Craft CMS Reviews & Product Details

The back end is user-friendly and once you get a good-looking website it is extremely easy to keep it up to date. We are not web designers, but we don't want to have to pay our web designer each and every time we have an update. The few problems we have had (see below) were relatively easy to fix.

Recently we were hacked, and we had a fake landing page for a scam website added to our page randomly. That was not fun. For a platform that bills itself as a more secure alternative to WordPress, that was disheartening. I know there's no such thing as a hacker-proof site, but still!

We moved off of WordPress when it became clear that it created security risks and was not ADA or GDPR compliant. Our web developer suggested Craft CMS as a solid alternative.

It's easy to navigate around. Searching on domain makes it quick to see if a company is a member.

The hesitation you get sometimes when it's searching for the domain / company name / user. It can be annoying because it doesn't look like anything is matching. You go to start a new search and as you are hitting the enter, your last search starts to appear. Doesn't happen often, but when it does it just wastes time to have to go back and enter it again.

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Craft comes to you like a new born child. Empty and waiting for you to fill it will goodness and knowledge. You build exactly what you want and Craft lets you control exactly what the browser spits out. Craft is like taking all your legos, spilling them in a big pile, and then going to town and building whatever comes into your mind. Craft can managed what metadata you want it to, you are not locked into a preinstalled program. Craft also comes with a built in security that makes another CMS look down right sad. Put simple, craft is Building instead of Manipulating.

There is a bit of a learning curve to Craft and while that is to be expected, I had to pick something to place here. The price can also be an issue, while $299 may seem cheap compared to some. I find with small businesses it becomes a issue. Craft's content table is just a bit of let down as well. There is also the The Ugly Data. After careful curation of Fields, Field Groups, and to which Entry Types they are assigned, each Field becomes a new column in this table and fill them all with NULL data.

Craft CMS has really allowed me to let my design idea take off. I am no longer boxed in by the developers box. I can really build a site instead of manipulating someone else's framework. Many of my clients have heard of wordpress and come in look it. Craft offers a simple and easy to use backend interface, maybe a little more advanced than wordpress but simple enough for my average client to use and manage their own website. With the flexible of twig I have been able to develop power websites with no limitations from the CMS.

Intuitive interface with important backend features (SEO, page ranking); easy to organize tiles for feature pages. Scalable—easy to build new pages. For all intents and purposes, I could use Craft without needing development support 95% of the time.

Text formatting is challenging—always running into snafus with styling. New page formats were challenging to build (required dev work)

As someone with limited tech skills, I appreciate that I can use Craft without needing development support

Craft was set up for us by a dev team and has quite a few pre-built things we can pull from. As a marketer, there is a lot I would not be able to create on my one. That being said, with what is already created, the drag and drop blocks are awesome, the UI is very clean and easy to navigate.

I’d prefer to be able to create pages from scratch but cloning is much more straight forward. I also wish there was something really easy to use for forms within Craft. We use HubSpot and I think we pay too much money for HubSpot to simply use it to embed forms into our Craft instance.

Just like any website, you need a CSM. Craft is a simple go-to and we’re able to quickly get pages up and running from both our marketing and dev teams.

It's easier and a lot easier to arrange and index content for SEO purposes.

There have been some issues with redirects, images and imported information.

We use Craft CMS for our website and related blog. It's very clean and sleek and we don't need an excessive number of plug-ins compared to wordpress.

Great system with a flexible interface that allows for customization and creative use.

Admin interface UX could be improved to facilitate ease of use and content management for inexperienced users.

We've created a completely custom event management platform based off of craft to manage data, front end website and data collection. It has allowed us to streamline our workflow and processes and has contributed significantly to successful event operations and management.

Our team has found Craft to be a huge asset when building larger scale custom sites. There are very few restrictions for our developers and limitless options when building out a fully editable CMS where our clients can eventually adapt, change and setup limitless pages within a working system.

Craft is a great solution to provide flexibility, but that flexibility makes it very easy for clients to mess up a site once the CMS has been handed over. There are a lot of pieces to manage but it has been better than most of the other CMS options we have tried.

The ability to adapt pages and create a larger system that doesn't feel too "theme-y" when creating custom sites is a clear benefit. Our programmers are better able to control the end look of pages and match the creative team's designs. Craft allows for highly editable pages and design with modules that can easily be reordered on a page which alyas seems to be a key benefit to clients.

We worked with developers to design a website platform on Craft that we could easily manage and edit. I love that it's customized to our design and experience.

For minor edits and layouts working with Craft is great. When developing more complex pages or changing templates, it requires a developers help. This is something that we hopefully will be able to move past.

We were able to build a beautiful and compelling site that's easy to navigate and edit on the backend. We have saved time and money by working with Craft. We also have a platform that is user-friendly, which is imperative for the up-keep of the site and new users to the platform.

Very intuitive software, easy to navigate and find different areas for editing. It's easy to select elements to add and arrange, enable or disable content. I can easily link to other entries and find them quickly. I especially like how I can organize different sections as well as rearrange documents in the asset manager.

I have difficulty editing text at time. I'll place my cursor on content and when I start typing it jumps to a different area. I have to remember to clear the cache when making edits to menus. Sometimes it's difficult getting the URL from an asset I uploaded such as a word doc so I can share with colleagues for other uses.

Flexibility of posting articles with ability to post in future at a specific time. It's also helpful having articles expiration dates so I can reduce the number of entries on various pages. The software design is making it possible for other staff with less technical background be able to edit various parts of the website, increasing our efficiency as an organization.

When Craft is operating properly, the application is effective and easy to use.

Craft has an ongoing issue of crashing for long periods of time. Often times, I will have to start and refresh the app multiple times before I have a usable interface.

Craft makes it easy to navigate a full lead pipeline and manage existing clients.

I like that with the help of our development team, we can ad any custom field that we would like.

We occasionally experience weird bugs with text formatting, and user images disappearing.

The hard work put in to set up the CMS how you would like up front pays dividends down the road for the average non-developer user.

Multiple users and log onto the same website and make edits

Multiple users can’t make changes on the same page at the same time; structure/UX

Blogging, custom landing pages

Very easy to use back-end interface. Very flexible - if you can design it, you can have it built.

If your developer doesn't code the functionality, it doesn't exist out of the box. So, make sure whoever you partner with gives you things like a fully functioning WYSIWYG if you want to be able to bring site updates and maintenance in house but don't have a developer.

this platform was chosen before me, so i am not sure why certain choices were made, but i believe that the powers that be were sold on the fully customizable, developer friendly platform not realizing that they were signing up for lots of very expensive updates.

I like the preview mode that is available while editing

I dislike the lack of freedom of the software

Designing the school website has been easier