ghost-alternative

The fast, secure WordPress alternative for blogs. One Rust binary: no plugins to patch, no PHP, SEO built in, and a linter that stops weak posts going live. By SerpDad.

Everything a blog needs, in one small program. Fast, secure, self-hosted. A lighter WordPress alternative written in Rust.

A practical checklist for migrating your newsletter from Ghost without losing members, breaking links, or confusing readers.

Pocket Blog — a self-hosted blog anyone can run: four looks, an editor that shows the post as it will read, AI writing help, posts that start from your trips, books, places and recipes, RSS, comments and readers without tracking. Imports WordPress and Markdown. One Go binary, one SQLite file.

fsociety: a dark, glitchy Astro blog theme inspired by Mr. Robot. Root-shell search, posts numbered like episodes, glitch and CRT effects, season 4 style 404 and a grey light mode. Static, Markdown posts, deploys to GitHub Pages.

Open-source blog, newsletter and AI writing studio. A Ghost replacement on Cloudflare Workers.

A modern, self-hosted blogging platform with Medium-style reading experience. Built with Next.js 15, Bun, and Prisma 7. Features infinite scroll, theme customization, API integration, social auto-posting, and a beautiful WYSIWYG editor. Perfect for developers who want full control over their blog with a professional, polished interface.

Wisp — the open-source Ghost alternative: a type-first, self-hosted blog & membership platform built with Elixir 1.20 and Phoenix LiveView. SQLite, realtime, AGPL-3.0.