Continuing our “How … works”. Today #VitePress. It is a static site generator (#ssg) for documentation, built on Vue and Vite. https://spinalcms.com/blog/how-vitepress-works/

How VitePress Works

VitePress is a static site generator built with Vue and Vite. This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk.

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Little sneak peek into what is coming to Spinal. Can you guess what the first and last obfuscated item will be? 🤫🤭🙈

Google is testing removing the AI Mode button from the search bar (spotted in incognito on Chrome). Only a subset of users, but again a useful reminder that the surface you get discovered on can change overnight. 🤷‍♀️ https://www.seroundtable.com/google-removing-ai-mode-42436.html

With the latest release of Spinal you can now "invite" an AI-powered team member. We used this internally and it helps with some of the typical tedious tasks like finding internal link suggestion or even asking for suggestions for a word (sometimes I am lazy).

Your LinkedIn impressions fell and you did nothing wrong. Yikes! LinkedIn replaced broad reach for relevant reach. Less reach, better fit. A good post now needs a clear audience, because the feed routes each post to the people it can identify.

You can now view all your and create (ánd schedule) Spinal resources via @raycast.com Check it out www.raycast.com/spinalcms/sp...

After recent PHP security issues, many are considering moving away from WordPress to a static site generator (#ssg). I might collect articles like this in some sort of directory :) https://christianheilmann.com/2026/10/28/pardon-my-dust-re-homing-21-years-of-blog-content-of-christianheilmann-com/

Next in our “How … works": @bridgetownrb.com. It is a static site generator for Ruby, descended from Jekyll. Read it here: https://spinalcms.com/blog/how-bridgetown-works/

After recent PHP security issues, many are considering moving away from WordPress to a static site generator (#ssg). I might collect articles like this in some sort of directory :) https://christianheilmann.com/2026/10/28/pardon-my-dust-re-homing-21-years-of-blog-content-of-christianheilmann-com/

You can now view all your and create (ánd schedule) Spinal resources via @raycast.com Check it out www.raycast.com/spinalcms/sp...

Next edition of “How … works”: #docusaurus. It is a static site generator for documentation, built on React. Read it here: spinalcms.com/blog/how-doc...

How Docusaurus Works

Docusaurus is a static site generator for documentation, built on React and Webpack. This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk.

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@tmaker.io asked are blogs dead and the tested it. Blogs are not dead, but should be optimized for agents. How to get ChatGPT to cite your website

With this massive #PHP security vulnerability announced and compromises like these, the first step is fixing it. The second step maybe consider moving to static site generator #ssg. 💡

Search measurement used to be one line: rank, click, convert. Yay! AI search broke it. Boo! The answer now arrives before the click (and often without one). Your analytics never see that step.

The features coming to Spinal are really exciting for (small) marketing teams. Things are going to get so much easier to get done faster and better. That is all I can say, right now! 😅

#middleman is a static site generator written in Ruby. This post walks through its build pipeline, from config.rb to the files written to disk. Another from our “How … works”. Just a few more to go! 😊 spinalcms.com/blog/how-mid...

Coming to a spinalcms.com team near you soon: invite a hosted or BYOK #LLM / #ai agent member. We are testing this internally and it is great way to leave the tedious and repetitious task to do it for me.

The pitch for single page apps was always “it’s faster after the first load”. Google’s Core Web Vitals, used in search ranking, now measure soft navigations. It’s true: LCP drops by about a third. But, I don't think SPAs are ever really worth all the compromises and extra code.

One the coolest (new) features from spinalcms.com is templates ✨ It give you a ready-made starting point for new content. Each collection has a default template that pre-fills body (and frontmatter) of every new resource. Set a default for every new resource or select one by command/right click.

Non-Git teammates can't edit your @astro.build Starlight docs. Add a CMS so they can. You have two choices: an API (headless) CMS, or a git-based one. One takes ten steps. The other takes three. 🤔

Continuing our series “How … works”. With today @11ty.dev! This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk. spinalcms.com/blog/how-11t...

How 11ty Works

Eleventy is a static site generator written in JavaScript. This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk.

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Continuing our series “How … works”. With today @11ty.dev! This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk. spinalcms.com/blog/how-11t...

How 11ty Works

Eleventy is a static site generator written in JavaScript. This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk.

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Zero-click does not mean zero-website. Impressions climb while visits fall. Your site now works before anyone arrives. It feeds AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers, and Perplexity citations. I do not make the rules. 🤷 For your static site, that is not a threat. It is your existing workflow.

Zero-click does not mean zero-website. Impressions climb while visits fall. Your site now works before anyone arrives. It feeds AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers, and Perplexity citations. I do not make the rules. 🤷 For your static site, that is not a threat. It is your existing workflow.

SEO on a static SaaS site still works. But AI search changed where buyers start. 51% of B2B buyers now begin research in a chatbot more often than in Google. Ranking first no longer decides it. Getting cited inside the AI answer does.

SEO on a static SaaS site still works. But AI search changed where buyers start. 51% of B2B buyers now begin research in a chatbot more often than in Google. Ranking first no longer decides it. Getting cited inside the AI answer does.

Google now lets readers pick your site as a "preferred source." Those readers then see your content flagged with a badge in Top Stories, AI Mode and AI Overviews. It is optional, and it asks something of you first. My thoughts.

Google now lets readers pick your site as a "preferred source." Those readers then see your content flagged with a badge in Top Stories, AI Mode and AI Overviews. It is optional, and it asks something of you first. My thoughts.

AI tools cite other websites when they describe your company. A study of 1,851 sources found brand-owned pages made up 2.8% of citations. You can fix that.

Hugo is one of the many supported static site generators of Spinal. This article goes into how it works from the structure, build commands, plugin system, caching and security! spinalcms.com/blog/how-hug...