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Drupal vs Ghost: What are the differences?

Developers describe Drupal as "Free, Open, Modular CMS written in PHP". 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. On the other hand, Ghost is detailed as "Just a blogging platform". 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.

Drupal and Ghost belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.

"Stable, highly functional cms" is the top reason why over 63 developers like Drupal, while over 40 developers mention "Beautiful" as the leading cause for choosing Ghost.

Ghost is an open source tool with 30.3K GitHub stars and 6.55K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ghost's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Drupal has a broader approval, being mentioned in 685 company stacks & 162 developers stacks; compared to Ghost, which is listed in 60 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.

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What is 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.

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.

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Why do developers choose Drupal?

Why do developers choose Ghost?

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Stable, highly functional cms
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Great community
39
Easy cms to make websites
34
Highly customizable
19
Digital customer experience delivery platform
10
Really powerful
9
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Beautiful
31
Fast
27
Quick/simple post styling
17
Live Post Preview
17
Non-profit
15
Open source
15
Seamless writing

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What are some alternatives to Drupal and Ghost?

Joomla!

Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.

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.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Typo3

It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2.

ProcessWire

ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

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Reviews of Drupal and Ghost

Naushad Shaikh

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Drupal

I am not a developer, however Drupal provided me with almost all the modules that i needed to create complex, responsive and fast websites with front-end and proper admin interfaces.

Most critical part of Drupal is the compression, caching and other performance details in the core, this makes site perform faster just while we get started.

How developers use Drupal and Ghost

A. M. Douglas uses

Ghost

The Ghost CMS is built on Node.js and provides the means to post new content (articles) to the site. As I have little time to actually spend on broadcasting my thoughts to the blogosphere, this doesn't see much use.

Reactor Digital uses

Drupal

As the app's CMS and CRM.

It is being used in a headless state and is completely decoupled from the frontend; only serving it's content to the AngularJS framework via a RESTful API.