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.

345 posts

CMS

Best CMS for Small Business in 2026 (Simple, Cheap, Fast)

A small business needs a website that works, not a content platform with a learning curve. You're the owner, the marketer, and often the one updating the hours on the contact page — you don't have a...

Sep 1, 2026 · 9 min read

CMS

5 Best Flat-File CMS Options in 2026 (No Database Needed)

A flat-file CMS stores your content as files on disk — Markdown, YAML, sometimes plain text — instead of in a database. No MySQL, no Postgres, no SELECT queries. To back up your whole site you copy a...

Sep 1, 2026 · 8 min read

CMS

Best CMS for Marketing Teams in 2026 (Without Dev Tickets)

Marketing teams and engineering teams want opposite things from a CMS, and most CMS choices quietly pick a side. Marketers want to publish a page, tweak a headline, and launch a campaign without...

Aug 31, 2026 · 9 min read

CMS

Best CMS for SEO in 2026 (Real Features, Not Buzzwords)

Every CMS claims to be "SEO-friendly." Almost none of them explain what that means, because "SEO-friendly" is marketing, not a feature. The CMS doesn't rank your site — your...

Aug 31, 2026 · 9 min read

CMS

CMS vs Static Site Generator: How to Choose in 2026

"Should I use a CMS or a static site generator?" is one of those questions that sounds like a choice and mostly isn't. The honest answer is that they solve different problems, they often...

Aug 30, 2026 · 8 min read

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Best CMS for Startups in 2026 (Cheap, Fast, No Lock-In)

Startups pick a CMS at the worst possible moment — early, under time pressure, with no idea how big they'll get. The choice feels small ("we just need a blog and a few pages") but it...

Aug 30, 2026 · 9 min read

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Best CMS for Landing Pages in 2026 (Fast & Section-Based)

Landing pages have one job: convert. Every extra second of load time, every layout you can't control, every time you have to wait on a developer to change a headline — that's conversion leaking out....

Aug 29, 2026 · 9 min read

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Best CMS for a Portfolio Site in 2026 (Developer & Designer)

A portfolio is the one site where the medium is the message. If you're a developer or designer, the site that shows your work is also a sample of your work. So the last thing you want is a bloated...

Aug 29, 2026 · 9 min read

Web Development

Best CMS for SolidJS in 2026 (Headless, REST & GraphQL)

SolidJS gives you React-like components with fine-grained reactivity and no virtual DOM — signals update exactly the DOM nodes that changed, nothing more. It's fast, it's small, and it's a genuinely...

Aug 28, 2026 · 8 min read

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7 Best Hygraph Alternatives in 2026 (Self-Hosted & Cheaper)

Hygraph (the CMS formerly known as GraphCMS) does one thing better than almost anyone: GraphQL federation across many content sources. But that strength comes with a bill that grows with every API...

Aug 28, 2026 · 10 min read