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Followers499

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Craft vs Ghost: What are the differences?

What is Craft? A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content. Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

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.

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

"Quick bespoke CMS" is the primary reason why developers consider Craft over the competitors, whereas "Beautiful" was stated as the key factor in picking 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, Ghost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 60 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to Craft, which is listed in 43 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

Decisions about Craft and Ghost

Xander Groesbeek

Founder at Rate My Meeting · Mar 30, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 227.4K views

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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 Craft

Pros of Ghost

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Quick bespoke CMS
7
Easy to use CMS
6
Clean slate approach to templating
2
Has it's own StackExcange
2
Clean templating markup (twig)
2
Great support
2
Free licence available for single user account version

45
Beautiful
35
Fast
29
Quick/simple post styling
20
Live Post Preview
20
Open source
19
Non-profit
16
Seamless writing
6
Node.js
5
Fast and Performatic
5
Javascript
4
Simplest
3
Wonderful UI
3
Handlebars
3
Full Control
2
Magic
2
Clean
1
Headless CMS
1
Self-hostable

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What is Craft?

Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

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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What are some alternatives to Craft and Ghost?

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.

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.

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.

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