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What is Markdown? BOO! Here's My Ghost Review - Where Code and Design Meet Their Maker. I’ve been toying with Ghost now for several days, and have set up several sites on it already, as well as a developing environment. In fact, I’ve already built a theme and submitted it to Themeforest. We’ll see what happens with that. I wrote a while back that Ghost was a developer’s blogging platform, and tossed in the idea easily-distracted bloggers, in particular, would enjoy using Ghost. That was then. I haven’t read a lot of articles about Ghost (which aren’t pure Ghost PR) which compare it to WordPress, although that’s an obvious comparison, and who John O’Nolan et al. is trying to steal market share from.

WordPress uses Apache/MySQL for database purposes, and Ghost uses NGINX and runs on JavaScript. The people at Ghost definitely got their ducks in a row before launching, which is a wise move. After configuring Ghost and getting your site up and running, you log in by going to Ghost doesn’t come with a commenting system, and that’s perfectly OK. Related. Introducing Ghost – Simple and elegant Blogging Platform | Future Tutorials. Ghost is an Open Source blogging platform, aiming to make blogging easy and even fun to do it. It’s simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time making your blog work and more time blogging. WordPress is amazing, but it became too big and complicated.

It’s not that fast and simple blogging platform that some people need. As the creator of Ghost – John O’Nolan said, “WordPress no longer has a purpose. It’s no longer for anything specific, it’s for everything you can imagine doing with it”. 66% of WordPress users said they use it as a CMS – not as a blog. Installing Ghost The bad news are that cPanel-style shared hosting won’t work at the moment, as it is usually aimed specifically at hosting PHP. For further installation options you can read the documentation at the official website – First run After you somehow install Ghost, you will need to create your admin user account. Going through Ghost Dashboard Liked this? Ghost: the next-generation blogging platform! — Oh Wow, Geek! How To Manage Content Using the Ghost Blogging Platform. Introduction Ghost is an exciting new blogging platform that can be used to easily manage your posts, update themes, and edit content.

A simple, yet powerful interface allows you to get to work immediately and publish beautiful results. In this guide, we will discuss how to use Ghost to create and manage your content. In the second half of the article, we will discuss how to change themes and adjust basic settings. We assume that you have used the DigitalOcean Ghost one-click application to deploy your server. We also assume that you have completed the basic Ghost configuration outlined in this guide.

You should be able to access your blog by going to your domain name. How to Navigate the Content Interface Ghost's content creation interface is incredibly simple. Your_domain_name/ghost You may have to sign in with the credentials you used to create the site. You will see the pre-configured sample post called "Welcome to Ghost". In the preview pane, we can see two buttons useful for editing. 36+ Best Responsive Ghost Themes for Just Blogging! Ghost Blogging Platform Review, Good Bye WordPress? WordPress is worlds most popular CMS. Currently WordPress powers 20% websites on the planet it means every 5th websites is using WordPress as their core platform. WordPress started as a blogging tool to fulfill the needs of a blogging platform & now it has become worlds most popular CMS. You can use it freely and its up to you how you create powerful and great websites with WordPress. You can create apps with WordPress. Over 27000+ plugs and 2000+ themes are available at WordPress.org for download.

That makes WordPress very powerful and popular. People from WordPress also knows that, WordPress is much more than a blogging platform, here what Matt Mullenweg & lance Willett says about WordPress: “66% of [Users] said they use WordPress as a CMS and not as a blog.”– Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress / State of The Word 2012 Try Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform Now we have a great new blogging platform. Ghost Features Revolutionary Dashboard Split-View writing Screen Fully responsive Themes.