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WordPress’s built-in content structure — title, body, categories, tags, featured image — covers the basics for most publishing use cases. When a publication needs richer, more structured content models — author bios with headshots and social links, event listings with dates and …
Paid memberships have become the dominant independent publishing business model. The newsletter-plus-paywall combination pioneered by platforms like …
The phrase “owned audience” appears often in publishing strategy conversations without always being defined clearly. It refers to an audience …
Contentful is one of the oldest and most established headless CMS platforms. Launched in 2013, it pioneered the API-first CMS model that the broader …
Cloudflare Pages is one of the best hosting targets for Hugo sites. It is fast, globally distributed, free for most publishing workloads, and …
Both Drupal and WordPress power large publishing operations. The New York Post, The Economist, and Condé Nast have used WordPress at enterprise scale. …
Email deliverability — whether your newsletter lands in the inbox or the spam folder — is determined by a combination of technical configuration, …
Drupal occupies a specific and durable niche in the publishing world. It is not the easiest CMS to get started with, and it is not trying to be. What …
Eleventy (11ty) is a JavaScript-based static site generator that has grown into one of the most flexible options in its category. Where Hugo makes …
Ghost and WordPress serve overlapping audiences — independent publishers, bloggers, journalists, and small editorial operations — but they were built …