Notes
Comparisons, costs and practical notes on content management systems, forums and the tools around them.
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Best AI Humanizer Tools for Web Content Teams (2026)
Walter Writes leads our 2026 ranking of AI humanizers for content teams rewriting AI-drafted copy during site migrations. Prices and limits sourced.
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What is an LLM, and how does it work?
A large language model (LLM) is an AI system trained on huge amounts of text to predict the next piece of text in a sequence. That one skill, done at…
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WordPress, Joomla and Drupal compared
WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are the three best-known open-source content management systems, all written in PHP and all free to use. WordPress is by far the most popular and the…
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How accurate are AI detectors?
AI detectors are less accurate than their marketing suggests. They do best on long, unedited text produced straight from a chatbot. They do worst on short passages, edited AI text,…
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The best headless CMS platforms
A headless CMS stores and manages content, then delivers it through an API to whatever front end you build, whether that’s a website, an app or both. The best choice…
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Claude vs ChatGPT
Claude and ChatGPT are the two most widely used general-purpose AI assistants, and for everyday questions either will do. The differences show up in specific work: Claude is often preferred…
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vBulletin: what it does well and badly
vBulletin is one of the oldest commercial forum platforms still on sale. Its strengths are a mature feature set, full ownership of your data, and a one-off licence rather than…
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Joomla: the pros and cons
Joomla sits between WordPress and Drupal: more built-in structure than WordPress, less developer effort than Drupal. Its strengths are multilingual support, access control, and a flexible content system that come…
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Drupal vs WordPress: what each one costs
Drupal and WordPress are both free, open source, and licensed under the GPL, so neither charges for the software. The price gap people talk about, sometimes framed as twenty thousand…
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What it costs to run a Joomla website
Joomla itself is free: it is open source software released under the GPL, and there is no licence fee to download, install, or run it. What costs money is everything…