Someone I respect once told me that Ghost is written for its developer’s needs and to promote the hosted platform, and not intended to be an easy to manage self

Someone I respect once told me that Ghost is written for its developer’s needs and to promote the hosted platform, and not intended to be an easy to manage self hosted solution. I don’t know how far that’s true, but WordPress seems to be ahead on mindshare (and likely features and plugins too). For better or worse, PHP/LAMP hosts with control panels are aplenty. Writing on any platform regularly is not easy for everyone. So it’s less of a platform issue than some people perceive it to be. For most people, a “free” wordpress.com or blogger.com (or gasp, medium.com if you really hate your readers) is good enough to start.