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John O'Nolan

Ghost 2.0 - New editor, more power, more flexibility

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A powerful new editor, multi-language support, custom homepages, dynamic routes, custom structures and much more. Ghost 2.0 is an upgrade which is focused on power and flexibility.

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Kristofor Lawson
I love the new design. I specifically haven't been using Ghost because I hated the markdown editor, this is far more intuitive. Although I'm now considering it as an option as I need to migrate my site within the next week. Also I have a question about the editor - does it not accept embedded html that includes div tags? Just tried to insert an audio player and it wouldn't inject into the page. The only negative I'd say is the cost. It's expensive. I'd love to see the price points of Ghost Pro lowered considering this is pushed as being the best option for hosting.
John O'Nolan
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@kristoforlawson You can use the HTML card to embed HTML :) price point of Ghost(Pro) has been very successful for us and trended continually upwards over the years as demand has increased, I don't see that changing any time soon -- but of course there's always the open source package if price is a primary concern for you.
Kristofor Lawson
@johnonolan I was trying to embed some HTML - but realised I forgot to add something to the footer injection script. Ok - so regardless of the pricing point I would go all in on Ghost Pro with the new redesign and ditch my current hosting provider - however there's one script that I need which I don't think I can run with Ghost. Specifically it mirrors an RSS feed for my podcast to a subdomain of my site... if I could find a way of dealing with that issue then I'd certainly go all in on Ghost.
John O'Nolan
Maker
@kristoforlawson I'm fairly sure that should be possible - I imagine if you post on the forum, someone would be able to give you a hand :)
Brian Lee

It's easy to use and maintain. The administration features are good. There's plenty of themes. It's easy to use overall. Also, since it's running on nodejs, performance is better than most CMS platforms. If it weren't for the lack of creation and update actions in the API, this would be the best CMS. (Yes, they exist, but they are private, not documentated and can change any second.) Unfortunately for some people like me who heavily rely on APIs for making posts, I have to stay with Wordpress for now especially since it has API clients that do everything we want.

Pros:

Configurable, Mature, Good Performance, Good UI

Cons:

API is lacking - creation and update of posts not finalized

PaulSolt
I'd love a better API to upload posts and images from my Markdown writing workflow.
Emmett Weimer
A robust api would be incredible.
Lucilla
Sounds interesting
Babken Karapetyan
Well done.
John O'Nolan
Maker
@babken_karapetyan Thanks Babken!
Udit Goenka
I am huge Ghost CMS fan! I just want to thank you for creating Ghost! It has changed the way I write and it makes me write more often.
John O'Nolan
Maker
@iuditg Very glad to hear it! Hope you enjoy the new editor, too :)
alex@lastminutelaura.ca
Congrats guys!
PE Lieb
Great job ! 😊
John O'Nolan
Maker
@pedward_lieb Thanks Edward! 😬
Harry Hope
Congrats on 2.0! Ghost has always been a really impressive open source project to me -- It has a level of polish you don't typically see in open source projects and in general I think the decision making process in terms of product features has been spot on. As a developer though what really impressed me was how easy it was to get running locally and contribute to. Before Ghost I had never really seen an open source project that was that simple to get started developing on.
John O'Nolan
Maker
@harryh0pe That's great to hear, thanks so much for the kind words :) and let me know if there's anything we could still improve about that experience
Christopher Murphy

I use Ghost to maintain a personal archive of notes and links to interesting discoveries. I love its simplicity and, as a Markdown user of many, many years, I love its Markdown friendly interface.

Pros:

It's lovely: ease of use, Markdown, overall elegance.

Cons:

Speaking personally, none.

Greg
Haha I literally just installed version 1.25.5 two days ago and was super impressed. Looks like I'll be updating tonight. Well done!
Ktryn Dchrs
That awesome CMS I tried to implement instead the awful Wordpress at my job without any success :(
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