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You know those months where everything’s calm, then someone quietly ships a pile of fixes and a neat tool drops in the Marketplace? That was September. Light on drama, heavy on usefulness. Here’s what shipped, what we learned, and who made it happen.

Let’s be honest. There are some things you should never have to ask for in a CMS. We’re not talking AI-generated parallax animations or blockchain-integrated contact forms. We mean the basics. The “of course it does that” stuff.

Twenty years ago, when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, the Oregon National Guard led its largest peacetime deployment in history. Thousands of soldiers and airmen from across the country came together under Joint Task Force Pontchartrain to support recovery and relief efforts.

Remember when a school website was just a clunky bulletin board with an outdated lunch menu and a few broken links? Those days are over. The best academic websites today do far more than share announcements they’re designed to engage, inform, and even inspire. But what actually sets them apart from the average site? Let’s dig in.

Remember when your CMS promised the moon? Drag-and-drop editing, blazing-fast load times, built-in security, intuitive workflows basically, it was supposed to be the Swiss Army knife of website management. And then reality hit. Suddenly, updating a homepage banner takes three Jira tickets and a séance.

There’s a special kind of dread that sets in when you open your CMS to update a headline and find yourself staring at something that looks suspiciously like Visual Studio. Suddenly, changing a button label feels like deploying a microservice.

A Reality Check for Anyone Who’s Been Living With WordPress Plugin PTSD for Too Long

When the Milwaukee Brewers get hot, George Webb Restaurants fire up one of the city’s most beloved traditions: free burgers if the Crew wins 12 in a row.

When Your Content Team Silently Quits Because Every Task Is a Nightmare

Spoiler: You Never Forget It. You Just Stop Updating It Because It’s Too Damn Hard.