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What's New in jekcms — August 2026: Memberships, Migration & Integrations
A big cycle: turn readers into members with members-only and paid content plus passwordless sign-in, bring your ar…
jekcms 2.43 — Offline Docs, Sample Content, and a Hardening Pass
The 2.42–2.43 cycle focused on the first hour and the long run: full documentation now ships inside the package, a…
What's New in jekcms — July 2026
Stories on your front page, licenses you can move and upgrade yourself, a site-wide SEO hardening pass, and a setu…
What's New in jekcms — June 2026
A round-up of everything we shipped this cycle: a new Year Updater for evergreen content, a unified theme catalog,…
jekcms 2.3.0 — Reliability, Security & Always-On Delivery
What 2.3.0 changes: two-factor login on every site, automatic zero-downtime deploys, a long-standing SEO fix, and …
jekcms 2.0.1 — A Major Admin Panel Refresh
jekcms 2.0.1 rebuilt the admin design language, added draft autosave and anonymous preview links, brought word-lev…
JekCMS v1.5.0: Duplicate Prevention, Smart Thumbnails & Admin Tools
Version 1.5.0 adds automatic duplicate post detection across all API webhooks, a built-in duplicate finder tool in…
jekcms v1.4.0: SEO Overhaul, Content Optimizer, Breadcrumbs & Table of Contents
Version 1.4.0 is a SEO-focused release: standardized meta/Open Graph/Schema.org output, automatic breadcrumbs and …
Introducing the Theme Customizer: Restyle Your Site Without Touching a File
The Theme Customizer is jekcms's schema-driven styling panel: the active theme declares its options, the customize…
How We Run 14 Sites on One jekcms Codebase
Fourteen live sites, one Git repo: shared core, isolated databases, rsync without --delete, an SSH ban story, and …
Debugging JekCMS: Error Logs, Xdebug, and Profiling
PHP error_log configuration, Xdebug with VS Code, step debugging, a simple pattern for logging slow queries, and t…
Content Strategy for Small Business Blogs
Why small businesses need blogs, how to create a content calendar, pillar vs cluster content, and measuring ROI wi…
JekCMS Theme Development: From HTML to PHP
The complete guide to converting an HTML template into a JekCMS theme — template hierarchy, partials, template tag…
Email Newsletters in jekcms: The Built-in Subscriber and Digest System
jekcms ships its own newsletter plugin -- subscriber list, double opt-in, SMTP or mail() sending, and an automated…
CDN Integration: Cloudflare and JekCMS Best Practices
Cloudflare setup, page rules for admin bypass, hardened Real IP restoration, and what to expect from putting a CDN…
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