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Year founded 2013
Company size 11-50 employees
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38 Ghost Reviews
4.1 out of 5
Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Effective solution for content management "
What do you like best about Ghost?

Very organized and easy to use. It helps filter contents to easily segregate important data to spam or just random data. Streaming is easy to customize, easy to understand you just have to watch the raw data streaming and clicking on to choose the information needed.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

Sometimes it freezes but I understand that it is due to high volume of feeds coming in. You just have to refresh your page when that happens so it can go back to normal. Sometimes the stream stops due to some maintenance on the product but we are informed ahead of time.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes filtering important content easier and organized. Because it is so easy to use, the company can outsource the job to trained and highly skilled people to lessen the load of other personnel.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 01, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"I Like it but a bit difficult to learn "
What do you like best about Ghost?

What I like best about Ghost is the sophistication. It is easy to use once you get the hang of it, but there’s a lot of learning to do before. What I love about Ghost is the Pro subscription of it. It is very difficult to update your Ghost if you are on your own server, but if you’re a Pro subscriber, it is very easy.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

I dislike that there aren’t really many templates out there or plugins. At least not that I know of.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was able to successfully build a website

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 09, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
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Ajay R.
Content Manager
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"Best Open Source Platform, Blogging and Paid Newsletter subscriptions"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost CMS is the best alternative for WordPress. I love their modern UI. Admin dashboard is very minimal and easy to manage. Ideal for news or blogging site. Ghost also gives some popular services integration like Zapier, Slack, AMP, Disqus, Google Analytics, Typeform, Buffer, Codepen, Github, Paypal, Stripe, and more. Installation and configuration are very minimal and very simple to use and manage users. I love Ghost CMS features.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

In my opinion, there is nothing to dislike, because I used blogging and I enjoy it. Perhaps, If someone using a WordPress alternative and want to use WordPress, then It not completely possible. You won't find any plugins for Ghost CMS like WordPress has its own directory, Ghost CMS has custom integration features but for that, you have built your own integration, and you will need coding to knowledge.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Ghost CMS for our blog, we don't have to customize from scratch, and Ghost is a perfectly built Blogging platform, Managing Newsletter is way more easier than other CMS platform.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 20, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Grateful for Ghost"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I love the simplicity of the ghost platform, it's literally exactly what I need and want. Something simple, elegant, and the integrated email feature is f$#$%^* stellar. I'm grateful for ghost, the simplicity, yet depth of possibility (for example with zapier integration) feels quite refreshing. The platform appears to be unlimited in possibility.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

I wish I could more easily resize images, but after learning some basic markdown that's no longer an issue.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I transferred the content off my squarespace site and moved my content from medium over to my new ghost site. This is huge for me.. as I was wanting to do this for several years, ghost provided the structure to allow me to do that in a way that felt resonant with what I was envisioning creating.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 05, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great tool for tech content"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is very fast - I have zero trouble navigating the CMS backoffice. It's SEO-ready and the editing interface works quite well overall.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

There are some annoying UI behaviors here and there. Using the editing interface exclusively for markdown can be a pain.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a fantastic tool to maintain a technical blog.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 23, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.5
PB
Pavel B.
Founder
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"I found Ghost to be the best platform for my professional blog!"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I have started with a 14-day free trial and then turned to become a paid customer. I like the editor, its minimalistic yet powerful design. I love integrations and the speed of my Ghost blog (it's insane either on web browser or mobile). Ghost CMS is easier to understand compared to Wordpress and the overall experience feels smoother.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

I have nothing to complain about at the moment.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Ghost to build my personal portfolio website and feature my work on the web and social media.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
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Dana R.
Chief Photographer
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"Clean, Powerful and Fast"
What do you like best about Ghost?

The interface is clean and uncluttered and the ability to use markdown is beautiful and drool-worthy (even though I just learned it for the sake of trying Ghost). Their new membership option in V.3 is equally as wonderful. If you'd like to setup a basic membership blog without a lot of drama, they've made it extremely easy to do so - like you can set it up in less than 20 minutes and start blogging within the hour.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

Ghost can be a very simple, easy-to-use platform if you are content with it straight out of the box, which I'm usually not. I like to dig deep into the software I use - if possible - and while Ghost makes that extremely easy, I'm not well-versed in Handlebars and JS as of yet so that limited my creative freedom. That's purely on me, however. There's a decent-sized repository of themes (free and premium) to choose from if you'd prefer that as well. Coming from the ease of flexibility Wordpress, Ghost is super simplistic in every way. With that said, it's definitely not as flexible. Little things like editing authors or categories requires that you open up each post to do so. Wordpress made that easy with the quick edit option in the dashboard. The native navigation bar is limited - not allowing dropdrowns - and you'll have to be able to edit a Handlebar (.hbs) file in order to change the footer links and/or remove their branding. Even so, Ghost is still far superior so it's worth forgoing some of the little things for Ghost's platform. Oh, and Ghost also doesn't have a way to store or access previously used media; that's probably one of the biggest downfalls to ease of use and flexibility.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

It saves a lot of time! I was able to import my blog from Wordpress and then format my posts/pages as needed to fit Ghost's structure. Once you get a hang of the flow, it's super easy and fast. And loading times are legit amazing - like 98-100% super speed.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 18, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
RS
Rohit S.
Community Manager
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"Ghost is an excellent blogging platform"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I like ghost because of its clear and easy to use Interface. The best thing about this platform is that I can add a lot of plugins in this tool. And this tool is so lightweight and easy to create static pages on this platform. Also, I like its feature of assigning different roles to the different team members.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

No issues with this tool, I really like this tool

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

This tool saves a lot of time in managing the blogging & content of our blog. We have seen the traffic & SEO of our website has improved since we started using this tool

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 14, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
PJ
Paul J.
Pathways Operations Manager
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"The clone of the hard disk"
What do you like best about Ghost?

How easy it is to use The price The size of the software on the hard disk

What do you dislike about Ghost?

Only digital software Not suitable for small companies

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to provide a laptop with the exact same content for each employee

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 11, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Easy to use, visually compelling, safe with auto-save!"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is a great platform for either HTML savvy or technophobic users. It's hard to go wrong and with the auto-save and support of CRTL-Z you never feel like you're going to mess something up! The new update is better to visually understand the end result as you're going along (which saves time) and the highlight/change functions are great for easily updating headings or formatting.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

There is a drawback with the most recent update, in that it feels like there's less easily accessible control. Whilst this is in some ways 'safe' and makes life easier in the first instance, when there's something you really want to customise (e.g. more than just two heading sizes, or varying/embedded imagery) it becomes a difficult task.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business benefits for ghost are a clean, safe and intuitive blog platform that can be hosted separately to our site, but via the same domain.