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Alternatives to Ghost

Poltergeist, WordPress, Google AdSense, Mailchimp, and HubSpot are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Ghost.
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What is Ghost and what are its top alternatives?

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 47.3K GitHub stars and 10.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ghost's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Ghost

  • Poltergeist
    Poltergeist

    Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS. ...

  • WordPress
    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. ...

  • Google AdSense
    Google AdSense

    It is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience. ...

  • Mailchimp
    Mailchimp

    MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform. ...

  • HubSpot
    HubSpot

    Attract, convert, close and delight customers with HubSpot’s complete set of marketing tools. HubSpot all-in-one marketing software helps more than 12,000 companies in 56 countries attract leads and convert them into customers. ...

  • Drupal
    Drupal

    Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. ...

  • InVision
    InVision

    InVision lets you create stunningly realistic interactive wireframes and prototypes without compromising your creative vision. ...

  • Zendesk
    Zendesk

    Zendesk provides an integrated on-demand helpdesk - customer support portal solution based on the latest Web 2.0 technologies and design philosophies. ...

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Poltergeist

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      PROS OF WORDPRESS
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        Customizable
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        Easy to manage
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        Plugins & themes
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        Non-tech colleagues can update website content
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        Really powerful
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        Rapid website development
      • 78
        Best documentation
      • 51
        Codex
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        Product feature set
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        Custom/internal social network
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        Open source
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        Great for all types of websites
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        Huge install and user base
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        I like it like I like a kick in the groin
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        It's simple and easy to use by any novice
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        Perfect example of user collaboration
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        Open Source Community
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        Most websites make use of it
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        Best
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        API-based CMS
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        Community
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        Easy To use
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        <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>
      CONS OF WORDPRESS
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        Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things
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        Plugins are of mixed quality
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        Not best backend UI
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        Complex Organization
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        Do not cover all the basics in the core
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        Great Security

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      I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.

      I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.

      Todo * Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in Jekyll that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line Ruby gem for the current plan. * I did find some of the lost WordPress posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the waybackmachinedownloader. I think I might write an importer for that. * I still have a few Disqus comment threads to map

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      Google AdSense logo

      Google AdSense

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          Plenty installs but low on actual users

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        Google AdSense has refused to post ads on my site.

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        Really can not decide which one to add. Google AdSense email say that they are ready to show ads... Taboola is on review.

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        Mailchimp

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          Smooth setup & ui
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          Mailing list
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          Robust e-mail creation
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          Integrates with a lot of external services
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          Custom templates
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          Free tier
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          Great api
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          Great UI
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          A/B Testing Subject Lines
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          Broad feature set
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          Subscriber Analytics
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          Great interface. The standard for email marketing
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          Great documentation
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          Mandrill integration
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          Segmentation
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          Best deliverability; helps you be the good guy
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          Facebook Integration
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          Autoresponders
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          Customization
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          RSS-to-email
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          Co-branding
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          Embedded signup forms
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          Automation
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          Great logo
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          Groups
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          Landing pages
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          Super expensive
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          Poor API
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          Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent

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        Kirill Shirinkin
        Cloud and DevOps Consultant at mkdev · | 12 upvotes · 689.4K views

        As a small startup we are very conscious about picking up the tools we use to run the project. After suffering with a mess of using at the same time Trello , Slack , Telegram and what not, we arrived at a small set of tools that cover all our current needs. For product management, file sharing, team communication etc we chose Basecamp and couldn't be more happy about it. For Customer Support and Sales Intercom works amazingly well. We are using MailChimp for email marketing since over 4 years and it still covers all our needs. Then on payment side combination of Stripe and Octobat helps us to process all the payments and generate compliant invoices. On techie side we use Rollbar and GitLab (for both code and CI). For corporate email we picked G Suite. That all costs us in total around 300$ a month, which is quite okay.

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        Spenser Coke
        Product Engineer at Loanlink.de · | 9 upvotes · 293.2K views

        When starting a new company and building a new product w/ limited engineering we chose to optimize for expertise and rapid development, landing on Rails API, w/ AngularJS on the front.

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        We also considered .NET core or Node.js for the API layer, and React on the front-end, but our experiences dealing with mature Node APIs and the rapid-fire changes that comes with state management in React-land put us off, given our level of experience with those tools.

        We're using GitHub and Trello to track issues and projects, and a plethora of other tools to help the operational team, like Zapier, MailChimp, Google Drive with some basic Vue.js & HTML5 apps for smaller internal-facing web projects.

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        HubSpot logo

        HubSpot

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          Automatic customer segmenting based on properties
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          Email / Blog scheduling
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          Scam
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          Advertisement
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          Any Franchises using Hubspot Sales CRM?
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          FreshsalesFreshsalesHubSpotHubSpot

          Comparing HubSpot and Freshsales, not sure which to choose. Company and contact information is shareable among tech and sales teams allowing both parties to upkeep customers' contact details. Capturing leads from social media and system assigning to sales or having the option to manual assign. Sales follow up with sales activities. Once deal, technical involve to follow up regular customer visits, support ticketing, training, remind customers to renew licenses, work on projects and etc. Require a single platform to share a calendar to understand internal team activities and customer activities.

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          Drupal logo

          Drupal

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            Stable, highly functional cms
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            Great community
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            Easy cms to make websites
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            Highly customizable
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            Digital customer experience delivery platform
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            Really powerful
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            Customizable
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            Flexible
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            Good tool for prototyping
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            Enterprise proven over many years when others failed
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            Headless adds even more power/flexibility
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            Open source
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            Each version becomes more intuitive for clients to use
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            Well documented
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            Lego blocks methodology
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            Caching and performance
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            Powerful
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            Built on Symfony
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            Can build anything
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            Views
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            API-based CMS
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            Steep learning curve
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          Jan Vlnas
          Senior Software Engineer at Mews · | 5 upvotes · 50.1K views

          Depends on what options and technologies you have available, and how do you deploy your website.

          There are CMSs which update existing static pages through FTP: You provide access credentials, mark editable parts of your HTML in a markup, and then edit the content through the hosted CMS. I know two systems which work like that: Cushy CMS and Surreal CMS.

          If the source of your site is versioned through Git (and hosted on GitHub), you have other options, like Netlify CMS, Spinal CMS, Siteleaf, Forestry, or CloudCannon. Some of these also need you to use static site generator (like 11ty, Jekyll, or Hugo).

          If you have some server-side scripting support available (typically PHP) you can also consider some flat-file based, server-side systems, like Kirby CMS or Lektor, which are usually simpler to retrofit into an existing template than “traditional” CMSs (WordPress, Drupal).

          Finally, you could also use a desktop-based static site generator which provides a user-friendly GUI, and then locally generates and uploads the website. For example Publii, YouDoCMS, Agit CMS.

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          InVision

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            Simple
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            Pretty
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            Quick
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            Works with lots of devices
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            Free
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            Cool for remote team prototyping
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            It revolutionized the way I share work with clients
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            Legendary customer support
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            Dropbox Integration
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            Easy
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            Collaboration
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            Rapid Prototyping
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            LiveShare
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            Annotation
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            They are always improving the product suite
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            Beautiful UI
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            Brings mockups to life
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            Allows for a comprehensive workflow
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            Priit Kaasik
            CTO at Katana Cloud Inventory · | 8 upvotes · 575.8K views

            How we ended up choosing Confluence as our internal web / wiki / documentation platform at Katana.

            It happened because we chose Bitbucket over GitHub . We had Katana's first hackaton to assemble and test product engineering platform. It turned out that at that time you could have Bitbucket's private repositories and a team of five people for free - Done!

            This decision led us to using Bitbucket pipelines for CI, Jira for Kanban, and finally, Confluence. We also use Microsoft Office 365 and started with using OneNote, but SharePoint is still a nightmare product to use to collaborate, so OneNote had to go.

            Now, when thinking of the key value of Confluence to Katana then it is Product Requirements Management. We use Page Properties macros, integrations (with Slack , InVision, Sketch etc.) to manage Product Roadmap, flash out Epic and User Stories.

            We ended up with using Confluence because it is the best fit for our current engineering ecosystem.

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            Nadia Matveyeva
            UI Designer at freelancer · | 5 upvotes · 155.8K views
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            Zendesk

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              Many integrations
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              Easy to setup
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              Simple
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              Cheap
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              Clean
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              Customization
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              $1 Starter Pricing Plan
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              Woopra integration
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              Proactive Customer Support
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              Remote and SSO authentication with CMSs like WordPress
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              Charitable contribution to SF hospital for $20 plan
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              Full of features
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              Integrations
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              Lucas Litton
              Founder & CEO at Macombey · | 4 upvotes · 73.8K views

              Zapier is one of our favorite tools in our stack. We automate the entire company with Zapier. When a lead fills out the form on our website, it creates an opportunity on Zendesk. We have an entire pipeline of automation that goes from our website, to Zendesk, it then creates a contract in Pandadoc and creates an invoice in Xero.

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              I will like to know, which chatbot can be compared with Zendesk/Zopim if there's a need to migrate?

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