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What is Magnolia?

Magnolia is a java-based, open-source, enterprise web content management solution that allows organizations to go to market quickly, adapt quickly to changing business priorities, and integrate easily with third-party systems. Magnolia empowers companies to create outstanding multi-channel customer experiences while maintaining central control over all content assets via a simple, easy-to-use platform.

Company Magnolia International Ltd.
Year founded 1997
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters Basel, Switzerland
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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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Languages English
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API Access
Asset Management
Collaboration Tools
Content Analytics
Content Archiving
Content Migration
Content Personalization
Content Preview
Content Scheduling
Customer Support
Customizable Templates
Drag and Drop Interface
E-Commerce Integration
Form Builder
GDPR Compliance
Inline Editing
Media Library
Mobile Editing
Multilingual Support
Plugins and Extensions
Responsive Design
SEO Management
Search Functionality
Social Media Integration
Tagging and Categorization
Template Management
User Roles and Permissions
Version Control
WYSIWYG Editor
Workflow Management
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Last updated: September 13, 2025
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36 Magnolia Reviews
4.2 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 29, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Nainish A. avatar
Nainish A.
Assistant Systems Engineer
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"Best content management tool"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

Magnolia is a powerful and robust content management system that helps create custom apps and helps store the data in those apps. It is secure and provides multisite support. It is an open-source platform that provides cloud storage and multi-level security. It also prevents any data loss and due to the presence of a web-based app, it is easier to access it from anywhere. My favourite feature of Magnolia is multi-site management as it helps to manage multiple sites in one place without any hassle. This saves a lot of time for developers as well as solution architects. Another feature I love is it provides smooth content migration which makes the whole process very efficient and hassles free. It also provides multilingual support which basically helps in the wider reach of our product.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Magnolia user interface is complex to understand which can make its customer lose interest in using it. Magnolia must have a discussion forum to clear the doubts of their clients and to have a healthy discussion about new features and their usage. Also while using angular js with magnolia the whole process becomes very slow.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest business problem was assembling sites, so by using this CMS tool, assembling the sites became easier and helped provide the client with an opportunity to modify some sort of functions. It has improved the overall efficiency and availability.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 20, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Aniket K. avatar
Aniket K.
Software Developer
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"Middleware Development for one of the largest Airline Industry"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

New 6.1 UI, Available components and way we can customise them as our need.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Loading speed can be improved. 6.1 version is little slower.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was creating components for my website. Most of the components were available but for some components I was customising as per need

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 13, 2021
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Nice to learn and usage for maintaining Blogs or CMs"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

As CMS tool , the way template handling I've impressed very much.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

While making the template inside the .asp pages spaces consideration gets defecult I've felt

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used this CMS tool for company blog , before this tool there is no template handling ,after this we can easily handle with template side

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 11, 2021
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Nand Kishore P. avatar
Nand Kishore P.
Assistant Consultant
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"Magnolia is best content management platform"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

Magnolia is very strong open source CMS platform which help end user to manage dynamic content e.g. Websites, videos, images, blogs, publishing content to various environments and many more. Its having rich inbuilt features to integrate with many social media platforms and use the contents within out portals. I like the apis available for development its made very easy code for developers.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

There are some areas where magnolia team would be need to more focus on the adoption of new changes more frequently as the world is changing very fast. Although they are doing great job in all the way to add improvements, I appreciate it.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have done digital transformation for an legacy java portal

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 08, 2021
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"I am a certified Associate Magnolia Developer"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

It has prebuilt libraries which help a lot in smooth content migration.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Sometimes, I find the UI difficult to use.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used it for website content migration. It has less dependencies.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 30, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Jagruti P. avatar
Jagruti P.
Senior Analyst
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"Magnolia : Open source, Powerful and robust Java based Content management system(CMS)"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

- I never thoughts that Java has fantastic CMS like "Magnolia" compare with other languages its easy to use and learn, I just learned basic level of Magnolia CMS in two to three days as its just have good User Interface to handle content. -Powerful and robust content management platform. -Customizable based on user needs. -Updates available based on new changes. -Any developer with basic knowledge of Java and JSP can assemble and create website. -Secure and provide the multisite support.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Sometimes if we have update template and other layout related things for example replacing of textbox control with drop down box or list box with some default value, it will update other component alignment as well and forcefully need CSS change externally to handle user interface rest things well and good.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

- It has been used as a Web Content Management tool for the Milan, Italy's fashion platform which is very big fashion company. - It provides the multisite support for the multiple website using the single platform for example I have used for four different language. - Creation of common templates which could be used across all the sites.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 21, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Stojan P. avatar
Stojan P.
Senior Developer And Consultant
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"Magnolia got me started in my Web Development career"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

Easy to setup and use. The editorial part is very intuitive and the pool of modules to use is enough to start with the essential business functions. Development environment allows adding new functionalities by extendint the existing or implementing new modules. Overall a complete Content Managment System with great focus on Business services and values.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

The system is a bit heavy for smaller sites.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability of a client to manage their own sites. Easy editing and publishing functions.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Apr 23, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
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Emma W.
Senior Software Engineer
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"Powerful and robust content management platform."
What do you like best about Magnolia?

One of the easiest content management platforms to use for launching and creating new applications and websites. It helps me to share our projects completely or even have of the features apart as well. It is specially built for your heavy integration. It is an open-source platform and provides your cloud storage. No data loss and it is user-friendly easy to understand. It is a web-based app so it is easy to access from anywhere and anytime. It has a backup which gives you free space and saves your content from being messed up.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

It has a lack of dashboard for administration and no workflow information is shown. Implementations in the admin user interface are quite difficult. Migration from previous releases is expensive and hard. Some of its version is not compatible with its older versions. If you want to uninstall any module it would be messy. You must need 2 databases one for file systems as well. The admin interface is very hard to use. The first setup of magnolia CMS seemed very confusing.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Magnolia is a powerful centralized platform to help users to deliver their digital experiences related to their brands and business. It provides a user content management system and this helps in creating and delivering new features of your project or even a whole project even without java. With the help of Magnolia, you can easily create apps and launch new websites without creating new content. It helps you deliver your relevant content to the right persons according to their interests.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 29, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
DW
David W.
Founder
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"Magnolia CMS Platform with Best Digital Capabilities."
What do you like best about Magnolia?

This is one of the software that helps users to build the best-advanced websites. Moreover, you can integrate without any trouble through many platforms using this single content management unit. The software allows you the best cloud management services and empowers your business. You can save your content using this software from getting corrupted and the backup can be possible without using any external sources.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Magnolia CMS tool doesn’t support a good administrative panel and even the paid version is very time taking. Thus, there are some amendments that even the premium version needs because this one doesn’t worth the price. There come the incompatibility issues and several installations, management plus plugin issues. Therefore, the developers should address these issues as soon as possible.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is the software with a bundle of premium specifications and it is quite stable for use. Additionally, you will get the top purchaser services and get to manage multiple websites using this single platform. This software provides multiple language support and stable content transaction.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 03, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Najiba H. avatar
Najiba H.
Software Engineer
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"My experience of using with magnolia for 1 year"
What do you like best about Magnolia?

I liked the ability to create custom apps, store data in those apps. It reduces the overhead of adding a new database and gives more customisation power.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Using react or angular with magnolia makes it very slow. Most of the UI development must be done using plain html and jquery.

What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it for managing dynamic content on our websites. The marketing team can change stuffs without contacting dev team. They can easily add/remove components, change content of static pages like about us , control styling to a certain extent, change banners, temporarily add offers etc.