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Building my own CMS, part 4: moving thousands of posts out of WordPress
How the CMS imports a WordPress blog without breaking a single address, what an old archive is full of, and the evening I found 2,228 blank drafts.
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Building my own CMS, part 3: locking down the admin
The public blogs are plain files, so the admin is the only thing worth attacking. The layers in front of it, the checks behind it, and the Cloudflare setting that locked out everyone except me.…
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Building my own CMS, part 2: publishing through git
Pressing Publish turns into one git commit, pushed straight to GitHub, which my host deploys. Why git, why I stopped using GitHub's API, and the one folder the CMS may touch.
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Building my own CMS, part 1: one admin, plain files out
The technical version of why I left WordPress. What the CMS is made of, why each piece is there, and how a written spec kept an AI-built project on track.