one of the things that makes ghost great is it's almost forced simplicity. However, with that comes a bit of rigidity. If you want something more than the provided simplicity, you might find your self pulling your hair out. Search is one of the thing that is lacking from the default ghost set up. The last incarnation of my blog had everything indexed in a Xapian search index. I really wanted to bring back a local search index. Luckily, in the 0.5.x series, they pulled some string so that you can use ghost as a plain npm module. This means you can build your own app around ghost. This should make search possible.

Xapian is a search

t has been about 3 years since I launched my blog. At the time the tech was pretty interesting. It was a Django project on mongrel2 app server backed by ZeroMQ and xapian as the search engine. I built out a modular Web UI with a WYSIWYG editor using mootools. But it was rather clunky in how it actually generated HTML and usually required some manual tweaking.

Out With The Old

The WYSIWYG Editor was probably the biggest problem. It took serious liberties in cleaning the HTML and usually resulted in me editing the code by hand in the end. Interesting code blocks with highlighting was a 3 step process and was almost always formatted wrong.

Managing Images was