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Content management systems, comparisons, and platform insights
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Custom content types mean different things in different CMSes. Here are the 3 levels of support, when you really need a type builder, and how to avoid overbuying.
Page builders are bloated and lock you in. Here's how to ship landing pages with a CMS and no builder: template in code, content in the CMS, edit copy without deploying.
The blog and the email list usually live in different tools, run by different logins, and drift apart within a quarter. A post goes out, the newsletter forgets it. A subscriber signs up on the site,...
A startup's CMS decision usually happens in the worst possible week: two days before launch, when someone realizes the marketing site, the blog, and the docs all need a home and nobody budgeted for...
An agency running 20 client sites on SaaS subscriptions carries a strange liability: every client dashboard advertises someone else's product. The invoice says your agency. The login screen says...
Docker turned self-hosting from "follow a 40-step wiki page" into "run one file." For a CMS, that's the difference between an afternoon of PHP extension debugging and a working...
The Monthly Fee Trap Every Freelancer Knows You build a website for a client, hand it over, and six months later you're still paying $30/month for a CMS they log into twice a year to change their...
Three months ago I shipped the first version of UnfoldCMS. Here's what happened, what didn't, and what I'm working on next. What Month 3 Actually Looked Like I set aggressive content targets...
Most CMS buying decisions are made by developers. That's a problem — because the people who use a CMS every day are content editors, marketing managers, and SEO specialists who've never written a...
Here's the number that should change how you pick a CMS: 11,334 new vulnerabilities were disclosed in the WordPress ecosystem in 2025 — a 42% jump over 2024's 7,966. And here's the number nobody...
A clear breakdown of CMS content versioning: what it is, how it differs from draft/publish, which platforms ship it (Payload, Directus, Contentful), and what UnfoldCMS offers today.
An honest side-by-side comparison of UnfoldCMS and Statamic — pricing models, admin UI, REST API, storage, and content modeling — to help PHP developers choose the right CMS in 2026.