So I use WordPress here, and WordPress gets a lot of flack for being bloated with plugins, speed being crap, security being rubbish etc. I’ve been playing with Ghost CMS on the side and it is so incredibly limited. The admin backend has very few options, the expectation is that you’re going to have a lot of background in modern coding to get it running with some kind of third party coding software to tweak till you’re happy.

Thats great, if you want to do that. I don’t.

This really is a site that looks great, to me, works great, for me, has a lot of customisation features that I enjoy and it ‘just works’.

It’s old and bloated, but so am I. I keep the plugins to a minimum and the site is always up to date from a backend standpoint. Linode’s hosting is great and they keep the VM up to date, I just don’t see what the problem is. Ghost is really quick, uses modern json which I’m sure if I spent a few months going through tutorials and online classes I could get the hang of. But that really seems like soooo much work that I don’t need to do with WordPress.

So, if you want to use Ghost or anything else and you love it, great, if you want to use WordPress and love it, great. Just don’t be such a fucking cunt about it, k?

🙂