Ghost

Publish online, build a business, work from home

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Content Management Systems•Email marketing•Headless CMS software

The world's most popular modern open source publishing platform. A headless Node.js CMS used by Apple, Sky News, Tinder and thousands more. MIT licensed, with 30k+ stars on Github.

Reb Sadran

•3 reviews

We've been using ghost for over 2 years now and we regret the lockin. It does a lot and does many things well but even more so it does a lot of things very badly: - The mariadb support drop was a major complication. - The codebase is amateur with a lot of todo comments, non functional areas and - The admin API is very limited, meaning you have to reverse engineer backend API yourself to do more complex tasks. - The front end is slow and very difficult to extend. Theming is a real mess with a lot of hard coded areas that require very awkward patching. The front-end is making any long-term support almost impossible: - There's no version control for articles. There's no individual article backup for implementing your own version control and automation. The admin API is there but it's very difficult to use. - There's no way to extend or modify UI. For example there's no mass modification, tagging or any advance features that you'd expect from a long-term CMS. - It's really slow and most components are not compatible with the modern web. There's no predictable media naming for lazy preloading and other small issues that severely damages SEO potential. Honestly, the value provided by Ghost is overshadowed by things that are just broken or badly designed. We regret basing our project on it.

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1yr ago

John O'Nolan

Ghost

I'm quite confused to see this comment posted in November 2023, because it sounds like you're maybe using a very old version of Ghost that's about 7 years out of date? If you update to the latest version I think you'd find that almost all of the points you mentioned have already been fixed, added or improved :)

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10mo ago

Jennifer McFarland

•1 review

I recently migrated off of WordPress and onto Ghost. The migration was flawlessly executed. Customer service is amazing, and my website is not only beautiful but screaming fast. The creator community is awesome and I’m learning so many new things about how to build a publication and community using best practices. What can I say, I’m in love. It’s well-supported and fundamentally sound.

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3yr ago

John O'Nolan

Ghost

So thrilled to hear this Jennifer, thank you so much for the lovely review. I'll pass this along to the rest of the team, too :)

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3yr ago

Uri Bram

•2 reviews

Just an incredible product, built with so much obvious love and craft -- never ceases to amaze and delight.

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3yr ago

Kristin Ides

•40 reviews

So excited to update my Ghost site today to 5.0! The dashboard and community are amazing!

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3yr ago

Sara Palmer

•1 review

Congrats on the release, the new features look like more great additions, smashing it with every upgrade ✨

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3yr ago

John O'Nolan

Ghost

Thanks Sara! I guess the biggest differences are that Ghost is pretty much the only open source, independent platform with 0% fees — these tend to be the main reasons we hear about from people switching to Ghost from another platform :)

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3yr ago

Naz Avo

•5 reviews

Really great publishing and editing UX

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3mo ago

Joe Towner

•2 reviews

Useful CMS, easy-to-use, it does have its limitations, but that's to be expected given the nature of the software. Useful for basic blog and email management.

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4mo ago

Uri Bram

•2 reviews

Just a shockingly good publishing platform.

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5mo ago

Amata

•5 reviews

Great platform but comes with limitation. Sending newsletter emails is strictly limited to MailGun. It's hard for new bloggers/publishers who don't use MailGun. Mailgun allows only 10/day for a new account, then you need to fix the email sending batch "in the code".

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9mo ago

Mian Hassaan

•19 reviews

Despite its advanced capabilities, the tool is intuitive and easy to navigate, which made onboarding quick and seamless

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10mo ago

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