TryGhost/Ghost on Hacker News

…team for letting me follow up on this after comments were closed). I'm seriously mortified. X_X [1] https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-w... [2] https://www.securityweek.com/ghost-cms-vulnerability-exploit...

comment by goopthink · 2026-06-06 · in Good Careers at Bad Companies

Sidenote: If you're curious, this blog was created using Ghost: < https://github.com/tryghost/ghost >

comment by wslh · 2025-06-10 · in Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals

…a bit more complex. It has both a paid cloud version now and also the FOSS self-hosted version: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost If PHP, maybe https://getgrav.org/ ? For Go or a prebuilt binary, maybe https://gohugo.io/ ?

comment by solardev · 2025-04-01 · in Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?

There is Ghost at least: https://ghost.org/ https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost However, it has recently shifted to more limited audience. (payed subscription-based content with different tiers)

comment by nicce · 2025-01-13 · in WordPress Is in Trouble

…5 years Ghost has no ACF apparently ( https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-fields-for-posts/1124/46 and https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9020 ) and Astro is too custom as of now and I don't want another Gatsby (too short-lived).

comment by johnchristopher · 2024-10-11 · in WordPress Alternatives

It seems that people pay for Ghost, https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by stared · 2024-10-08 · in The Static Site Paradox

This response from one of the Tea developers seems disingenuous https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/19743#issuecomment-19... How could they not have predicted this outcome?

comment by pushedx · 2024-02-28 · in Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects

I'm a big fan of Ghost for new blogs https://github.com/tryghost/ghost

comment by er777 · 2024-01-02 · in A new blog for 2024

I quite like them in GitHub release descriptions, e.g. those by Ghost CMS https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v5.52.0

comment by kowlo · 2023-08-08 · in Terminal Support for Emoji

Did you https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost ?

comment by Jiocus · 2023-07-21 · in Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

You can! They are focussing on their publishing platform, but it's open source https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost , see the self hosting guide https://ghost.org/docs/install/ Edit: I see you mentioned no self hosting in an other comment,…

comment by codeptualize · 2023-03-30 · in Ask HN: Simplest CMS for blog type website

…it, and I give the project this code to use as they see fit with no warranty etc". For example: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBU... . And CLA Assistant is great for this if you're using Github, it's super quick…

comment by buildfocus · 2023-03-01 · in Open-source projects are demanding legal agreements to create PRs

…https://nodejs.org/ar/blog/announcements/nodejs16-eol/ Ghost has just finished adding support for v18 https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/16059 A good question is why is ghost so conservative about accepting new LTS versions to…

comment by spion · 2023-01-06 · in Why is the JavaScript ecosystem like this?

…production so that we can double down on DB optimizations." Maybe that's what we're talking about? https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/14446 Now, the deeper trend that I think is misguided is the rate of iteration and breaking…

comment by dgreensp · 2023-01-04 · in Why is the JavaScript ecosystem like this?

…see Ghost lose support for SQLite[1]. I have been running a blog on it for years, works great. 1: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/14446

comment by blacksmith_tb · 2022-12-16 · in WordPress testing official SQLite Support

If you are like me and had never heard of Ghost before today, here's a link to their Github repo: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by aftbit · 2022-12-12 · in Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost

…semver comparison instead of lexically. I searched for a bit and found that github does this ( e.g. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/tags ). Also there is a git config that sets this globally for the git cli: `git config --global tag.sort…

comment by infogulch · 2022-05-23 · in Proper use of Git tags

…to tackling that yet. Would love to get some help to get it out though - I raised an issue here: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/14882

comment by erisds · 2022-05-23 · in Ghost 5.0

For TypeScript, Ghost: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by markstos · 2022-03-21 · in Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?

Try https://ghost.org/ ( https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost )

comment by Hoefner · 2022-02-02 · in The complicated futility of WordPress

…I hope they will get sued for what they've done. [1] https://github.com/dessant/label-actions [2] https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/master/.github/label-... [3] https://github.com/dessant/support-requests/issues/6

comment by dessant · 2020-08-15 · in Ghost.org deleted my website

…is that it will remain this way until ghost's OSS version supports multi-tenancy properly: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1484 Wordpress took off, because you could support multiple sites for various clients with a single-stack -…

comment by captn3m0 · 2020-08-15 · in Ghost.org deleted my website

nice initiative ... something which reminds me of ghost ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by sumeetk · 2020-05-27 · in Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

…- Textpattern [self-hosted] PHP ( https://textpattern.com/ ) - Ghost [self-hosted] NodeJS ( https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost ) And this is my side-project created in one day in nodejs, everyone can write their article: -…

comment by modinfo · 2020-05-15 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Wordpress for Blogging?

It's immediately available to everyone, self hosted and hosted. Source is here: https://github.com/tryghost/ghost

comment by johnonolan · 2019-10-23 · in Ghost 3.0

The very best alternative to Medium is self-hosted Ghost. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost And if a person can't figure self-hosting out then the paid version of Ghost is the best option. https://ghost.org/ Ghost is an amazing platform…

comment by PatrolX · 2019-10-06 · in Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

Ghost https://ghost.org/ https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost is best for the need you've described, it's no-nonsense fast as lightning, unlike bloated WordPress.

comment by PatrolX · 2019-08-26 · in Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform

…one, and that is what I am to do with Artemis. [1] - https://github.com/getsentry/sentry [2] - https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost [3] - https://ghost.org/about/

comment by satvikpendem · 2019-01-04 · in Problems With Open-Source Business Models

…They provide paid hosted services, or you can self-host it as it's free and open source ( https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost ). Far better than wordpress. You write posts in Markdown. Editor is really nice. Example blogs:…

comment by scrollaway · 2018-09-27 · in This blog has moved

…alternative, the pro version is just a cloudbased PaaS based on the same code. Here's the GitHub: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by antonkm · 2018-08-21 · in Introducing Ghost 2.0

…but off the top of my head GhostJS seems to do good work. Ignition is their logging service. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ignition Most of this stuff is just from experience and knowing what you need in a…

comment by stocktech · 2017-10-13 · in Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

…into anything too big, you might want to check out the "good first" issues on the Desktop App ( https://github.com/tryghost/ghost-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aopen... ) or the beginner ones on the heart of it all (…

comment by felixrieseberg · 2017-02-23 · in Interview with John O'Nolan of Ghost

There's Ghost. Its frontend theme is reminiscent of Medium. Link is here: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by dqv · 2017-01-10 · in We Shouldn't Wait for Medium

…https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/3484 https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/5889 https://github.com/twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt/issues/56 http://web.archive.org/web/20151030100136/http…

comment by waterphone · 2016-09-05 · in Inclusivity Is a Joke

…a date/time lib ... cool. someone else mentioned ghost, and i'm posting mainly to link that project https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost and thank the author b/c i learned a lot a/b node development from it.

comment by auvrw · 2016-06-09 · in 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999

…https://trello.com/c/QEdjRlgK/67-open-public-api-via-oauth-a... and are working on it as we speak :) https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/4004 I know there's a wordpress API as well but I find wordpress too bloated IMO.

comment by stoikerty · 2015-11-03 · in Static Website Generators Are the Next Big Thing

…on the next big release ("Zelda") you can see that the dashboard is floating around in there, e.g. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=da...

comment by blacksmith_tb · 2015-08-27 · in Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6

Ghost is open source. http://github.com/tryghost/ghost

comment by mellett68 · 2015-08-27 · in PHP in a JavaScript world

…infrastructure, in which you can find a lot of patterns to help you build your next project. 1 : https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by drinchev · 2015-07-24 · in Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

…followed from their development I have seen very thoughtful developers from the start. edit to add https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by sluckxz · 2015-05-15 · in In Defence of WordPress

…good bit of popularity. Having your code in the main tree, would add some points to resume. [1] https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

comment by atmosx · 2014-11-11 · in Ask HN: Where can I start contributing to open source efforts?

…Ghost is the new blogging platform[2]? What's Dillinger? [1] https://github.com/gollum/gollum [2] https://github.com/tryghost/Ghost

comment by spindritf · 2014-09-10 · in Show HN: Realms Wiki – Simple Git-backed wiki inspired by Gollum

Find a github repo of an interesting project an read CONTRIB file at the root (ex. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m... ).

comment by nyddle · 2014-09-02 · in Ask HN: How do I start contributing to open source projects?

…will be an official importer app later this year – it's one of the major items on the roadmap: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/wiki/Roadmap#importer-part...

comment by modernerd · 2014-04-30 · in A Year to The Day

Ghost is developed using TDD. It might not be the strictest example, but a very successful one: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/ Choose any other random OSS, chances are it's using TDD/BDD in one form or another.

comment by ricardobeat · 2014-03-02 · in Ask HN: Examples of famous OSS created using red-green-refactor TDD?

…the actual download link is hidden on the page: https://ghost.org/download/ or their GitHub: https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/ Looks pretty! As an aside, about Wordpress, there are a couple of important points: 1) The famous install -…

comment by joshvm · 2014-02-10 · in Oh, you still use Wordpress for your blog? That's adorable.

…it. But is that a reason to do a complete rewrite? [edit: 0.4.0 does have complete subdir support: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/wiki/Release-Notes:-0.4.0#... ]

comment by eik3_de · 2014-02-04 · in Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP

…apps should be in 0.5. With apps I'm sure you can write your own integrations with other platforms. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1474

comment by pmgarman · 2014-01-13 · in Ghost 0.4 Released

…helper[1] is implemented. There is currently no simple way to display a subset of posts. [1]: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1574

comment by Xdes · 2014-01-13 · in Ghost 0.4 Released

For starters, it's open source! https://github.com/tryghost/Ghost

comment by jaryd · 2013-12-16 · in Open-source blogging platform Ghost begins rolling out its fully-hosted service