Ghost vs. ManageWP

ManageWP

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ghost	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	Ghost is a CMS for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. Available open source and free (e.g. for blogging), it can also come with tools for business' content marketing.	$0
ManageWP	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	ManageWP is a WordPress management console that allows users to manage multiple WordPress sites with ease.	N/A

Pricing

Ghost

ManageWP

Editions & Modules

Ghost (community): $0
Starter: $11
per month 1 staff user, 500 members
Creator: $31
per month 2 staff users, 1000 members
Team: $63
per month 5 staff users, 1000 members
Business: $249
per month unlimited staff users, 10,000 members

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Ghost	ManageWP
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Starting is easy and free. Premium upgrades are there for those that need more. If you want to free up your time and let ManageWP do the heavy lifting - we are there for you with a number of automations (safe updates, automated backups, scheduled security and performance checks, etc.), site migration tools, website templates and more. Special bundles were built for agencies and companies creating affordable discounts for customers with large number of websites.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Ghost	ManageWP
Considered Both Products	Ghost MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Chose Ghost It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress. The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities. Incentivized Helpful?	ManageWP Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageWP ManageWP is the only website management product that we have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageWP I'm not sure there are other free options in this space. I haven't heard of any. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Williams President & CEO Chose ManageWP Jetpack is going to be a contender in the future, however, at this point in time they are missing some features that ManageWP includes and does very well. These include automatic backups and a robust migration module. Though the UI in Jetpack is a little cleaner and prettier, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageWP ManageWP is definitely the best in class product for WordPress website management. There are other tools such as InfiniteWP that do similar things, but don't have as complete an offering. Other options like WPEngine are also for hosting and we are not interested in that … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Heerema Director Chose ManageWP Prior to ManageWP, we utilized InfiniteWP, a free (with paid extensions), self-hosted alternative. We found the interface to be unwieldy, and the paid extension pricing to be a bit confusing. The headache of maintaining the software and server infrastructure to run the … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Ghost

ManageWP

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Ghost - Ratings	ManageWP 9.5 Ratings 16% above category average
Role-based user permissions	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Ghost - Ratings	ManageWP 10.0 Ratings 27% above category average
API	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Ghost - Ratings	ManageWP 8.2 Ratings 6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Admin section	00 Ratings	9.80 Ratings
Page templates	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Library of website themes	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Publishing workflow	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Ghost - Ratings	ManageWP 7.0 Ratings 5% below category average
SEO support	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Bulk management	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	00 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Community / comment management	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Ghost	ManageWP
Small Businesses	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10	Divi Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Ghost	ManageWP
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.6 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Ghost	ManageWP
Likelihood to Recommend	It is well suited for distributed writing and publishing with a subscription component Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review	It is well suited to anyone that has a Wordpress website, whether it be an individual or a company managing multiple clients sites, its an easy way to manage, maintain and keep your website running smoothly and secure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Creating a newsletter for web and email simultaneously Allowing for paid subscriptions Allowing content to be segmented by subscription type Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review	ManageWP consolidates important WordPress site management services into on dashboard. ManageWP makes backing up, cloning, and restoring websites so easy. ManageWP provides a simple, easy to use interface. Incentivized Matthew Lundh Cofounder Read full review
Cons	They wysiwig editor is missing critical functions like superscript and subscript The markdown complement has those features but it doesn’t integrate well with the wysiwig editor Footnoting is hard to do Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review	The reports could be prettier, more templates in order to avoid having to customize for each client so heavily. It would be nice to see if recommended plugin updates are actually production and not beta versions. Incentivized Gary Williams President & CEO Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It's very straightforward for basic use, but less you dig in more for advanced use. Seems like it would be approachable to the average person. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress. The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities. Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review	ManageWP is definitely the best in class product for WordPress website management. There are other tools such as InfiniteWP that do similar things, but don't have as complete an offering. Other options like WPEngine are also for hosting and we are not interested in that element. I think that ManageWP is the best tool out there for what it does. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Our business is totally built around this product It has allowed us to easily and quickly scale our free and (soon) our paywalled content Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review	Reduced update times - allows me to check for updates on all our sites once a week without spending countless time logging in and updating each one manually. Free backups - allows me to have redundant backups just in case other systems fail, without any effort. Free platform - many of the provided features are free, making it very useful for companies who want to keep costs low. Incentivized Darien Chaffart Associate Pastor Read full review
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