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Both Drupal and WordPress power large publishing operations. The New York Post, The Economist, and Condé Nast have used WordPress at enterprise scale. The Economist, Reuters, and major government and academic publishers have built on Drupal. Saying one is categorically superior …
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 …
Hugo is fast, flexible, and opinionated in all the right ways — but it ships without built-in search. Since Hugo generates a static site, there is no …
Taxonomies are Hugo’s system for classifying and grouping content. Used well, they provide the structural backbone of a publishing site — the …
Hugo archetypes are content templates that pre-populate frontmatter when you create new content with hugo new. They are a small feature with a …
Hugo has a built-in image processing pipeline that handles resizing, format conversion, and optimization at build time — no external service, no …
Hugo partials are reusable template fragments — the building blocks of a maintainable Hugo theme. Any piece of HTML that appears in more than one …