Mura CMS Reviews & Product Details

MURA is extremely flexible, allows for extensive customization and is easy for less technical savvy users to use. With many of our pages data driven, we have leveraged MURA's ability to customize pages to streamline data display for hundreds of pages, each set with unique requirements. We have not yet found something a user requested that we were unable to do. With the ability to customize the administration screens for the user we have created functionality such as cloning pages that make the end users job faster and simpler.

There really is not much I don't like. We are extremely happy with this product. It is a learning curve to first learn it, but once you figure it out is is easy to use.. I do wish there was more extensive documentation on how to do things, but I believe they are working on this.

With 60 - 80 programs per term and 3 terms per year, we have hundreds of unique, but often similar, program pages. Each set of program pages might have slightly different content and slightly different data , we were able to build a cloning functionality to build out new terms, allow editing of content on one page to be cloned to other pages as selected. Additionally, any of our other pages are data driven search's and it was quite easy to set these up in MURA. The amount of work it takes to maintain all of these pages has been significantly reduced.

I liked the fact that Mura can be used as a full-blown enterprise CMS as well as a CMS for small websites. You can disable or hide some features for your users or content managers that you don't need, this way you can create a 'light' admin UI for users that doesn't need all bells and whistles. In addition to many features that Mura already offers, I like the "one-click" update button to stay up-to-date with the latest version.

Maybe the fact that there aren't a lot of plugins available can be a disadvantage for decision makers but Mura has a lot of functionality built-in compared to some other content management systems that require a lot of plugins to get the same functionality that Mura offers out of the box. Maybe one plugin that I'm missing is an easy-to-use 'light' eCommerce solution. A lot of plugins can also have a drawback if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest version of your CMS. A bunch of plugins can be deprecated or aren't compatible with the latest version of your CMS so you have to stick with the current version of your CMS or search for alternative plugins.

As a senior CFML developer I was looking for a CFML based open source CMS for a large university college website and intranet website. Mura fits in for all kinds of websites, I have used Mura for small 'one-page' websites as well as large multilingual websites (which requires the free multilingual plugin).

Community - both Blue River and the developer community are great at responding with complete answers. Documentation - Breadth of documentation Simplicity - to get it spun up is easy and adding content is even easier.

Documentation - System is documented well, although to a degree you must know what your looking for most cases which is not always the case. E.G. How do insert something in what would be normally associated with onRequestStarart(). You need understand the evenhandler and the possible methods that can be added. So figuring it in the docs is a little difficult without the first piece.

Wanted to tak developers out of the process when adding "static content", there by saving their cycles for bigger and better tasks

The easiest way I have ever see to edit and manage content. Every customer who uses other cms products are always amazed at how easy and powerful Mura enables them to be.

Not much... Can't really think of anything that is really a problem...

Completely integrated a suite of nice crm / event / other application features seamlessly with Mura CMS...customers are loving the product offerings...

Super easy to customize and very responsive support when I post in the forum. As a consultant I try to be objective and pick the right tool for the job. When clients need a CMS I recommend Mura more often than any other CMS solution.

The number of plugins is currently lower than other platforms but that is growing. The methodology for building plugins is extremely flexible (I can pick any MVC framework I want, or go without one entirely) making the learning curve very low.

I'm porting my older client websites that are "legacy codebases" over to Mura CMS, so everything is standardized. This increases my pool of subcontractors, and makes my team more efficient overall. We're able to share code among projects much more easily and can complete projects more quickly.

Everything is included. Many comparable CMSs require plugins and/or customizations to match the functionality of Mura. Our county reviewed 8+ CMSs ranging from open source to $20,000 a year contracts and Mura beat out the competition hands down.

For Government it does everything we need it to do and more. On a personal level I would like to have closer integrations with social networks, instead of relying on the widgets of the social networks. The other "nice" functionality would be document management with full file search and in browser rendering of files. This partly can be completed with custom code, but it being integrated would help us eliminate the use of Alfresco.

It helps up provide 100+ websites (external and internal). It allows departments to provide online forms and up-to-date information. With custom coding we have have been able to quickly deploy tax bill lookups, animal adoptions, and tracking systems.

The customizability of Mura is great for digging deep on complication implementations.

The are where Mura is lacking is in availability of templates in comparison to other, more well-known systems.

Mura has provided me with a great set of tools to set up and manage my own company's marketing sites as well as sites for my clients.

The plugins and easy extensibility of the built in Mura objects.

Documentation could use to be improved so that it is categorized what is applicable to which version of Mura and there needs to be more documentation in many instances.

We had an aging CMS with no community behind it, so switching to Mura 7 got us into a product that is updated regularly and has a community of users and programmers behind it.

ColdFusion developers are used to solving business problems. But the mundane basics - page creation, user management, plugin/modular approach, end up being slighly skewed with every project, and a new idea in one project ends up difficult to implement in a project you worked on a year or two ago. Enter Mura - a great starting point for EVERY project. With a wide variety of visual templates in both Bootstrap and Foundation to start with, your project starts out looking good. With a wide variety of time-tested features already in place, you can get to work on the customization, since you already have the basics available. And retrofit your new customizations back into prior projects through the plugin architecture... offer old clients new features without having to deal with the specifics of their project from "way back when." Get more done with less code.

Mura 7 is the latest version as of this review, and since we're on the bleeding edge using the Release Candidate, the documentation is still being updated, and bugs are being found and fixed at a rapid pace. The documentation for older versions is laid out in a way that is non-intuitive (is what i'm looking for going to be found in the "for back end developers" or "front end developers" or "content managers" section?) but this is made up for with the community support via the Google Groups. There's a learning curve, no doubt, but if you already know ColdFusion, you'll be just fine.

A wide variety of business problems, from basic websites through to fully realized custom internet and extranet projects. Main benefits are the continued use of a RAD language that I already know, combined with having a very mature and stable starting point for every new project... and getting more done in less time.

Mura provides me a platform where 90% of my work is already done before I ever get started!

There is not much to dislike. Sure, not everyone codes in CFML, but what little coding I actually have to do is front end related and it is easy to pickup.

I provide websites (45) for a large college at a major SEC university. Mura makes my work easy and saves so much time. The better I know my tool, the better I can do my work. Content is available across all sites. Changes to look and feel are easily propagated across all sites.