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Statamic is a flat-file CMS built on Laravel. It offers a flexible and customizable approach to content management. Statamic provides a block-style content editor with a live preview. It has multiple field types and version control for content. Statamic adapts to needs by going headless, static, or using a database. It aims to enable intuitive authoring, developer efficiency, and easy scalability.
Provider
Statamic
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Statamic Reviews
Pros
Statamic has genuinely changed my mind towards Content Management Systems - they can be fun and fast. In contrast to others that I’ve used, Statamic is clean and powerful.
I love the modern look and feel of the control panel and documentation. Additionally, the humor and references throughout make the experience more enjoyable - especially as a 90's kid.
We've launched over 10 sites built with Statamic and love it even more every time we use it for another project. The customer support is amazing, and the community is super helpful and welcoming.
Statamic is incredibly easy to get up and running and build a robust website. It is flexible, fast, powerful, and has a robust community and toolset for modern web developers.
Cons
For my use cases I usually get all I want, there is no essential feature missing.
Some of the online documentation is wrong (at the time of this review) and I have had to resort to the Discord server multiple times to find the correct answer.
V2 of statamic was missing few features that would get larger, more demanding customers consider it for their projects, but V3 that is about to be released, has had all of them addressed.
The amount of addons and themes to buy as new user is very limited.
"Forget WordPress!"
Overall: We managed to build a multi-language e-commerce store in about 3 months using Statamic. We only had to install a couple of plugins and we can deploy the exact version of the site to production without having to fiddle around with a database.
Pros: Statamic is elegantly built and thoughtfully considered. Much of what you need is possible in the UI, but working with the code is also great because it’s well written and built on Laravel. Statamic has genuinely changed my mind towards Content Management Systems - they can be fun and fast. In contrast to others that I’ve used, Statamic is clean and powerful. It has great documentation and is easy to use and build on top of.
Cons: Because version 2 (the current stable release as of this writing) is a few years old now, there are some problems in keeping it up to date with the latest dependencies. The next version which is close to being ready for general release (v3) looks to solve these issues and more whilst adding loads of new features, so overall I’m not concerned.
"Perfect replacement for WordPress in an enterprise environment"
Overall: We moved to Statamic after the recent changes to WordPress' direction made it clear it was longer suitable for enterprise websites, like ours. As a development team embedded in the group marketing and communication teams, we are dealing with 10+ websites that receive a lot of content changes. The content often falls out of sync between the development sites and the live site. This can result in a lot of headaches when it comes to bringing the new changes into the sites when they are approved for deployment. When we were using WordPress, because of its blog-focused database structure, any changes made often had to be replicated manually. By switching to flat file content management, this issue was eradicated. Before changes are deployed, the latest content is brought into the development branches. Content and new changes are all deployed at the same time through zero-downtime deployment. Feedback from both the development and content teams has been exceptional.
Pros: – Built on Laravel, giving us access to the Laravel ecosystem of packages and tools. – Flat file nature of the software makes it easier to backup and secure our enterprise websites. – Use of flat file storage also makes our development teams' workflows easier and more robust. – Use of flat file storage also makes deployment and maintenance much easier. – Compared to WordPress, Statamic makes it easy to enforce brand guidelines, while giving our content, corporate, and marketing teams flexibility to build new pages using semantic structures. – Ability to choose between flat file and database driven content gives us maximum flexibility in terms of how to structure the sites we build and maintain. – Coming from WordPress, it's a breath of fresh air to have a single team to communicate with for any bugs and feature requests. They are also extremely responsive. – Clear separation of front and back end data and logic means we can ask our front end team to work on this without needing to consult the back end team, and vice versa. – Antlers template language is well liked by our front end team.
Cons: That we didn't switch to using it sooner.
"Very sleek CMS, much better for certain use cases than Wordpress"
Overall: Great community helped getting started with the product. The sleekness of the system enabled me to build a very efficient and sleek website.
Pros: Very sleek interface and the ability to customize a lot of stuff. Full control over frontend. That it is based on Laravel, which is my primary framework.
Cons: Some functionality is not easily customisable. I am looking forward to v3, which works as a package on top of Laravel and will likely solve all this.
"Statamic is an extremly powerfull CMS"
Overall: With Statamic it's a lot easier to provide customers with clear and logical editing options, presented in a standardized way.
Pros: Well, of course Statamic is nowadays a package that can be installed into the Laravel PHP framework. And of course I like the clearness of the UI, the docs, the extendibility and the great parser language for page templates, called Antlers.
Cons: For my use cases I usually get all I want, there is no essential feature missing.
"Great software for quickly creating content sites "
Overall: Its been great. We are using it at my company and I found it simple enough that I rolled out a personal blog as well (by myself).
Pros: I'm a huge fan of its simplicity. I used Drupal for years, wordpress, and octobercms and while they may have their place, for a website that is primary content, statistic makes is very very easy. It makes it easy to build out wordpress gutenberg-esk content pages without all the overhead and slowness of wordpress. The user experience is great for content people who really don't know anything about "websites/it" but are marketing & content people. The ability to customize the front end is far simpler than many many cms's out there. I also love that we don't need a database. We were able to reduce monthly costs by quite a bit on hosting this thing over something like drupal.
Cons: Its small still. Finding developers that are specialized in it was kind of a pain. That said, in v3 its a laravel package which opens it up to a larger pool of developers.
