Using the ghost platform for non blogging websites

Using Ghost
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For making some clients’ corporate websites, my biz partner always chooses WordPress and we slap some theme we get from themeforest but now I’m seriously considering using ghost.

Question - Is ghost mainly meant for only blogging ? In WordPress, there is a section called Pages where we create pages of the website like home, about etc.

Can we do the same using ghost ? Like - not using ghost as a blog platform but using it to create marketing / corporate websites etc ?

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You can absolutely do that.

However, you’ll have to do a lot of things on your own and that involves dabbling with HTML, CSS and Handlebar.

Using WP with the new drag and drop Gutenberg is of course easier for customization.

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Regarding theme I can edit any way - but my biz partner is saying he should be able to edit pages’ content as easily as wordpress.

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The text content can be easily edited even if it is on pages.

However, if the pages have different design, then it’s not straightforward.

I think the best way for you to find it out would be to experiment with running a dummy client site on Ghost and see how it goes.

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I did signup for ghost pro on trial mode. The menu options are far fewer.

  1. What if I wanted some plugin like we have in WordPress ?
  2. Can I create my own nodeJS Ghost plugin and upload ?
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You don’t really need Ghost Pro here. Just use DigitalOcean with their one click Ghost deployment. Ghost Pro restricts theme change I think (I maybe wrong).

I am not a theme developer. I am merely a user who started switching his websites to Ghost 2 years ago.

Things are not the same here as WordPress. The plugin support is limited. You won’t find a Plugin economy like WordPress here.

Ghost always has been a content focused platform which has switched its focus on newsletter recently and thrived on it.

So if you wanted a plugin, you’ll have to look for SAAS that could work similarly on non-WP sites.

I am not knowledgable enough to comment about nodeJS Ghost plugin question, unfortunately :frowning:

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Regarding 2: Ghost has a robust API you can use to interface a lot of things with. But any third-party app won’t be a plugin, not in the WordPress sense. You will likely need to host it on a different server.

Seconding @Abhishek_Prakash: I would also do some experiment, and see if Ghost is a good fit for your use case. Ghost is really different from WordPress. It does some things (incredibly) better, especially newsletters. For the rest, it really depends.

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