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Community Edition CMS

Free

DX Core

Starting at $3,500.00
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Users consistently praise Magnolia for its ease of use and flexibility, allowing for quick content management and seamless integration across multiple sites. The platform's robust features and intuitive interface enable users to efficiently manage complex digital environments. However, some users note challenges with the administrative interface and documentation, which can hinder the overall experience.
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Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
IL
Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Worked on Magnolia Content management system for an Client for Car Rental web application"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

The multiple features of components, dialog feature, different roles for security purpose and customization of the components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

The dislike is about the documentation and discussion forum other than Magnolia official documentation, there is no other source or discussion forums or help for the guidance of the customization or enhancement required for inbuilt features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav S.
AS
Abhinav S.
Software Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Magnolia - CMS Overview"
4/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

Magnolia comes with a ton of features like any other CMS tool in the market. The one thing that distinguishes this product from its competitors is the ability to develop custom features for enterprise grade applications. It is highly adaptable and can be leveraged with other frameworks quite easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

There is a lesser documentation available on the internet for this tool. Also lots of time you will be doing custom development for which reference resources might be hard to find. Overall a good dedicated team to help you out with your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"A new experience with Magnolia CMS"
4/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

Magnolia CMS is not so difficult to learn. The learning curve is not that high as long as you know the basics. I also like the multi-site setup that they have, it allows us as a developer and as a solutions provider to maintain all sites in one application only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

The only thing I dislike about Magnolia is the documentation. They are not that updated and most of the time we have to look at everything and it is not user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stojan P.
SP
Stojan P.
Senior Developer and Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Magnolia got me started in my Web Development career"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

Easy to setup and use. The editorial part is very intuitive and the pool of modules to use is enough to start with the essential business functions. Development environment allows adding new functionalities by extending the existing or implementing new modules. Overall a complete Content Management System with great focus on Business services and values. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

The system is a bit heavy for smaller sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PP
Pavel P.
Java Programmer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"I have implemented 4 projects with Magnolia CMS"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

It is a Free CMS

It is easy to start

It is fast and good scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Very poor opportunities to modify BPMN workflows.

Very poor opportunities to update hierarchical data.

Very simple to make mistakes during data update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aniket K.
AK
Aniket K.
Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Middleware Development for one of the largest Airline Industry"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

New 6.1 UI, Available components and way we can customise them as our need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

Loading speed can be improved. 6.1 version is little slower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hillary Lynne G.
HG
Hillary Lynne G.
Company Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Better tool for agencies or large organizations"
3.5/5
Verified User in Broadcast Media
UB
Verified User in Broadcast Media
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great CMS"
5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

I like how its easy and flexible the CMS , though you need some time to mentally learn and adapt to the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

documentation not enough for developers if you want to extend the code so it needs some time to understand it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games
AC
Verified User in Computer Games
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Nice to learn and usage for maintaining Blogs or CMs"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

As CMS tool, the way template handling I've impressed very much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

While making the template inside the .asp pages spaces consideration gets difficult I've felt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emma W.
EW
Emma W.
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Powerful and robust content management platform."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Magnolia?

One of the easiest content management platforms to use for launching and creating new applications and websites. It helps me to share our projects completely or even have of the features apart as well. It is specially built for your heavy integration. It is an open-source platform and provides your cloud storage. No data loss and it is user-friendly easy to understand. It is a web-based app so it is easy to access from anywhere and anytime. It has a backup which gives you free space and saves your content from being messed up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Magnolia?

It has a lack of dashboard for administration and no workflow information is shown. Implementations in the admin user interface are quite difficult. Migration from previous releases is expensive and hard. Some of its version is not compatible with its older versions. If you want to uninstall any module it would be messy. You must need 2 databases one for file systems as well. The admin interface is very hard to use. The first setup of magnolia CMS seemed very confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pricing Options

Pricing provided by Magnolia.

Community Edition CMS

Free

DX Core

Starting at $3,500.00
Per Month

DX Cloud

Starting at $6,000.00
Per Month
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