Why should blog and news website people leave WordPress and switch to Ghost?

     Blogging, someone who makes a news website? Tired of using WordPress? Is the website too slow?

     If you are a blogger or a person who runs a news website, abig problem for you who use WordPress is that the speed of the website is not enough. The biggest reason for this is that WordPress is not a CSM designed only for blogging. WordPress is a multipurpose CMS. So the best solution for that is to use a CMS designed only for blogging.

     Today I am going to talk about a CMS platform that was created only for blogging. That's Ghost. Ghost is a widely used CMS platform all over the world. For example, even companies like Buffer, OpenAI, Mozilla, and Ulessys have used Ghost CMS to create their blogs.

     When using the Ghost CMS, you get the opportunity to use a lot of features that are only reserved for blogging. But when using WordPress, apart from blogging, you get other features that you don't need even during the installation of WordPress itself. In this way, Ghost CMS has become a highly efficient CMS due to the addition of only the most essential features.

What is this Ghost?

     Ghost CMS is a non-profit software platform. This CMS platform, which will be released to the world for the first time in 2013, is starting to be created with the initial support of 190,000 US dollars. This project started by John O'Nolan has managed to surpass 2.5 million installations worldwide. The best part of this is that by the start of 2021, there are only around 7,000 websites running the Ghost CMS worldwide.

     It is still being developed day by day by a large group of software developers who join Nandasena in the world with the Ghost CMS which works faster than WordPress from the beginning. The Ghost CMS is completely created using Node.js and the script language called PHP is used to create WordPress.

Why should you use Ghost instead of WordPress?

     As mentioned earlier, Ghost is a software platform with many flexible features. Let's take those features one by one and analyze them.

Interesting text editor

     The rich text editor available in Ghost CMS is a very versatile text editor and through it, we have got the ability to experience image galleries, embed cards, markdown, HTML, and many other great features.

Ability to monetize users

     The most important feature here is that you who create a website using Ghost CMS have been given the facility called Premium membership, which gives you the ability to earn money through it very easily. You can recruit users for free, and those users have the option to convert their profile to a premium membership if desired. There is also the possibility of posting articles in a way that only paid users can access. In addition, you can send newsletters to registered users for free.

Support for all Ad networks

     This is a very valuable and advanced feature. Ghost CMS supports all ad networks in the world. These include Google Adsense, Facebook Audience Network (Instant Articles), Taboola, and many other ad networks. And these ad networks are very easily supported.

Paid memberships

     In order to get facilities like member registration, member management, payment, subscriptions, and email newsletter through WordPress, separate plugins have to be installed and in this way, in order to use the plugins legally, you have to pay a certain amount of money every month. But if you use Ghost CMS, you will not have such problems, because you can get all those facilities and features for free through Ghost CMS.

Inbuilt SEO

     The biggest headache for anyone running a website is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. In WordPress, if we want to do SEO in the right way, we have to pay and buy plugins. But its creators have worked to include all the facilities needed to do all the things done through those plugins without installing any plugin in Ghost. For that reason, it is possible to carry out SEO activities without paying any extra money. Through it, the effort to be done for pluggings like YoastSEO can be cut because all the things that can be done through it are provided for free through Ghost.

The following SEO facilities are available through Ghost.

• Automatic creation of Google Sitemap.
• Ability to include custom page metadata.
• Ability to insert canonical tags.
• Ability to include Tidy markup and attributes.
• Clean permalink and custom URL structures facility.
• Google AMP pages.
• Optimized URLs.
• Microformats.
• Facebook Open Graph tags.
• Support for Twitter cards.
• Clean semantic markup.

Ability to easily install Themes.

     Generally, WordPress users are well aware of the fact that after purchasing a WordPress theme, they have to do troublesome things such as setup and theme import. But in Ghost, you don't have to do such annoying things. There you have to use a pre-made theme. The main advantage of this is that if you have knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can use that knowledge to create your own theme.

Fastness

     Ghost is really fast. The reason is that it is created using Node.js, a modern technology stack. Ghost has been certified to be 1,900% faster compared to WordPress. In the time that WordPress takes to respond to one request, Ghost manages to respond to 19 requests. This speed is due to the support of Core web vitals which are very important in the ranking of your website in search engines.

Support for a wide range of technology services available worldwide.

     Ghost supports a wide range of services in the world. You can manage all of that by creating the integrations tab in the backend of Ghost.

Ghost does not have disadvantages?

     So in this Ghost vs WordPress comparative analysis, I did, only the most important factors are why Ghost is ahead of WordPress. Let's talk about the weaknesses of Ghost.

     Ghost requires a minimum of 1 Core processor and 1GB of RAM to run. Also, a version of Note that requires Ghost to run and which they make flawless must be installed on the server. Most shared hosting providers do not install Node on their servers, so you will not be able to install Ghost through it. So you have to go for a VPS. Although it is known as a certain weakness, we see it as a very good approach when considering the speed of the website.

     Since there are no plugins like in WordPress, Ghost can be somewhat difficult for a beginner to use. But as mentioned earlier, it is possible to use other services with Ghost. Through that, it has been possible to maintain the website in the usual rhythm without slowing down.

     Although there are a lot of tutorials on the internet for WordPress, there are not many such tutorials for Ghost. But Ghost has an active community.

     Ghost.org offers the opportunity to run Ghost blog sites on their own hosting service and their software platform is open source and anyone can use it without any hindrance.