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The future of the CMS
Most CMSs have 3 big problems. First, they focus on managing your website, not your content. Second, they monopolize the presentation…

The blue-collar WordPress worker and the 2,500+ websites built to grow the CMS
I'm not foolish enough to think that the entirety of WordPress' growth is driven by our love for the software, but that we consultants are responsible for

“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity
Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed.

Drupal CMS 1.0 released
Drupal CMS 1.0 launches with AI agents, privacy tools, and pre-built recipes to help marketers build ambitious websites faster.

Why AT Protocol, and Where WordPress Ran Out of Road · The Butterfield Dispatch
The architecture call behind the rebuild: what a decade on a CMS taught me, and what I'm betting on instead.
The Decline of Drupal / How to Fix Drupal 8 – MikeSchinkel.com
Almost 4 years ago I wrote a controversial post entitled “17 Reasons WordPress is a Better CMS than Drupal” that caused me to be persona non grata among some of my prior Drupal friends.
Making django CMS as easy to install as WordPress
People can be quite snobbish about WordPress, just as they are about many successful things. But there’s a very good reason for WordPress’s tremendous success.
EmDash
The Astro-native CMS. A modern successor to WordPress with type-safe content, plugin extensibility, and portable deployment.
How to Build and Develop a Community from Scratch
Learn how to build and develop a community from scratch with these six top takeaways from CMX.
FAIR, WordPress, and Knowing When to Stop
Over the past year, we, Karim & Joost, have written and talked extensively about the challenges facing WordPress. We’ve been critical. At times, very critical. Of leadership, of governance, of the way decisions are made and enforced. We stand by that criticism. Matt’s way of operating has, in our view, been harmful. It has led […]

It's time to rebuild the web
The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

The Astro-native CMS for all your needs.
StudioCMS is the all-in-one content management solution for your next Astro project.

What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
Why Apple and Google are struggling to design simple software
Is Apple losing its crown as the champion of simplicity? Maybe. But for a very good reason.
Looking Back: oh, how much I’ve been wrong in the past
I’m starting to write this blog post while sitting in a room full of system administrators and system…