Craft CMS

One of the best mid market CMS platforms

What do you like best? Extremely flexible CMS that doesn't feel like you are hacking it to accommodate requirements. Come with a great blend of base features, so it doesn't feel like you have to remove features that seem in the way. What do you dislike? Wish there was a cloud hosting offered, so we could just hand off clients vs setting up and maintaining the host for each client. In our experience, Craft often gets compared to Umbraco in the .NET world and they provide that offering. ...

Awesome CMS

What do you like best? Flexibility, great functionality to add custom fields. Matrix field is amazing. Beautiful mark up with twig. Documentation is easy to read and there's tons of great examples. Tons of great people on the stack exchange that respond to your questions in just a couple of hours. What do you dislike? It still feels a little barebones in some ways. For example you can create a front-end entry form, yet some fields aren't supported which makes it hard to create front-end ...

Highly refined, minimal friction

What do you like best? * Very easy install * Updates to the CMS happen from within, no uploading files * Superior UI * Superior asset management * Few or no add-ons needed to accomplish common tasks (unlike ExpressionEngine What do you dislike? * There are a few features missing, like cloning fields * Not as well known as better-established CMS, so it can be a harder sell for some clients Recommendations to others considering the product Just get it and start playing. What ...

The best in town (if you like PHP and crave full control over your frontend code)

What do you like best? The CMS is built around a very good implementations of Custom fields and let you write frontend code as you like, without adding any html bits whatsoever! What do you dislike? Craft 2 is a little bit slow for my taste. Also plugins does not have a common repository (but Craft 3 will have it's own plugin store. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I created upon it small to medium sites with custom layouts and logic

Very easy to navigate in Craft

What do you like best? It's easy to navigate around. Searching on domain makes it quick to see if a company is a member. What do you dislike? 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 ...

Craft - Building instead of Manipulating

What do you like best? 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 ...

Craft makes complex CMS builds enjoyable

What do you like best? Craft CMS gives me access to powerful php and twig functionality in the templates without the convoluted nature of Expression Engine. What do you dislike? Craft has few things about it that I dislike. BK and the team at P&T have made it usable from top to bottom. Recommendations to others considering the product Give it a try because it has more power and security than wordpress and more usability than expression engine. There are now drawbacks to other CMS systems ...

Craft is a Great CMS but Needs Dev Work

What do you like best? 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. What do you dislike? 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 ...

Craft is a Great CMS but Needs Dev Work

What do you like best? 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. What do you dislike? 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 ...

From Wordpress to Craft CMS

What do you like best? It's easier and a lot easier to arrange and index content for SEO purposes. What do you dislike? There have been some issues with redirects, images and imported information. Recommendations to others considering the product Take time to learn everything, but the learning curve is not very big What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We use Craft CMS for our website and related blog. It's very clean and sleek and ...