Ghost Reviews & Product Details

All in one integration, easy to use, very clean front end and good blogging experience.

At first I have faced a problem with the payment. I was supposed to have one extra staff and I had two. I did not realize it would change my pricing plan. And I have missed their notification emails. At the end I was paying the upgraded plan without realising it. When I contacted to their customer service team they quickly jumped to solution and resolved my problem. I appreciate their spirit very much.

User friendliness is a plus, easier integrations with social media, very clean front end. I liked that very much.

I like how accessible the software interface is for the average user with little to no technology experience. The easy and straightforward system allows for more productivity in the workplace.

I dislike the cost and expenses of implementing the software as they take away from the attractiveness of the product as a whole.

Ghost solves business problems by enabling employees to be more productive with their time.

I want to make sure readers know I'm reviewing the BASIC Ghost Pro package ($9/month). I love the blogging interface it makes writing a wonderful distraction-free experience. The Stripe integration for email subscriptions is also great. IN fact, the entire user management system is intuitive, very easy to use, and has made managing my email newsletter subscription list very easy. I'm comparing this to my experience using WordPress, which is far more cumbersome. (It seems to me that WordPress has turned into an everything and the kitchen skin content management system. Ghost is still a very simplistic way to blog and manage ONE email newsletter.) In short: If you want to use Ghost as a blog & email newsletter I'd say the basic plan is well worth the money.

At the basic level, you don't have search as a feature! I've emailed Ghost and asked why a feature as basic as search is not included in the basic product and they told me that to get that feature I'd ned to upgrade to the next level which is $25/month. Without search it makes it difficult to find ol blog posts/emails that have been sent out, which I think is a real pain. Another thing I dislike is that you only have three subscription levels: Paid subscribers can pay either a monthly fee, or a yearly (annual) fee. Then there are free subscriptions. I think it would be nice if Ghost offered the possibility to sell a lifetime subscription and/or quarterly subscriptions. Finally, I send out three different email newsletters. I was hoping I could allow users to choose which ones they'd like to subscribe to through Ghost, but that is not possible. (I currently use Ghost for my main email newsletter, and Convert Kit for the remaining two.) I wish Ghost offered the ability to run more than one email newsletter via their product.

The problem I'm solving is having one main site that people can use to see most of the content I create. Ghost has provided a good product that has allowed me to build a good "one-stop" place on the web for people to find and sample my content. Additionally, it is a great archive for the things I produce. (As I said above, if it had the search feature it would be 98% perfect!) The benefits I've seen using Ghost Pro (Basic) are increased productivity, and no time spent tooling around with upgrades.

Markdown authoring is easy to use and many people can contribute to the blog platform

If you delete a user you delete their articles and it is hard delete not retrievable. We are on an early version so an upgrade might solve this.

Getting none writers to write something. The blog format makes this easier.

the best part is i can format the system through ghost and can take the backup of the system during that time and it is fast also so i don't need to wait so much sometimes through other softwares I can't format the system specially POS systems which can't be format through other softwares easily while using Symantec endpoint protection which is a part of it. now inbetween 10-20 minutes your system can be formatted

I didn't find the much problem in it but ya have observed few bad things that during the time of format while finding drives it doesn't show the name of the drive doesn't matter what name is have putted in that drive which I thought they shoould work on it

I used to format and re-image the POS systems in my company

Beautiful editor - so much better than WordPress.

It's strictly a blogging platform. Difficult to do any kind of page design outside the templates, at least in my experience. The updating process is also a bit funky, if you ask me.

For me, they solved the problems of having to deal with WordPress add-ons, themes, etc. They are adding a lot of features but most don't directly help me.

Ghost is the perfect solution for businesses looking to create a professional blog. With easy setup and maintenance, great uptime, and lightning-fast speed, Ghost provides a seamless experience for its users. The editor is clean and easy to use, with lots of embeddable content blocks, while the admin panel provides a clean overview of scheduled, published, and drafted articles. With a range of free and paid themes available, Ghost is the perfect choice for any business looking to create a powerful, professional blog.

The only thing I don't like about Ghost is you've to remember keyboard shortcuts for formatting your blog. There aren't many direct options to add bullets, highlights and other formatting stuff.

We were looking for a CMS and we found Ghost to be a perfect fit for it. We've been using it since the day we started adding blogs on our site.

Simple, clean interface, easy to use and set up, has pretty much all the features we need, and the API is well documented.

It would be great if you could upload multiple feature images for different situations. If you can do this, we haven't been able to work out how to so far.

Our website uses a headless approach to load content, so we wanted a blogging platform that would fit with that. Ghost did precisely that, allowing us to manage our blog posts on the platform and pull them onto our website using its API. The API is easy to integrate with and well documented and getting or website integrating with Ghost in this way took far less time than expected.

Very organized and easy to use. It helps filter contents to easily segregate important data to spam or just random data. Streaming is easy to customize, easy to understand you just have to watch the raw data streaming and clicking on to choose the information needed.

Sometimes it freezes but I understand that it is due to high volume of feeds coming in. You just have to refresh your page when that happens so it can go back to normal. Sometimes the stream stops due to some maintenance on the product but we are informed ahead of time.

It makes filtering important content easier and organized. Because it is so easy to use, the company can outsource the job to trained and highly skilled people to lessen the load of other personnel.

What I like best about Ghost is the sophistication. It is easy to use once you get the hang of it, but there’s a lot of learning to do before. What I love about Ghost is the Pro subscription of it. It is very difficult to update your Ghost if you are on your own server, but if you’re a Pro subscriber, it is very easy.

I dislike that there aren’t really many templates out there or plugins. At least not that I know of.

I was able to successfully build a website

I love the simplicity of the ghost platform, it's literally exactly what I need and want. Something simple, elegant, and the integrated email feature is f$#$%^* stellar. I'm grateful for ghost, the simplicity, yet depth of possibility (for example with zapier integration) feels quite refreshing. The platform appears to be unlimited in possibility.

I wish I could more easily resize images, but after learning some basic markdown that's no longer an issue.

I transferred the content off my squarespace site and moved my content from medium over to my new ghost site. This is huge for me.. as I was wanting to do this for several years, ghost provided the structure to allow me to do that in a way that felt resonant with what I was envisioning creating.

Ghost is very fast - I have zero trouble navigating the CMS backoffice. It's SEO-ready and the editing interface works quite well overall.

There are some annoying UI behaviors here and there. Using the editing interface exclusively for markdown can be a pain.

It's a fantastic tool to maintain a technical blog.

Ghost is a great platform for either HTML savvy or technophobic users. It's hard to go wrong and with the auto-save and support of CRTL-Z you never feel like you're going to mess something up! The new update is better to visually understand the end result as you're going along (which saves time) and the highlight/change functions are great for easily updating headings or formatting.

There is a drawback with the most recent update, in that it feels like there's less easily accessible control. Whilst this is in some ways 'safe' and makes life easier in the first instance, when there's something you really want to customise (e.g. more than just two heading sizes, or varying/embedded imagery) it becomes a difficult task.

The business benefits for ghost are a clean, safe and intuitive blog platform that can be hosted separately to our site, but via the same domain.

I like that it is open source and has both versions available where you can self-host or just sign up for their cloud service. Also, I like that it is an all in one solution for bloggers which comprises a publishing platform, a newsletter management system and many other essential integrations required for a modern blog.

There isn't much to dislike about this tool. But I still believe that if you want advanced customizations you need to get a bit technical which isn't the case for WordPress. Also, there are a lot of important integrations which are available but those can't be compared to the millions of plugins available for Wordpress.org users.

Very lightweight blogging platform which is available out of the box with essential integrations which are required to run a blog or a website these days. Backend is very quick and responsive too.

Ghost is excellent if you're thinking of starting on the JAM stack. It's fast, reliable and the best part is the admin UX it offers.

You cannot customize much if you're thinking of using Ghost as a full-fledged CMS to design APIs specific to your web content.

Ghost is fast, easy to use, and offers a simple interface that solved the problem of generating a brochureware website for us.