dotCMS Reviews: 4.1/5 — Solid Choice

We use dotCMS as an intermediary between our internal systems and our outward facing website. It's not a completely headless build, but more of a hybrid. We appreciate the fluidity of the product in being a hybrid model. The API that the team at dotCMS is great. As a hybrid model, we're able to write and receive data to and from dotCMS with little effort. The support we receive has also been a highlight of using this product. The team at dotCMS is quick and very knowledgeable of the product they're developing.

The backend can be unintuitive and unresponsive at times and the core software is missing some support for what we would consider standard user features. The documentation is outdated or incomplete in some respects. This wouldn't be a huge issue, but there also isn't a whole lot of organic support via other users building and sharing their experiences.

We used dotCMS to rebuild our affiliate site. It's primary function is make marketing materials for content we provide them with available. It also allows users at our affiliate to download and view company and industry-specific information. The benefit of using dotCMS for us was how much is already built into the core and how easy it is to communicate with the API in order to get our customers access to data that lives outside of the dotCMS build.

Bulk uploading - is a pretty neat feature that helped us launch bigger pieces of content.

our design system and having to build widgets from scratch. There are a lot more intuitive features in a WordPress or square space site manager that are not enabled. Would love to have focal point focusing on the end-user. We struggled big-time with issues during the main content creation - with our widgets and pieces of content disappearing when we launched. That was super frustrating. We have also had issues with images not loading - and have had to re-load images 4+ times to get them to show up on the homepage.

It has helped us create pages faster and get products to market faster. On our previous CMS it required a lot of development time.

The CMS is able to Handle a massive amount of content quite responsively. Searching using the index provides for fast queries. The cloud hosted environment is very stable and support is usually very quick. The extensibility of the system is very impressive. The plugin framework allows for adjusting or adding new features quickly. The ability to add plugins live without a restart allows for very fast testing and speeding up development times.

Sometimes the documentation can be a little frustrating to understand. Especially when getting into the more technical aspects of the system, there is frustratingly sparse explanations for how certain functions work.

The system is allowing for a very large number of users to access and edit only the content relevant to them. The permissioning of folder and system elements allows for fine grained control over who can access which features.

Simplicity, I've used other CMS programs such as Shopify, Magento, Wordpress etc and I found I was able to dive straight in and get started, the Velocity took me awhile to get my head around but with it's comparisons to Javascript it's helping me understand.

The updates, not being updated to the latest version (Which solves ALL the issues we initially had). I'm not happy we have to be upgraded one stage at a time 4.0 - 4.3 (test and the upgrade). I feel it's a waste of time and resource.

It's making it so all our users who are not developers can create web pages with ease, filling in data where required and utalising the Components in different ways to create a easier, quicker and more stable website.

dotCMS was a great out-of-the-box solution for our organization. It is able to handle complex content and relationships and makes it relatively easy to build your website or app around your content and data.

The interface and learning curve can be intimidating for first-time or casual users. However, it had improved significantly over the last few years with more improvements constantly coming down the line.

dotCMS brought our website down from thousands of separate files and pages into a well organized CMS that if much easier to manage. It also gave us the ability for other users within the company to add and edit content without having to go to the web team.

It is very easy to update the Res Life web page using this program. It's fast, easy to use, and convenient.

The formatting tools are confusing, and I feel like there are a lot of useless ones that have easy access, but the more important ones are harder to get to

We are updating the page with important dates so that students know deadlines. It benefits out students a lot, because they know when all the important dates are

I like the content creation process and the ability to easily place items in a page.

Lack of support for dynamic functionality

The ability to create full websites while giving a seamless content creation process.

is a very versatile and adaptable tool, which allows you to manage the contents in a very dynamic way, thus achieving a new approach to these contents. Facilitating access and management of them.

some of its functions can become really limited to handle, which makes it difficult and can diminish the utility of the tool.

thanks to the functions that this tool offers, it is possible to manage and develop the contents in a very dynamic way, which helps to give a new focus and management to said contents.

It is a tool that gives you a lot of freedom of handling for different areas to manage content, allows you to edit and improve content, managing to develop content in the best way

It has certain limitations when developing and improving the content level content.

is a good choice to manage and address business content in the best way, managing content in a very practical way

I like that dotcms contains traditional and headless CMS options and paradigms.

I often find there is a lack of quality documentation available for newer versions of dotcms.

I've used DOTCMS to build singlepage applications. We've realized integration easement using the headless components.