Ghost Reviews

Ghost Pro

Comments: I really like using it, it fits like a glove.

Pros:

If you want to stay independent as a creator claiming your online spot is crucial. With Ghost you are in a good position to build, grow and nurture this spot. It is easy to use, delivers clean code and looks awesome.

Cons:

Minor things. Most annoying is no option to find links to other posts.

I trust Ghost, and love it's values

Comments: Fantastic, and the support are world class. They're helpful, friendly and get back to you so quickly.

Pros:

Ghost has been super easy to use. I joined before some of the features I needed were ready because I knew the roadmap. It's become the revenue driver of our membership and publishing business, with it's all in one website, newsletter and membership solution.

Cons:

The analytics Ghost provides has been upped in recent months, but it is basic and only shows the last 90 days on your dashboard.

Bare Bones Website Software

Comments: I used to have my website on Ghost. I loved the templates and how simple it was at first but it's very bare bones. It doesn't support a wide range of functionality and plugins like WordPress. I ended up switching to WordPress so I could have my website EXACTLY how I wanted it. With Ghost, you can really only have a fancy blog in my experience.

Pros:

- Easy to use - Simple interface and backend

Cons:

- Not compatible with plugins like WordPress - Not easy to embed items onto the website - Not super customizable

Much promised ghost features remain spectres.

Comments: I am still using ghost after 4 years. But by now I feel more like a hostage without the benefits of Stockholm Syndrom. Moving away would entail more hustle than I willing to invest. I am not aware of any great alternatives anyways without doing some serious research.

Pros:

When I started using Ghost in 2019 the technology was quite innovative. I really like the clean layout and accessible interface. Many features were promised.

Cons:

Many features promised where not delivered. Most of all the admin interface lags in functionality. Upgrading a major ghost version is too difficult. There really ought to be an admin interface to remove cached image resources in order to comply with licencing.

Ghost managed hosting combined with Ghost 4.0 is a towering achievement

Comments: Ghost gives me the tools to present our content and brand to viewers with confidence. They look at our site and know that quality content will be presented. This allows us to stand out from the crowd.

Pros:

Ghost managed hosting is more than just a blogging platform following the release of 4.0 in March 2021. It is a membership site that helps our websites and blogs gain memberships that fund important projects for our journalists. The best thing about Ghost is that they do not take a portion of your income. Other popular options both take a percentage of revenue but Ghost managed hosting only charges a low monthly fee. The unique thing about managed hosting with Ghost is that Worldwide CDN is included, unlimited emails to members are included, managed updates of Ghost are included. Tons of additional features are available as well. The editor in Ghost is so conducive to producing great content. For many months, users have been offering opinions on things that should happen in the new update. Ghost took so many of these ideas and combined them to create something great. Ghost also has a unique look. The product and themes are very current, and it elevates the content because the website looks so good. Finally, I have to mention money. Ghost allows journalists to be independent. I cannot tell you how exciting it is to know that we have monthly revenue that comes in other than advertisers. Multiple streams of revenue is very important.

Cons:

Of course, I would like another 500 memberships added to each tier. But the price is very fair. With Ghost 4.0, a new $9 a month tier was added. Previously a $29 a month tier was the lowest price. So I don't have much to complain about. But we are on a high tier.

Best open-source blogging software

Comments: After switching from WordPress to Ghost, we have gained more visitors and readers of our blog posts, mainly due to better SEO, page loading time, and website theme design. Ghost also reduces our server load and so the cost.

Pros:

The admin interface is very simple and user friendly. It has built-in membership system, SEO, signup/subscription forms, and newsletter features. The visual editor is clean and provides many cards and snippets we need. We can add custom integrations through Zapier such as PayPal (for subscription), SendInBlue (for newsletter), and Discord (for our community server).

Cons:

To create multiple membership tiers, a Stripe account is required, even though we only use other payment methods like PayPal. The newsletter feature, again, limits to a specific provider: Mailgun, which is no longer free. Ghost should remove the Stripe and Mailgun requirements to make third-party integrations much easier.

Ghost is the new best CMS your website needs.

Comments: I'm creating blogs and websites with paid plans using Ghost. So far Ghost has been a great CMS. Also, me and my team migrated some WordPress sites with amazing results and boosted the SEO.

Pros:

Ghost has a simplistic approach to create beautiful and functional websites. That simplicity is what I like the most about Ghost.

Cons:

Ghost has a community version that is free, however, doesn't include the latest features of the current Ghost paid version or Ghost Pro.

Ghost best CMS on the market, Ghost Pro, best platform for bloggers

Comments: Ghost is currently the best alternative for bloggers. It's good for personal websites or news magazines. There's built in integration with Stripe to charge monthly fees, It's very clean and easy of use both for the owner as for the guest of the blog. There are two ways of using Ghost: you can selfhost your own instance in some machine or use the "Ghost Pro" Service, a Platform as a Service.

Pros:

Clean interface for administrator of the Content Management System. Good usability. Beautiful for guests. Not bloated with lots of tools, icons, and other stuff like Wordpress. Ghost Pro service is fast, reliable, and have good customer support.

Cons:

Currently I'm using "Ghost Pro" since FEB 2020, and I'm very happy. The only issue is the cost, which is way higher than competitors. But because It's the best, I decided that for me it worth it.

Great publishing platform but there are a few hiccups

Pros:

Ghost’s editor and theming systems are awesome! And it’s also blazing fast since it uses node.js and not PHP. Apart from that, the plugin ecosystem is very robust now and includes all sorts of things.

Cons:

The native hosting options are useless and detracts beginners like me from using it. There are third party hosts like DigitalOcean but with just 1 GB of RAM, upgradation and maintenance is a headache. Also, it’s been years and still Ghost doesn’t have any native search functionality which is the most basic of things.

Best Node.js wordpress replacement, but not quite as flexible to extend as CMS

Comments: The community and online support from official maintainers of Ghost is exceptional and incredible well documented.

Pros:

WordPress has been the go-to software for several years for website development for non-tech, Node.js popularity has made new system such as Ghost become the new go-to as it is faster. As a CMS does not provide easy the flexibility to extend its predefined structure to add more content to extend the functionality to provide a wider range of feature to a frontend application by using it as a Headless CMS.

Cons:

Ghost is great if it is only used for blogging, publishing articles, but unless it is needed an extensive CMS, Ghost will not be the ideal application.

Best Open Source blogging platform

Comments: - Great self hosting platform

Pros:

- Easy to get started- Customizable- Easy to deploy and maintain

Cons:

- Learning curve- Can have more documentation for beginners

Ideal for membership programmes

Comments: My overall experience with Ghost has been hugely positive and I’d recommend it to most people who want to publish online. That goes especially if you want to send newsletters and even more so if you plan to turn your publication into a membership scheme.

Pros:

I use Ghost as my CMS on my personal website and I love its newsletter and membership features. A recent update now allows me to publish multiple newsletters from the same site, which is perfect for how I want to grow an audience. As for the publishing process, I think Ghost gets exactly the right balance between features and ease of use. It’s really nice to publish and the built-in newsletter analytics are just enough for me to understand what’s working and what’s not.

Cons:

There is little I would change, but the nature of open-source software can mean it’s tricky to work with and edit templates if you don’t have any coding experience. That said, there are plenty of great templates available so most people should be able to find something that fits the bill.

iOS of making websites - nice UI and it just works

Comments: I used WordPress when they launched years ago, because it was best then. But now came Ghost. I feel like WordPress has transformed themselves into Microsoft - it's great thing if you like to use various plugins and whatever not. Ghost is as elegant as iPhone. All what's needed is there. Great UI, no extra fuss. While WordPress needs extra consulting to get it running, should you start anew.

Pros:

I've been using it for a few years now and the latest version brings everything together you'd need for running a website: nice clean editor, member management, collecting payments (via Stripe), SEO customisation, newsletters. If you would like to do a similar thing on WordPress you'd need to patch it up with several 3rd party plugins. Ghost is easy-breezy.

Cons:

Backing up the content itself is easy, but in-post images/media is still not supported.

Long time WP user switching to Ghost

Comments: My overall experience has been good. As I said before, I come from Wordpress and it is a welcoming sight with its UI style and ease of use!

Pros:

Ghost is what Wordpress used to be in the old days. When blogging was a big part of the Word.. processing platform. Now it has become like a swiss army knife trying to be so many things at the same time that it has become a burden to use for simple blog posting. So, that is why we switched to Ghost as its ease of use and interactivity is a welcoming sight!

Cons:

Features! Not trying to be a douche here... I know memberships is an awesome feature but the lack of a clap/liking system and social sign up/login are a really bummer here. The users are the most important part of a blogging site and these features would add a lot to their experience. So with the addition of memberships the user has to pay for premium content but at the same time has no way of liking the content making sure that the content creator knows if it is likeable. My $2 cents.

Ghost has streamlined my podcasting, broadcasting, publishing businesss.

Comments: So far, I've increased newsletter readership, live-stream attendance, and revenue in this first month,

Pros:

As the host of Infinite Plane Radio, I rely on an ability to sendout live-stream notifications. This is feature makes it easy to get members to opt-in to my websites. The issue has been, what is the optimal membership management website? Previously, I used a popular email-service and a popular site for patrons to support creators. Ghost.io does the function of BOTH of these. In fact, it does so better. The ease of use is unparalleled. The transition from my previous business to this one was under 24 hours. It's also very helpful that Ghost.io auto-integrates all of my podcast players. Finally, it allows you to separate mailing lists from paid and the unpaid members. This feature is very helpful when your objective is to convert more into sales. You can send 'complimentary' notifications and newsletters, etc. Overall, I think it's a great site. If you import your pre-existing email lists, you might wind up paying the premium sooner, however, the features makes it easy to afford the month fee. Finally, there is no cut taken from your subscriptions, so that premium payment is more than compensated for all around. Tim Ozman, Infinite Plane Radio Ghost has streamlined my podcasting, broadcasting, publishing businesss.

Cons:

This site is great for membership-based businesses with newsletters. It may not entirely replace all the functions you get from your blogging sites. However, you can get custom integrations, so if it's not already built, chances are you can get it done.

Fairly simplistic, but better than WordPress

Comments: I used Ghost for a little while to manage my personal website. It worked fairly well for me and creating a theme wasn't too difficult. I really liked the configuration file paradigm to set up routing and redirection as opposed to a fancy & bloated editor or control panel.

Pros:

Ghost is based on Node as opposed to PHP, and is much faster and modern compared to competitors like WordPress. The API is very robust as well, making it easy for developers to integrate with it. It also has built-in SEO optimization (if you use a Handlebars-based themes), which is a big plus. The developers at the support forum are also really friendly and helpful too.

Cons:

It is a little bit simplistic, only allowing you to have posts, static pages, and tags, so it isn't suitable for more complex needs. There isn't any built-in search functionality either. It also lacks a native GraphQL API endpoint as well.

Probably the best blog host available today

Comments: Ghost helped me quickly get started with my website, taking care of everything else so that I could focus on writing and building content.

Pros:

Super easy to get started but still with so much room for tweaking and customizing. I built my side project entirely on Ghost and remained a happy customer for over two years, before I wanted more advanced features (integrated shop, forum, etc) that required me to look elsewhere.

Cons:

I can't find anything bad to say about Ghost it's been a joy to use their product, I'll use it again for all my future projects, and I'd happily recommend it to my friends and colleagues.

Ghost: Minimalist CMS for Personal Blogs

Comments: I use Ghost for my personal blog. It looks good even with just the basic themes. Hard to install if you do not have prior web development knowledge.

Pros:

I like the straightforward writing experience. Ghost is a CMS made for writers.

Cons:

Hard to setup for self-hosted Ghost websites. Customizability depends on the user's level of web development knowledge.

This tool is incredibly easy to use and beautiful CMS for blog

Comments: Ghost is a powerful CMS and easy to use.

Pros:

This is one of the best CMS we have used so far. It is quite easy to set up and extremely easy to use. The desktop tool is also good. Also this tool is for those who wants to produce high quality content. Moreover, we can create different authors in tool and being admin we can provide access to different team members

Cons:

I think one problem with this tool is that it does not have good plugins that wordpress offer

Blogging is a Form of Creative Expression

Pros:

We use this software called Ghost which is so easy to use. You just write, preview and publish what you wrote. I try to keep my articles to 1500 words or less so people don’t get tired of reading them. I also enjoy reading what the other employees are doing. Ghost is a great online outlet that can reach out to a lot of people.

Cons:

The program sometimes freezes or lags when I’m using it. It only happened twice, but I haven’t encountered any problems lately, but I also don’t use it very often so I can’t say much.

The CMS For Tech Content

Pros:

Blazing fast, with a very clean but powerful interface. Provides a clutter-free writing experience while also being very flexible in terms of customization. Writing in markdown works like a breeze. Their support team is very helpful and replies fast.

Cons:

The migration process from 0.x to 2.x was quite a pain. It appears that further migrations will be easier.

Cleaner, Faster and all round better than wordpress

Comments: Ghost lets me just focus on delivering my content - no more worries about servers - crashing themes and plugins

Pros:

Getting started with ghost pro was really easy. There is limitless options for tweaking and customizing & the page load speeds are out of this world (Essential for SEO)

Cons:

If you want to get into theme editing then you need a decent level of knowledge but even then there are plenty of online resources

Incredibly easy to use and beautiful CMS for blogs. This is a tool for serious writers.

Comments: Ghost gave us an extremely easy and quick way to set up a blogging site. And it's a joy to use.

Pros:

Ghost was quite easy to set up and extremely easy to use. For a content producer and blogger, this is the best CMS I've used this far, and way better than Wordpress in usability. This is really a software for writers. Excellent desktop app, too!

Cons:

You need some IT savviness if you want to manage Ghost yourself and not host it on their platform (which is quite expensive). It's maybe not the most versatile CMS and if you need a big e-commerce site this probably isn't for you.

Easy Headless CMS

Pros:

It's typically pretty intuitive to add your content and there are lots of built-in features for distribution as well. It makes it super easy to manage a blog.

Cons:

Some of the formatting is hard to fix if you copy and paste from another source. You can add HTML, but there's not a blanket HTML editor where you can fix any errors that you may have accidentally copied in.

Ghost

Comments: Overall experience is fantastic

Pros:

It can be typically used for blogging only and has great SEO and built-in speed.

Cons:

It provides limited and very expensive hostings.