Ghost
Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content.
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Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content.
Categories: CMS, Blogs
Quick facts
Detection methodology for CMS
For content management systems we lean on the most stable signals each platform leaves behind: the `<meta name="generator">` tag, asset URL prefixes (`/wp-content/`, `/sites/default/files/`, `/cdn.shopify.com/`), distinctive cookie namespaces (`wordpress_*`, `_shopify_*`, `Drupal.*`) and admin-route signatures (`/wp-admin/`, `/user/login`). When the visible site is a JavaScript framework with a headless CMS underneath, we surface the CMS SDK from the bundle (`@sanity/client`, `contentful`, `@storyblok/react`) — the fingerprint that survives even when the HTML carries no traditional CMS markers.
How we detect Ghost
Each signal alone is rarely conclusive — Sourcemap Explorer cross-references all of them and weights by confidence. You can reproduce any of these checks yourself in Chrome DevTools.
Server-side fingerprint: the response header reveals the technology behind the page. Visible in DevTools → Network → response headers.
X-Ghost-Cache-Status:
<meta> tag injected into the document. Visible by viewing the page source.
<meta name="generator" content="Ghost(?:\s([\d.]+))?">
Implies
When Ghostis detected, Sourcemap Explorer also marks the following technologies as present (Wappalyzer's implies graph).
FAQ
How do I check if a website is using Ghost?
Open the page in Chrome, click the Sourcemap Explorer toolbar icon, and read the Stack tab. The popup matches Ghost's fingerprint signals (response headers, asset URL prefixes, runtime globals, sourcemap paths) and flags it whenever any combination is found. The same checks can be reproduced manually in DevTools — see the "How we detect" section above.
What Ghost version can Sourcemap Explorer detect?
Ghost ships as a hosted cms rather than a bundled npm package, so version-specific detection isn't always possible. Where the platform leaks a version in response headers (`X-Powered-By`, `Server`, generator meta tags) we surface it; otherwise we report presence only.
Where can I read more about Ghost?
Official site: https://ghost.org. For Sourcemap Explorer's detection guide, see the deep-dive link below or the related guides in the cross-link section.
Keep reading on Sourcemap Explorer
Practical guides
Detection deep dives
Alternative tools
Detected by Sourcemap Explorer
Open the popup on any page running Ghostand you'll see the exact version pulled from the bundled package.json when sourcemaps are exposed.