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 47.6K GitHub stars and 10.4K 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
270 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.
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 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
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.
