mura DXP Reviews

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.

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.

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.

MURA is highly customizable CMS, although a strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and ColdFusion is beneficial.

Lack of quality plugins can be frustrating.

Moved from an all static website to the Mura Content Management System.

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.

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.

We needed customized layouts and design to integrate an older event calendar system into our website seamlessly, and Mura handled it beautifully.

In our work every client needs a customised CMS, one that specifically performs the transactional integration that the business needs to operate ... whilst at the same time providing rock solid web content functionality. MuraCMS has been crafted to allow developers to leverage off a solid foundation using plugins. Mura's structure is elegant allowing complex web applications to be built on top of its already highly functional core. We also love Mura for its stability.

There is very little to call out about Mura. It's open source, has a strong community behind it and moves with the times. Yes, there's a learning curve to become expert in how to best customise output, use iterators effectively, but that's all worth it when applied across multiple business challenges.

If you're looking for a rapid application development platform for a bespoke CMS solution, do not dismiss the MuraCMS and Lucee server solution. It's fast and stable, elegant in its design, modern in its adoption of new UI elements and functionality and easily extended.

Mura CMS has allowed us to provide robust supply chain solutions with extranet capability built in for retailers, manufacturers and suppliers. We've also delivered subscription based functionality, again using extranet toolset that's built into the Mura core. The benefit of using Mura has allowed us to focus on the specialisation needed to meet project requirements. Using Mura has relieved us of the worry about trusting things like security and approval workflows, we mostly used these 'out of the box' with little or no modification.

So many CMSs and web based requirements are already baked into Mura. It is a strong CMS base that has endless possibilities. I have yet to say, "Mura can't do that." Though it has a base in ColdFusion, it can be completely used without any CFML. It has a strong API that allows you to use Mura anyway you want!

It isn't what I dislike about Mura, it is that I dislike that more people have not embraced Mura. This largely is not Mura's fault.

Even if Mura and Coldfusion is new to you, I say just jump in. BlueRiver is great to work with, Mura is a great product, and Coldfusion lets a developer code faster and with less resources (lines of code). Even if you don't want to use ColdFusion you can utilize the API to do what you want.

Web CMS - Many people can manage the web content, technical and nontechnical alike.

App Base - custom apps can utilize the Mura core and API to expanded on top of it to do so many things. We use it for arrest records, media postings, product tracking, quiz taking, reporting, and so much more.

It really is what can't Mura do? If it can't do something, it can easily be customized to do it or used as a base.

The ease of the programme that allows us to map our customer journeys through each service. Also the alert service that tells us when our performance isnt as it should be.

Nothing as yet, keep up the good work...

This is a very good piece of kit that will improve the way your business runs massively. Will continue to use and will let people know about it.

Time saved using the diagnostic capabilities to identify root-cause down to the individual line of code

Mura is very simple to use yet super powerful. The fact that we can use an unlimited number of sites with a single Mura installation is a must that allows us to host many language versions of the same site very easily.

What I like the most in Mura is the comprehensiveness of the feature set. It means that we need very few plugins (if any at all) to run exactly the site we need, which makes updating the system a breeze.

The front-end editing capabilities are of great help to author our pages and blog post directly in the context into which they will be viewed.

The content staging feature allows us to work on a set of pages and to test them out extensively before going live.

Mura is written in CFML, which is both its strength and its weakness. CFML is one of the best language for developing a dynamic website, but the CFML community is quite small and the language adoption is far from doing justice to the awesomeness of the language.

We have used the amazing Display Objects to develop our own training video hosting application on top of Mura, and we have more developments in mind.

Mura is an extremely flexible CMS and easy to customize to individual client business requirements. Mura comes with at least 90% of what I need for most of the B2B websites I create for clients. Mura provides its tool set and gets out of the way allowing the developer to be creative in the way they solve client challenges.

There really isn't much to dislike, the documentation is solid and has been a focus for the Blue River team with recent releases. Occasionally there is something that seems to be missing or needs clarification and that is where the community comes in. The Blue River team, especially Matt, Steve W. and Michael E., are regularly seen jumping in to quickly help users when there are questions regarding implementation of the latest features or those on the bleeding edge.

Install, read and refer to the documentation and ask questions on the Slack channel or Google Group.

I use Mura on a daily basis for all websites I create and maintain unless the client specifically dictates another platform. Mura allows me to quickly develop and deploy new or redesigned websites for clients and give them a way to manage their content in an intuitive way using the backend content management tools or the frontend layout manager & editor. I have used Mura for simple brochure-like websites, complex user/community-based review sites with thousands of products and tens of thousands of users as well as large business to business multi-lingual websites.

Mura is great out of the box but it is also easily extendable. Even without code you can do a lot. With coding you do almost anything building off easy to use content management tool for even the most technically illiterate. You can even build an application in and language and call content through it's API. There has been nothing I couldn't make it do. It's even Docker/container ready.

Restricting content and managing users can be a little cumbersome, but it is a minor annoyance. However easily fixed by integrating with AD or Saml pretty easily.

All my company's public web properties use Mura so the business can maintain content without the need for technical support. We build to enforce the brand so they don't have to worry about it. For our Java applications they can pull content from Mura remotely without needing to build content management into their application at all.

We even have aMura application to setup redirects like bit.ly and manage maintenance/outage pages. This reduced thousands of network redirects that were difficult and costly to manage in the routers.

When someone here needs something quick Mura is normally where they go first.

I'm an experienced ColdFusion developer who was looking for a CMS that would support a fairly large site with a number of editors. I've been impressed with the ease of designing and developing the site, the tools for creating users and groups and assigning permissions, and the ease of integrating files into the overall site. We're developing a new site for the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu), which provides open-access publications such as books and scholarly journals. We have a few thousand PDF files. I was able to link to these files easily using some virtual directories.

Not much. It can be difficult to move from relying fully on CFML and scripting, but that's to be expected with a CMS. One great thing: I'm able to make calls to our databases (we use both MySQL and SQLServer) using display objects, which can be integrated easily into a page.

I wanted to be able to shift the workload to a larger group of editors and reviewers. This is working extremely well.