Best CMS Alternative to Wordpress?

[taowang]

I built a Moodle education website, but its SEO is very limited.

Now I need to build a blogging website to attract traffic to my Moodle website.

I know Wordpress might be the most popular one, but I also heard it has serious security issues (easy to be hacked?).

So I am looking for alternatives to Wordpress.

• It must have really good SEO.
• It must be very secure (at least more secure than Wordpress)
• It must support markdown.
• It must allow my users to sign up with emails or google oauth.
• It would be better if it has stripe integration.
• It would be nice if I do not need to install many plugins.

With these prerequisites considered, is Ghost my best option?

[humptydumpty]

Definitely, Ghost. I was saying that to myself after reading each of your bullet points. The features you get out of the box are exactly what you need to get a blog/community going with minimal effort (excluding the extra google oauth steps required).

@staff possible solution to have forum sections restricted to paying customers; Ghost (as SSO) + Discourse integration.

https://github.com/vikaspotluri123/discourse-on-ghost
https://github.vikaspotluri.me/discourse-on-ghost/

[jrl-abstract27]

@taowang definitely ghost the best option.

[taowang]

@humptydumpty

I just realized I need a multilingual feature, but ghost doesn't seem to have native support. I have to use a third party service:
https://ghost.org/docs/faq/translation/

In moodle, the multilingual feature is extremely good. I can use the multi-language content v2 plugin on moodle to create content in multiple languages. Moodle will only show the content in users' prefered language.

I can create the content using this syntax: {mlang en}English{mlang}{mlang zh_cn}中文{mlang}

I am not sure when ghost will have native support.

[humptydumpty]

@taowang I have no experience with multi-language sites. In case, you missed this last part from your link:

Note that the translate helper mentioned above doesn’t work for multi-language content sites, as its purpose is entirely different.

[luckow]

@taowang Perhaps this will help as a starting point: https://www.cms-garden.org/en