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shadcn ships 6-7 releases per month. Our CMS runs 51 components, 18 modified. The bi-weekly audit workflow that keeps our fork in sync with upstream without breaking — pin commits, track modifications, audit cadence, when to fork hard.
The agency case for shadcn-based CMSs. Per-client themes from one codebase via Tailwind v4 CSS variables. Plugin-bloat eliminated. Flat licensing vs per-site SaaS. Real 3-year cost math for 10 client sites.
Two years and 205 admin pages later: why shadcn/ui beat Radix Themes for a production CMS admin. The comparison most blog posts get wrong, the trade-offs we hit, when Radix Themes is the better pick.
Markdown stacks (Docusaurus, Astro Starlight, Nextra) vs CMS stacks (Mintlify, GitBook, ReadMe). The deciding question for 2026 docs tooling is not features — it is who edits. Dev-only teams pick markdown. Teams with non-dev editors pick CMS. Real pricing, real trade-offs.
Agency picker for managing 5-50 client sites in 2026. WordPress Multisite vs separate installs vs modern self-hosted CMS. Real ops cost over 5 years, plugin patching labour math, when migration pays back.
The hosting picker for headless CMS front-ends in 2026. Cloudflare Pages now wins on cost (unlimited bandwidth all tiers), Vercel still wins on Next.js DX (with a commercial-use ban on Hobby), Netlify got more expensive after April. Edge function performance compared, when each one fits.
11,334 WordPress vulnerabilities in 2025 (42% YoY). 91% from plugins. 5-hour median exploit window. Security plugins are firefighting a structural problem the plugin model created. Why agencies are migrating off WordPress, where they're going, when staying still makes sense.
Strapi is a serious CMS until the Node deployment ops surface (PM2, Docker, DB tuning, security patches) becomes the bottleneck. Honest migration paths to UnfoldCMS, Payload, Sanity, or flat-file. When to leave, when to stay, real cost math.
Step-by-step tutorial: Astro 5 + UnfoldCMS via the Content Layer API. Type-safe build-time fetching, Cloudflare Pages free-tier deploy, 90% less JavaScript than the Next.js equivalent. 30 minutes from git clone to live.
Honest 5-year TCO breakdown for self-hosted vs SaaS CMS with real 2026 pricing from Contentful, Sanity, Webflow, Storyblok, and current Hetzner/DigitalOcean VPS rates. SaaS rose 12.2% in 2025 (5x inflation). Migration break-even math, decision tree by team scale.
The honest CMS picker for indie SaaS founders shipping marketing sites, blogs, and docs on tight budgets. Four options compared on cost, speed-to-ship, editor UX, scale ceiling — flat-file Markdown, Statamic Solo, UnfoldCMS, Webflow.
When migrating off Contentful makes sense and when it doesn't. Replacement landscape (UnfoldCMS, Payload, Strapi, Directus, Sanity, flat-file). Honest 4-week migration plan, what you trade, hidden costs.