January 25

WordPress vs Ghost – Which Is Better?

Ghost platform and WordPress themes are the most used blogging platforms nowadays. Many bloggers ask about the similarities and differences between these two engines and templates. Further you will find the detailed comparison.

What is Ghost and why is it compared to WordPress themes?

Ghost is the blogging engine that has collected in the Large Live Kick $ 300 thousand, where a certain John O'Nolan promised to surprise us all simplicity, which has long lost WordPress. Few months ago came the first publicly available version of the engine. In the near future promise to run the possibility to host blogs on their servers, but now you can just download the package and run at.

Compare settings of Ghost and WordPress templates

Wordpres theme is a typical PHP + MySQL based platform. Almost everyone knows what to do with this engine;
Ghost – uses such languages Node.js / SASS and Bourbon / Phantomjs / Python / Grunt. The instructions are very clear and all is set for 2 minutes (if tried on the Mac).

However, to edit the source code should at least understand something in handlebars.js, or you won’t succeed. Login Screen of Ghost vs Admin Panel of WooCommerce theme Nothing much differs, except that when you enter the wrong password, WooCommerce theme "shakes" the form’s input. On the main page Ghost is only a preview of all the articles in your blog. In WooCommerce themes pretty handy console, and even at the top and a comfortable bar, which allows you to make 2 the most important and common action: to read and write comments. Moreover, it is visible to the administrator and to the front end, and it is generally high.

Settings in WordPress themes and Ghost platform

The Ghost has almost no configuration. Just basic things like blog name, the logo, the administrator account. WordPress theme has a lot of very fine tuning, but the beauty of their right group. One can imagine how the blog may not have all of these settings, but the installation of some of the things you did changed to your taste and few were quite critical ones.

Posting and editing an article in Ghost and WordPress template

Interface of Ghost is the triumph of minimalism. But I do not understand why half the screen layout when WordPress successfully copes with a lively display that will be seen in the front in the best traditions wysiwyg-editors. And to understand there is a tab in the HTML code.

There is no cooperation in blogging between users Ghost does not provide that both WordPress themes show that someone is currently editing the article, and in the event of problems, you can compare versions in a convenient form.

Uploading photos to Ghost and WordPress themes

Pictures are filled by dragging, but it does not really gain a clear line. The link will appear inside the brackets on the picture in Ghost panel, after downloading it. WordPress theme is still a powerful tool. You can just pour a packet of photos, handle any built-in editor (expand, compress, reflect mirror) and a pack of stick in the record, providing the signature and wrap setting and size of an image.

Tags and commenting features in WordPress themes and Ghost

Ask at the bottom of the editor (black stripe on the screenshot writing a post). Unlike WordPress theme, in Ghost there cannot be selected from the top, given earlier. Prompter is not working. Viewing entries by tag is not implemented.

Commenting in Ghost is not implemented. Perhaps it is not necessary to remind some candy made in WordPress theme. You can only hope that this is temporary bug and will soon be the plugin for importing comments from Facebook or Disqus just like WordPress templates offer. Ghost platform is far too young to compete completely with WordPress themes and WooCommerce templates, but it can become the great blogging platform in future. If you have any questions about these two blogging engines, you can appeal to our users on forum or in the Technical Support service.