dotCMS Reviews & Product Details
DotCMS is a content management software that offers a user-friendly platform for creating and managing digital content. With multi-language support, customizable templates, content personalization, and a robust API for integrating with other systems, dotCMS allows for easy integration with other systems and a wide range of integrations and plugins, making it a versatile tool for businesses of all sizes. Furthermore, its responsive design and user-friendly interface make it easy for teams to work together and publish content quickly and efficiently.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
dotCMS/our website supplier is very responsive when we have issues. Both are very transparent when it comes to challenging the current functionalities and adding new ones.
dotCMS has a tendency to make easy things complicated and has some issues with bugs. As we have high demands in regards to styling/formatting, using dotCMS is sometimes challenging.
We have to maintain a lot of different support sites at the same time and adapt content for each of them appropriately. dotCMS offers some elaborate yet accessible tools to address that.
It is fairly easy to learn basic functionality quickly.
Getting data out of dotCMS is complicated and needs a programmer.
Content management and data organization around our assets.
The headless cms is a nice feature, API integration
there are some bugs in the application. It can be less than user friendly for non-technical based users.
the code base is quite flexible under the hood so our team is able to handle a lot of client requests.
the user interface is very good and clear to user
push publishing is not good and needs improving
dynamic content personalistaion
I used an older version of dotCMS when I was a college student working in our communication office. I’d say I had average tech literacy and didn’t need extensive training, and it was easy enough to use. I don’t feel like I could get a website up and running myself with it. It looks like they’ve updated some of their interfaces though so that may not be the case anymore. Overall, pretty good product but not my first thought for website builder.
Challenge to see myself building whole website rather just being contributor.
Was good as an enterprise solution and framework. The website looks really good
Nothing... The history feature I guess is somewhat useful to see where content has been updated but that's about it.
Publishing is so temperamental. Everything breaks down the minute you want to publish something. I've never worked with a CMS that is this difficult to use.
I can see how push publishing to AUTH and then PROD eliminates room for error. But the AUTH environment often doesn't depict how content will look like on PROD so it's a stab in the dark.