Mura CMS Reviews & Product Details

Mura is very easy to set up , configure and deploy. Compared to Wordpress and Drupal, making edits and adding new pages is very easy for the end user with little CMS experience. When it comes to extending/creating content types and integrating custom code nothing comes close to being as easy. We've worked with a dozen CMS packages over the past decade and Mura is our "go to " when client ask. Support from Mura and their Google group is second to none. We've had issues with making something work and the Mura techs have replied with code solving out problem!

Unfortunately the community is small compared to the more popular CMS systems. This is not a fault of Mura but rather CF.

Deploying multi language sites or having clients that have a need to have multiple public facing or private sites yet want to share content across each. Was very simple to set up and maintain.

Using content beans and iterators makes Mura CMS a very comfortable tool to work with. I can set up a custom website within a day and quickly react on our client's requirements. Once finished, I can return to our bigger intranet projects where I'm using the whole set of Mura's functionalities.

Despite some older features that most likely will be revamped in the near future, I'm very happy with the way Mura CMS is and where it's going to.

We're using Mura CMS to set up websites quickly but also to realize bigger web-based projects such as intranets.

Mura allows us to have a standard framework to prop up a site easily, and between themes, templates, and components, make a site to the exact customer specifications.

Sometimes our users get themselves into trouble with so many customizable options laying around.

Have a generic, updatable codebase to initialize a site with cms capabilities.

Mura has a number of powerful features built in that are easy for novices to grasp, so content managers can focus on managing their content, not mastering technical complexities. At the same time, it is a very extensible platform that allows significant customization so power users can get exactly what they want. It's also designed to ensure that most customizations can be made without touching the core files, so upgrading the core to the latest version is straightforward.

Because it's a free tool, and we don't pay for support, it sometimes takes a little while to get answers to questions. That said, it's only been an issue when I'm deep in the guts of the site trying to extend some functionality - for the vast majority of users, all of their questions will be addressed through the extensive documentation and online forums.

We are supporting multiple client sites with users who are technically competent but not interested in becoming technology experts - they just want to be able to deliver their content effectively. Mura lets them do what they do best, and makes it easy for them to manage their web presence.

Works on both Lucee and Adobe platforms. Very extensible once you understand the underlying concept. It is a true CMS not just for blogging although you can do that too. Version 7 has so many improvements, especially with the way to manage content objects. The more I use it the more I love it.

Things have actually gotten better since my first review. They have so much improved things. However, this is what I still do not like. Still difficult to figure out how to customize various aspects of the process.

We use MURA extensively for all of our web clients. So far we have built over 50 sites using the MURA platform. From simple sites to e-commerce sites. Training clients on the use of the admin is pretty simple and you can lock clients down to varying levels to prevent them from doing anything that could potentially harm their own site.

Im involved in the healthcare software systems for more than 15 years and was looking for a CMS system for my organization which I can easily modify according to our needs. Well Mura fitted all my needs as it's open sourced and free. You can basically contribute to its development. Very professional and polite training staff. It's ideal for a healthcare based system.

If you compare with other CMS systems it has not as many widgets and plugins but you can create them as it's open sourced.

As there are many enterprise level applications in our healthcare environment, Mura helps us in tackling them in parallel. It's ideal for both Intranet and Internet systems.

It's very easy to use and very easy to develop for should you feel the need.

The number of redundant files that are created every time you create a new site.

We use it to host websites for many of our clients. It provides a very good interface for a multi-tenant CMS.

Awesome out of the box, yet easy to customize. Themes and plug-ins are easy to implement. Customers are not intimidated by the interface and can update content easily. The Blue River team is great to work with if you need help and their conferences are always very informative. I always come away with a renewed energy to get more clients using Mura - I have three additional clients using it since the last MuraCon (Feb 2016). Yay! Hosting providers (especially Hostek) are very easy to work with - I'm not a system administrator by trade, but their interface is easy to navigate and the support is outstanding.

Not much, except sometimes you have to dig a little when customizing. Would be nice if eliminating index.cfm from the URLs and Data Collection object 'date entered' field were OTB options, similar to how you can implement SSL with just a radio box check.

Ease of updating content for customers, quick turn around for new features, quick time to market.

It's very easy to install and get up and running, especially if your hosting company offers a one-click install option.

Sometimes when upgrading from one version to another there are glitches. As with any CMS, you should backup the site files and database prior to performing an upgrade.

We use Mura and Mura plugins to run online conference attendee and vendor registration.

Ease of use, the ability to customize anything, the plugin architecture, and the fact that I've been running it for seven years and it's been stable and crash free the whole time.

My main dislike was addressed in later builds of version 6 with the JSON API. One thing I would like to see added is the ability to generate static pages.

The main problem we initially had to solve was the classic intranet issue of managing and delivering content that is authored by many different entities. We have currently have about 4,000 pages and documents that are handled by around 100 authors. Mura does that out of the box. The problems we solve now are more complex. We use the plugin architecture to add javascript applications such as a facilities work order system, financial calculators, dynamic forms and financial decisioning tools. The plugin system makes it simple to incorporate the apps into the intranet (important to maintain branding and let users know that they are on the internal secure network) and take advantage of the user data that Mura tracks (and can be extended). Mura is acting as an app hub that handles users, security, styling and general framework responsibilities.