# Ghost

Open-source publishing platform for websites, email newsletters and paid memberships, with Handlebars themes and a read-only content API.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/ghost/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://ghost.org
- repository: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- docs: https://docs.ghost.org
- pricing: https://ghost.org/pricing/
- plugins: https://ghost.org/marketplace/
- forum: https://forum.ghost.org

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Ghost Foundation
- maintainerType: foundation
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: cms, email
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 22
- basedOn: express

### Content

- contentStore: database
- databases: mysql, sqlite
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: handlebars
- i18n: yes, theme translation via locales files and the site language setting

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: server
- installMethod: ghost-cli (npm install ghost-cli@latest -g, ghost install), docker compose (preview)

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 6
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-15

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 55562
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 8768
- contributors: 369
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 2997
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 468
- dependentPackages: 8

### Sources

- name: https://ghost.org/ (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://ghost.org/ (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://ghost.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainerType: https://ghost.org/about/ (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://ghost.org/ (read 2026-10-18)
- basedOn: https://registry.npmjs.org/ghost/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://docs.ghost.org/hosting/ (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://registry.npmjs.org/ghost/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://docs.ghost.org/faq/node-versions (read 2026-10-18)
- contentStore: https://docs.ghost.org/hosting/ (read 2026-10-18)
- databases: https://docs.ghost.org/hosting/ (read 2026-10-18)
- databases: https://registry.npmjs.org/ghost/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- adminUi: https://docs.ghost.org/themes/helpers/utility/translate (read 2026-10-18)
- headlessApi: https://docs.ghost.org/content-api (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://docs.ghost.org/themes (read 2026-10-18)
- i18n: https://docs.ghost.org/themes/helpers/utility/translate (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://docs.ghost.org/themes (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://docs.ghost.org/install/ubuntu (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://registry.npmjs.org/ghost/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://ghost.org/pricing/ (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/contributors (read 2026-10-18)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/ghost (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://ghost.org/integrations/ (read 2026-10-18)
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q16251204.json (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://docs.ghost.org/install/ubuntu (read 2026-10-19)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/ghost (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/ghost (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Ghost is a Node.js publishing platform for websites, newsletters and paid memberships, built on Express and Knex, with MySQL as the production database. Themes are written in Handlebars and rendered on the server. A read-only Content API serves other frontends, and a separate Admin API is also provided. The documented production setup is ghost-cli on an Ubuntu LTS server behind NGINX. The Ghost Foundation, a non-profit founded in 2013, maintains it. The [hosting guide](https://docs.ghost.org/hosting/) lists the server requirements.

## Worth knowing

Ghost renders its own pages, so it runs as a server process rather than producing static files. The official Docker Compose setup is labeled preview, and self-hosting ActivityPub and Tinybird analytics requires it. Ghost(Pro) is the project's hosted offering.

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