OpenCms Reviews

Easy and fast to learn. Allows to develop websites really fastly. The use of Content Definitions was very useful. Many interesting features, easy to understand and reuse. Summing up: I really recommend the product.

I had to extend the BackOffice in order to manage our contents and to add new functionalities to the website, and at that time, I needed help from forums and community in order to learn how to do some advanced details. After solving everything the result was great, and we used this knowledge in further projects.

Create websites with many posibilities simplified; multilanguage, multisite, reuse of styles, easy to organize contents, structure, and many other aspects.

Easy and intuitive use, many personalization, wide community

it fitted all of our goals in terms of usability and communication goals

As a final user, we bought a customized release from a web agency, which played a key role in succesfull use of the platform

as a pubblic entity as big as 800 employees, we built a coordinated system made of more than 20 little website, managed a widespread editorial board thank to the opencms tools and their ease of use and ease of teach.

The ability to create a one time template and then spawning multiple websites using the template

1. Open source

2. Based on Java

3. Content Authoring

4. Permission Management

5. Template Creation

6. Version Control

You can invest once to make the website template and you will needed few minutes to made to change the website content multiple times.

The version that we used does not support the HTML5, CSS3, so we have used old style CSS and basic HTML functions. As per the documentation the latest version of OpenCms supports HTML5 and CSS3 and all that.

Few improvement i would like to see in OpenCms:

1. The text editor can be better

2. The code editor can be better

3. Approval process is not there

4. Document management is also missing

If you want to create a one instance website, then OpenCMS may not be right for your requirement.

If you have a requirement to create a website template or a page template or a product page template then OpenCMS is the right platform.

Example:

News - A news article can be render in a same page but the content will be different, like the article, the article image, the hyperlinks in the article.

Product page - An e-commerce website will display the product in a product page, so it will be the same page for all the products

The project that we worked on requires different content at regular intervals or on different occasions. Using OpenCMS platform, we created a website template where we are able to configure the content of the websites, look and feel of the websites.

Then websites applications were created for each occasion and then content and configurations were provided the values to each of these website app. and we publish the app at the particular time

The builtin hierarchy of based on content type

OpenCMS is slower than other commercial CMS

Not many problems

The Fields are a very well-defined and structured design.

My dislike is as it's on java so the integrations with others are a bit difficult.

If you love to work on java then OpenCms is the best option for you

As it is a complete browser-based CMS we are created web solutions using it.

- Friendly interface

- Great feature set

- Easy to deploy and setup

This software doesn't have any significant downsides.

Very good and absolutely free Java content management system for easy and fast site creation.

Easy to update/creat new webpages. It's easy to create SEO friendly pages on it.

The history of the users who modify particular webpages is not always updated.

We can easily maintain our webpages in CMS now.

The fluidity and ease of use of the software

The edit functionality that required multiple navigations

Content management. It made my life easier by converting all the text into readymade HTML codes

Open cms is a secure and likely to be very powerful

It's gui is boring not very likey.

System is difficult to understand

Highly recommended

Server start and stop and development of recruiting website

Open cms is content management tool which gives excellent integration with different language portfolios

Sometimes it becomes really slow in local system

Na

Configuring content to avoid multiple restraint of production servers