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Vendor widget APIs limit what you can change in a CMS admin. A shadcn-based admin lets you fork any file and modify it like any code in your repo. Why fork-and-modify wins over 12 months, and where vendor widgets are still the right pick.
Strapi is the most popular self-hosted headless CMS. UnfoldCMS is the only one with admin built on shadcn/ui. Honest comparison on stack, hosting, plugins, licensing, when each one fits.
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.
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.
A shadcn dashboard template ships the visible part of a CMS in 10 minutes. The next 35-50 days are spent building everything you don't see — auth, roles, media, scheduler, SEO. Honest scope, shortest pragmatic path, when to bail on the DIY route.
Step-by-step tutorial: spin up a working blog CMS with Next.js front-end and shadcn/ui admin in 30 minutes. No Docker, no cloud account, just PHP + Node + MySQL. Real admin (51 shadcn components, 205 pages), real public API.
UnfoldCMS and Payload share an audience and almost nothing else. UnfoldCMS is a Laravel monolith with admin built on shadcn/ui. Payload is headless Node.js. Side-by-side on architecture, stack, hosting, pricing — and where each one wins.
Honest ranking of 7 CMS options for shadcn/ui projects. Only one is built fully on shadcn — the rest are headless with bring-your-own-shadcn front-ends, or admin templates without CMS guts.
The direct answer to 'is there a CMS built with shadcn/ui' — a production CMS using 51 real shadcn components across 205 admin pages, with three themes from one codebase.
How to handle Jalali (Solar Hijri) and Hijri (Islamic) calendars in a Laravel app using MultiCarbon — an open-source package that extends Carbon directly, so every Carbon method keeps working.
I spent two months trying to build a CMS on top of FilamentPHP. Here's what I learned about the difference between admin-panel frameworks and CMSes.
The new /api/v1/* namespace ships in Core. Public reads, authenticated user endpoints, admin CRUD, outgoing signed webhooks. Built for Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, and mobile apps.