Ghost VS Wagtail

Compare Ghost vs Wagtail and see what are their differences.

Ghost

Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters. (by TryGhost)

Wagtail

A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience (by wagtail)
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Ghost Wagtail
297 52
45,431 16,952
1.0% 1.9%
10.0 9.9
6 days ago 6 days ago
JavaScript Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Ghost

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ghost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.
  • Faster Blogging: A Developer's Dream Setup
    4 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2024
    glee our dev friendly blogging setup has been undergoing a huge transformation for the last few weeks. For those who don't know, glee is a simple open source CLI tool that converts markdown posts into ghost blog posts. Check out the glee demo video when you have a moment! glee: Dev-friendly Blogging Setup
  • Open-Source Headless CMS in 2024
    9 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
    ⭐️ 45,000 https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/stargazers Ghost is more than a CMS; it's a whisper in the digital night, a storyteller weaving narratives in the underground. For the bloggers and content punks, Ghost brings Markdown, mobile optimization, and a slick, streamlined approach to shaking up the content cosmos.
    9 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
    Ghost: The Underground Storyteller
  • Deploy Ghost with MySQL DB replication using helm chart
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2024
    Ghost is used by creators to run their own website to publish private content
  • Self-hosting Ghost with Docker and PlanetScale
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2024
    PlanetScale and Ghost were previously incompatible due to differences in their support for foreign key constraints. With PlanetScale now supporting foreign key constraints, a seamless collaboration between the two is achievable. Nonetheless, there remain minor incompatibilities that require resolution.
  • A New Blog for 2024
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
    I'm a big fan of Ghost for new blogs https://github.com/tryghost/ghost
  • Nx - Highlights of 2023
    14 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2023
    Ghost -
  • Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
    21 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2023
    Ghost - Open Source Alternative to Medium
  • Different flavors of content management
    9 projects | dev.to | 28 Aug 2023
    The most typical approach is having a CMS admin panel sit somewhere on the server; everyone with an account uses this. This is a very convenient approach, especially when working with a team. This way, many people can work on different articles simultaneously without worrying about potential conflicts or overwriting stuff. The only con is related to security - everyone can try to get inside, and if you forget to update our CMS or some user have a weak password, it can be someone outside of our team. WordPress, Drupal, CraftCMS, or Ghost are perfect examples of such CMSs.
  • A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2023
    The site is built with Ghost[0] and subscriptions are managed by Outpost[1].

    Design is clean, loads fast, and articles are stacked, so I wish them luck. It's pretty ruthless out there, but a few good stories on HN front-page[2] should at least get this syndicated in all the best places.

    [0]: https://ghost.org/ (they've also forgotten to change the default article:publisher URL which leads to Ghost's FB page)

    [1]: https://outpost.pub/

    [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222672

Wagtail

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wagtail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ghost and Wagtail you can also consider the following projects:

Strapi - πŸš€ Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

django-cms - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django

Mezzanine - CMS framework for Django

WordPress - WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

KeystoneJS - The most powerful headless CMS for Node.js β€” built with GraphQL and React

Plone - The core of the Plone content management system

ApostropheCMS - A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.

Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.

FeinCMS - A Django-based CMS with a focus on extensibility and concise code

Bludit - Simple, Fast, Secure, Flat-File CMS