I’m searching for inspiration, ideas and tips on the AI adoption on the Ghost. Also would like to learn about the mood of the Ghost community. What is your evaluation on the AI - positive, negative or neutral.
The goal is people to share their experience using AI for:
theme creation
theme customization
content creation
content editing
Ghost configuration and setup
So far based on my experience:
theme creation - poor to medium results on new theme;
theme customization - it can help for basic stuff;
configuration - ghost forum is better for hard and complex problems;
content creation and editing - mixed results. Sometimes the AI is doing decent job; Sometimes the results are bad or cause issues ( writing style, semantic errors etc).
Tested AI models:
Claude - free and paid
ChatGPT - free and paid
In my case - I would say neutral to positive experience as total.
I think that a decent or good result is tied to using ghst (new CLI that can allow MCP on Ghost) and agents who can view a RAG behind the scenes with knowledge bases, articles, links, support chats and so on.
I’m starting to play around it and I will post my experience. I’m using primarly open-source and it’s a lot to deploy for have a productive, clean and smoth experience.
If you want to test something like this, you can start with Openwebui (RAG, agents, embeddings, knowledge bases), LiteLLM (HUB for LLM), Peta (kind of MCP Gateway/Proxy).
A single agent for everything will not deliver a good result, but feeding each agent with specific instructions/skills/data. That will give you steroids and keep your context windows (usage) at the bare minimum.
You know, it’s always about how we use our resources not about having a lot or ‘the last model, app, tool’.
I think it works very well for creating themes for personal websites.
I know zero coding, but Im “tech savvy”. Only used Claude code for these themes below and I think they came out nice. Or what do you think? I would appreciate some feedback
A single agent for everything will not deliver a good result, but feeding each agent with specific instructions/skills/data.
+ ghst, Openwebui, Peta
And this is inspiring klippel. Keep the great work there.
Will be interesting to see the progress. Some of those themes looks promising for their simplicity.
For both: Do you have places where the progress can be followed?
I’d say I’m somewhere between neutral and positive as well. AI can be very useful with Ghost, but the results depend heavily on the task and how much context you give it.
For content creation and editing, I find it most useful as a starting point rather than something to rely on completely. It can help with outlining, rewriting awkward sections, generating ideas, or spotting inconsistencies, but I still prefer to do a manual review for tone and accuracy.
For themes and customization, AI seems much better at making small, targeted changes than creating an entire theme from scratch. A specific CSS or template issue is usually easier to solve than asking it to build a complete design.
One area I think is particularly interesting is combining AI-generated content with visual content. For example, an article can be supported by a short animation or explainer video that communicates the main idea more quickly.
The biggest lesson for me has been that AI works best as an assistant rather than an autopilot. Giving it a clearly defined task and then reviewing the output makes a noticeable difference.
Curious to hear whether others have found the same thing, especially with Ghost theme customization.
I’m using AI for my custom themes mostly but as an extra tool in the toolset, I’m not trying to have some smooth workflow around publishing or any automation, at least for the foreseeable future. Considering that, within that “scope”, AI it’s doing very well for me.
