Ghost
The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.
What is Ghost?
A beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.
Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.
Non-profit organisation offering an option for commercial hosting, however all functionality is available without charge.
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Ghost information
- Developed byGhost Foundation
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free Personal product.
- PricingSubscription that costs between $9 and $199.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 3.3
- Alternatives261 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 41,841 Stars
- 9,043 Forks
- 70 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Blog Publishing
- CMS
- content-as-a-service
- node-js
- Javascript
- blogging-engine
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How to live without Google • My Setup - All Apps and Software • Literature • CurateRecent user activities on Ghost
madamek reviewed GhostFairly easy to template and even hack, as long as You self-host, but being implemented in NodeJS, it is not very easy on the system resources. As for front-end, the website will also use above-average amount of RAM through user's/visitor's browser. Authoring basic content is comfortable on the web as well as mobile, it is not for video, though. Although an MIT licensed OpenSource, it directly promotes commercial services, which fuels development and yields reliable documented integrations but disqualifies it from the FOSS label. Effectively, Ghost is a content platform allowing for ad and/or paywall based monetization. The easiest way, though, is to use partners ghost suggests, paying their fees. Cloud hosting offered directly id cheap at entry level but priced per paying member volume, so their "no revenue shares" claim is misleading. The software is ideal for creative/marketing agencies, reselling Ghost hosting and using one integrator across multiple instances.
POX added Ghost as alternative(s) to Outstatic- phocks liked Ghostph
Simple and easy to use. Everything you need, no more and no less. No bloat and no mess.
with beautifull admin. But functionals is limited
Due to mobiledoc-kit bugs, typing and pasting of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages is not working properly.
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9801
I just read about this and it's ridiculous that the issue has been there for 2 years
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Fairly easy to template and even hack, as long as You self-host, but being implemented in NodeJS, it is not very easy on the system resources. As for front-end, the website will also use above-average amount of RAM through user's/visitor's browser. Authoring basic content is comfortable on the web as well as mobile, it is not for video, though. Although an MIT licensed OpenSource, it directly promotes commercial services, which fuels development and yields reliable documented integrations but disqualifies it from the FOSS label. Effectively, Ghost is a content platform allowing for ad and/or paywall based monetization. The easiest way, though, is to use partners ghost suggests, paying their fees. Cloud hosting offered directly id cheap at entry level but priced per paying member volume, so their "no revenue shares" claim is misleading. The software is ideal for creative/marketing agencies, reselling Ghost hosting and using one integrator across multiple instances.
You have to pay a monthly fee as a subscription, which starts from $ 9 (billed annually). That’s a high price compared to Kirby for example, which costs a one time fee of € 99 + VAT. Not to speak of all those free content management systems.
You can self-host Ghost for free: https://ghost.org/docs/hosting/
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good stuff for take a conversations
Install is complicated and doesn't play well with Apache at all. Would like to see a future version play nicely with apache. Really easy to build themes for.