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How jekcms Hit a 97 Mobile PageSpeed Score on Shared Hosting

A real 97 mobile PageSpeed score on shared hosting. Which jekcms mechanisms move LCP, CLS and TBT, and which numbe…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Dec 15, 2025 · 6 min

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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 taxonom…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Dec 8, 2025 · 11 min

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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…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Dec 1, 2025 · 14 min

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How Caching Actually Works in jekcms

jekcms uses one general-purpose file cache, with page cache as the layer that actually matters for performance -- …

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Nov 3, 2025 · 16 min

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Building a News Site With the jekcms Trends Theme

The Trends theme is purpose-built for high-volume news publishing: it uses configurable view-count thresholds to s…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Oct 27, 2025 · 22 min

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Email Deliverability on jekcms: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and What jekcms Actually Sends

jekcms sends mail over SMTP (with a plain PHP mail() fallback): there's no multi-provider driver abstraction built…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Oct 20, 2025 · 12 min

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GA4 and GTM in jekcms: Snippet Injection, and What You Build Yourself

jekcms's built-in GA4/GTM integration is snippet injection: put your Measurement ID or Container ID in settings, j…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Oct 13, 2025 · 11 min

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jekcms on a VPS: A Production Configuration Reference

The PHP-FPM, OPcache, Nginx, MariaDB, cron and backup settings I hand to anyone running jekcms on a VPS: including…

C Celil Uyanıkoğlu · Sep 22, 2025 · 7 min