I haven't tried Ghost, however, the fact of the matter remains is that just like Facebook, WordPress is basically an industry standard. Sure there are other social networks and CMS available, but for whatever reason, people just do not like change!

There will be the early adopters, the "cool kids" who want to be seen to be one of the first to use it sure. But then there's going to be those who have been using WordPress for years, have gotten used to their way of working and see switching to another CMS as a huge headache, not least with having to recreate their whole website on a new platform.

It's when you consider that your existing site relies on various plugins to function the way it does, especially for those using ecommerce plugins for example. That you begin to realise that Ghost is going to be fighting an uphill battle to persuade users to make the switch.

For new sites and hobby blogs, sure people will install it and give it a go and have a play around. I might even setup a test site myself. But as for long term usage and adoption of the platform, they really need to ensure that there are a ready supply of free themes and plugins available to give people options. Not everyone trying it out will be a CSS or PHP master capable of shaping and developing the site to fit how they want it to work. So they will be holey reliant on others to create and keep updated a ready supply of themes and plugins to ensure that Ghost does what they currently get from WordPress.

For me, it wont be a case of seeing where they can take the CMS, but who they can convince to adopt their CMS and port over their themes and plugins to work on Ghost. If they could get a Woothemes, Studio Press or Elegant Themes, etc to begin making themes for them, even if they only released premium themes. This would help the CMS to grown and increase adoption. Better still is if the likes of Jigoshop and WooCommerce were ported over for instance.

As I said, I've never used it so I'm not against it succeeding. WordPress and B2evolution were spawned from the b2 blogging platform originally. So who knows where Ghosts future lies...