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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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Sara Palmer

....

Pros:

Ease of use even for non-techies like me

Cons:

None - does everything I need!

pariahrob

Lets publishing be the core. No extraneous bumpf to get in the way. Does what it's supposed to with no distractions.

Pros:

Simple, elegant and fast. Little in the way of UI to prevent efficiency

Cons:

None that I can think of

Udit Goenka

Every since I have discovered Ghost in 2016, I have fell in love with Ghost CMS and have recommended to all my users, and customers since then. Nothing can beat Ghost CMS when it comes to a blogging engine!

Pros:

Everything about Ghost!

Cons:

None

Arturo Goicochea
Love the new iteration! Considering switching, so...here's a question :) I know Ghost comes with social features baked in, like easy sharing. But does anything ghost include add tracking from Facebook, Google, etc? I remember reading that the embedded Facebook Like button includes code that tracks visitors. I'd like to have a site that doesn't track visitors.
John O'Nolan
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@arturogoicochea Ghost has no tracking of any kind built in
Hilary Watson

They charge a lot for hosting, platform is restrictive (can't do pop-ups) or other features for conversion), worst is there customer service. What kind of blog site calls their customer a liar deletes there posts then I had to show them the posts still had google indexed... then finally they admitted it. They wont turn off our auto renew until we find the last four digits of the original

credit card despite a letter from our CEO. When they did retrieve the posts they were only willing to send them in incomplete Json files

Pros:

N/A - AVOID

Cons:

Deleted posts, didn't admit it, 8 emails later admitted an upgrade deleted them

nikos efthias
seems no ones officially answering this @johnonolan
levelsio

Ghost is the fastest and cleanest blog platform available now. Not just the blog layouts are minimal, functional and clean, the dashboard itself also lacks any clutter which means the focus for you is on just writing, and for your reading on what you write. And that's all a blog platform should be.

Pros:

Fastest and cleanest blog platform available now

Cons:

None

dennis juanito
As a CS student, I used Ghost to get me started in creating my own personal blog. Overall, Ghost is a amazing product for blogger. It's so easy to use and powerful. I really like the default theme, Casper so much :) Pros: Everything Cons: None
Naveed Iqbal
I needed a quick blogging platform that was easy to write in and publish with. Found Ghost and have been loving every second I've spent writing and publishing with it.
Brian Franco
Liking the update so far! Will we be able to drag the new blocks around? Trying to split up a large markdown post seems a little tedious at the moment, especially when I want to split something between 2 blocks, unless I'm missing something. 😅
Kevin Ansfield
@brianfranco drag-and-drop re-ordering of cards is something that is on our minds and we have some initial designs for it. It was too big of a project for this first iteration but we'll be keeping an eye on how the new editor is used and where re-ordering makes sense to introduce. Definitely interested to hear more about your use-case for splitting something between 2 blocks :)
Brian Franco
@lookingsideways Glad to hear it! My use case is that I had a few HTML blocks scattered throughout my markdown. So I began to split markdown, html, markdown, etc. I noticed that in one of my HTML blocks I had accidentally left some markdown. However there was no easy way to just cut out the markdown portion of the HTML block, without redoing every block that came after. Would have been nice to cut it out, paste into a block at the end, but then drag it back up in the position it was originally at. Alternatively, inserting a block between blocks instead of just at the end would have worked too.
Stowe Boyd
What about more sophisticated social affordances? Integrating Disqus is minimal. What about more support for community? Sidenotes? Paragraph or card-based discussions?
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