Ask: Ghost or Wordpress? I curate under different blogs mentioned, I want to curate at all them 1 single place, as a single blog, with well-displayed feeds with metadata loading up well. Can you guys please help me make an informed decision - whether to go with Ghost or whether to go with Wordpress ? |
I'm usually keen on choosing the right tool for the right job.
So here is a follow up questions that might lead you into the right direction ?
1. What do you like more : NodeJS or PHP?
2. Do you need specific functionality?
3. Can you modify source code on your own or you will need developers to help you out ?
4. Do you need a custom made template?
5. Do you have a budget and you want to outsource or you just want to do it yourself?
6. Are you familiar with any of those platforms?
Ghost does not yet have plugin support, so adding social meta data to your blog is much less intuitive than if you were to use something like WP's 'Yoast SEO plugin'. The Ghost team has made some great improvements that have resolved the woes of manually entering meta attributes to your posts, but Yoast's SEO plugin is still taking the lead with optimizing your page for sharing/SEO.
I had several woes when I used Ghost. At one point, I decided that I wanted to make a static splash page as my root page '(mysite).com', with a 'blog' button that takes you to the blog section at '(mysite.com)/blog' Turns out it's impossible to do this on Ghost. It would have to be implemented on Apache.
Next, I wanted to make a separate page to showcase my artwork. I was thinking of making a nice gallery page. The best way to do it with Ghost would be making a new blog post, setting it to be a static page, then embedding the pictures manually with Markdown. I could have made a photo gallery with Javascript and tucked it under the Markdown, but it just felt unnecessarily hacky and I didn't want to deal with it. It would have been nice to just have a simple out-of-the-box feature plugin that would do that for me.
Wordpress is a massive, well-seasoned Goliath, and Ghost is the smaller, younger David. Like I said, Ghost is great for what it is: a blog engine. But if you want to add anything else to your blog and maybe make it work more like a website, you'll have to either write up your own theme for it or crawl under the code to tweak it around to your taste.
When I moved to Wordpress, I imported my posts, added a picture gallery, splash page, fully customized everything and it took just a few hours and it looked great. It was such a sigh of relief.
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