Ghost
Modern Publishing Platform for Content Creators
Overview
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs, publications, and newsletters, offering built-in memberships and subscriptions. It can be used as a traditional CMS or as a headless CMS through its API for custom frontends.
MIT
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Pricing
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Community
51.7
GitHub Stars
10k/week
NPM Downloads
2026-02-02
Last Update
Enterprise Features
Scalability
Horizontal scaling and high-availability deployments
Dedicated Support
Dedicated support and infrastructure management are provided through Ghost(Pro), the official managed hosting service.
99.9% Uptime SLA
Enterprise-grade reliability and uptime guarantees
Security & Compliance
Compliance Certifications
* Compliance depends on the hosting and deployment model. Ghost itself does not provide compliance certifications.
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Ghost is an open-source publishing platform built on Node.js, released
under the MIT license. It pairs a rich editor with built-in membership
and newsletter tools, while exposing all content through a RESTful JSON
API. Ghost works as both a traditional CMS with Handlebars themes and
a fully headless backend for custom front-ends.
Key Highlights
- Content API and Admin API with JavaScript SDKs
- Native memberships, paid subscriptions, and email newsletters
- Open-source Node.js core with MIT license
Why It Fits Jamstack Workflows
- The read-only Content API delivers published posts, pages, tags, and authors as JSON, authenticated via API key and designed to be fully cacheable
- Outgoing webhooks fire on publish, update, and delete events, triggering static site rebuilds or external service calls automatically
Typical Implementations
- Independent creator publications
- Company blogs and content marketing sites
- Paid newsletter and membership platforms
- Documentation and editorial portals
Setup Snapshot
Hosting: "Self-hosted or Ghost(Pro) managed cloud service"
Content: "Posts and pages authored in a card-based rich editor"
Delivery: "RESTful Content API and Admin API with webhooks"
Notes
- Self-hosted production requires Node.js and MySQL 8; SQLite is supported only in development mode
- No GraphQL API — content delivery and management are REST-only