DotCMS Reviews

New Hire Navigating dotCMS: A Fresh Perspective

As an employee at a large college within a university, I found that we needed a solution to centralize and organize all our websites. dotCMS provided us with a platform to manage each department's sites, enabling us to share content between different units. We defined content types and used the template tool and widget editor to display these content types in reusable ways. Training regular content creators was initially challenging, but they've become more intuitive over time. We had to customize many solutions ourselves, but dotCMS was very helpful with difficult questions. The software offers ample room for customization, robust templating and layout options, easy file management, personalization features, and the ability to establish workflows for publishing content. It's also reasonably priced for its size. However, it can be complex for non-power users, the documentation can be overwhelming, and the Velocity feature can be limiting when programming certain features. Additionally, while it has a large macro code base, it doesn't always function or stay.

July 27, 2024

dotCMS: A Commitment to Excellence through Continuous Updates

Lastly, the continuous updates and improvements to dotCMS show the company's commitment to providing a top-notch product. It keeps getting better with each update.

July 21, 2024

Enhanced User Access Control: dotCMS Granular Permissions Review

The granular permissions in dotCMS provide excellent control over user access, ensuring security and integrity of our content

July 13, 2024

Efficient Content Management with dotCMS's Push Publishing

I've found the dotCMS's push publishing feature particularly useful for managing content across multiple sites simultaneously. It has saved me considerable time and effort

July 7, 2024

Intuitive CMS with Top-Notch Support, Continually Improving

I find the dotcms software user-friendly due to its folder/html-page style site interface. I value its comprehensive API that employs Java viewtool objects for programmatic interaction and coding with data. I also appreciate Apache velocity as an excellent templating language for front-end development, and the process of creating and managing new structures is simple. However, I find the task of setting up and maintaining permissions quite challenging. I also encounter limitations on datatypes in content structures. While this is understandable, I question why the text limit and date limit should be identical. I frequently hit the text type limit as many field types utilize the text data type. On the other hand, I've only used the date data-type twice in a structure, so I don't see the necessity for 25 date fields.

June 30, 2024

Excellent CMS for the Non-Tech Savvy

As a web developer experienced in frameworks and content management systems like Drupal, WordPress, and Laravel, I find dotCMS ideal for organizations wanting their employees to regularly add content to their website. Its familiar concepts and simple interface make it user-friendly, even for those without specific web development knowledge. The support team is also very polite and responsive. However, from my perspective as a developer, dotCMS is not very developer-friendly. I often find myself copying and pasting code between dotCMS' interface and a text editor like Notepad++ because the built-in code editor fields are too small. Despite its WebDAV support, I've never managed to get it to work, even after numerous attempts on different computers. The closest I've come to getting WebDAV to work is getting a list of all folders in the dotCMS installation, but no files.

June 22, 2024

Commendable Customer Support at dotCMS

The customer support team at dotCMS is commendable for their prompt and helpful service. They've assisted me in navigating through complex issues with ease

June 18, 2024

dotCMS: A Scalable and Integrated Content Management Solution

I've been impressed with dotCMS's scalability, it has effortlessly kept pace with the growth of my business. The software's seamless integration with third-party applications has enhanced its functionality and made it a one-stop solution for all my content management needs

June 10, 2024

dotCMS: A Powerful and Adaptable Content Management System

I appreciate dotcms's content model for its flexibility and power in structuring our website content and its adaptability to our business needs through plugins. However, I find its administration complex and challenging, requiring more resources to operate and making upgrades difficult.

June 2, 2024

dotCMS: A Powerful CMS and Development Platform for Large-Scale Enterprises

I use dotCMS to manage over two dozen websites and web applications. It's integrated with our custom internal tools and various third-party integrations like Eloqua, Taleo, and Google's complete SEO toolset. We also link it with numerous APIs and backend infrastructures. The flexibility and toolset that dotCMS offers give our team many options and ways to integrate with our complex ecosystem. However, I believe dotCMS may not be suitable for small teams due to its complexity and the vast array of features it provides, which can make it difficult to get started with.

May 26, 2024