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Reviewers mostly see Ghost as a clean, easy publishing tool for blogs and newsletters, with strong support, fast back-office performance, useful templates, and built-in membership, comments, analytics, and newsletter features. Several users say it helps them focus on writing instead of managing a complex CMS, especially versus WordPress. But the limits come up often: email sending is tied to Mailgun, custom sender setup can be awkward, and some want more design and navigation options. One long-term user also reports serious API, theming, performance, and migration frustrations.
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Ghost makes publishing content incredibly easy and comes with solid tooling, open source and truly enterprise grade, you can run a real news website on Ghost and it shows, also it's very pretty, stable and secure especially if compared to Wordpress.
I migrated to ghost in January and moved all my posts from a Wordpress blog. You sign up for a free trial. I never got notification that they would delete my content but they did because I
didn’t sign up for a paid account after the free trial. They blamed it on GDPR and privacy saying they couldn’t host content that I voluntarily added. I then had to reimport the blog posts from Wordpress but this time I found out when you do this you can only then edit those blog posts in HTML which is the opposite of Ghosts mission of being an easy blogging platform. You can’t copy and paste the text to import because it doesn’t keep the formatting. They then offered to import the posts for me but i have to sign up for an annual plan and pay. This has taken weeks to resolve and many mails back and forth with different contacts. It makes no sense that they don’t have a simple wordpress import tool.
Sorry to hear about this Evan! Your right that our WordPress importer needs some love, I'll pass that feedback on to the team and see what we can do to improve things
What can I say? I have been a satisfied user since 2021. A number of frustrations have been resolved in 5.0, such as the choice of whether or not to post a newsletter on the site or tweaking the features of the newsletter. The backoffice works quickly and conveniently. The advantage of Ghost I see is that what the platform can't do won't break, a big difference from generic platforms where you can mess things up. It's seems to be designed to be a platform for people who would rather spend their time creating content than managing the platform on which the content resides. The support is fast, but once it was very much by the book.
What's great
easy to use (7)fast performance (2)newsletter integration (5)
I recently migrated off of WordPress and onto Ghost. The migration was flawlessly executed. Customer service is amazing, and my website is not only beautiful but screaming fast. The creator community is awesome and I’m learning so many new things about how to build a publication and community using best practices. What can I say, I’m in love. It’s well-supported and fundamentally sound.
Great platform but comes with limitation. Sending newsletter emails is strictly limited to MailGun. It's hard for new bloggers/publishers who don't use MailGun. Mailgun allows only 10/day for a new account, then you need to fix the email sending batch "in the code".
So far, LOVE 5.0 compared to previous versions. The multiple newsletter offerings present really cool new ways to monetize and audience, and the updated analytics is much more detailed than before. I feel very excited about the future of Ghost!
I've been using Ghost as my blog platform for several years and I'm very happy with the addition of comments for posts, integrated membership sign-up, and email campaign capabilities! If you want to publish content, it's an awesome platform.
A tool of great value. Templates allow for quick launch of blog or newsletters. Documentation is available and makes it easy to review, add, create and adjust current newsletter.
What's great
templates (1)easy to use (7)excellent documentation (1)newsletter integration (5)
I've been a WordPress User for a while now, but Ghost takes the blogging experience one step further with newsletter integration. The interface is easy to use and great support!
Useful CMS, easy-to-use, it does have its limitations, but that's to be expected given the nature of the software. Useful for basic blog and email management.
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