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Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?

7 pointsgarg_govind15 comments

I curate under different blogs mentioned, I want to curate at all them 1 single place, as a single blog, with well-displayed feeds with metadata loading up well.

Can you guys please help me make an informed decision - whether to go with Ghost or whether to go with Wordpress ?

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Well. As usual. There is no right answer for highly opinionated question.

I'm usually keen on choosing the right tool for the right job.

So here is a follow up questions that might lead you into the right direction ?

1. What do you like more : NodeJS or PHP?

2. Do you need specific functionality?

3. Can you modify source code on your own or you will need developers to help you out ?

4. Do you need a custom made template?

5. Do you have a budget and you want to outsource or you just want to do it yourself?

6. Are you familiar with any of those platforms?

1. My developer is ROR guy but can work on both PHP and NodeJs 2. Only Blogging + newsletters 3. I would need a developer 4. If i could i would use it, 5. Well I am paying my developer to get this done. I do not want to pay to any of these sites, i'll be using freemium version 6. Nope

Choose wordpress. Developers are cheaper and it's more popular. Probably you can do more in less time.

Go with Wordpress. I used Ghost for my blog for a little over a year (started using it immediately after it was first released) and, despite it being a solid blog engine, it's very limiting if you want to do anything other than that.

Ghost does not yet have plugin support, so adding social meta data to your blog is much less intuitive than if you were to use something like WP's 'Yoast SEO plugin'. The Ghost team has made some great improvements that have resolved the woes of manually entering meta attributes to your posts, but Yoast's SEO plugin is still taking the lead with optimizing your page for sharing/SEO.

I had several woes when I used Ghost. At one point, I decided that I wanted to make a static splash page as my root page '(mysite).com', with a 'blog' button that takes you to the blog section at '(mysite.com)/blog' Turns out it's impossible to do this on Ghost. It would have to be implemented on Apache.

Next, I wanted to make a separate page to showcase my artwork. I was thinking of making a nice gallery page. The best way to do it with Ghost would be making a new blog post, setting it to be a static page, then embedding the pictures manually with Markdown. I could have made a photo gallery with Javascript and tucked it under the Markdown, but it just felt unnecessarily hacky and I didn't want to deal with it. It would have been nice to just have a simple out-of-the-box feature plugin that would do that for me.

Wordpress is a massive, well-seasoned Goliath, and Ghost is the smaller, younger David. Like I said, Ghost is great for what it is: a blog engine. But if you want to add anything else to your blog and maybe make it work more like a website, you'll have to either write up your own theme for it or crawl under the code to tweak it around to your taste.

When I moved to Wordpress, I imported my posts, added a picture gallery, splash page, fully customized everything and it took just a few hours and it looked great. It was such a sigh of relief.

You had used it before a year? Bu there is a chance, many features which would have been changed during this time period?

I started using it shortly after the official release in the Fall/Winter of 2013 and used it until about a month ago when I moved to Wordpress.

Thanks

Also, Ghost does not supports comments, which is a must for me.

if you don't care about cool technology (nothing against Ghost), I will say it is hard to beat wordpress in terms of blogging. It literally is so simple to get started and even manage. In your case, you could look into setting up a Wordpress Multi-site network and quickly manage all the blogs from one dashboard.

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It might not be your primary concern but I found Ghost's performance to be much better than Wordpress': http://www.anmolsarma.in/lazy-performance-comparison-of-word...

All the stuff you need to reply to this question:

http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-vs-gho...

Thanks. But it is year old post. Many features in Ghost may have been updated by this time.

If you only want to aggregate content you might want to use planetplanet (www.planetplanet.org)

I'm just going to leave this here... http://www.cvedetails.com/product/4096/Wordpress-Wordpress.h...

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