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DC.gov Beta Redesign Launches on Drupal 11
Proving that massive public sector ecosystems still run on traditional open source, the Washington D.C. government just launched its highly anticipated DC.gov beta redesign using Drupal 11. In an industry increasingly infatuated with flashier SaaS builders, this launch highlights why massive municipal and federal platforms stick with Drupal. When you are managing thousands of pages…
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WordPress Dropped with Brand New Core Media Tools
WordPress officially released version 7.0 this past week, bringing a massive upgrade to how the platform handles images natively. The biggest change is packed into Gutenberg—introducing a dedicated media editor modal that lets you crop, rotate, and tweak metadata right inside the block editor without jumping back to the media library. Plus, they’ve officially bumped…
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Cybersecurity: CISA Issues Warning on Active Joomla Exploits
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently added a maximum-severity flaw affecting a highly popular Joomla extension—the Joomla Content Editor (JCE)—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Tracked as a perfect 10/10 risk score, the bug allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass access controls, create rogue editor profiles, and execute malicious PHP backend code. Security…
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The Rise of “Composable” Tech Stacks
The traditional “all-in-one” CMS model is fading for mid-size and enterprise development teams. Instead of relying on a single platform to handle everything from layout design to database management, engineers are pivoting toward a “composable” architecture. This means stacking highly specialized APIs together: using a lightweight platform like Strapi or Contentful for data modeling, Stripe…
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The Future of AI-Powered Publishing
Marketing and branding teams are no longer choosing a CMS just for its text editor; they are selecting platforms based on their advanced, often AI, features. Rather than treating AI as an external copy-paste tool, modern platforms integrate large language models directly into the core workflow. This shift changes the CMS from a passive storage…
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Visualizing Modern CMS Architecture
The old-school debate between flexible, open-source platforms and rigid, expensive proprietary systems is officially over. Today, enterprise publishers are heavily shifting toward “Unified WordPress” or decoupled (headless) setups. This means the backend is used strictly for writing and content governance, while the public-facing frontend is handed off to fast, modern JavaScript frameworks. By isolating the…