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Getting Started with Ghost

Learn how to build and develop beautiful, independent publications

Developer install guide

Follow our setup guides for any platform, from local development to production environments.

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Ghost(Pro) Ubuntu Local Docker


Platform guide

A detailed overview of Ghost’s architecture & configuration.
Read the docs

Migration guide

Import your content, members and payments from other platforms.
Import data

Theme guide

A full guide to building custom designed templates for your site.
Start building

Developer resources

Starter theme framework

Fast track your development of new custom themes with our open source theme starter framework.
GitHub

Ghost API documentation

Explore detailed REST API documentation for accessing content in and out of Ghost programmatically.
Documentation

JAMstack front-end frameworks

Use Ghost as a headless CMS, integrating the API with any third party front-end or custom static framework.
Documentation

Changelog

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Changelog

Community

GitHub

Source code and releases
GitHub

Developer forum

Official community
Forum

Reddit

News and highlights
Reddit

Twitter

Bite-size updates
Twitter

Tutorials

In-depth guides
Tutorials

StackOverflow

Questions and answers
StackOverflow