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# Moving to Ghost v2
- URL: https://connortumbleson.com/2018/08/26/moving-to-ghost-v2/
- Published: 2018-08-26T22:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-04T11:44:03.000Z
- Description: Ghost v2 is out with features and changes. How does blog software evolve throughout the years?
- Author: Connor Tumbleson
- Tags: Ghost Blog

![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1524168948265-8f79ad8d4e33?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=80&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&w=1080&fit=max&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjExNzczfQ&s=75aa0280889a20ba190107ada8a2b785)

Photo by [Ash Edmonds](https://unsplash.com/@badashphotos?utm%5Fsource=ghost&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=api-credit) / [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm%5Fsource=ghost&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=api-credit)

I started this blog on Wordpress nearly 10 years ago. It was started in August in 2009 and has evolved a few times. A big step today was the upgrade to Ghost v2\. While the [release notes](https://blog.ghost.org/2-0/?ref=connortumbleson.com) show off the feature changes, this blog serves as a tiny reminder that things are always evolving.

WordPress used to be the defacto blogging software, but today WordPress runs a scary amount of the web. The drive to never break anything has given WordPress a large market share. You can install a 2 year old plugin on a current WordPress install and it will probably work. It may throw some warnings in [developer mode](https://connortumbleson.com/2018/03/11/the-internals-of-a-premium-wordpress-theme-gonzo/), but the production version of that plugin will still operate. Without forced change, WordPress has gone from a slim blogging tool to a full blown e-commerce landing page website starter kit. 

WordPress simply was not for me anymore. So I moved to Ghost, then Ghost started looking a bit dated compared to the ever popular Medium.com. Individual bloggers to large corporations had blogs there, but due to the closed source feel of it - I stayed with Ghost.

Ghost hit v1.0 and added some cool features, but broke a good deal of things. A requirement on some node CLI tool to install/update was proving to be difficult to run on a server setup that I thought was fairly common. It took some hacking of the script and my server with 3 different Ghost blogs was up and running. I reported a [bug](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/issues/388?ref=connortumbleson.com) and recently saw [another](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/issues/745?ref=connortumbleson.com) reported with a similar problem, for these reasons I feared the next upgrade. 

Breaking things though is how you grow without technical debt and Ghost is free. If I have to spend a few hours every few months to fix something, that isn't too bad. I cannot complain given how I don't pay for this software, so I'm happy reporting a bug/feature and hacking scripts so they work for myself. 

Now Ghost v2 is out and it launched with a new editor & allowed native spell check to work. This editor reminds me of Medium.com editor along with the upcoming [Wordpress 5.0 - Gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/?ref=connortumbleson.com) editor. The world is moving towards "block" based writing, where text is supplemented with interactive elements.

So to end this post, I picked a random Instagram image of mine and dropped the link below. Ghost will do the rest and display it, but now I've placed a dependency on a service that may not be around in a few years.

> [Just another day on the water. #hurricaneseason #boat](https://www.instagram.com/p/BjVQTTIAIZp/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed)
> 
> A post shared by [ Connor Tumbleson](https://www.instagram.com/ibotpeaches/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed) (@ibotpeaches) on May 28, 2018 at 12:01pm PDT