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Ghost Publishing & Newsletter Platform

by TryGhostJavaScript

Independent open-source publishing technology for modern content marketing and email newsletters.

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Maturity: stable because 13y old, v6.54.1 released 7d ago. Derived from release and commit history, not a rating.

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In practice

Written by AI from this repository’s README · high confidence

Running a publication with paid memberships otherwise means assembling a CMS, newsletter tool and billing separately.

Use it when

When you want a publishing site with memberships and newsletters that you can self host or use headless.

Not the right pick when

Self hosting means running the stack yourself; the README recommends the paid Ghost(Pro) service for production.

Capabilities

  • CLI tool for local and production installs
  • Local install flag for a running site in under a minute
  • Server install with automatic SSL through LetsEncrypt
  • Memberships, subscriptions and newsletters
  • Themes and a Content API for developers

Requirements

  • Node.js and npm to install the CLI globally

Cost: Open source with a paid cloud option

Video walkthroughs

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What the repository ships

Ships CLAUDE.mdCursor rulesHas docsSecurity policyCI configured

Detected from the actual files in the repository root.

Latest release v6.54.1

Published 2026-07-27

  • 🐛 Fixed settings preview interaction regressions (#29618) - Steve Larson

View the changelog for full details: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/compare/v6.54.0...v6.54.1

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README

 

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<a href="https://ghost.org/#gh-light-mode-only" target="_blank">

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<a href="https://ghost.org/">Ghost.org</a> •

<a href="https://forum.ghost.org">Forum</a> •

<a href="https://docs.ghost.org">Docs</a> •

<a href="https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md">Contributing</a> •

<a href="https://twitter.com/ghost">Twitter</a>

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<a href="https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/">

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<a href="https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/actions">

<img src="https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg?branch=main" alt="Build status" />

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<a href="https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/contributors/">

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[!NOTE]

Love open source? We're hiring! Ghost is looking staff engineers to join the team and work with us full-time

<a href="https://ghost.org/"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353959/169805900-66be5b89-0859-4816-8da9-528ed7534704.png" alt="Fiercely independent, professional publishing. Ghost is the most popular open source, headless Node.js CMS which already works with all the tools you know and love." /></a>

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<a href="https://ghost.org/pricing/#gh-light-mode-only" target="_blank"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/65487235/157849437-9b8fcc48-1920-4b26-a1e8-5806db0e6bb9.png" alt="Ghost(Pro)" width="165px" /></a>

<a href="https://ghost.org/pricing/#gh-dark-mode-only" target="_blank"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/65487235/157849438-79889b04-b7b6-4ba7-8de6-4c1e4b4e16a5.png" alt="Ghost(Pro)" width="165px" /></a>

The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our official Ghost(Pro) managed service. It takes about 2 minutes to launch a new site with worldwide CDN, backups, security and maintenance all done for you.

For most people this ends up being the best value option because of how much time it saves — and 100% of revenue goes to the Ghost Foundation; funding the maintenance and further development of the project itself. So you’ll be supporting open source software and getting a great service!

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Quickstart install

If you want to run your own instance of Ghost, in most cases the best way is to use our CLI tool


npm install ghost-cli -g

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Then, if installing locally add the local flag to get up and running in under a minute - Local install docs


ghost install local

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or on a server run the full install, including automatic SSL setup using LetsEncrypt - Production install docs


ghost install

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Check out our official documentation for more information about our recommended hosting stack & properly upgrading Ghost, plus everything you need to develop your own Ghost themes or work with our API.

Contributors & advanced developers

For anyone wishing to contribute to Ghost or to hack/customize core files we recommend following our full development setup guides: Contributor guideDeveloper setup

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Ghost sponsors

A big thanks to our sponsors and partners who make Ghost possible. If you're interested in sponsoring Ghost and supporting the project, please check out our profile on GitHub sponsors :heart:

DigitalOceanFastlyTinybirdBairesDev

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Getting help

Everyone can get help and support from a large community of developers over on the Ghost forum. Ghost(Pro) customers have access to 24/7 email support.

To stay up to date with all the latest news and product updates, make sure you subscribe to our changelog newsletter — or follow us on Twitter, if you prefer your updates bite-sized and facetious. :saxophone::turtle:

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License & trademark

Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.

Ghost and the Ghost Logo are trademarks of Ghost Foundation Ltd. Please see our trademark policy for info on acceptable usage.

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