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Content management systems, comparisons, and platform insights
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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.
A ranked, honest comparison of 7 Sanity alternatives — UnfoldCMS, Payload, Strapi, Directus, Contentful, Storyblok, and Decap — focused on data ownership, pricing model, and query API.
llms.txt is a proposed markdown index at your site root that tells AI systems which pages matter. This post covers the llmstxt.org spec, llms.txt vs llms-full.txt, the unproven-adoption debate, and how UnfoldCMS auto-generates both files.
Tired of PM2, Docker, and Strapi's memory appetite? We rank 7 alternatives — UnfoldCMS, Directus, Payload, Sanity, Contentful, Ghost, and KeystoneJS — by runtime, hosting cost, and upgrade pain.
A ranked, honest look at 7 Contentful alternatives — UnfoldCMS, Strapi, Sanity, Payload, Directus, Storyblok, and Hygraph — compared by hosting model, pricing, and API type.
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.
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.
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.