A Complete Review Of Magnolia Content Management System

A good CMS is sometimes hard to come by, with all of the current and new content management systems claiming to be a one in all package, yet fail to deliver on all counts or just flat out lie about their capabilities, ease of use and features provided, its great to see a well rounded, easy to use system, such as Magnolia Content Management.

Magnolia offers a versatile, easy to use and flexible CMS platform for anyone working with content management. It is built in Java and its open sourced, providing a stable and secure framework to work upon.

It provides its user with the ability to develop websites and a variety of networks such as intranets and extranets.

It has a growing community and decent coverage, but still remains a relatively new CMS on the market, which negatively shows on its extension variety, which are lackluster.

Since it is a Java based program, some knowledge of Java will be required, but past that, Magnolia offers a smooth transition into the working space of the program itself.

With its wide range of tools, Magnolia will take some time to truly grasp and integrate into, so if you are looking for a small-scale website project without too much hassle, there are better CMSes out there for you, but if you truly want to work with workflow, versioning, environment , staging etc. which are all important points when making a professional website, then Magnolia is the right tool.

Magnolia is open, flexible and extensible. Using Java API, REST, SOAP, CMIS, XML, etc. makes it possible to integrate other software or legacy data, further improving the ease of use of this program.

Its low resource consumption compared to other CMS programs also further this program's merits, allowing it to run on some older configurations of computers, furthering its flexibility.

The only problem that this program has is its lack of a dashboard, which can impede the workflow of the project and can cause general disorganization and lack of representation, coupled with some problems with migration the program to a newer version, but other than that it is all smooth sailing with Magnolia CMS.

 

In closing, the Magnolia CMS offers a well-rounded package of well-defined traits that may seem too much or too few to some, such as the abundance of features or the lack of a dashboard and some UI functions respectively, but this CMS is one of the better ones currently on the market without a shadow of a doubt and if this program continues its development and upgrades with the pace and care that its currently taking, we can only hope and wait for this program to develop into a great CMS for anyone currently on the market for a defined and easy to use Content Management System, so if you still haven't tested Magnolia, be sure to take it out for a spin and see the results first hand.