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An honest, no-horse-in-the-race comparison of Statamic and WordPress in 2026: architecture, templating, plugins, security, licensing, and hosting, with a verdict for each use case.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.