What is Ghost?
Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.
Ghost is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.
Ghost is an open source tool with 46.7K GitHub stars and 10.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ghost's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Ghost?
Companies
220 companies reportedly use Ghost in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Pier, and Better.
Developers
269 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Ghost.
Ghost Integrations
Mailgun, Crowdin, mailerlite, NoCodeAPI, and ContainerShip are some of the popular tools that integrate with Ghost. Here's a list of all 14 tools that integrate with Ghost.
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Ghost's Features
- An intuitive, minimal editor
- Ultra-fast content management
- All SEO features built-in natively
- Native desktop & mobile apps
- Publish once, distribute everywhere
- Headless CMS with Node.js REST APIs
- Over 19x faster than WordPress
- Secure & independently audited
- Custom theme or any JAMstack front-end
Ghost Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Ghost?
Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
