TL;DR Minimalist publication tool = Ghost / Custom field multilingual with form and account etc.. = WP
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Ghost is a publication tool and... thats it? Its really light, focused on blogging/publishing and do it right, without clutter, and is fast🔥. Theming is really easy, just HTML + handlebar. If you are used to nodeJS / npm, its really easy to setup.
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Wordpress is cluttered, quite slow, the CMS is a mess, but you can do a lot, add plugin for anything without a lot of code, and you can expand it to whatever you like.
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My take > I wouldn't use wordpress anymore : Its not a publishing platform anymore, its a messy website framework with publishing capabilities.
If i just need a blog > ghost. If I need a website with a blog, i'd rather take another real framework to create my site and use a publishing API for the articles ( ie. ghost api or a saas like contenful)
PS: be aware of ghost current limitation before making your choice. you cannot do multilingual publishing on one instance for example or cannot create custom field for now.
Speaking of theming, does Ghost have a good amount of theme to get into, especially the paid ones? I just avoid to design everything by myself for this.
TL;DR Minimalist publication tool = Ghost / Custom field multilingual with form and account etc.. = WP
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Ghost is a publication tool and... thats it? Its really light, focused on blogging/publishing and do it right, without clutter, and is fast🔥. Theming is really easy, just HTML + handlebar. If you are used to nodeJS / npm, its really easy to setup.
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Wordpress is cluttered, quite slow, the CMS is a mess, but you can do a lot, add plugin for anything without a lot of code, and you can expand it to whatever you like.
.
My take > I wouldn't use wordpress anymore : Its not a publishing platform anymore, its a messy website framework with publishing capabilities.
If i just need a blog > ghost. If I need a website with a blog, i'd rather take another real framework to create my site and use a publishing API for the articles ( ie. ghost api or a saas like contenful)
PS: be aware of ghost current limitation before making your choice. you cannot do multilingual publishing on one instance for example or cannot create custom field for now.
Hello Offbeat, thanks for jumping in! 🙂
Speaking of theming, does Ghost have a good amount of theme to get into, especially the paid ones? I just avoid to design everything by myself for this.