Butter CMS Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated

Maintain control over look and feel, nav functionality. Let content writers focus just on producing content. Easy documentation. Responsive support.

Could be more pages included in basic plan.

Get rid of separate, wordpress hosted site. Incorporate content marketing directly on main property and not reinvent the wheel.

Agile support, able to meet the ongoing requirements of our business.

Seems to be a little underdeveloped as a product, but I'm sure they will improve.

Permissioned access and streamlining efficiency to remove workload off of developers.

This makes adding our blog platform to https://www.printavo.com/blog very easy. It's been a nightmare before we discovered ButterCMS getting the routes setup we the way we want.

The editor could be a bit better but it's improving.

Butter allows us to have the URL routes for the best SEO potential possible

Easy to install for the engineers and easy to use for the marketing team. Once the gem was installed, I was able to start transferring old blog posts to this new CMS. The pages looked way better since the css matched the site and page views have increased more than 5 fold.

More friendly UI for typing posts and configuring the page. Commonly used templates would be awesome. While these are nice to haves, the team has been very responsive with requests.

Our old blog was buried on the bottom of our site and linked to Tumblr. Needless to say, we weren't getting the traffic we were looking for and didn't show up in search for key terms around our business. We installed the Butter gem and within a few days saw immediate results as more page views started to roll in. As we continued to add posts, we suggested features to the Butter team and were pleasantly surprised when they responded quickly with product updates integrating our requests. Now that blogging is easier with this gem, we have produced more content, increased page views, and converted more leads to sales.

Butter was extremely easy to set up and integrate into my existing rails app. Once I installed the gem and got it configured (a 10 minute process), the blog just appeared at mysite.com/blog. Once I started using it, I was also happy to see that it was intuitive and easy to write and publish/unpublish posts as needed.

The interface for writing the posts in-browser has some room for improvement, but since I started using Butter ~6 months ago I have already seen improvements on this front. I occasionally find that the format-bar pops up at inopportune moments and gets in the way. The ability to position and move images is limited.

I needed to add a blog to my rails app and did not require something nearly as robust as a full wordpress blog. Butter made it easy (and affordable) to set it up and maintain it with minimal effort, allowing me to focus on developing my own app and writing blog posts.

It's easy for my developer to set up, and easy for me to have all of the control I need with formatting, SEO, content, etc. I'm able to keep the look and feel of our site, all without having to deal with Wordpress or subdomains which kill SEO.

I'd like to have a UI for the blog template page for common changes I want to propagate across all blog pages.

We're providing content for those looking to travel to Cuba, particularly Americans who are looking for information and perhaps someone to plan their trip. We've realized having control over the content empowers us to tweak SEO in order to be found, and update content easily and cheaply.

Easy to navigate and intuitive interface.

No real downsides based on our current needs.

Allows our marketing team to edit content on our website without involving the engineering team.

Very easy to get started and alows you to scale as your business grows.

Would like to see more integrations for ecommerce and other usecases.

Allows me to manage content without worrying about logic.

Butter is easy to learn, even if the organizational logic can be revised to streamline the experience

The not very welcoming design which makes the experience very monotonous

Butter allows you to modify lots of parameters and detail the posting of our trips online as much as possible

It's very easy to use and to create customized pages and even incorporate on-page technical SEO into them. It's also very flexible and, so far, has been able to fulfill all of the features I've asked for.

We've been using Butter for about 8 months now and I haven't found anything we haven't been able to do.

Making the marketing team much more self-sufficient, not having to rely on IT for every little (and not-so-little) change we need to make to the website. It saves a lot of time and resources, which result in saving money.

It was pretty user friendly and easy to use.

The UI/UX and admin functionality can be a bit smoother.

They are helping us host and support blogs on our website.

In my opinion, one of the best things about Butter CMS is their customer support. They are always super responsive and willing to work through issues with us, whether they are solvable in the moment or whether a new feature request needs to be added to their roadmap. Our account manager is communicating with us regularly on any needs, questions, or concerns, and has been willing to set a meeting whenever we've needed a more thorough discussion. Another great thing about Butter is the user interface and experience. We migrated to Butter from a legacy CMS system, and our users have really enjoyed it. Training is much simpler and easier due to their interface, which has cut down on our onboarding time required to get new users up and running. Last but not least, Butter is continually evolving and improving their product. There have been a lot of features and improvements done over the last 1-2 years while we've been using it, some of which include: speed improvements to their interface, media library feature additions, improvements to schema building and creation, more granular access controls, write API improvements regarding setting reference fields, read API specificy improvements on queries, the list goes on. It is awesome to be using a product that is constantly evolving due to their ability to listen to customers and take action on any feedback.

There haven't been too many downsides using Butter over the last 1-2 years, but here are a few things that could have been better: 1. For a global business model like ours, we saw Page duplication as a bug versus a feature. For example, with a presence in 75 different markets globally, we have a variety of products available in different markets. When a product Page type is created, it is duplicated to every other locale. In some instances, this can be a great feature (pages that apply to every market). However, with products specifically, this caused a lot of unnecessary duplication in the system and has made it difficult to navigate product directories. We have partially solved this with an organizational change in our site structure within Butter, and continue to improve on this solution to this issue. 2. The Blog content type doesn't currently support localization, but we are working with Butter to get this feature on their roadmap. 3. Content migration between sites wasn't available when we first partnered with Butter. We developed our own utility tool to accomplish this for global websites. Since that time, Butter has made large leaps in this area and offers some migration capabilities, and we hope to see more down the road. 4. Granular access control was something we have struggled with, and our situation might be more unique with multiple sites, countries, and locales as a large global business. Butter has been working on this and we are excited for the future in regards to this issue. 5. One of the issues we faced initially was the ability to use the Write API to set reference fields. This made it particularly difficult with some aspects of our business internally as a development team. However, Butter has made improvements on this since then, but that is something that was difficult to manage around initially.

Butter CMS has taken the heavy lifting of managing a CMS system, data, and interface and has done a great job providing this functionality as a service or headless CMS. Previously we built and maintained our own CMS system, and it absorbed a lot of resources and time from our development teams. Also, it was difficult to push out new features and upgrades as often as they were requested. Working with Butter has been fantastic in that they have provided a great product and are continually working to improve it.

There are many great features of butter, but from a developer's perspective; their documentation is very thorough. They have guides for most all tech stacks, and querying the ButterAPI is seamless.

One thing that i disliked, is that you cant reference specific Blog Posts at the collection level. This made it slightly difficult to allow customization for content editors to choose specific blog posts for a section.

ButterCMS is solving the problem of monolithic website builds. This is where the code and content arent decoupled, and as a developer that is a much more confusing environment. By creating an intuitive headless platform, ButterCMS makes developers' lives easier as well as provides better website performance.

Currently doing sales and marketing and I have to say changing a few contents here and there helped my day today. The option to customize a few areas is key, that key has helped us during the tenure we had with it.

We haven't faced any real issues. The odd bug but nothing like a good ole refresh fixes that. We did have one issue but realized we haven't turned off our computer for almost 4 days. So we just restarted it and everything was fine.

WeIt helped our sales and marketing solve complex content while keeping the content up to date. It helped us keep the retention #s with areas to concentrate growth.

God, I love butter! It was a straightforward enough system to write blog content on: i could integrate other media, carry out basic formatting etc. Wow! it was simple to view all the content I had written too!

Nothing. It was fantastic! Though I haven't use it a lot; I probably need to use it a bit more to find anything that really bugged me. I don't know what I'm doing tbh.

I only use it to write blog content. So it helped me add that to our website. I'm so grateful! There were quite a few issues between butter and our website showing things properly, but that's a fault on our end! How silly!

The simple user interface makes it easy to manage content.

Looking at the preview link if a blog post can sometimes be a hassle.

I don't have any experience as a dev, but I can easily make changes to certain parts of the website.

Butter CMS has helped speed up our web workflow tremendously! The program allows our marketing team to make quick image and copy edits to keep our site fresh and up-to-date.

One improvement that I think would be helpful for me is if the tool could crop and resize images to the needed specs.

Butter CMS lets our IT team focus on larger web projects that will improve our site as a whole.

The best feature I like is page type (page schema), where you can easily create and manage multiple pages through a single schema.

Only thing I disklike the most is you can upload single image at a time

Butter CMS help us to solve our SEO problem by combining two subdomains (info site and main application)

• ButterCMS is a flexible headless CMS, which allows the front end to be completely decoupled from the backend datastore o Its not WordPress! lol • Content response times are superfast, this should translate into improved scalability (our site is still in the development phase so we have not tested for that yet) • Page types are a nice feature as you are able to model the page content and can be as rigid or as flexible with the content by using predefined fields and components (rigid) and with the use of the component picker, you can introduce some flexibility by allowing the authors to add predefined components to the page • I have used the write API, and this is a very nice feature for importing content. o That said as mentioned before the documentation is a bit lacking and the write API is not integrated into the SDK. I extended some of the SDK classes to make my own write SDK • Chat support is great, Nikki and the others are super helpful and quick to respond • The team is super open to feedback on product suggestions • Overall, it’s a good product, it works, its easy to work with once you wrap your head around the idea of a headless CMS, so far in our implementation of Butter there really hasn’t been anything that I haven’t been able to do

• The inability to move content between environments is probably the biggest limitation. • Building navigation bars using collections is a bit cumbersome if you have a large number of menu options. • Including the write API in the SDK (as mentioned above) would be nice, but I was able to work around it • The interface is very spacious, that said on very long page there is a LOT of scrolling to get to the content section and not every content item is collapsible.

The primary problem being solved is we want a decoupled CMS that can support multiple brand sites under a single parent umbrella therefore: • Improving consistency between brands and Markets (we operate in 60+ countries) • Reduce or eliminate the reliance on the internally developed CMS • Reduce support issues and maintenance cost relating to the internally developed CMS • Consolidate multiple web properties into a single site • Consolidate and replace all instances of WordPresss The project is still in development, so the benefits have not yet been realized.

It's a perfectly fine product that will save you headaches.

There's not a ton about Butter that I dislike.

Landing pages, testimonials, faqs, etc.

ButterCMS has a very easy set up and a good documentation.

Would be good to have an ability to POST

Easy access to information from a client's side. Instead of using CMS that require PHP, this one was very convenient for use in React. I wish it had an ability to send information back (POST, PUT etc), but I guess Butter CMS is still growing. Good luck with your service!

Once we got things set up, which is relatively easy, you can publish posts through a GUI directly to your domain without having to make a pull request.

- The UI is relatively simple, but could use polish in places.

- our blog is now in a subdirectory instead of a subdomain - the above can be accomplished while allowing non-technical people to publish content - don't have to mix application/product code updates with content updates. - built in SEO features

Butter CMS is known for its simplicity and ease of use. Ease of Integration Ease of Implementation Intuitive Interface Content Modeling Developer-Friendly Content API Rich Text Editing Scalability Good Customer Support

The system does not facilitate or accommodate incremental changes. The migration of blog content is not supported within the current system. The system does not support JSON file types.

Minimize reliance on developers. Ease of Content Management Reduced Development Time Flexibility in Content Modeling Developer Empowerment

Ease of use and ability to localize for other markets

Searching collections is difficult sometimes. Having to manually copy content to other locales one at a time.

I appreciate how closely they work with the dev team to find ways to manage content better.

Great user interface. Simple to use. Easy to navigate and create!

Customer Support is not exactly meeting our needs.

A simple API is all that is needed - we love that!

We can create various types of collections and also group it togather and creating pages, by default following seperation of concerns priniple

RIght now as per my understanding, I am unable to create multiple environments

It is able to solve the problem of content management

I like that it makes it easy to create a website and use it to create a blog and online store. Butter CMS is a flexible platform for creating and managing a website. It uses an API-based approach that makes it easy to integrate it with any framework or programming language. This makes it a great tool for creating a blog and online store, as well as managing any type of content.

Butter CMS does not have all the advanced features and is expensive

The advantages are that you do not need any special knowledge to use this program. CMS is a content management system (CMS) designed to be easy to use for people without special technical knowledge. This means that you don't need to be a developer or have great programming experience to use Butter CMS. Some of the other benefits of using Butter CMS are that it can be easy to install, customized to suit your specific needs, and help you organize and manage your site's content more easily.

The documentation is great and it is easy to implement and use. Also, their customer service is quick to respond and gives in-depth answers.

Copying data between locales and environments has been an issue and lead to us creating our own migration tools. It would be great if they had more robust tools to accomplish that. Also working with locales can be messy. When creating a resource for a locale that resource automatically gets created for all locales. This means that if some resources are meant for 1 locale then they get duplicated for all and so you end up paying for unused resources.

For us it solved the problem of translating content for many different locales. Since the UI is easy to use then it has been easy for us to implement new pages and get those pages translated.

it is easy to copy content from a single collection to different markets.

it is very difficult to find specific content. it is very difficult to copy multiple collections to multiple markets.

we needed a content management system and this solved that issue.

I love how easy it was to add ButterCMS into my existing Rails application without a hassle. The trial period is perfect for testing the waters. The support is exceptional.

Being such a small non-profit and only using Butter's capabilities for a small subset of our business. I wish there were cheaper options. Even a discounted product adds up. I wish there was an option for snippets rather than full pages.

We have certain pages on our website that will be updated by other-than-IT personnel. Butter makes it easy for them to add content.