After doing a lot of research as a technical writer, I have found the top 5 CMS for blogging. Whether you are trying to build a personalwriting rep...
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I prefer payloadCMS. It has a very rich interface and I love the way I can customize it and add web hooks.
Oh, that's interesting. I haven't heard of them before now. Let me check them out.
I was actually expecting Umbraco to be a part of this list. Did you consider this?
That's very interesting. This is my first time hearing about it! I'd check it out.
I'm so sorry about the experience you had with Ghost CMS!
Other than that, this was an insightful read.
Thank you!
Really thorough comparison! The developer experience scores are a nice touch.
One thing I noticed: Ghost is the only blog-first option here. The rest are general-purpose, so you spend time modeling posts, authors, categories and SEO fields before writing anything.
For my own blog I use ContioReach, which is built only for blogs. Posts, authors, tags and SEO fields come ready out of the box, it has a REST API that works with Next.js or Astro, and the free plan doesn’t need a card. Might be worth a look for anyone who hit the same payment wall as you did with Ghost.
Headless CMS is basically WordPress minus the therapy sessions — you stop fighting the theme system and just get an API back. I migrated to unfoldcms (unfoldcms.com) on a Hetzner VPS a while back and wired it into my own frontend; the API mode is clean and the built-in SEO tooling saved me from writing that myself. The one thing I'll flag: if you hit an edge case, the docs leave you reading source code. Worth it though.