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How JekCMS Achieved a 97 PageSpeed Mobile Score

The JekCMS demo site scores 97 on PageSpeed Insights mobile — not through tricks, but through architectural decisi…

J JekCMS Team · Dec 15, 2025 · 9 min

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JekCMS Database Schema: Design Decisions and Trade-offs

The JekCMS database uses 21 tables to model content, users, media, taxonomy, and settings. Some decisions — like a…

J JekCMS Team · Dec 8, 2025 · 11 min

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Scheduled Publishing in JekCMS: How It Works Under the Hood

JekCMS does not use a cron daemon for scheduled posts. It relies on a lightweight visitor-triggered check that run…

J JekCMS Team · Dec 1, 2025 · 14 min

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Cache Layers in JekCMS: Page, Object, and Query Cache

JekCMS implements three independent cache layers that can be tuned or disabled individually. Page cache stores ful…

J JekCMS Team · 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 handles trending score calculations, time-de…

J JekCMS Team · Oct 27, 2025 · 22 min

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Transactional Email in JekCMS: Beyond the Default SMTP

JekCMS ships with SMTP support, but the default configuration is not adequate for production email delivery. SPF, …

J JekCMS Team · Oct 20, 2025 · 12 min

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GA4 Integration and Custom Events in JekCMS

Google Analytics 4 integration takes under two minutes through the JekCMS settings panel. Custom events — scroll d…

J JekCMS Team · Oct 13, 2025 · 11 min

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JekCMS on a VPS: A Production Configuration Reference

The JekCMS production configuration we recommend for a VPS running Nginx, PHP 8.3, and MariaDB 11 involves specifi…

J JekCMS Team · Sep 22, 2025 · 14 min