every time manually. At first, I investigated the Ghost engine side to make the Node.js include the value before responding to the client browser, but I figured that there was a much simpler way after a while.

Extracting the Ghost version on client-side

Every Ghost blog includes a tag like the following for SEO and statistical reasons unless you manually disabled it.