Ghost 1.5.1 Released!

We are happy to announce that Ghost 1.5.1 is now available on Bitnami! Ghost is quickly becoming one of the most popular publishing platform with it's 100% open source tool that allows you to create your dream online publication with ease.
The new version of Ghost includes:

• New editor
• Refreshed UI
• New default theme design
• Night shift mode
• Publication icons
• And more!

If you already have a running version of Bitnami Ghost, you can update your application by following these simple steps:
1- First of all, make a backup of you Ghost content:
In your existing (pre v1.0.0) Ghost blog, navigate to YOURSITE/ghost/settings/labs/ (the settings->labs page in Ghost-Admin) and click on the Export button. It should look something like this:

This will download in your system your JSON export file that you need later. 2 - Launch a new Bitnami Ghost instance
3 - Import your content into your new Ghost instance:
On your new blog navigate to YOURSITE/ghost/#/settings/labs (the settings->labs page in Ghost-Admin), click Choose file and select the JSON export file created before from your system, then click on the Import button.

Please note that Ghost importer will not import themes. You could see a warning that your themes have not been imported, that is the normal behaviour, you can continue to the next step. 4 - Move your images You need to copy/move your images from your existing directory <ghost-dir>/htdocs/content/images to the new instance directory <ghost-dir>/htdocs/current/content/images. 5 - Move/upload your themes
Navigate to YOURSITE/ghost/#/settings/design (the Settings->Design page in Ghost Admin) then click Upload a Theme button and follow the instructions. Now you have you system fully migrated to the newest Ghost version!

Haven't tried Ghost yet? Not to fear! You can easily get started with Ghost by launching it in the cloud, as a Virtual Machine, or native installer.

New Ghost version 0.4.0 now available on Bitnami

We are happy to announce a new version of the Ghost blogging platform! The latest 0.4.0 version was released in Bitnami.

Ghost is a blogging platform with a simple, clean and focused user interface. Whereas other blogging platforms can also be extended as content management systems, Ghost stays true to its blogging roots and provides a great user experience for publishing. Bitnami Ghost provides a one-click install solution for Ghost. You can download installers for Windows, OS X or Linux, virtual machines or run your own server in the Amazon EC2 or Azure clouds

 Some of the most important features of Ghost 0.4.0 include:

Static pages: You can now toggle any post to be a "page.

Featured posts: You can now mark posts as featured and style them accordingly from your within your theme.

Sexy new loading bar:

Quick edit posts urls:

And many other changes.

Give it a try! You can launch a free cloud demo server in minutes and have a fully configured Ghost 0.4.0 instance to try.

Ghost - the New Blogging Platform - Now Available in BitNami

We are happy to announce that Ghost is now available in BitNami!

For those of you that are not familiar with Ghost, it is a Kickstarter crowd-funded blogging platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It is well designed, completely customizable and Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog with a simple, clean and focused user interface. It also has a smart writing screen. Markdown is presented on the left and a live preview is provided on the right. Ghost also includes a simplified, customizable analytics dashboard.

BitNami Ghost is a self-contained, easy to use distribution that makes it simple to get started with Ghost. To get started, you can download free, ready-to-run installers for Linux,Windows and Mac OS X, virtual machine images (VMs) and cloud images for the Amazon and Azure clouds.

If you just want to check out Ghost, you can instantly launch a free cloud demo server with the BitNami Cloud Launchpad by clicking the button below.

Thanks to the help of John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe, co-founders of Ghost, for their help with building the BitNami Ghost packages.

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