My old site was built on WordPress (and there is nothing legitimately wrong with WordPress - there are many great sites built on it and I have recommended it to many people over the years - its just not something that works well with my workflow)....

This was a tough question for me to answer at first: if I rebuilt my site exactly as it was, I would be able to complete the project much faster, but I would ultimately be unhappy with the end result. On the other hand, if I rebuilt the site...

I'll start this section by saying the gentlement behind Statamic have done a great job: the platform just works for the most part (I will say that if you are developing primarily on Windows, there will be some headache; at this point the vast...

The BuildResources add-on only provides some incredibly specialized console commands. There is a section of the site Technology Resources . This section of the site parses many of the "awesome" lists that can be found on GitHub and provides...

The TechResources add-on is related to the BuildResources add-on. Many of the views (or pages) that can be seen on the Technology Resources section of the site are implemented as Laravel Blade templates. The reason this was done was to leverage...

Magpie allows me to create backups of the site incredibly easily. It is a command line utility, which means I can easily schedule its execution. There is a lot to this add-on, like configurable off-site storage locations; the details can be found...

Markdown Tools for Statamic is another freely available add-on (you can find it at https://github.com/JohnathonKoster/statamic-markdown-tools ). It allows site admins to handle text replacements across the entire site (for example, to handle the...