It’s simpler/more lightweight than WordPress, but generally yes (don’t know squarespace)
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recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Just curious but is Ghost like an alternative to Wordpress or Squarespace?
tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
markstos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wordpress has become an all-purpose CMS known security vulnerabilities via unsafe plugins.
Ghost has APIs instead of plugins for nearly everything, so it eliminated a lot of security and maintenance headache that way.
Ghost focuses on just a few features centered around independent content creators: blogging, email newsletters and subscriptions.
So features for sending bulk emails and accepting payments are built in, but you won’t find native support for other things like podcasts or recipe markup.
Ghost meets my need, and I love not dealing with 30 plugins at risk of being exploited if I don’t upgrade them promptly.
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’ve seen it mostly touted as an alternative to Substack.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
It’s a blogging platform. So similar to WordPress. Although it looks a lot nicer.
The really cool thing is that it has support for payments in the Self-hosted version, which I’ve not personally seen before.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
gotcha thanks!
huh that’s actually pretty neat!