Butter CMS Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated

I used Butter CMS for a project with one organization that I worked for, and when I had similar requirements at my next job, I immediately recommended it there because I knew that working with it again would be perfect for me. As a developer (formerly) and technical architect with a lot of experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and several server-side rendering languages, I prefer to build my UI from the ground up, so using a headless CMS is a no-brainer for me and Butter CMS is the best one I've found. It's been able to provide all of the functionality that I've needed on the projects I've used it on, and it's not overly complex so I don't feel like I'm only utilizing 10% of the product. Similarly, the simplicity implies to me minimal overhead. The documentation is great, and the support team has been excellent regarding both response time (usually same day - within an hour or so, even) and efficacy.

I don't have any particular thing that I "dislike" at the moment. As I mentioned above, the support team is great so any time I've had an issue I've reached out to them and resolved it quickly.

As I mentioned under "What do you like best?" the main problem for me is otherwise having to rely on CMS platforms that take too much control away from the developer and/or require you to essentially learn to use that CMS like you'd learn to write another language. I want to bring to the table my frontend, my backend API's, decisions related to authentication and all of that, and I just want Butter to house my content and provide an interface where the people responsible for content on our website can go and make those changes, and that's exactly what it provides: no more, no less.

I made the decision to switch from Contentful to ButterCMS after doing a bit of shopping around / research of the current HeadlessCMS offerings. ButterCMS is an API first platform, served in JSON in a mostly RESTful way. It was definitely built with developers in mind, which is what makes its integration, setup time, and delivery among the top praised aspects of the platform/service. Here are some of the best features: - Collections and the ability to order fields and items - The Page engine to build static and templated pages - A Blog engine that serves a collection of Posts with SEO in mind - Great documentation in multiple languages and frameworks - Integration with Filestack / CDN - Page Preview - And last but not least, an absolutely amazing Customer Service team, super responsive and helpful! Things that really impressed me: - I reported a bug and it was fixed over the weekend. That's dedication! - Our Marketing team loved the ease in which they can now manage content in comparison to their experience with Contentful - Real conversations with the Co Founder and Customer Success team - Getting informed of new features and being asked for input on what would make this service better Overall, I would highly recommend this over other Headless CMS services I have tried and evaluated.

I think the admin interface is showing its age from a UI perspective, but is generally great from a UX perspective. Regardless, it is very usable and needs little to no on-boarding to using it, which my team loves! There really just isn't much to dislike about this service!

Our team set out to solve the problem of having TWO CMSs run our marketing site. We had a blog in Wordpress and the rest of the site was in React/Gatsby/Contentful. Managing two CMSs was a pain. Matching UI elements in two completely different stacks was a nightmare. The marketing team in particularly dislikes Contentful for various reasons, so I was tasked for exploring alternatives. After integrating with Butter, we were able to get the best features of Wordpress (Preview, Edit history, Blog Engine, SEO) plus the ability to essentially build custom admin forms (Page engine), all through a single CMS. Pulling the site through a traditional SSR application gave us the ability to run our site similar to a Wordpress architecture, which was important to the Marketing Team.

ButterCMS is very useful in giving us the flexibility to create a website exactly to our liking through code, while still allowing the content to be edited without the need to know how to write code. I also appreciate the great customer support that is received when we have questions or issues.

there is nothing I do not like about ButterCMS

We are able to make changes to our website without having to always ask a developer to make the changes for us

The best thing I like about Butter CMS is their support and engineer teams. They're very helpful whenever you need them. Also I love the API and documentation, very handy with multiple programming language doc, make it a lot easier to integrate.

I would say the speed of the API a bit slow, but then I believe my query was collecting too much data and hence why it's slow. Still, the API-based CMS is very amazing, cannot go back to Wordpress once you starts with ButterCMS!

We want to make it a lot easier to publish our content. Now we can have anyone in our office to update content, and the engineer team wouldn't have to worry anymore.

They really make me feel valued as a customer. They work WITH you. It's not as though it's their way or the highway. They have amazing documentation for a variety of web frameworks (I'm using Gatsby).

The only downside I've experienced so far is that you need the Business Plan for Localizations but like I said previously they were willing to work with me to come to a solution. Also, having the ability to create some structure for all your Collections would be helpful.

I was initially only thinking of using them for my blog content but now all the static information for my entire site is hosted with them. What a great way to organize you content. Localization management is also a huge boon and it brings my site accessibility to a new level.

We were able to seamlessly integrate ButterCMS into our existing Progressive Web App (PWA) to help provide our community with more resources and grow our digital marketing. We are able to publish content regularly to our PWA and grow our marketing efforts.

It would be tough to say that there is anything in particular that we dislike. Our development team was able to hook up to ButterCMS's API relatively easily and get our blog up and running very fast.

We built our PWA using Stenciljs and since it is framework-free and based on web components we wanted something that would integrate seamlessly. Additionally, we wanted something that would allow us to publish new content to our website that did not require developers, designers, and QA testers. We discussed custom building a blog and a CMS but the time and investment was tough to justify because we dedicate most of our time to client work. ButterCMS allows anyone on our team to easily publish new content to our PWA without the need of skilled developers or designers.

The ability to publish, manage or update content without the help of our engineering team. Great documentation and customer support. Overall, great value at a great price.

Implementation is still a bit too technical for me to really say, with authority, that I dislike anything.

Removing the need for a WordPress blog and a redirect. Our ultimate goal was to gain the SEO benefits of having all keyword-rich content on our domain and Butter helped us do it with ease.

The simplicity of Butter CMS is the part we like the most along with how quickly we were able to adapt it for our complex requirements.

Nothing to dislike. It does exactly whats written on the tin and more.

Providing content for our realtime Travel Disruption Insurance product. We needed a headless CMS for storing content in multiple languages. ButterCMS was the best software we found. The technical support from ButterCMS has been among the best we've encountered among all the service providers.

Butter's most obvious benefit is simplicity. It does not require any specialized technical knowledge. It doesn't require digging to find solutions for simple problems. It doesn't need a lot of training to utilize. It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators.

The only problem: I would love if Butter automatically saved progress.

We can quickly: 1. Collaborate. Everyone on the team can see what's coming and what's being worked on. 2. Publish. We can publish straight to our web app's blog seamlessly. 3. Create and change URL slugs. Basic functionality that's easy to access and even easier to utilize. 4. Use simple SEO tools. It does what it's supposed to. No wizardry required. Less is more! 5. End-to-end solution. I don't need plugins or hackneyed daisy chains of mismanaged and deprecated software just to publish content. It's made publishing and drafting content a frictionless experience.

Documentation and customer support. Jake has responded quickly both times I had questions. The documentation is clear for just about any modern tech stack.

We were initially hesitant if Butter would work with our use case (a custom blog with specific routes, css, etc.) and nearly switched to WordPress because we determined we wouldn't be able to use the 300 blog posts included in the startup tier; however, after speaking with Jake, he informed us that we can do what we needed with the Page Types feature. I think they were able to work with us on the pricing given our particular situation. I think maybe adding a pricing tier that favors pages instead of blog posts would help those in a similar situation as us reach a decision. We are very glad to have reached out to the Butter Support team in retrospect.

SEO, hot swapping content, reusability within our own web application.