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Re: Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?

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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.

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Re: Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?

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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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Re: Ask: Ghost or 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 templ…

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.

Re: Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?

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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…

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