Contentful vs Ghost

"Contentful is mainly an API-based headless CMS, emphasizing structured content delivery rather than a mobile-first editing experience."

"Contentful focuses on optimizing web performance metrics but does not emphasize mobile content creation."

"No significant discussions regarding mobile-first content creation features for Contentful."

"I find it awkward that mobile Safari editing isn’t supported in Ghost admin... It would be tremendously useful to be able to write and edit blog posts on the go from mobile devices."

"Though WP is great it is not just for blogging... But what could I win by switching to Ghost if WordPress worked out very well?"

"Previewing, publishing and scheduling content is accessed from the top of the editor, with live previews for desktop, mobile, email and social."

"Ghost is not mobile friendly... mobile devices are not fully supported."

"With Content Source Maps, this setup is now fully automated. Our APIs now return source maps for fields that link directly to the corresponding field in Contentful."

"Ghost automatically creates and updates an XML sitemap for your website to help search engines understand the structure of your site and find all of its content."

"To create a related posts section in Ghost, you'll need to make some modifications to your theme."

"Links are a powerful way to model relationships between content."

"This is indeed a built-in feature in Ghost. It's called public ... How to Use the Public Preview & Custom Content CTA in Ghost CMS."

"In Ghost 3.0 some Ghost themes had a hard coded (in most cases blurred) text when users did not have access to that post."

"Wondering how we can add an in-line button to a blog post? We have a that we have a..."

"The Comments tab allows you to communicate with collaborators in your space by creating comments, replying, and tagging members."

"Entry comments. Users can add comments to an entry. This allows for teams to collaborate and have conversations."

"Contentful's flexible content modeling goes far beyond blog posts. Here’s how you can leverage Contentful and Netlify to create a nested commenting system."

"Member commenting can be enabled for either All members or Paid-members only from within Ghost Admin."

"We built Ghost Comments with features that allow users to comment directly on your website."

"Ghost's built-in comments feature is a part of the memberships feature - there is no way to use it without being a registered member on your site."

"The complete guide to comments includes tutorials for using the built-in comment feature."

"Multi-tenancy architecture means that all our customers and applications share a single, common infrastructure and code base that is centrally maintained by us."

"Our solution? A single, unified content platform."

"Contentful's multi-tenancy concept is extensible on all levels and continuously delivers new features."

"Ghost is not multi-tenant, and does not have the ability to run multiple sites off a single instance."

"No, it is not possible (currently) to run many blogs under many domains, served by one installation of Ghost."

"If you need to create multiple sites each with their own domain, you would need to create separate Ghost(Pro) accounts."

"A solid content model is the foundation of every great digital project. Your model is the bones of your project; it tells our APIs what kind of content to send to your end application."

"You can set up your content model with the following tools: Visual modeler — Visually build your content model, view the content types and references."

"This guide will lay out a set of best practices that are considered good content modeling patterns."

"Currently, editor interfaces are fully supported in templates. These include all configurations for content type fields."

"Posts are created within Ghost-Admin using the editor to determine your site’s main content. Within them are all the fields which you might expect such as title, description, slug, metadata, authors, tags and so on."

"Using custom routing, it's possible to create content collections just like this. You can define a content collection with tags, allowing a post to live in only one collection at a time."

"The Content API provides access to Posts, Pages, Tags, Authors, Tiers, and Settings. All endpoints return JSON and are considered stable."

"To use custom components in Experiences, you need to register them."

"You can import your own design system components into Experiences to create on-brand digital experiences."

"The Forma 36 Design System and React component library provides a comprehensive collection of UI components."

"Is there a way to insert a React component inside Ghost cms? I know I can consume the content API, but what I need is to be able to insert a React component from the admin panel."

"Ghost's RESTful Content API delivers published content to the world and can be accessed in a read-only manner by any client to render in a website."

"Manage content via Ghost's Admin API, with secure role-based authentication."

"Using the Content API means that attribute data, such as tags and authors, will be included in the post object data."

"In Contentful, full-text search terms are left anchored...full-text search is built into the standard entry listing endpoint."

"Contentful's full-text search capabilities allow searching across all fields."

"Contentful does include some intriguing full-text search capabilities out-of-the-box that searches across all fields."

"The search feature indexes post titles, excerpts, authors and tags - but it does not search across post content."

"Ghost Search works out-of-the-box with any theme, and allows your readers to search across all published posts, tags and authors."

"The post title and excerpt are used to search post content from the most recent 10,000 posts."

"For full-text search capabilities, using a third-party solution like OpenSearch is recommended."

"Starting with Ghost v5.3.0 a native search function was added, but it’s limited in scope."