Craft CMS Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

It's easier and a lot easier to arrange and index content for SEO purposes.

There have been some issues with redirects, images and imported information.

We use Craft CMS for our website and related blog. It's very clean and sleek and we don't need an excessive number of plug-ins compared to wordpress.

Great system with a flexible interface that allows for customization and creative use.

Admin interface UX could be improved to facilitate ease of use and content management for inexperienced users.

We've created a completely custom event management platform based off of craft to manage data, front end website and data collection. It has allowed us to streamline our workflow and processes and has contributed significantly to successful event operations and management.

Our team has found Craft to be a huge asset when building larger scale custom sites. There are very few restrictions for our developers and limitless options when building out a fully editable CMS where our clients can eventually adapt, change and setup limitless pages within a working system.

Craft is a great solution to provide flexibility, but that flexibility makes it very easy for clients to mess up a site once the CMS has been handed over. There are a lot of pieces to manage but it has been better than most of the other CMS options we have tried.

The ability to adapt pages and create a larger system that doesn't feel too "theme-y" when creating custom sites is a clear benefit. Our programmers are better able to control the end look of pages and match the creative team's designs. Craft allows for highly editable pages and design with modules that can easily be reordered on a page which alyas seems to be a key benefit to clients.

It's stable and trustworthy. Great support and you don't get that Frankenstein feel as with other brands. it all works together and seamlessly.

Their SEO capabilities could be better, they're even less reliable than Yoast.

A stable source for a large, growing website. Having keyturn capabilities also helps.

The ease of use. There is a live preview function so you never have to make a page live until you're 100% happy with how it looks.

Occasionally there's issues with being unable to do something, but I'm not an administrator of the system so it's easy to contact the administrator to make the necessary changes.

Updating the website quickly. Changes were previously made by emailing a 3rd party which was time consuming.

We worked with developers to design a website platform on Craft that we could easily manage and edit. I love that it's customized to our design and experience.

For minor edits and layouts working with Craft is great. When developing more complex pages or changing templates, it requires a developers help. This is something that we hopefully will be able to move past.

We were able to build a beautiful and compelling site that's easy to navigate and edit on the backend. We have saved time and money by working with Craft. We also have a platform that is user-friendly, which is imperative for the up-keep of the site and new users to the platform.

Very intuitive software, easy to navigate and find different areas for editing. It's easy to select elements to add and arrange, enable or disable content. I can easily link to other entries and find them quickly. I especially like how I can organize different sections as well as rearrange documents in the asset manager.

I have difficulty editing text at time. I'll place my cursor on content and when I start typing it jumps to a different area. I have to remember to clear the cache when making edits to menus. Sometimes it's difficult getting the URL from an asset I uploaded such as a word doc so I can share with colleagues for other uses.

Flexibility of posting articles with ability to post in future at a specific time. It's also helpful having articles expiration dates so I can reduce the number of entries on various pages. The software design is making it possible for other staff with less technical background be able to edit various parts of the website, increasing our efficiency as an organization.

Building web pages is fairly intuitive- you simply choose what type of block you want (content, image, etc.) and build up your page. The live preview is also extremely helpful, as it allows you to see exactly what your page will look like before you publish.

Embedding videos can be difficult. In one instance, I was trying to have multiple videos from Vimeo, and they kept layering right on top of each other. Some of the formatting takes a while to play with, and I wish they had a "hard clear" option for every type of content instead of just select few.

We use Craft to post news articles, blog posts, our online company directory, and more. Our whole website runs through Craft, so it makes making small updates easy. Our whole communications team has access to our login so that we can all post content and make web updates.

Craft CMS system is one of the premium tools for building something from scratch. It will help the user with strong backend settings. Moreover, the interesting thing is that there are no rules to manage the content and you can save various templates as well without being concerned about copy/paste issues.

First and the most important thing is that the software is very costly for an average user. Thus, the low-paying client will never choose this option. Additionally, using this tool can be a bit exhausting as there come various issues in redirecting and fetching information from external sources.

You will find it a magical tool for optimizing content and indexing it on the first pages. This is one of the best tools for implementing SEO strategies. Moreover, it is built for developers and experts who know well the use of various coding terms. Hence, the developer of this platform specified the use and made it more petrified for use.

When Craft is operating properly, the application is effective and easy to use.

Craft has an ongoing issue of crashing for long periods of time. Often times, I will have to start and refresh the app multiple times before I have a usable interface.

Craft makes it easy to navigate a full lead pipeline and manage existing clients.

I like that with the help of our development team, we can ad any custom field that we would like.

We occasionally experience weird bugs with text formatting, and user images disappearing.

The hard work put in to set up the CMS how you would like up front pays dividends down the road for the average non-developer user.

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Multiple users and log onto the same website and make edits

Multiple users can’t make changes on the same page at the same time; structure/UX

Blogging, custom landing pages

Very easy to use back-end interface. Very flexible - if you can design it, you can have it built.

If your developer doesn't code the functionality, it doesn't exist out of the box. So, make sure whoever you partner with gives you things like a fully functioning WYSIWYG if you want to be able to bring site updates and maintenance in house but don't have a developer.

this platform was chosen before me, so i am not sure why certain choices were made, but i believe that the powers that be were sold on the fully customizable, developer friendly platform not realizing that they were signing up for lots of very expensive updates.

I like the preview mode that is available while editing

I dislike the lack of freedom of the software

Designing the school website has been easier

Making easy text changes and creating new navigation menu items.

Not very robust if you want to add new features such as videos and requiring sub headers when you don't want any.

It resolved having a website for our event. The benefits was that I was able to create as many pages I need and menu navigation headers.

Creating entries is fairly simple in craft, but I don't really like craft.

I think the user experience for craft needs some serious work. I have a lot of problems being able to adequately do the things I want to with craft.

I don't feel like I've solved any problems. I've only run into greater difficulty using this program.