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Welcome to the Ghost Github wiki! There's tons of documentation here on the wiki pertaining to the development, structure and functioning of Ghost. If you don't find the info you're looking for below, then it may be hiding somewhere in the list of pages or in the Ghost Guide.

If you really can't find what you're looking for, then please drop us a note on the Ghost forum, where the Ghost staff & community are all on hand to answer your queries.

If you find a bug, please report it here on Github by creating a new issue.

What is this Ghost thing?

Ghost is a free, open and simple blogging platform. It aims to enable digital publishing for the masses, and it's built in Node.js.

You can find out more by taking a look at our Roadmap or the planned features listing. Alternatively, take a look at the features page on our community site, or check out the Ghost Guide.

How do I start contributing?

The following documents are intended to provide all the information you need for working with the Ghost code base.

• Contributing Guide
• Code standards
• Git workflow
• Grunt Toolkit
• Intro to the code base
• Tech architecture vision
• Functional testing with PhantomJS and CasperJS

Code / Internal API documentation

• Widget Development
• Using Modals
• Using Notifications
• Importing from other blogs

How do I create themes or plugins?

Get started with Ghost themes by reading the theme documentation. The plugin API is not yet ready, we'll add the documentation here once we've finalised the API.