Mura CMS Reviews & Product Details

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.

The realistic finished results in order to people feel it

Nothing specific, keep on growing and doing a good job!

Yo better show what I want to transmit in trendy and fashion

It works really well for me as a teacher to manage the classroom site in this technology age! In particular it is great how the website can be modified to display in different languages which is particularly useful for those EAL students and parents.

It can be challenging at first to use for the technology novice amongst us. I had to have lots of help from the IT guys at school to get it to do what I wanted. Though once it is on, it is a really smooth process!

Managing to display classroom information in multiple languages, use of the event registration sign up for parents' evening and trips, text message notification as reminders for parents with outstanding requests.

The technical support and creative thinking to achieve the goal.

It can be challenging using some of the older versions to easily create features that are pretty standard today.

Event details and easy for the user to find and utilize.

Mura is a full featured CMS, which is to say, it can handle the complexity of enterprise level websites. From user permissions to a custom page types, contact forms, multiple site administration, etc. It's modern, extendable, and has a really responsive team behind it. It's CFML based, which might be a negative for PHP developers, but is a fantastic for CFML teams, because you can customize and extend it as needed. I also like that it is a mature product that is still under active development.

Disclaimer; Users of the CMS would likely not experience these as issues; this is more from a developer perspective. While reviewing the code, to see if we would be utilizing it internally, there were some design decisions, both on the front and back end, that we found questionable. Additionally, like a lot of older, full-featured content management systems that were designed to handle a wide-range of use cases, the code felt bloated in places.

We were looking for a full featured, customizable, CFML based content management system (CMS). The end goal was building and supporting a fast, modern website, and making it easy for our content/non-tech team to manage the site. While we ended up going in a different direction (custom, in-house CMS), Mura certainly does fit that description. It's a fantastic product.

I like the ease of use and the ability to manipulate the tables easily

The handling of photos can be problematic. It's sometimes difficult to get the right padding and spacing in the wysiwyg

I build most of our webpages on several sites. I do product development. Mura has made it possible for me to work faster because I don't have to wait for a coder to get things done.

It is easy to customize Mura to fit the needs of your company. You can easily extend or connect it to an external API to render pages based on the result of an AJAX request. I was very surprised I could do that and pair it with query strings to get exactly what you want displayed on a page an it took me only one afternoon to accomplish. Also, the fact that I can put cfml code in my templates is simply awesome. I am not a Cold Fusion developer, but I got that done pretty fast. Mura's SEO capability is also pretty good. I got a customer's site to easily show on first in all search engines using the SEO stuff in Mura. Good work!

The text editor has been improved a lot, but CK Editor already had its days. It would be great to switch to something that's React based. I would also love to have database bindings for SQLite. I also still can't figure out how to use Mura's API features to return the page body using an AJAX request. I wish there was a feature that allowed me to embed components into a theme. The only way to do this now is probably with a site bundle.

I run a non-profit website and one customer website with Mura. SEO is really great! I was very unhappy when my organization decided to switch to Mura, but at that point we had static websites still made with FrontPage, but over the years, Mura grew on me. I like it much more now, so much that I use it for freelance projects as well.

Easily and effectively design web pages, no need to write lengthy code for that.

Thought it has mobile friendly layouts, I felt bit challenging to use it.

I used it for web development.