Scripting News: What about Ghost?

Tuesday October 22, 2024; 12:16 PM EDT

Bob Sassone writes via email:#
You said on your blog that you can't imagine moving from WordPress because "there isn't anything else out there that's offering something new for the writers." What about Ghost? #
Bob's site is bobsassone.com.#
My response:#
Sorry it wasn't clear -- but as far as I know, Ghost isn't built on WordPress. It's a completely different product. #
My writing app runs on WordPress. So you can use it with your existing wordpress.com sites.#
It's a browser-based JavaScript app that hooks into WordPress via the wpidentity package I wrote.#
And the codebase I've built will support lots of editors built using WordPress as the backend. #

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