Ghost Reviews: 4.1/5 — Solid Choice

I've used ghost for a few months now after converting mine and a couple of my casual clients websites from wordpress into it. The biggest complaint I got with wordpress is that it was too complicated to use and there were too many options they were afraid of breaking something. They also didn't need all the customization options provided. I switched to ghost as it's a free lightweight alternate. It provides simple blogging and page features, basic contact forms, but unlimited plugin possibilities for more advanced users. The back-end interface is easy to use, sleek and perfect for casual users.

Although it's been around a few years, the adoption of ghost is still slow and steady, meaning things like plugins are still being introduced at a slow rate, making it hard to find specific plugins.

Creating great websites for clients who need basic blogging and portfolio style features. It's cheap and easy to host yourself using digital ocean and easy to set up.

the best part is i can format the system through ghost and can take the backup of the system during that time and it is fast also so i don't need to wait so much sometimes through other softwares I can't format the system specially POS systems which can't be format through other softwares easily while using Symantec endpoint protection which is a part of it. now inbetween 10-20 minutes your system can be formatted

I didn't find the much problem in it but ya have observed few bad things that during the time of format while finding drives it doesn't show the name of the drive doesn't matter what name is have putted in that drive which I thought they shoould work on it

I used to format and re-image the POS systems in my company

Ghost is a no nonsense markdown editor that's easy to use without interfering with the overall site.

I don't understand why they don't use a rich text editor. Maybe I'm just not their niche target market, but the markdown seems antiquated and unnecessary.

A blog software that is customizable using html and css.

I find this extremely easy to use. Yes, you need to know HTML, but once you do you're ready to hit the ground running!

There are a few things that are not super easy to customize.

It's easy to use for blogging. A better alternative than some others.

- Ease of setup - Less clutter when compared to other CMSes, especially Wordpress - Open source - Easy to create static pages sites - Content authoring and managing is easy

- Expensive hosting on ghost.org - Unavailability of websites templates - Adding new themes are not easy

Developed simple, static page websites for some of our customers. Was easy to get started and roll up a site with blog features, was easy and saved lot of developer time to get started quickly. Also helped customers' go-t- market time.

Beautiful editor - so much better than WordPress.

It's strictly a blogging platform. Difficult to do any kind of page design outside the templates, at least in my experience. The updating process is also a bit funky, if you ask me.

For me, they solved the problems of having to deal with WordPress add-ons, themes, etc. They are adding a lot of features but most don't directly help me.

The editor is clean but again, not if you are writing blogs with a lot of content on a daily basis.

Absolutely no plugins, no developers working on making it better. I've used Wordpress before and how much would I pay to just go back to it. The plugin support, the developer community is great. Ghost is the absolute worst. If you're a non coder like me, looking to make your blogs look better, say goodbye to your sleep!

Nothing. Literally nothing. I could not emphasize it enough how much I hate this platform.

I like that it's a free service and that it's fully customizable. However, you need to be able to code to customize the product.

It's very complicated and the UI is not helpful. I would prefer some guidance and tutorials.

We are using it for blogging but I haven't really found many benefits.