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What is Mura CMS?

Content-focused software that drives business performance. Mura CMS is a cloud-based, content management platform to build and deploy web and mobile experiences faster and easier. Trusted worldwide by over 5000 companies such as Intuit, CSX, US Senate, NATO, Scientific American, & nvoicepay. Mura CMS Is Built to Meet Your Needs Powerful: Powerful features out-of-the-box allow you to build quickly without custom development. Flexible: Headless, decoupled, or integrated configurations to meet your content publishing needs. Scalable: Multi-site management, extendable architecture, and robust APIs allow Mura CMS to grow with your content needs. Secure: Mura’s cloud services provide your business with the highest levels of security and compliance.

Mura CMS Details
Languages Supported
Arabic, German, English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Digital Experience Platform

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Mura CMS is...

Easy like WordPress, but without the overhead and security risk.
Flexible like Drupal, but without the complexity.
Robust like Adobe Experience Manager, but without the bloat.
Headless like Contentful, but great for non-technical users.


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Year Founded
2001
HQ Location
Austin, US
Twitter
@MuraExpPlatform
674 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
1 employees on LinkedIn®

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Glenn B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Mura is excellent for our entire website web pages"
Mura allows us to have a consistent overall theme for our entire site. We are able to selectively control access to certain web page areas for acc...
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"Highly customizable CMS"
MURA is highly customizable CMS, although a strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and ColdFusion is beneficial.
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Glenn B.
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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

Mura allows us to have a consistent overall theme for our entire site. We are able to selectively control access to certain web page areas for access to restricted data. We are able to set up specific web editors for all our department teams, who are assisted by our web support/webmaster team. the system allows us to ensure web accessibility compliance, be mobile-friendly, and arrange pages easily for clarity of the information presented to those accessing the pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

There are a lot of features I need to learn to maintain my pages at a higher level of complexity. However, our 2 webmasters are able to show me how to perform those tasks whenever I need to arrange some additional training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our Service areas are able to customize the information presented for each Program area as needed to support all our school customers. We are able to quickly provide access to information our schools need to support their students and grow their skills to provide a better educational environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

The usability and easiness of using Mura CMS, as well as all the functionality that comes out-of-the-box. All of my clients that use Mura CMS to maintain their website have no issue getting used to the administrator interface and I therefor have very little work supporting them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

There is only a limited amount of themes and plugins available on the market. But since it's so easy to create your own or to convert an Bootstrap theme, you can get around this very easily. The same counts for the plugins. Nearly everything you might need is already available out-of-the-box and if not, Mura CMS is easily extendable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mura CMS:

Mura CMS is a great CMS to use for custom site development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've bootstrapped a lot of websites very quickly with Mura CMS. And the great thing is that, once the sites get bigger, Mura CMS keeps a perfect solution to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

Mura CMS provides superior customization and flexibility in website design & development and integrates well with other platforms so you really do have complete control over the entire website experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

It would be nice to have more detailed documentation in some specific instances, but Mura Support is excellent. Our organization is very pleased with their product and will be using Mura for many years to come. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed customized layouts and design to integrate an older event calendar system into our website seamlessly, and Mura handled it beautifully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

MURA is highly customizable CMS, although a strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and ColdFusion is beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

Lack of quality plugins can be frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moved from an all static website to the Mura Content Management System. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John S.
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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

Mura CMS has a great feature set and is very easy to customize to meet site requirements. It has a long history and is about to release version 7. The development team behind the product is fantastic and eager to help potential developers and users of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

As it is CFML-based, it does not have the adoption rate of some other CMS's available. This limits the plugins that exist in the wild when compared to other platforms such as Wordpress and Drupal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mura CMS:

If you want to use either Adobe Coldfusion or Lucee, Mura CMS is one of the best options for a CMS framework. It is used by many and has strong user support and also has a strong development track record. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Mura CMS to run a large non-profit website that features many different types of content, forms and e-commerce capabilities. Mura has added features over time and allowed us to provide more functionality for our staff and end users. We have also worked with the developers, Blue River Interactive, on a responsive theme for our site and they were a pleasure to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mallory T.
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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

As a marketing professional, I want a website that looks clean, user-friendly and professional. However, I don't want to spend time on coding or development. Mura removes the burden of learning the technical skills and allows me to focus on what I do best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

I would've liked if there were help resources available: tutorials, tips for optimization, best practices, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mura CMS:

Mura is a cost effective alternative to other software platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before switching to Mura, our team ran into difficulties being able to easily and seamlessly add content to our website due to coding and technical restrictions. The Mura platform allows our team of marketing professionals to act more autonomously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

Stability and performance are usually top notch. Ease of use is also high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

The new licensing model makes it impossible to maintain, moving from open source to a very steep licensing model forces us to rebuild our running sites on a different CMS and spending quite a bit of money on the migration as we cannot offer our customers a CMS that doesn't get security updates anymore Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simple and complex websites for our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

The things I like about this program is that is a versatile tool for content management solution and a cloud-based web hosting with providers like Amazon ready to be used right out of the box, allowing small and large industries to use it for running and manage websites without any issues. It offers a centralized platform for users to automate events, tasks, it has a safe development environment allowing the user to make quick fixes, improvements of functionalities and daily backups of the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

There are not many bad things you can say about the software, it is very intuitive and easy to understand and quickly jump into it, ion top of that it provides not only a solution for web hosting but as an educational and training platform for web developers. But like any cloud hosting-based software, they present their limitations in terms of the resources present in the purchased plan you choose. Customization is somewhat limited since you don't have an extensive palette of templates, at least for the basic plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mura CMS:

With Mura you will be able to create nice looking websites with multiple features depending on your personal taste, given its great potential as a content management system. It's a software very intuitive and easy to use for any user regardless of its technical knowledge, in addition to that it has an excellent communication channel to inform and ask for help to any issues along the way. Overall, the experience I had with Mura CMS is very satisfying, I'm so happy with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mura CMS has greatly facilitated the programming part since i am not skilled enough with coding, it also has giving me the ease of choosing what i want to use on my page, extra features that I would want to add to stand out over the other blogs and generate more visitors, which is so important as a blogger. All this is so practical if you need to create a website to let's for a project that you want to develop and not having the time to spend in a course of months in order to obtain the minimum knowledge to program a website by yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kim P.
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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

Mura has allowed us to quickly update content on the fly and build new pages in hours instead of weeks. One thing that my team enjoys using is the change-set feature. This has allowed us to create temporary changes to the website that are easy to roll-back. It seems the sky is the limit with Mura in terms of your creativity and your vision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

Our implementation was bumpy as we transitioned from our old platforms to Mura. We made our deadline but my team had to put in a lot of extra work that we were not planning on to get there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ownership and control over our website. Ability to make quick changes. Personalization and ABM experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Mura CMS?

It is easy to customize Mura to fit the needs of your company. You can easily extend or connect it to an external API to render pages based on the result of an AJAX request. I was very surprised I could do that and pair it with query strings to get exactly what you want displayed on a page an it took me only one afternoon to accomplish. Also, the fact that I can put cfml code in my templates is simply awesome. I am not a Cold Fusion developer, but I got that done pretty fast. Mura's SEO capability is also pretty good. I got a customer's site to easily show on first in all search engines using the SEO stuff in Mura. Good work! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mura CMS?

The text editor has been improved a lot, but CK Editor already had its days. It would be great to switch to something that's React based. I would also love to have database bindings for SQLite. I also still can't figure out how to use Mura's API features to return the page body using an AJAX request. I wish there was a feature that allowed me to embed components into a theme. The only way to do this now is probably with a site bundle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mura CMS:

If you never used Cold Fusion, learn a little bit of it first, as well as Tomcat and Lucee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mura CMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I run a non-profit website and one customer website with Mura. SEO is really great! I was very unhappy when my organization decided to switch to Mura, but at that point we had static websites still made with FrontPage, but over the years, Mura grew on me. I like it much more now, so much that I use it for freelance projects as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.