# Using the ghost platform for non blogging websites **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Ghost\ **Created:** [May 5, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241 "2023-05-05T02:16:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anjanesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/anjanesh/32/24281_2.png) [@anjanesh](https://forum.ghost.org/u/anjanesh)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/1 "2023-05-05T02:16:29Z")
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 ? ---
**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Prakash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/abhishek_prakash/32/8599_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Prakash](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Abhishek_Prakash)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/2 "2023-05-05T04:15:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![anjanesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/anjanesh/32/24281_2.png) [@anjanesh](https://forum.ghost.org/u/anjanesh)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/3 "2023-05-05T05:07:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Prakash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/abhishek_prakash/32/8599_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Prakash](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Abhishek_Prakash)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/4 "2023-05-05T05:24:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![anjanesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/anjanesh/32/24281_2.png) [@anjanesh](https://forum.ghost.org/u/anjanesh)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/5 "2023-05-05T05:56:43Z")
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 ? ---
**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Prakash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/abhishek_prakash/32/8599_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Prakash](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Abhishek_Prakash)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/6 "2023-05-05T08:44:15Z")
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 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![simardcasanova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/simardcasanova/32/10976_2.png) [@simardcasanova](https://forum.ghost.org/u/simardcasanova)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-the-ghost-platform-for-non-blogging-websites/38241/7 "2023-05-05T19:23:26Z")
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.