1 introduction

Whether it’s a hobby blog or a news site, WordPress has a hard name to get around in the open source space. But today I want to introduce you to another powerful open source blogging platform, Ghost. Ghost was founded by former WordPress director John O’Nolan and beautiful engineer Hannah Wolfe.

Known for its simple design, elegant themes and ease of deployment, it is a strong competitor to the established blogging platform WordPress.

Compared with WordPress, Ghost blog system has more simple design style, excellent theme market and complete plug-ins. After 4.0 version of Ghost in the improved membership subscription, article payment and Newsletter after the native support, more suitable for continuous content output creators or teams to use, is a complete usable content output system.

The advantages of Ghost are:

  • Excellent article editing and management experience

  • A well-designed blog theme

  • Rich third-party plugins

  • Membership subscription, article payment, Newsletter push

Next, let’s look at how to quickly deploy Ghost

2 Installation Guide

Ghost recommended the use of docker installation, installation before the need to prepare the server and provide Web services, docker installation, apply for a domain name, configure DNS domain name resolution and a series of operations, which requires users to have a certain technical background, interested can refer to Ghost official image. Today will introduce Tencent cloud open source application center services to enable one-click rapid deployment, let you quickly complete the Ghost construction work.

The first step, login Tencent Cloud open source application center, search for Ghost application.

The second step, click free experience or official opening, the opening is complete. The account and password shown below are your administrator account and password.

3 Usage Guidelines

3.1 Logging In to the Background

The first thing to use Ghost is to log in to the background to do some configuration, such as themes, labels and so on. The login address of the background is spelled /ghost after the domain name. You need to register an account for the first login, as follows:

3.2 Choose the right theme and style

Ghost default theme has been able to meet the needs of most occasions, you can also visit the official theme according to their preferences to choose a suitable.

Ghost also allows you to customize your own style according to your personal preference, such as custom banner, button color, etc., as follows:

3.3 Publishing Articles

As a blog system, the most important function of course is to publish articles for users to read. Ghost post is very simple, just click the + button next to Posts in the background, you can write an article. At the same time, you can insert pictures, HTML code snippets, etc., very powerful. Once you’ve written your article, just click the Publish button and you can Publish it.

After publishing in the background, we can see the article we just wrote in the foreground page.

3.4 Other Settings

Ghost also has other useful Settings, such as post tags, user information, adding users, etc., that you can explore slowly.

4 summary of experience

Ghost is relatively simple to use, unlike WordPress, which has very complex features. At present, Ghost has Chinese community in China, and also has its own official website, where more detailed instructions can be found.

To learn more

Open source application free experience:

app.cloud.tencent.com

Progress of open Source application plug-in Project:

openapp.qq.com/docs

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