Magnolia Reviews & Product Details

Ease of use of the platform

Powerful integrations with a range of 3rd parties

Fast, stable and secure

Great product support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing some key features required in more complex situations or when needed for mass scale. Great for single sites / single-site -trees. Currently working with approx 200 sites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magnolia is a powerful and robust content management system that helps create custom apps and helps store the data in those apps. It is secure and provides multisite support. It is an open-source platform that provides cloud storage and multi-level security. It also prevents any data loss and due to the presence of a web-based app, it is easier to access it from anywhere. My favourite feature of Magnolia is multi-site management as it helps to manage multiple sites in one place without any hassle. This saves a lot of time for developers as well as solution architects. Another feature I love is it provides smooth content migration which makes the whole process very efficient and hassles free. It also provides multilingual support which basically helps in the wider reach of our product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magnolia user interface is complex to understand which can make its customer lose interest in using it. Magnolia must have a discussion forum to clear the doubts of their clients and to have a healthy discussion about new features and their usage. Also while using angular js with magnolia the whole process becomes very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- I never thought that Java has fantastic CMS like "Magnolia" compared with other languages it's easy to use and learn, I just learned basic level of Magnolia CMS in two to three days as it just has a good User Interface to handle content.

-Powerful and robust content management platform.

-Customizable based on user needs.

-Updates available based on new changes.

-Any developer with basic knowledge of Java and JSP can assemble and create a website.

-Secure and provide the multisite support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes if we have to update templates and other layout-related things, for example, replacing a textbox control with a dropdown box or list box with some default value, it will update other component alignments as well and forcefully need CSS change externally to handle the user interface. Rest things are well and good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to create the pages and manage content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes layout is choppy when adding new components to the page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked the ability to create custom apps, store data in those apps. It reduces the overhead of adding a new database and gives more customisation power. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using react or angular with magnolia makes it very slow. Most of the UI development must be done using plain html and jquery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to plug, Spring Integration with the help of blossom library. Author to Public features, Workflow management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Content node was bit tricky, had issue with publishing data from Author to Public. Only once faced a blocker for which we had a connect with magnolia developers to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magnolia offers a great authoring experience for content writers and thanks to that the road to happy and satisfied customers is already started. For developers, it is quite easy to get familiar with magnolia development environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are not an experienced developer it is very difficult to start and do things in the right way. Even the community is growing in the past years there is still a lot of space for growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its extremely easy to change files on the fly and publish in matter of seconds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be good if somehow there is a way to being able to deploy core files e.g java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magnolia is the powerful, easy and fast way to create and manage the content of your website. With the latest versions and updates, it is even more easy to develop the website using Light-Weight modules and are cloud based. The latest version also provide with the CLI tool for the development. As the end user of the tool, it also provides the multisite support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside I have seen is for the existing user who are using quite outdated version of Magnolia. It is not very easy to migrate from 4.x version to the latest version as there is huge change in internal structure and specification used by the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magnolia is very strong open source CMS platform which help end user to manage dynamic content e.g. Websites, videos, images, blogs, publishing content to various environments and many more. Its having rich inbuilt features to integrate with many social media platforms and use the contents within out portals. I like the apis available for development its made very easy code for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some areas where magnolia team would be need to more focus on the adoption of new changes more frequently as the world is changing very fast. Although they are doing great job in all the way to add improvements, I appreciate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.