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Version 1.4.0 marks the most significant architectural change since JekCMS launched. The language engine has been completely rewritten, cutting translation load time by 73% and adding right-to-left script support for Arabic and Hebrew. This release also ships with a redesigned admin interface, a new media library with bulk AVIF conversion, and an overhauled API authentication system.
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Theme Studio is JekCMS's new visual design environment, available exclusively in v1.4.0 and later. It lets developers and designers build, preview, and export themes directly from the browser — no local environment needed. Connect it to any live JekCMS installation and see your changes reflected in under 200 milliseconds.
The 1.4.0 release introduces six breaking changes that affect most existing installations. Chief among them is the new slug system, which replaces underscores with hyphens and enforces lowercase across all URL segments. This guide walks through each change, provides before-and-after code comparisons, and includes a migration script that automates 80% of the upgrade process.
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Over eight months we processed more than 140,000 automated posts through JekCMS's publish API connected to n8n. The integration requires fewer than a dozen workflow nodes, handles media uploads, sets categories, and respects your publishing schedule. This article documents the exact node configuration we use in our own content operations.
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We conducted structured SEO audits on 47 JekCMS-powered sites across five industries over three months. The most common issues were not content quality or link profiles — they were technical: missing canonical tags, misconfigured hreflang attributes, and sitemap entries pointing to redirected URLs.
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JekCMS converts every uploaded image to AVIF and WebP automatically, but the process involves more than a simple encoding step. The pipeline validates dimensions, strips EXIF data, generates four thumbnail sizes, and stores the original in a directory inaccessible from the web.
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When designing the JekCMS theme system, we evaluated six architecture patterns used by WordPress, Ghost, Kirby, Statamic, October CMS, and Bolt. The layout we settled on — templates, partials, and a functions.php with hook registration — was chosen not for simplicity but for predictability.
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Shared hosting works well for JekCMS sites with under 5,000 daily visits — if configured correctly. The defaults are designed for VPS environments and will cause timeouts on most shared plans. This guide covers the specific php.ini values, .htaccess rules, and database settings that separate a sluggish site from a fast one.
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A well-configured Content Security Policy blocks the most common XSS vectors before they reach your users. JekCMS ships with a permissive default CSP that works with all themes; tightening it requires knowing which external resources each component actually loads.
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We have migrated eleven WordPress installations to JekCMS over the past year. The largest had 3,247 posts, 18 active plugins, and a custom post type structure that did not map cleanly to JekCMS's data model. This is an honest account of where automation works and where it does not.
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The JekCMS demo site scores 97 on PageSpeed Insights mobile — not through tricks, but through architectural decisions made during the initial build. Critical CSS is inlined per-template, third-party scripts use resource hints, fonts are self-hosted with subsetting, and every image is served in AVIF with explicit dimensions.
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