Hamed Pakdaman

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Hamed Pakdaman

Full-stack engineer, 10+ years building and scaling web apps. Creator of UnfoldCMS, an open-source Laravel CMS built for modern developer workflows.

267 posts

CMS Media Library Best Practices for 2026
CMS

CMS Media Library Best Practices for 2026

A practical guide to running a CMS media library at scale — format strategy, automatic WebP conversions, alt text, lazy loading vs fetchpriority, and storage planning, with UnfoldCMS as the disclosed worked example.

· 11 min read
Blog Comment Moderation: Spam, Trolls, and Sane Defaults
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Blog Comment Moderation: Spam, Trolls, and Sane Defaults

A practical guide to blog comment moderation: choosing between pre-approval, post-publish, and hybrid models, layering honeypots and rate limits against spam, capping threads at 3 levels, and knowing when to turn comments off — with UnfoldCMS as the worked example.

· 13 min read
How to Set Up 301 Redirects Without Losing SEO
CMS

How to Set Up 301 Redirects Without Losing SEO

A practical guide to 301 vs 302/307/308, building a redirect map before migrations, nginx and .htaccess examples, avoiding chains, and testing every redirect with curl.

· 13 min read
CMS Content Versioning: What to Look For in 2026
CMS

CMS Content Versioning: What to Look For in 2026

A clear breakdown of CMS content versioning: what it is, how it differs from draft/publish, which platforms ship it (Payload, Directus, Contentful), and what UnfoldCMS offers today.

· 12 min read
CMS Security in 2026: Why Your Platform Choice Matters
CMS

CMS Security in 2026: Why Your Platform Choice Matters

Here's the number that should change how you pick a CMS: 11,334 new vulnerabilities were disclosed in the WordPress ecosystem in 2025 — a 42% jump over 2024's 7,966. And here's the number nobody...

· 8 min read
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