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I really wanted to like Ghost but it seems out of touch. Like the only social media options by default are Twitter/Facebook, the plugin system is just zapier co

I really wanted to like Ghost but it seems out of touch. Like the only social media options by default are Twitter/Facebook, the plugin system is just zapier connections, themes are limited, and when I tried to self host because the official ghost hosting is expensive I only ran into bugs with it. After spending a week with Ghost I moved to Wordpress. I wish I could use the themes on Ghost with Wordpress because all of the ghost themes are what I want for my site. I want the nice parts of Ghost with a Wordpress backend.

Zippogriff 6y ago
WordPress has an official REST API. It's pretty easy to rip post/page content out of it either on a schedule (cron) or dynamically, in either case rendering finished pages from templates or similar, and serve it without involving WP directly. I'm not too familiar with static site generators but I'd expect any that can take raw HTML for post/page bodies to be trivial to automate to serve such a pipeline. https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
- marc_io 6y ago
  Sure, pretty easy for developers, not for the general user.
AnonC 6y ago
I too found the hosted Ghost platform expensive for personal use, and when I thought of self-hosting, I was discouraged from trying it by some people who know better. They said that Ghost's developers have focused on making it work on their hosting platform and that it's a bag of hurt (or soon turns into one) elsewhere. Sadly, I had to use WordPress even though I don't like the platform's security related issues and how its plugin systems can make users shoot themselves in the foot (on complexity, site speed, site stability and security exposure). What I'm looking for is a lean and nice CMS that comes with some batteries included, and can generate good static sites and also work for dynamic ones.

Zippogriff 6y ago

WordPress has an official REST API. It's pretty easy to rip post/page content out of it either on a schedule (cron) or dynamically, in either case rendering finished pages from templates or similar, and serve it without involving WP directly. I'm not too familiar with static site generators but I'd expect any that can take raw HTML for post/page bodies to be trivial to automate to serve such a pipeline. https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/

marc_io 6y ago
Sure, pretty easy for developers, not for the general user.

AnonC 6y ago

I too found the hosted Ghost platform expensive for personal use, and when I thought of self-hosting, I was discouraged from trying it by some people who know better. They said that Ghost's developers have focused on making it work on their hosting platform and that it's a bag of hurt (or soon turns into one) elsewhere. Sadly, I had to use WordPress even though I don't like the platform's security related issues and how its plugin systems can make users shoot themselves in the foot (on complexity, site speed, site stability and security exposure). What I'm looking for is a lean and nice CMS that comes with some batteries included, and can generate good static sites and also work for dynamic ones.