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Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by therealmarv »

truebosko wrote: post #15

Very interesting! I've been debating if we want to continue using Sphinx ( http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/b... ) for our documentation website, and focus on a tool that provides a more robust platform for publishing a content focused site. Sphinx is great for building out an API reference, but there's so much more to a documentation website beyond that. Anyone have insight into this idea?

Ghost is not the best bet for documentations. It's great in its area but not for sphinx like documentation. Better look at mkdocs! If you want to see a website we created from a Sphinx to mkdocs switch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717513

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Post by obahareth »

I just upgraded my website with a click and some minimal theme changes using Ghost Pro and I'm liking the new editing experience. It feels like a blend of the nice features from Medium and Caramella.

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

amelius wrote: post #28

Curious, how can this compete against free open-source alternatives?

Ghost is free and open-source itself. I find it more pleasant to use than most of the alternatives. Presumably it's financially supported by the official hosting service.

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

arusahni wrote: post #26
Yhippa wrote: post #13

This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?

I know this isn't one of those two options, but I'd recommend a static site generator (e.g., Lektor, Hugo, Nikola, Pelican, Octopress). I find myself wasting less time twiddling and configuring them and instead focusing on writing content (in Markdown or ReStructured Text, no less). Additionally, I can then throw the content up on GitHub pages or AWS S3 and cut down on hosting costs.

I switched to Ghost because I found I spent a lot of time twiddling with my static site generator. My Jekyll setup had a habit of breaking every few months.

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Post by wlesieutre »

WesleyLivesay wrote: post #18
kup0 wrote: post #17

Any chance of a cheaper / more minimal plan for a small personal site or blog? I suppose at that point, it's better for you for us to run it on our own hosting, though...?

That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.

I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock.

Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?

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Post by johnonolan »

pmlnr wrote: post #37
monkeydust wrote: post #36

How good is ghost for seo vs other platforms?

Seo is a theme thing, and it barely has anything to do with the engine.

Not strictly true, Ghost has a lot of built-in features for SEO. In particular: Detailed schema.org microformats and structured data, automatic canonical tags, automated + user override-able custom meta data, automatic XML sitemaps, SEO friendly routes, RPC pings, automatic Google AMP support, and quite a few other things.

We do all of these things in core, rather than leaving it up to the theme, so that everyone gets consistently good SEO rather than being left up to the mercy of whatever the theme developer remembered to implement

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