Apps / Productivity
Ghost
Writing, published properly
A focused publishing platform: a genuinely good editor, fast pages, memberships and email newsletters built in. Where WordPress is a general-purpose CMS you shape into a site, Ghost is a site for writing and already is one.
CategoryProductivity
Memory~700MB
Module
ghostInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install ghostWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Ghost | :2368 | Create the owner account at /ghost on the first visit. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- Create the owner account at /ghost on the first visit, before anyone else reaches it
- The public URL must be right before you publish anything: Ghost writes it into every post's links and into newsletter emails, and changing it later means rewriting content
- Newsletters need a Mailgun account. Without one the members feature works and the sending half quietly does not