# Ghost vs WordPress (slim)

> WordPress scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-wordpress.md (~2,000 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-wordpress.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-wordpress
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

WordPress scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do cms content.

- Ghost: C 58.3, rank #404 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost.min.md
- WordPress: B 64.8, rank #249 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wordpress.min.md
- Ghost, good for A publication, blog or newsletter where an agent drafts posts and a person or a higher role publishes.
- WordPress, good for Sites that already run WordPress, where an agent drafts posts and uploads media under a Contributor or Author account and a person publishes. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 65 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 69; Security & auth, 62 against 56; Payments & pricing, 60 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Ghost | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ghost | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ghost Foundation | WordPress.org (open-source project) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | MIT, copyright Ghost Foundation. Ghost(Pro) is a paid hosting service under the Ghost Foundation's terms | GPL-2.0-or-later. The MCP Adapter plugin is GPL-2.0-or-later too |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 56k stars, 24k npm/wk | 21k stars |