Mura CMS Reviews & Product Details

Mura CMS provides superior customization and flexibility in website design & development and integrates well with other platforms so you really do have complete control over the entire website experience.

It would be nice to have more detailed documentation in some specific instances, but Mura Support is excellent. Our organization is very pleased with their product and will be using Mura for many years to come.

We needed customized layouts and design to integrate an older event calendar system into our website seamlessly, and Mura handled it beautifully.

MURA is highly customizable CMS, although a strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and ColdFusion is beneficial.

Lack of quality plugins can be frustrating.

Moved from an all static website to the Mura Content Management System.

Easy to use and set up. Great user interface. I like mura as it allows me to customize according to my requirements which really makes it a powerful tool.

Nothing to dislike. I have not faced any issues with Mura. It works perfectly!

Use it to develop website and pages for the client.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Onboarding team helps to make sure you know how to use the software and are set up for success.

There are no outside Mura "how to" materials. If I have an issue, I have to go to support - the team is super helpful I just sometimes wish I could refer to materials for smaller questions rather than have to reach out to the team.

Our last website was hard-coded and required a developer if we wanted to make any changes or build any new pages. Now, as a Marketer, I am able to build out new content myself!

Mura is easy to use and flexible. I enjoy working with it a ton. Honestly, though, what I like best about Mura is knowing there's an awesome team of people behind it, who are always quick to answer my questions.

The Mura support community is strong, and answers to my basic questions about the platform are always available, but it isn't as big as some other options.

Mura makes it easy for us to tell our story dynamically. Also, we have migrated much of our content from external sites (Flipbook, Eventbrite, and so on) seamlessly into our website, making our website's visitors' experiences more coherent.

The simplicity of building a mura page or forms or some other content with drag and drop UI make life a lot easier.

The documentation is confusing and should be better organized.

I'm managing a network of 10 sites with less efforts then before. I really love the multisite option in Mura that let me manage every single site form one backend, I can share object between sites and Ii have less passwsord to remember. Also I need to manage one single database.

Quick and easy to install and set up. Familiar web interface to people used to Wordpress

There isn't much to dislike about a free, open source CMS of this standard, apart from a slight lack of pre-packaged hosting options

Allowing non technical users to manage not just content, but approval and change sets

CMS made easy with a interface that’s simple and user design that makes maintenance straightforward.

Not much except the one time where we were launching something new onto the site and it was hours delayed in uploading.

Maintaining tourism site for state Simple and straightforward for another agency or client to be able to take on.

Mura is simple and easy to use for all content editing and developing needs. You will have all of the tools that you might need in order to make the best out of the websites that you need to create for each client. Front-end editing and templates make it easier to get what you need from Mura. You can even get great results without necessarily being code-savvy.

There’s not really much to dislike. If you come across any issues, the documentation and Support are always on hand to assist.

Mura allowed me to quickly design and develop websites and content for clients and give them a way to manage their sites in an easy and simple way with the front and back end management tools.

Mura has core features that other CMS systems require extensive plugin installation to compare with, it's completely free, and also offers robust end-user training for those of us that are not technically savvy.

Difficulty in finding pre-constructed themes like other CMS systems which requires extensive internal development of themes and customizations.

Mura doesn't look or feel like a standard CMS for our clients, they feel as though they are using a customized website that is purpose-built for their needs.

I've using it to my other coldfusion project I also like how its handle the content, by the use of editor

Learning curve if your new to Coldfusion settings (but it will be straight forward if your experienced)

Business applications and some are clients website that need personalize management on there content

I like that Mura is so stable and easy to deploy sites on. Having used WordPress for work, it always seems like un-secure patchwork that breaks along with the plug-ins with each update. Mura always feels secure, professional, and rock solid. Finally, the user interface is so easy to use and for non-technical users to mange their site content with. I also like that it is backed and developed by Blue River which gives peace of mind for more advanced projects.

I wish more professional website themes were available and it feels like the Mura community is small but proud and dedicated to our CMS.

I am solving memberships promotion and sign-ups for the Woman's Club of Wisconsin (http://www.wc-wi.org), magazine subscriptions and articles for the Vine and the Branches (http://www.thevineandbranches.org), and truck promotions and servicing for truck drivers on the road who use the website extensively through their mobile phones for Lakeside International Trucks (http://www.lakesidetrucks.com).

Making changes to the website is simple and easy.

Limitations include, font styles, sizes, color etc. It can be difficult to customize a change unless it is done on the back end.

The mura platform has certainly transformed our site drastically making it more modern and usable to the consumer.

I like the way Mura is easy customizable and the capability to add your own custom application. I have been training our employees to update the website content. These employees are not web savvy and have had numerous comments about how mura is easy to use. Adding users and maintaining permissions is a breeze! I love the ability to add global components.

I do not like the hover over zoom option always popping up and staying on the screen. It interferes with navigating the system. I also wish there was a way to delete multiple objects with a checkbox select option. I wish we had more options in adding navigation. Right now we have a persistent plugin for navigation and I am having problems ordering that persistent navigation, it only orders in the way that you add it into the system. I also wish they had more supporting documentation. I wish there was a way to manage the search as an admin. I have pages showing up even tho I have indicated them not to display in the search. I wish I could rank the results as an admin to show either highlighted content or more relevant content. I wish I could see more recent content that was update other than just the 5 items that appear on the sidebar on the dashboard.

We have a decent size site for a community college and my time was taken up by updating and maintaining web content. Now that we have a true content management system my time has been freeing up to working on developing and enhancing features on our site.

having editors login and add or change content.

documentation is lacking and problem solving is sometimes a challenge.

great CMS for our magazine, I am finding was to use features every month.