Hamed Pakdaman

CMS

7 Best Contentful Alternatives in 2026 (Honest Rankings)

A ranked, honest look at 7 Contentful alternatives — UnfoldCMS, Strapi, Sanity, Payload, Directus, Storyblok, and Hygraph — compared by hosting model, pricing, and API type.

Jun 12, 2026 · 11 min read

Self-Hosted CMS

shadcn CMS for Agencies: Why Client Handover Becomes Easy (2026)

The agency case for shadcn-based CMSs. Per-client themes from one codebase via Tailwind v4 CSS variables. Plugin-bloat eliminated. Flat licensing vs per-site SaaS. Real 3-year cost math for 10 client sites.

Jun 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Web Development

Why We Chose shadcn/ui Over Radix Themes for Our CMS Admin

Two years and 205 admin pages later: why shadcn/ui beat Radix Themes for a production CMS admin. The comparison most blog posts get wrong, the trade-offs we hit, when Radix Themes is the better pick.

Jun 10, 2026 · 9 min read

Web Development

Markdown vs CMS for Docs: When Each One Wins (2026)

Markdown stacks (Docusaurus, Astro Starlight, Nextra) vs CMS stacks (Mintlify, GitBook, ReadMe). The deciding question for 2026 docs tooling is not features — it is who edits. Dev-only teams pick markdown. Teams with non-dev editors pick CMS. Real pricing, real trade-offs.

Jun 9, 2026 · 9 min read

CMS

Multi-Site CMS for Agencies: One Install, 10 Client Sites (2026 Playbook)

Agency picker for managing 5-50 client sites in 2026. WordPress Multisite vs separate installs vs modern self-hosted CMS. Real ops cost over 5 years, plugin patching labour math, when migration pays back.

Jun 9, 2026 · 9 min read

CMS

WordPress Security in 2026: The Plugin CVE Reality (Why Agencies Are Leaving)

11,334 WordPress vulnerabilities in 2025 (42% YoY). 91% from plugins. 5-hour median exploit window. Security plugins are firefighting a structural problem the plugin model created. Why agencies are migrating off WordPress, where they're going, when staying still makes sense.

Jun 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Web Development

Build an Astro Content Site with UnfoldCMS in 30 Minutes

Step-by-step tutorial: Astro 5 + UnfoldCMS via the Content Layer API. Type-safe build-time fetching, Cloudflare Pages free-tier deploy, 90% less JavaScript than the Next.js equivalent. 30 minutes from git clone to live.

Jun 8, 2026 · 11 min read

CMS

Self-Hosted vs SaaS CMS: True 5-Year TCO Breakdown (2026)

Honest 5-year TCO breakdown for self-hosted vs SaaS CMS with real 2026 pricing from Contentful, Sanity, Webflow, Storyblok, and current Hetzner/DigitalOcean VPS rates. SaaS rose 12.2% in 2025 (5x inflation). Migration break-even math, decision tree by team scale.

Jun 8, 2026 · 10 min read

CMS

CMS for Indie SaaS Founders: 4 Honest Picks (2026)

The honest CMS picker for indie SaaS founders shipping marketing sites, blogs, and docs on tight budgets. Four options compared on cost, speed-to-ship, editor UX, scale ceiling — flat-file Markdown, Statamic Solo, UnfoldCMS, Webflow.

Jun 8, 2026 · 10 min read

CMS

Best Laravel CMS Options in 2026: 4 Serious Picks

Laravel CMS in 2026 is a real category with four genuinely different picks: UnfoldCMS, Statamic, OctoberCMS, and Filament-plus-custom-code. Honest comparison of stack, storage, admin design, and when each one wins.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Self-Hosted CMS

Open-Source CMS Built on shadcn/ui: What Source-Available Means

A shadcn-based CMS can ship under MIT (Payload), AGPL (Directus), or source-available (UnfoldCMS). Which license matters depends on whether you self-host, fork, redistribute, or run multi-tenant. The honest licensing picture, plus when each one fits.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Web Development

shadcn/ui in Production: 1 Year, 51 Components, 210 Admin Pages — Lessons

A year of building UnfoldCMS on shadcn/ui — 51 components, 210 admin pages, real customers. The architecture lessons that survived production: composition over configuration, owning the code, forms as primitives, tables as data.

Jun 8, 2026 · 11 min read