{"id":141077,"date":"2015-06-08T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=141077"},"modified":"2015-06-08T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:00:24","slug":"ghost-vs-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/ghost-vs-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost vs WordPress: Is it Time to Make the Switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The range of uses WordPress can be put to makes it easy to forget the software’s humble roots as a fork of an obscure blogging solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These days, you’ll see it powering everything from major news sites<\/a>\u00a0to high-traffic eCommerce businesses<\/a>,\u00a0and much more in-between.<\/p>\n

As WordPress has expanded into ever more of an all-purpose online solution, a new breed of offerings has\u00a0emerged that make blogging their primary point of concern.<\/p>\n

With roots in the WordPress community and a highly successful Kickstarter campaign behind it, Ghost<\/a> is one of the most interesting of those options.<\/p>\n

In this article we’ll explore the background to Ghost’s creation, take its latest version for a test drive and consider what lessons WordPress stands to learn from this relatively new arrival in the online publishing space.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with how the platform came to be.<\/p>\n

The Background and Birth of Ghost<\/h2>\n

The idea for Ghost first appeared\u00a0as a post<\/a> on developer John O’Nolan’s blog back in November of 2012.<\/p>\n

His overall argument was straightforward: WordPress has evolved into a complex and at times bewilderingly general purpose CMS, whereas all many users want is “just a blogging platform.”<\/p>\n

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“WordPress is so much more than just a blogging platform.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

O\u2019Nolan outlined his vision for a new publishing tool called Ghost that would be a fork of WordPress seeking to provide a number of key features:<\/p>\n