Ghost vs WordPress in 2026: Which Is Better for Technical Blogs?

Every technical blogger eventually faces this decision: Ghost or WordPress? WordPress powers 43% of the internet and has a plugin for everything. Ghost is the lean, fast alternative that was literally built for publishing. Both can be self-hosted. Both are open source. Both will run a perfectly good technical blog. I chose Ghost for byte-guard.net, and I've been running it in production for two weeks on a self-hosted Hetzner VPS . Before that, I spent time with WordPress on various projects. Thi