One WordPress Feature I Miss on Ghost
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One WordPress Feature I Miss on Ghost

Moving from WordPress to Ghost has many benefits – but I miss one key feature: child themes. Here's what Ghost does (and doesn't) offer for custom theme users, and how to safely manage your theme customisations without losing your changes.
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Ghost Connects Creators Across the Social Web
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Ghost Connects Creators Across the Social Web

The Internet is evolving, and Ghost is at the forefront of an exciting new shift. On 17 March, the content management and blogging platform announced the public beta of its social web – a ground-breaking move that allows creators and publishers on the paid Ghost(Pro) platform to seamlessly connect and
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Welcome to Studio6
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Welcome to Studio6

In Studio6 by Neville Hobson, my new online presence on Ghost, I’ll be writing, exploring, and sharing insights on communication, technology, the rapidly changing digital landscape, and the shifting priorities of work and life. For over 18 years, I published at NevilleHobson.com, a WordPress site that has now
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Letting Go of SEO and Writing for Engagement
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Letting Go of SEO and Writing for Engagement

For years, search engine optimisation (SEO) was a key consideration in my approach to blogging. Like many people, I optimised WordPress with metadata, lightweight themes, and SEO plugins. But as I transition from self-hosted WordPress to hosted Ghost, I find myself questioning how much SEO really matters to me now.
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Completing the Move From WordPress to Ghost
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Completing the Move From WordPress to Ghost

Over the past few months, I’ve been on a journey to transition my blog from self-hosted WordPress, where it has lived for nearly two decades, to hosted Ghost Pro, a platform designed for a more streamlined, distraction-free writing and publishing experience. With the launch of my new site, Studio6,
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Ghost Embraces ActivityPub and the Fediverse
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Ghost Embraces ActivityPub and the Fediverse

Yesterday, I shared my decision to move from WordPress to Ghost, a platform designed for writing and blogging simplicity and focus. In this follow-up post, I want to talk about an exciting feature of Ghost that sets it apart from most other blogging and CMS platforms: its active support for
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From WordPress to Ghost: Embracing Simplicity in Blogging
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From WordPress to Ghost: Embracing Simplicity in Blogging

For nearly two decades, my online home has been WordPress. But now, it feels like the right time to move on, so I’m preparing for a move to Ghost, a platform that is a compelling alternative to WordPress. WordPress has been a remarkable platform since I discovered it in
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Evaluating Ghost vs WordPress
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Evaluating Ghost vs WordPress

I've thought out loud about this in my previous posts here. Here's another way I'm looking at this, a simple comparative view: (I haven't figured out yet how to add a table to a Ghost post, so this is a screenshot from
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