37: The Ghost Platform

The Web Platform Podcast

John O’Nolan (@johnonolan), founder of Ghost, and Hannah Wolfe (@ErisDS), Ghost CTO talk about blogging and how the Ghost Project can make a difference in the blogging community. John gives a great overview of blogging and how Wordpress, the blogging giant, had become something totally different than what it had originally set out to be. Ghost was a response to the frustration of Wordpress and has since taken blogging to where, according to John, Wordpress should have gone.

Hannah & John share the project’s user experience and underlying concepts that can potentially aid developers in using Ghost to its full potential. They takes us through the technical details developers would need to get started as well as tips and great resources we can take advantage of.

Resources

• The Ghost Blogging Platform - https://ghost.org/

• The 2012 post by John O’ Nolan - http://john.onolan.org/project-ghost/

• Ghost vs. Wordpress - http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-vs-ghost

• Open Source Business - http://john.onolan.org/open-source-business/

• Github - https://github.com/tryghost/Ghost

• Ghost Vagrant Setup - https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-Vagrant

• Ghost for beginners - http://www.ghostforbeginners.com/

• Ghost on Google+ - https://plus.google.com/114465948129362706086

• Install Ghost on Digital Ocean in under 3 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYnMoV3emKg

• Some Themes - http://themeforest.net/category/blogging/ghost-themes

• Vote for Ghost Features - http://ideas.ghost.org/forums/285309-wishlist

• Ghost Themes - http://marketplace.ghost.org/

• Ghost Dev - http://dev.ghost.org/

• Public Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/EceUgtCL/ghost-roadmap

Panelists

• Danny Blue - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Erik Isaksen - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital