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Ghost vs Umbraco: What are the differences?

What is Ghost? 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.

What is Umbraco? Open source CMS. It is a friendly open-source Content Management System and is one of the most widely used ASP.NET Content Management Systems. It is free and offers great flexibility and extensive capabilities.

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

Ghost is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 6.62K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ghost's open source repository on GitHub.

Pubu, Ghost, and Deveo are some of the popular companies that use Ghost, whereas Umbraco is used by Construct Digital, Making Waves, and F.biz. Ghost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 81 company stacks & 155 developers stacks; compared to Umbraco, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

Decisions about Ghost and Umbraco
Xander Groesbeek
Founder at Rate My Meeting · | 5 upvotes · 186K views

So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.

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Pros of Ghost
Pros of Umbraco
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    Beautiful
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    Fast
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    Quick/simple post styling
  • 19
    Open source
  • 19
    Live Post Preview
  • 19
    Non-profit
  • 16
    Seamless writing
  • 6
    Node.js
  • 5
    Fast and Performatic
  • 5
    Javascript
  • 4
    Simplest
  • 3
    Handlebars
  • 3
    Wonderful UI
  • 3
    Full Control
  • 2
    Magic
  • 2
    Clean
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    Headless CMS
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    Self-hostable
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    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.

    What is Umbraco?

    It is a friendly open-source Content Management System and is one of the most widely used ASP.NET Content Management Systems. It is free and offers great flexibility and extensive capabilities.

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