Ghost VS KeystoneJS

Today, I’m excited to share something that started as a small necessity for the Goliat - Dashboard project and has grown into something I hope will benefit the entire community: the Goliat Theme, a custom theme designed for Ghost.

Ghost is the new publishing platform that was launched in 2013. Now, it is a modern, lightweight blogging platform designed specifically for publishing.

Ghost.org • Forum • Docs • Contributing • Twitter

Good point on the timing, but I really hope Wordpress users aren't migrating to Drupal en masse.

Drupal would be a very poor fit for most Wordpress-y sites (simple marketing pages, basic ecommerce, etc.). It's overkill and way too complicated and requires endless maintenance (see my rant in a sibling thread).

There are a lot of better, lighter options for people who liked the ease-of-use of Wordpress.

Wix/Squarespace are better choices for hosted/proprietary solutions, or in the FOSS/self-hosted world, there's https://ghost.org/, https://strapi.io/, https://getgrav.org/, or older PHP ones like TYPO3, Joomla, or CraftCMS.

There are also a lot of commercial headless CMSes (https://cms-comparison.io/#/card) that are good fits for devs who want to code a frontend (in a framework/language of their choice) for non-dev clients. (Disclaimer: I work for a headless CMS, but this is my own opinion). Wordpress can do headless too with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, but that was previously bought by WPEngine and now caught in the crossfire between them and Matt :( https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

I have a few blogs running Ghost and really like it. Plugin and theme ecosystem is nowhere near Wordpress size. However, Ghost is much easier to modify and use IMO, maybe because I'm more comfortable in javascript ecosystem than PHP.

https://ghost.org/

- to hydrate stuff

- optional: needs to have been around for 5 years

- optional: needs to still be around in 5 years

Ghost has no ACF apparently (https://forum.ghost.org/t/custom-fields-for-posts/1124/46 and (https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9020) and Astro is too custom as of now and I don't want another Gatsby (too short-lived).

It seems that people pay for Ghost, https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

https://ghost.org is the other good option. It also has an Open Source part that you can host yourself if you need in future.

WordPress is matured and lots of options (plugins) to get it done one way or the other.

KeystoneJS

Keystone 6: The GraphQL Behemoth

Also, there are lots of exciting web frameworks that use Prisma as their default ORM layer (like RedwoodJS which is built by the founder of GitHub, Amplication which recently raised $6.6M in seed funding, Wasp (YC W21) or KeystoneJS) which should give you some more validation that Prisma is being used in a lot production applications :)

KeystoneJS https://keystonejs.com

https://keystonejs.com/ is a nice smaller alternative.

Keystone.js is a content management system and framework for creating server-side applications that interact with a database. It is based on the Express platform for Node.js and uses MongoDB for data storage. It is an alternative to CMS for web developers who want to create a data-driven website, but do not want to move to the PHP platform or too large systems such as WordPress.

I have a website I've built in nextjs frontend using keystonejs as a cms written in node.

I have a working graphql server written in Keystone CMS and hosted on Heroku.

Even you can use WordPress through their API, I would recommend you to try KeystoneJsKeystone Js CMS, as others suggested before, there are several headless CMSs but Keystone is totally free, open source and self hosted, you can even deploy on vercel. take a look