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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 2 - Reviews of dotCMS

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KC

Kelty C.  
Content Specialist  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Not user friendly"

August 10, 2022

1.0

Pros

It often has glitches and it's not very user-friendly. As someone who has used other CMS platforms, I wouldn't recommend dotcms.

Cons

Building landing pages, publishing, trying to remove content assets.

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SC

Steve C.  
Manager, User Experience  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "When you need a solid framework that lets you build a web infrastructure, dotCMS is a great choice."

December 5, 2017

4.0

Pros

Intuitive interface for creating web pages and reusable or structured content; ease of adding JQuery plugins; custom workflow designer; theme-based templates that support responsive design; built-in personalization and rule-based targeting; effective multilingual support; RESTful API; push publishing across servers.

Cons

Lack of built-in components - but then it's more of a framework than a plug-and-play system like WordPress.

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JY

Jerry Y.  
Sr Software Development Engineer  
Consumer Goods  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "dotCMS backend"

December 14, 2018

4.0

Pros

We were able to customize and integrate with single page application completely. Ability to customize and add features are a big plus.

Cons

So far nothing, most critical issues we found were quickly patched.

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SA

Sreedhar A.  
Managing Director  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "dotCMS Feedback"

December 19, 2018

3.0

Good so far, we have our web interfaces deployed on dotCMS.

Pros

Build on sound software foundations and frameworks, flexibility with regards to integration plugins.

Cons

Customer support, lacking in understanding requirements of clients especially the ones who are in commercial in nature, taking feedback from marketing and real users for UI specific needs.

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AU

Aisana U.  
Designer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "dotCMS review"

August 15, 2022

5.0

Positive (after kentico)

Pros

It's easy for designers to use, no need to be a coding god to navigate.

Cons

It's laggy sometimes especially the search function

Switched from

[Kentico](https://www.capterra.com/p/265226/Kentico/)

Not my decision

Review Source

RT

Rossie T.  
Web Sys Admin  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "dotCMS is a great web environment"

December 19, 2018

4.0

Pros

Being able to template out multiple websites with the same look and feel. The ability to reuse widgets & content across the site is a time saver.

Cons

Building tables on the web page is painful but it is across most web environments.

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NJ

Nadeem J.  
Software engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Dotcms Benefits"

May 30, 2020

5.0

It was a good experience starting from dotcms1.7 to dotcms3.

Pros

A Java base CMS which is compatible with all platforms.

Cons

Newer version of dotcms have issues with plugins.

Alternatives considered

[Joomla](https://www.capterra.com/p/161648/Joomla/)

Reason for choosing dotCMS

Java was the core reason.

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KT

Karen T.  
CC  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Decent, but could be better"

January 12, 2019

4.0

Pros

Generally works pretty well and is reasonably easy to use once you get the hang of it.

Cons

Is not very modern. Working with images is cumbersome. Documentation could be better. Support seems quite slow.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
cms manager  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Good CMS software!"

March 13, 2019

4.0

Pros

Easy to use. Very easy to manage your work.

Cons

Customer service or internal problems within software like system bugs.

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BF

Billy F.  
VP, Business Development  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Disruptive platform"

June 24, 2019

5.0

Speed to market for our clients has dramatically increased.

Pros

\- Extremely easy to use - Headless capabilities - Great support - No code

Cons

\- Lack of native a/b testing, encouraged to see it on the roadmap

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RR

Robert R.  
Senior Director  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Very User Friendly Dashboard"

January 16, 2019

5.0

The software is vey good and the features and abilities are nice and useful.

Pros

The dashboard is very well done. It has everything you need and is easy to understand. The vanity URL ability was also a very cool feature. Plus, the Java being there was nice as well.

Cons

The pricing. We loved the demo but the enterprise package was a little more that our budget could handle for a CMS.

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RS

Ravi S.  
Manager of IT Applications  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "dotCMS Impressions"

December 27, 2018

4.0

We needed a system that was fully responsive and this was an excellent presentation for our needs.

Pros

Coming from our prior system, dotCMS was an improvement in several areas. The layout of the administration portal was simple to learn in order to get started.

Cons

The management of users and roles required manual intervention and could not use work flows to do automation.

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KH

Kasey H.  
Web Developer  
  
Used the software for:

### "Use dotCMS to manage a higher education website"

October 8, 2015

5.0

Pro: Very flexible and easy to extend. Allows you to build things the way your want. Powerful multi-tenant hosting for managing multiple websites. Separation of authoring and production servers with the ability to push publish between environments. Con: More of platform for building web and internet applications. So, some features require a little work to get implemented

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DP

Danielle P.  
Iinfirmiere  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "avis"

June 20, 2020

4.0

Pros

cela m'a prit quelques temps a voir le formulaire

Cons

cela a ete long a l'avoir mais je vais surement l'essayer

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