Ghost

Overview

Ghost is a very robust CMS (Content Management System) that competes with more established tools on the market, such as Drupal and even WordPress.

Support for using Markdown is excellent, of course, like almost all tools of this type, there are some compatibility issues with certain elements.

Ghost also has a real-time editor that displays the converted Markdown formatting as you type.

The application also offers the option to copy and paste your Markdown-formatted content directly into the program.

Visit the Ghost official website at https://ghost.org/.

Ghost Markdown Support

In Table 1.1 you can see the Markdown elements compatible with Ghost.

Element	Support	Information
Titles	Yes
Paragraphs	Yes
Line breaks	Yes	The backslash \ is an option to break the line in Ghost, you can use it instead of the white spaces to the right of the content.
Bold	Yes
Italic	Yes
Blockquote	Partial	Unfortunately the nested blockquotes is not supported in Ghost.
Ordered lists	Partial	With partial support for creating lists, Ghost does not properly format nested lists.
Unordered lists	Partial	The same problem as above, nested lists are not supported by the tool.
Code	Yes
Horizontal lines	Yes
Links	Yes
Images	Yes
Tables	No
Fenced code blocks	Yes	It is possible to highlight the code according to the block's programming language.
Footnotes	Yes
Title Id	Partial	Ghost automatically generates title IDs, it is not possible for the user to create a custom id.
Definition lists	No
Strikethrough	Yes
Task lists	No
Emoji (copy and paste)	Unknown
Emoji (access codes)	Unknown
automatic URL Link	Yes
Disable automatic link from URL	Yes
HTML	Yes

Additional Markdown Elements

Ghost provides compatibility with more unknown Markdown elements.

In Table 1.2 these elements and their syntax are presented.

Element	Markdown	Output
Subscript	H~2~O	H2O
Superscript	X^2^	X2

See also

Using Markdown in Ghost