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

Statamic vs WordPress in 2026: An Honest Comparison

An honest, no-horse-in-the-race comparison of Statamic and WordPress in 2026: architecture, templating, plugins, security, licensing, and hosting, with a verdict for each use case.

Aug 2, 2026 · 13 min read

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CMS User Roles and Permissions: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to CMS user roles and permissions: role archetypes, module-level vs action-level access, multi-author workflows without approval chains, and onboarding/offboarding checklists.

Aug 2, 2026 · 14 min read

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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.

Aug 2, 2026 · 11 min read

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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.

Aug 2, 2026 · 13 min read

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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.

Aug 2, 2026 · 13 min read

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XML Sitemaps in 2026: What Still Matters (and What Doesn't)

A sitemap is a discovery aid, not a ranking factor. Here's which fields Google still reads in 2026, what URLs belong in the file, and the mistakes to avoid.

Aug 2, 2026 · 12 min read

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Content Modeling Basics: Structure Your CMS Before It Structures You

A practical guide to content modeling: types, fields, relationships, and URL design — plus the warning signs your model is already wrong.

Aug 2, 2026 · 13 min read

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Site Search in a CMS: From LIKE Queries to Full-Text

A practical ladder for building CMS site search: SQL LIKE, database full-text, dedicated engines, and SaaS — with honest advice on when each tier is worth it.

Aug 2, 2026 · 14 min read

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CMS Caching Explained: Page, Object, and Browser Caching

A practical guide to CMS caching: how page, object, opcode, browser, and CDN caches work together, what TTLs to use, and the invalidation pitfalls that bite every site.

Aug 2, 2026 · 13 min read

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Best Free Headless CMS in 2026

'Free headless CMS' has a catch — SaaS free tiers meter you. Here are the genuinely free, self-hostable options in 2026, and where the fine print hides.

Aug 2, 2026 · 6 min read