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.

Get Started →

• 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.

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

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

• Changelog
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Community

• GitHub
  Source code and releases

• Developer forum
  Official community

• Reddit
  News and highlights

• Twitter
  Bite-size updates

• Tutorials
  In-depth guides

• StackOverflow
  Questions and answers