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A third-party comparison of Strapi and Directus across data modeling, admin UX, APIs, permissions, self-host ops, cloud, extensions, upgrades, and licensing — with a clear verdict per use case.
We deployed both, broke both, and paid both sets of bills. Here's where Ghost wins, where WordPress wins, and how to pick based on what your blog actually needs.
WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress are different products, and many site owners don't know which one they're on. This guide explains the difference, why people leave, and the two migration paths out.
A practical guide to migrating a Ghost blog to a self-hosted CMS: what's in the export, how to map posts/tags/authors, redirect and subscriber handoff strategy, and why paid newsletter businesses should probably stay on Ghost.
A practical guide to leaving Squarespace for a self-hosted CMS: what the XML export covers (and misses), a 10-step migration plan, 301 redirect strategy, and a Squarespace vs self-hosted cost table.
Payload v3 welded the CMS to Next.js.
A developer-focused comparison of 7 Wix alternatives — UnfoldCMS, WordPress, Webflow, Astro, Ghost, Framer, and Next.js — scored on code access, data export, hosting control, and performance headroom.
Per-seat pricing, hosted-only infrastructure, and visual-editor lock-in push teams off Storyblok. We compare 7 alternatives — UnfoldCMS, Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, Directus, Prismic, Builder.io — and say honestly when staying is the right call.
A fair, developer-to-developer comparison of seven Ghost alternatives in 2026 — UnfoldCMS, WordPress, Substack, beehiiv, Hugo, Statamic, and Micro.blog — with a pricing/hosting table and an honest case for when Ghost is still the best choice.
Teams leave Webflow over pricing, CMS item limits, and lock-in. We compare 7 alternatives — UnfoldCMS, WordPress, Ghost, Framer, Astro + headless, Squarespace, Statamic — on the four things that matter.
An honest developer-to-developer comparison of flat-file CMS (Grav, Kirby, Statamic) and database CMS (WordPress, UnfoldCMS, Ghost) across versioning, querying, editing, and hosting — with a 5-step checklist to pick the right one.
A practical checklist of the 10 SEO features a CMS should ship out of the box in 2026 — from per-page meta and redirect management to JSON-LD and llms.txt — with a 15-minute test you can run on any system.