Beehiiv vs Ghost CMS: which tool is better for creators?
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2023
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Really appreciating your CMS comparison and review content--it's really helping me make my decision, especially since not many are talking about Ghost etc at this level and it's very needed! Thanks man, keep it up
Thanks a lot for the kind words :) Ghost is a hidden treasure and is great for many things
Agree on everything in this video. They are both really good but Beehiiv is missing more variety of website layouts. If they could improve the static website experience, I would be a much happier customer.
Yeah, beehiiv is doing a great job, but it's very hard to be good at everything, and we can see that when it comes to website customization.
However, they are making an effort and improved this recently :)
Ps. Thanks watching the video :D
Thanks! Do you have any input of best / no good CMS for us who is living in Europe. We have special rules lika GDPR and for cookies from EU. Is there also any thoughts if the newsletter / blog is in a language like swedish. For ex the referral program would not be so helpful for us?
The way I see it: GDPR compliance (whatever that means) is more on 'how we use the tools', than 'what tools we use'.
Why I say this: for example, if you use a platform like Ghost, you don't need a cookie banner (Source: ghost.org/help/cookie-notice/ ). But if put something on your site that uses 3rd-party cookies (example, Google Analytics), you will need to have a cookie banner on your website, whatever the technology is in use (Ghost, WordPress, etc).
So, most of the tools for blogs/newsletters can be GDPR compliant or not. This is true for Ghost, beehiiv, WordPress, Substack, etc.
I'm from Portugal and I have been dealing with the GDPR mess since it came out. And I lost so much time trying to understand it, and I'm not sure I understand it yet.
But as an independent and small creator, my solution is using the least things possible with 3rd-party cookies.
This means I don't use Google Analytics, Google Fonts, Google Adsense, and so on.
Also, I'm using iubenda as a cookie banner for my site because I embed YT videos on articles, and that requires a cookie banner (at least, that's my understanding).
I did not understand your last question ('referral program would not be so helpful for us'). Can you clarify what that means?
@@thestackjunction Thank you very much for your help and answer! My second question was about to have a newsletter in a "small" language lik swedish. I'm thinking that referral program will not be so helpful for that? Any other thoughs for newsletter in small languages?
I think it depends on the niche.
For example if it's a newsletter about 'tech news', Sweden is still a big country and you can grow a newsletter to several thousands subs. So, referral can make a difference.
But if your newsletter is about something like 'miniature painting meet ups in Stockholm', referrals won't have a big impact as the potential audience is small.
Also, you can use 1Promoter, Sparkloop and other referral programs if you don't use beehiiv
Overall, I think referral programs make sense to use for newsletters with hardcore fans or after it achieves a certain size (a few thousand subs)
@@thestackjunction Great, thank you very much!
Is there a way to have table of contents functionality in beehiiv for a nwesletter? It helps when the post is too long.
I don't think it's possible to implement table of contents for content people read on the email client (reading the newsletter in the inbox).
But I think it should be possible if people read the content in the website (reading the newsletter in the website). However, I haven't tested this
@@thestackjunction Yes, I meant on the website only. I saw someone do that and realized that it is actually important when you're writing a long post.
I think you can do it by manually writing HTML in beehiiv. Yet, this is a boring process.
Look on the page below about how to turn headings into "links", then you need to create a List at the top of the article to work as the table of contents
www.sitepoint.com/community/t/how-to-make-h1-h2-etc-as-links/3004
@@thestackjunction Thanks, I'll try this.
"Such progress, brother! Congratulations…"
Thanks 😊
I put a lot of effort into the review videos (and I got help for this one). The other video (you rightly suggested improvements) is the podcast where things aren't as polished and videos come out more frequently
I cannot find anywhere to edit on ghost without no code and it is really frustrating. Maybe im
Missing something.
Thats why im looking at beehiiv.
Customization on Ghost is mostly done with code, and most times the easier solution is to use a new theme instead of coding
Would you still say ghost is better for blogging now?
Yes. Ghost is still better for blogging than beehiiv and that isn't likely to change soon
@@thestackjunctionwhat is it that they do better? I have a hard time understanding how it all works for blogging?
Think about Ghost as a mix of WordPress and Substack.
Ghost is less complicated than WP because the essential stuff is taken care, but Ghost is still open enough that if you want to make changes you can write code to make the changes (if needed).
Ghost also has some newsletter capabilities (like Substack). Yet, I think the newsletter capabilities of Ghost are only average.