Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. Ghost functions as a fully headless CMS when required.
It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Good site management functionality – supports custom redirects, custom branding, posts, pages, code injection, and more.
- Editor – with Markdown support, image cards, unsplash cards, full-screen editing, snippets, embed cards, custom HTML cards, and intelligent links.
- Publishing workflow – internal tags, custom URLs, post-preview user interface, featured posts, custom post templates, podcast support, RSS feeds.
- Search engine optimization – automatic Google sitemaps, custom page meta, canonical tags, no need to rely on third-party plugins, clean permalinks, and more.
- Memberships and subscriptions.
- Integrations – send notifications to Slack, integrates with more than 5,000 apps, and supports custom integrations.
- Team management – Custom profiles, staff users, user invitations, roles & permissions, and more.
- Themes – wide range of themes are available. It comes with Handlebar themes by default.
- Developer API – powerful CLI, RESTful JSON API, choice of database and more.
Website: ghost.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ghost Foundation
License: MIT License
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|---|---|
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| Payload | Powerful TypeScript headless CMS |
| Keystone | Headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React |
| microfeed | Designed for self-hosting on Cloudflare |
| Apostrophe | Full-featured, open-source CMS built with Node.js |
| Sveltia CMS | Git-based headless content management system |
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