December 16, 2014

10 minutes with Ghost blogging platform: looks promising!

WordPress’ performance frustrates me sometimes, and Ghost received some good attention a while back. Time to take a look at Ghost!

First Impressions

But it’s still missing WordPress features I rely on:

Thoughts

I will give Ghost another try when I have time to look at the entire ecosystem and see what add-ons are out there, or if I can add the features I want. I appreciate that a fresh install of Ghost is fast and light, and hopefully adding some features I like will not slow it down much.

The good news is the team is very open about progress and changes. Here’s a blog post about what’s happening now, and here’s the Ghost roadmap on Trello.

What would moving from WordPress to Ghost be like?