Ghost is an open source, professional publishing platform built on a modern Node.js technology stack — designed for teams who need power, flexibility and performance.

Running Ghost locally is the easiest way to get your own copy of the software running and be able to do some local development with it. By the end of this guide you will have completed a local …

You’ve always been able to use web analytics tools in Ghost, but now we’ve built data collection and reporting directly into the core platform. Thanks to a new analytics database and a deep …

Email newsletters in Ghost come with a polished, customizable HTML template that works beautifully across all major email clients. Your newsletter’s design settings let you create …

Discover the best independent publications and newsletters powered by Ghost. Browse top sites, trending blogs, and find inspiration for your subscription business.

Ghost API documentation Explore detailed REST API documentation for accessing content in and out of Ghost programmatically.

Using Ghost CLI backup The fastest way to perform a backup is to use Ghost CLI to automatically generate a zip file containing all of your site data using the ghost backup command.

The Ghost API returns content HTML including image tags with absolute URLs, pointing at the origin of the Ghost install. This is intentional, because Ghost itself is designed (primarily) to be …

Ghost is completely open source software built almost entirely by volunteer contributors who use it every day.

Publishers and creators using Ghost are growing faster than ever before, and just passed a pretty big milestone. We're excited to share what's new, to help you create a sustainable publishing …