What You'll Be Creating On August 11th, the open source blogging upstart Ghost released a major incremental update, Ghost 0.5 MSR1 ( Ghost began as a Kickstarter project in 2013 by founders John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe and has grown quickly since then). It's available as an open source download or you as a managed blogging service at Ghost.org . Unlike WordPress, written in PHP, Ghost is written in Node.js . I'm a longtime WordPress user and the platform is admittedly slow and cumbersome. WordPress recently raised $160 million in venture funding , so I expect the platform to improve in greater leaps and bounds; however, I was eager to try Ghost as a new, lightweight alternative. I've also been writing a lot lately at Medium.com , what some are calling a platisher . While Medium offers a beautiful responsive design and some great writing features, it doesn't offer as much control and portability as I'd like. Ghost aspires to offer the simple, sophisticated writing environment of Medium in a self-hosted, open source package. Already, there is a Medium-inspired theme for Ghost which I'll demonstrate installing in this tutorial (and certainly there are many for WordPress). In many ways, Ghost delivers - but like delicious cookies baking in the oven, it needs a bit more time. First, let's talk about what's new in Ghost 0.5 MSR1
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