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Tutorials, tips, and insights on building websites with Statamic, the flat-file CMS powered by Laravel. From setup to advanced techniques.

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PHP2Shell is patched on every site I maintain

Updated: 21st October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Maintenance Services, News

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Critical PHP Security Update Incoming

Updated: 21st October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Maintenance Services, News

Sentinel 3.0.

Statamic Sentinel 3.0

Updated: 9th October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, News, Statamic Addons, Sentinel, Maintenance Services

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Statamic 6 security depends on keeping up with releases

Updated: 9th October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Sentinel, Maintenance Services

Statamic 5 security countdown: fixes stop in December 2026

Updated: 9th October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Sentinel, Maintenance Services

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Darkroom: a Statamic AI image generator for Nano Banana

Updated: 5th October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, News, Statamic Addons

Sentinel for Statamic.

Over 250 installs on: Sentinel and CMS security for Statamic

Updated: 2nd October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Maintenance Services, News, Statamic Addons

Sentinel for Statamic.

Sentinel 2.3.0: faster scans for my Statamic security addon

Updated: 2nd October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, News, Maintenance Services, Statamic Addons

Tracer 2.0: my Statamic UTM builder gets site-wide settings

Updated: 2nd October, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, News, Web Development, Statamic Addons

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Blocking scanner traffic at Nginx for a leaner Statamic cache

Updated: 2nd September, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Maintenance Services

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Statamic background recache smooths out bulk cache invalidations

Updated: 24th July, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Maintenance Services

Warming Statamic static cache behind basic auth

Updated: 24th July, 2026 by Stephen Meehan in Statamic, Maintenance Services

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