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Installing Ghost

Written by captainark

I haven't published an article on here for over a year and a half... While this was mostly due to a lack of motivation, another reason was that I didn't enjoy the blogging system I was using.

As lightweight as Pelican is, I found it cumbersome to use on a regular basis. Every time I wanted to publish or update an article, I had to :

  • edit local markdown files ;
  • regenerate the website files ;
  • start a webserver locally to proofread the article ;
  • commit and push the files to my git repo ;
  • pull the files on the webserver.

I hadn't had a look at the CMS landscape for a while, and I started searching for one with a web editor that supports markdown. I also wanted to avoid anything that runs on PHP if possible. …more