Mura CMS Reviews & Product Details

Mura is great out of the box but it is also easily extendable. Even without code you can do a lot. With coding you do almost anything building off easy to use content management tool for even the most technically illiterate. You can even build an application in and language and call content through it's API. There has been nothing I couldn't make it do. It's even Docker/container ready.

Restricting content and managing users can be a little cumbersome, but it is a minor annoyance. However easily fixed by integrating with AD or Saml pretty easily.

All my company's public web properties use Mura so the business can maintain content without the need for technical support. We build to enforce the brand so they don't have to worry about it. For our Java applications they can pull content from Mura remotely without needing to build content management into their application at all. We even have aMura application to setup redirects like bit.ly and manage maintenance/outage pages. This reduced thousands of network redirects that were difficult and costly to manage in the routers. When someone here needs something quick Mura is normally where they go first.

Easily allows for custom design and provides so much functionality built in where other CMSs need to install modules and plug-ins.

Hard to find Mura developers, even though ColdFusionML is a great language and Lucee is super, fast most people are not willing to learn ColdFusion.

I have not found a problem that Mura and a little custom code can't solve

I'm an experienced ColdFusion developer who was looking for a CMS that would support a fairly large site with a number of editors. I've been impressed with the ease of designing and developing the site, the tools for creating users and groups and assigning permissions, and the ease of integrating files into the overall site. We're developing a new site for the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu), which provides open-access publications such as books and scholarly journals. We have a few thousand PDF files. I was able to link to these files easily using some virtual directories.

Not much. It can be difficult to move from relying fully on CFML and scripting, but that's to be expected with a CMS. One great thing: I'm able to make calls to our databases (we use both MySQL and SQLServer) using display objects, which can be integrated easily into a page.

I wanted to be able to shift the workload to a larger group of editors and reviewers. This is working extremely well.

Mura is very simple to use yet super powerful. The fact that we can use an unlimited number of sites with a single Mura installation is a must that allows us to host many language versions of the same site very easily. What I like the most in Mura is the comprehensiveness of the feature set. It means that we need very few plugins (if any at all) to run exactly the site we need, which makes updating the system a breeze. The front-end editing capabilities are of great help to author our pages and blog post directly in the context into which they will be viewed. The content staging feature allows us to work on a set of pages and to test them out extensively before going live.

Mura is written in CFML, which is both its strength and its weakness. CFML is one of the best language for developing a dynamic website, but the CFML community is quite small and the language adoption is far from doing justice to the awesomeness of the language. Few hosting companies proposes ColdFusion hosting, and, for those that do, it is often a little bit more expensive than "regular" web hosting. Hopefully the Mura community is very active and friendly, which compensates for its small size.

We use Mura CMS to power our website in 2 languages (En and Fr). We have also developed a custom Mura Theme, so the site looks just the way we want. We have used the amazing Display Objects to develop our own training video hosting application on top of Mura, and we have more developments in mind. Mura is our single stop shop for all our entreprise web communication needs and it has never let us down!

I love how easy it is to use and change data, files, photos, layout on our home page! Very easy to use and manage. I really like that every year MURA has a conference and offer small group trainings on all the new items that MURA has to offer.

I liked everything about MURA, I have not had any issues that can't be resolved.

It take less time to manage the homepage so that means more time for other activities.

Love the ease of use to manage a site. When a teacher can update their classroom page with ease this is a win for educators. Love how the developers are open and provide insight to the reasoning on why and how they created mura in the way they have.

The learning curve to know how to modify functionality to enhance to our specific needs. When code if found then enhancements are made.

I am solving all business problems with Mura. Event Registration Signup, Text Message Notification to Parents, Teacher Class Websites

The extensibility and flexibility of the software offers a variety of solutions to solve common application build problems you would run into with other software CMS. Mura really does allow the capabilities to build anything ranging from headless applications to large api integrations. Whether your a content editor or developer you'll find Mura easy to use and will have a arsenal of tools at your finger tips. I could list all the great features (Form builder, Content Collections, mura.js, front-end editing, multiple template structures, admin ux, event scope, etc.) of Mura but really the best way to find out is to check it our for yourself.

The lack of bulk editing. Coming from building Wordpress sites, not having a bulk editor took some time to get used too. There are copy and paste tools that help with this missing component so it is not a complete hinderance but a few bulk editing options would be a plus. Aside from that the software is great and has exceeded my expectations and I would never go back to building with Wordpress.

Building sites that are extensible. We want to be able to grow with our clients as they do. Having the ability to easily create new layouts, add admin functionality or add integrations has been a huge win. We can literally tell our clients, most anything is possible, staying in the realm of web technologies.

I really liked that our training was based in a test site. I could test creating what the instructor was teaching. I could also play around with the settings I learned. Gives you great ideas for your own site.

It would be helpful if Mura offered a brief training video on the general overview of a content manager. Login, basic edit option and quick description of the CK editor.

Easy to use content management system. Which is helpful when I am supporting different customers. It has the basic content management needs for creating a website.

I like the admin the best. Our clients love how easy it is to manage their websites!

It's not a very well known CMS so there is always an education with clients on what it is and why it's as great as wordpress.

We are trying to offer custom website solutions on an easy to use, intuitive CMS.

Mura team succeeded to bring a very powerful CMS, very extendable like eZ Publish does, but with a simplicity and an efficient I've never met at this level of maturity in other CMS. The way of creating plugins that allows 3rd party integrator to bring new features directly integrated into the Mura user experience. The version 7 is a big push in the right direction, the "in context" web site edition is a killer feature like the form designer.

Available templates are limited even if like a dozen has been released last year, otherwise almost all you need is available out-of-the-box.

We use Mura CMS to build from simple website to complex e-commerce platform and high class intranet. The users find their way very easily.