Ghost vs Substack

"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."

"Today we’re launching a new mobile editor, which allows you to write and publish posts directly from the Substack app for iOS."

"Publishing a new post is available on the Substack iOS and Android apps."

"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."

"If you'd like to share certain parts of a post or allow readers to jump to a specific section of a long post, try adding anchor links."

"Recommendations are a Substack super ... However, I couldn't find evidence of automatic related content linking."

"I was wondering if it is a good idea to create a substack and post my content on there as well and even link the substack post back to my main blog."

"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..."

"Substack provides no automation tools at all; the author notes this is a primary reason users leave for competitors."

"Substack lacks several critical features needed for effective email marketing, including automated email sequences."

"Users discuss the absence of integrated automation features in Substack, noting their reliance on external tools."

"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."

"Navigate to your publication's Settings and click on Community. Slide the toggle to enable comments."

"You can now enable comments on your posts for anyone on your mailing list, even if they’re not a paid subscriber."

"Writers can choose whether to allow comments from everyone or only paid subscribers."

"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."

"Substack is designed for independent writers and does not offer multi-tenancy features."

"Substack emphasizes individual monetization and audience ownership, lacking multi-tenant capabilities."

"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."

"Substack offers limited customization, focusing more on content rather than design."

"Directus allows you to create custom schemas, manage data, define roles & permissions for your organization."

"Substack doesn’t allow customization for its newsletter formats, thus limiting content modelling."

"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."

"Over the years, I’ve written and reviewed hundreds of React components for a $1.7B GenAI startup."

"I wanted to display my Substack posts on my website instead of a subscribe link, so I created my own Substack feed component!"

"A customizable React component renders the login page based on the user's UI settings."

"The new components are both fully customizable AND robust."

"I have used substackapi to achieve this Custom Embed Substack Signup Form."

"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."

"From the Substack web inbox, readers can search keywords to find posts, publications, and people."

"Substack search can’t find posts even when I know the exact title or URL. Search often can’t find people."