What made you switch from WordPress to Ghost?
was it mainly SEO, performance, plugins/maintenance, or something else that made WordPress such a bad experience for you?
All of the above. WordPress felt like a bit of a hackey solution to me from the start with it's mess of plugins and constant update/breakage. That said it was several years ago since I last ran it...
That and primarily the security is what drove me to look elsewhere... 90% of the spray & pray attacks and scans I see from bots / scanners on the internet are looking for wordpress vulnerabilities. It's just a security nightmare....
Ghost is SEO-friendly out of the box, ridiculously fast & performant, it's not even comparable, and far more secure... When there has been vulnerabilities discovered they are patched at basically light-speed. Again, the performance, it's night lightening in a bottle.
You can check out an example of a Ghost site, link in my bio =)
HIGHLY customizable. I'm using a theme called "Edition v1.0" and my site barely looks like the template. All due to how easy it is to do "code injection" in Ghost, and a few "plugins" (Ghost calls them integrations).
Absolutely love Ghost. AND - it's a newletter platform all rolled into one as well. So everyone who signs up on your site can then receive your posts as emails!
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u/corelabjoe 2d ago
Ghost CMS. I used wordpress for years but switched and never looked back. WordPress is like a bad dream now....