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Why this blog runs on EmDash, and why nothing else of mine does yet
This blog runs on EmDash, the free, open-source content management system Cloudflare released as a "spiritual successor" to WordPress. It's built on…
FrontEdit vs Frontpen vs LiveCMS: Picking a WordPress Front-End Editor by Stack
Originally published at livecms.io . Updated October 8, 2026. Disclosure: I build LiveCMS. If you build WordPress sites for clients, you've had this…
A headless CMS that only gives you an API is only half a product
This is how most headless CMS projects go for me. I pick a tool, set up my content models, and get an API. Nice. Then I sit down to build the actual…
A Deactivated User With a Live Token: Reading Concrete CMS CVE-2026-85387 as a Revocation Gap
A Deactivated User With a Live Token: Reading Concrete CMS CVE-2026-85387 as a Revocation Gap Revocation is the part of identity that nobody tests I…
What shipping Sanity projects taught us about content models that survive redesigns
Across our Sanity projects, the most reusable technical decision was not a clever GROQ query. It was defining the content before defining the pages.…
What two Contentful builds taught us about content models and publishing boundaries
For Addiction Education Society (AES), we modeled resources, stories, and core pages in Contentful so staff could update the public site without dev…
CMS Component Migrations Are Production Changes: Lessons from CometChat
Replacing a component across a CMS-driven website sounds like a frontend task until you encounter a published page with someone else's unpublished e…
Never Ship a Blog Post Without a Featured Image Again
The Bug Nobody Noticed for Weeks Our blog listing page was silently broken for weeks. Cards rendered with blank image slots, gray rectangles where f…
Connect Claude to Your CMS: A 5-Minute Guide to the Cosmic MCP Server
If you already run Claude every day, the next obvious question is whether it can touch your content. Not summarize it. Not draft copy in a chat wind…
Mastering Webhooks in SitecoreAI: The Complete Enterprise Integration Blueprint (2026 Edition)
SitecoreAI, the unified platform Sitecore launched at Symposium 2025 as the successor to XM Cloud, keeps the same event-driven integration model tha…
Installing Ghost Blogging Platform on Ubuntu 24.04
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform with built-in newsletters, memberships, subscriptions, ActivityPub federation, and Tinybird-powered web…
Webhooks and on-demand revalidation: keep your headless site fresh without full rebuilds
Originally published on nomacms.com . I work on NomaCMS . Static and ISR sites are fast because they cache content. That same cache is why your home…
Astro Server Islands: Keep Pages Fast Without Giving Up Interactivity
Most content sites do not need a full SPA. They need fast HTML first, then a small amount of JavaScript for carousels, comments, or filters. That is…
5 Strapi Alternatives Developers Are Actually Switching To in 2026
For years, Strapi was the answer. Need a headless CMS? Open source, self-hosted, developer-first. Done. That's not true anymore. In 2026, developers…
Choosing a headless CMS
A headless CMS separates where content is edited from where it's displayed. Editors manage content in a friendly interface; your front end pulls it…
5 questions for your next platform evaluation 🏗️
We often spend forty-five minutes debating a single CMS while ignoring the three hundred unmanaged applications running on production hotfixes and 2…
Building a typed CMS for business data with PHP, OpenAPI, and MCP
In my previous article, I introduced the NeNe series: a family of small, self-hosted business tools for teams operating in Japan. Previous article:…
Payload v4: every block gets its own TypeScript interface (hashed on collision)
A nice quality-of-life change in Payload v4's type generation. Previously, a block only got its own TypeScript interface if you set interfaceName .…
Why We Don't Call Cosmic an "AI CMS"
A new report from WordPress VIP landed on Hacker News this week. The headline: 60% of US consumers say seeing 'AI' in brand messaging makes them les…
Is There a CMS Built with shadcn/ui? Yes — UnfoldCMS
📝 Originally published on unfoldcms.com — reposted here for the DEV community. (I work on UnfoldCMS.) Search "is there a CMS built with shadcn/ui" a…
Self-Hosted CMS Backup Strategy: Practical Guide 2026
📝 Originally published on unfoldcms.com — reposted here for the DEV community. (I work on UnfoldCMS.) TL;DR: A self-hosted CMS without a tested back…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs 4.6: What Changed and Which Should You Use?
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 4.6 in February 2026, roughly five months after Sonnet 4.5 launched in September 2025. Both carry the same API prici…
We built MDCMS, a Markdown-first CMS for teams using AI agents
Working with Markdown files for content is super convenient. As a developer, it is hard not to like it. Content is just files. You can search it, di…
The Best Next.js SaaS Starter Kits with a Built-in CMS (2026)
It's month two of your SaaS. Your co-founder pings you on Slack: "Can we change the hero headline? I think it's confusing." You open the repo, edit…
Building a standalone CMS admin with Hono and vanilla CSS glassmorphism
For a while the Orbiter admin lived inside the Astro integration. It was convenient — one package, one deploy, no extra process to manage. It was al…
How to Build a React Blog with Next.js and Cosmic
Building a blog with React and Next.js is one of the most common use cases for modern web development. But where you store and manage your content m…
MCP vs Agent Skills: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need?
Originally published at cosmicjs.com Two terms keep coming up in every AI developer conversation right now: MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Agent S…
What Agent-Native Means for Your Content Infrastructure
"Agent-native" is being claimed by a lot of companies right now. Here's what it actually means at the content infrastructure layer — where agents re…