Ghost alternatives and similar software solutions
Based on the "Blogging Platforms" category.
Alternatively, view Ghost alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead. -
Solo
DISCONTINUED. A blogging system written in Java, feel free to create your or your team own blog. -
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Anchor CMS
DISCONTINUED. Anchor is a free, lightweight, faster-than-a-bullet, simple blogging system, made for art-directed posts. -
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Plume
Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror) -
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Hotglue
HOTGLUE is a Content Manipulation System which allows to construct websites directly in a web-browser. -
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Chyrp
The ultra-lightweight ultra-flexible blogging engine with a fetish for birds and misspellings. -
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Cadmus
DISCONTINUED. Cadmus is an extremely lightweight, flat-file blogging platform powered by Markdown. -
Source Code
Free blog-engine written in PHP and using SQLite. This offers you both an unmatched simplicity during installation and great performances.
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README
Ghost.org • Forum • Docs • Contributing • Twitter Love open source? We're hiring JavaScript engineers to work on Ghost full-time.
The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our official Ghost(Pro) managed service. It takes about 2 minutes to launch a new site with worldwide CDN, backups, security and maintenance all done for you.
For most people this ends up being the best value option cause of how much time it saves — and 100% of revenue goes to the Ghost Foundation; funding the maintenance and further development of the project itself. So you’ll be supporting open source software and getting a great service!
Quickstart install
If you want to run your own instance of Ghost, in most cases the best way is to use our CLI tool
npm install ghost-cli -g
Then, if installing locally add the local flag to get up and running in under a minute - Local install docs
ghost install local
or on a server run the full install, including automatic SSL setup using LetsEncrypt - Production install docs
ghost install
Check out our official documentation for more information about our recommended hosting stack & properly upgrading Ghost, plus everything you need to develop your own Ghost themes or work with our API.
Contributors & advanced developers
For anyone wishing to contribute to Ghost or to hack/customize core files we recommend following our full development setup guides: Contributor guide • Developer setup
Ghost sponsors
We'd like to extend big thanks to our sponsors and partners who make Ghost possible. If you're interested in sponsoring Ghost and supporting the project, please check out our profile on GitHub sponsors :heart:
Getting help
You can find answers to a huge variety of questions, along with a large community of helpful developers over on the Ghost forum - replies are generally very quick. Ghost(Pro) customers also have access to 24/7 email support.
To stay up to date with all the latest news and product updates, make sure you subscribe to our blog — or you can always follow us on Twitter, if you prefer your updates bite-sized and facetious. :saxophone::turtle:
Copyright & license
Copyright (c) 2013-2022 Ghost Foundation - Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE). Ghost and the Ghost Logo are trademarks of Ghost Foundation Ltd. Please see our trademark policy for info on acceptable usage.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Ghost README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.