Celil Uyanıkoğlu
Computer engineer · creator of jekcms
Computer engineer with 25+ years in IT. He builds jekcms and runs his own network of content sites on it — every guide published here is tried on those live installs first.
58 posts · writing since 2025
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Rate Limiting and Brute Force Protection in JekCMS
How JekCMS tracks failed login attempts and automatically blocks abusive IPs to stop brute force attacks — no Redis, memcached, or external dependency
Building a Portfolio Site with the Personal Theme
How to turn the JekCMS Personal theme into a developer portfolio with project showcase, skills timeline, dark mode, and a 96 PageSpeed score.
jekcms 1.5.3: Auto-Seed Settings, Core Web Vitals, Update System & SEO Hardening
1.5.3 is a focused reliability release: settings that seed themselves on first load, first-image LCP eager loading and CLS dimensions across every the
Multilingual SEO: The hreflang and Canonical Strategy We Rebuilt After an 87-Page Failure
All 87 of our docs pages declared the same two hreflang URLs, so Google ignored the lot. The path-derived fix, localized TR slugs, x-default and ?lang
jekcms Doesn't Have Shortcodes — Here's What You Get Instead
jekcms has no [shortcode] parser, no ShortcodeParser class, and no bracket syntax anywhere in the editor. That's a deliberate gap, not a missing featu
JekCMS Webhook Security: HMAC Signing and Verification in PHP
A practical guide to webhook security in JekCMS: how the built-in HMAC-SHA256 signature check works, why hash_equals matters, and how to add optional
Image Lazy Loading and CLS Prevention: A Practical Performance Guide
How jekcms handles image performance: native lazy loading, automatic width/height and fetchpriority for the LCP image via an output filter, and automa
Building a Restaurant Website with jekcms
A practical guide to building a restaurant site with jekcms using what actually ships: standard posts and settings, real schema output, and theme-leve
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 the admin panel, and intelligent fe
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 table of contents, a dictionary-base
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 customizer renders the matching form — colors
jekcms v1.4.0: What to Check After You Upgrade
1.4.0 doesn't introduce breaking changes to your theme code or content — it's a SEO- and content-tooling release. Here's the practical checklist for c
Automating Content With n8n and the jekcms Publish API
jekcms's publish API connects to n8n with just a handful of workflow nodes — handling media uploads, setting categories, and following your publishing
SEO Audit Findings: The Errors That Keep Coming Back on My 14 jekcms Sites
Repeated audits of my own 14-site jekcms fleet keep finding the same things: empty legal pages, soft-404s, broken hreflang, spammy auto-links — and th
AVIF Conversion in JekCMS: How the Pipeline Actually Works
jekcms converts uploads to AVIF and WebP automatically and generates seven size variants per image. Here's what the pipeline actually does — and what
JekCMS Theme File Structure: Why We Chose This Architecture
When designing the JekCMS theme system, we evaluated six architecture patterns used by WordPress, Ghost, Kirby, Statamic, October CMS, and Bolt. The l
Running JekCMS on Shared Hosting: A Realistic Performance Guide from 14 Live Sites
All 14 of my jekcms sites run on shared hosting behind Cloudflare — the biggest has 2,300+ posts. What actually matters for speed, first-hand.
Content Security Policy for JekCMS: A Production-Ready Template
jekcms ships a real, production Content Security Policy — not a strict template, and not a marketing claim. Here's exactly what it blocks, what it del
Migrating 3,000 Posts from WordPress: What I Learned
I moved around 3,000 posts from my own WordPress sites into jekcms. The SQL-to-CSV import flow, plus what actually hurt: encoding, images, slugs.
How jekcms Hit a 97 Mobile PageSpeed Score on Shared Hosting
A real 97 mobile PageSpeed score on shared hosting: which jekcms mechanism moves LCP, CLS and TBT — and which numbers I refuse to invent.
jekcms Database Schema: What's Actually in It
jekcms's database uses close to two dozen tables to model content, users, media, and settings — no separate taxonomy layer, no WordPress-style options
Scheduled Publishing in JekCMS: How It Works Under the Hood
jekcms doesn't use a cron daemon by default for scheduled posts — it falls back to a lightweight, throttled visitor-triggered check (PseudoCron) that
Corporate Blogging With jekcms: An Editorial Process and Measurement Plan
A practical framework for running a corporate blog on jekcms: how to structure content briefs, build internal linking into your process, set up a two-
Running Dual-Language Content in JekCMS: A Practical Workflow
jekcms core runs one site in one language -- there is no built-in multi-language post system. This guide covers the two real options: separate install
Managing Multiple jekcms Clients: An Agency Playbook
Running jekcms across a client portfolio involves more than technical setup. You need a reliable deployment process, a way to push updates without bre