Plain-English CMS guidance for UK web teams.
Every mature CMS carries extensions nobody quite remembers installing. This guide walks UK web teams through a practical audit — inventory, risk scoring, and a straight retire, replace or rebuild decision — before the next upgrade window opens.
Most CMS contingency plans are buried in a wiki that nobody opens until the site is down. Here's how to build a single-page incident card that tells your team who does what, when to roll back, and what to tell users — plus a rehearsal you can run in under an hour.
G-Cloud can knock months off a CMS procurement and still leave you with a poor fit if you treat the framework as a guarantee. Here's what the listing genuinely covers, where the real money hides, and the questions worth asking before you call off.
A finance director will not read a 40-slide CMS pitch. They will read two pages that explain what the current system costs in staff time, risk and missed publishing deadlines. Here is a practical structure for a short, credible upgrade case.
Most 'nobody told me' problems after a CMS change are not people problems. They are communication problems. A lightweight release note habit can tell editors what changed, why it changed and what they need to do next.
A ten-minute quarterly pass over admin accounts, updates, backups, forms, redirects, certificates and consent scripts can catch the boring failures before they become public incidents. Here is a repeatable routine, plus what to log and who should sign it off.
An accessibility statement and a late-stage audit will not fix everyday publishing habits. The CMS should nudge, constrain and check the basics — alt text, headings, link labels, tables and pre-publish prompts — so accessible pages are the default, not the exception.
When an agency relationship ends, the CMS can become a locked room. This practical UK-focused guide sets out the admin, licence, code and content handover items to test before the notice period runs out.
Cookie banners can look compliant while the CMS quietly fires tracking scripts, embeds and widgets before anyone clicks. Here is a 2026 audit plan for UK web teams working under PECR and ICO expectations.
A practical, low-drama way to find outdated, duplicated and unloved pages before the Christmas change freeze. Includes a simple scoring method, ownership rules and a lightweight review workflow for UK web teams.
CMS demos show the best day, not the ordinary Tuesday afternoon. Here is a plain-English checklist for UK web teams weighing up editor experience, accessibility, GDPR, integrations, support and exit plans before committing.
Most CMS migrations are undone by unowned pages, missing redirects and integrations nobody tested. This checklist gives UK web teams twelve plain-English questions to settle before changing a single URL in 2026.
AI writing tools are now standard in many CMS dashboards, but a slick demo is not a risk assessment. This practical guide covers accessibility, UK GDPR, editorial sign-off and the contract clauses worth arguing over in 2026.