CraftCMS is what you make it. There are no rules when it comes to how you set up your content, or your templates. Template layouts are completely separated from the data and the CMS makes no assumptions.
For a simple site, for low-cost clients, the cost can be prohibitive, especially when WordPress is free and in the mindshare of the uneducated.
Complete data flexibility. I can create admin pages that suit the users that enter the content and ensure they are properly templated and provide exceptional experiences for web users.
Extremely flexible CMS that doesn't feel like you are hacking it to accommodate requirements. Come with a great blend of base features, so it doesn't feel like you have to remove features that seem in the way.
Wish there was a cloud hosting offered, so we could just hand off clients vs setting up and maintaining the host for each client. In our experience, Craft often gets compared to Umbraco in the .NET world and they provide that offering.
Recently built a multilingual site for 10 countries with various admins coming in to manager their country. Craft works really well for just translating a site in many languages that share the same requirements. When you introduce various content admins with different requirements, we discovered that we had to hide parts of the admin with css (not cool).
It's stable and trustworthy. Great support and you don't get that Frankenstein feel as with other brands. it all works together and seamlessly.
Their SEO capabilities could be better, they're even less reliable than Yoast.
A stable source for a large, growing website. Having keyturn capabilities also helps.
Our team has found Craft to be a huge asset when building larger scale custom sites. There are very few restrictions for our developers and limitless options when building out a fully editable CMS where our clients can eventually adapt, change and setup limitless pages within a working system.
Craft is a great solution to provide flexibility, but that flexibility makes it very easy for clients to mess up a site once the CMS has been handed over. There are a lot of pieces to manage but it has been better than most of the other CMS options we have tried.
The ability to adapt pages and create a larger system that doesn't feel too "theme-y" when creating custom sites is a clear benefit. Our programmers are better able to control the end look of pages and match the creative team's designs. Craft allows for highly editable pages and design with modules that can easily be reordered on a page which alyas seems to be a key benefit to clients.
Flexibility, great functionality to add custom fields. Matrix field is amazing. Beautiful mark up with twig. Documentation is easy to read and there's tons of great examples. Tons of great people on the stack exchange that respond to your questions in just a couple of hours.
It still feels a little barebones in some ways. For example you can create a front-end entry form, yet some fields aren't supported which makes it hard to create front-end forms with custom fields.
Building a web platform. Its been extremely great with public users and front end forms, but a little limited in terms of functionality.
Creating a CMS framework is one of the best tools for building something without any preparation. It will assist the client with solid backend settings. In addition, fascinatingly, there are no principles to deal with the substance and you can save different layouts too without being worried about duplicate/glue issues. On top of the customization, information base reinforcements are synchronizing, the resource the executives tooling is incredible, the back-end supervisor is truly beautiful, and there's quite a lot more as well. You must attempt it!
First and mainly, the product is exorbitant for a typical client. Hence, the low-paying client won't ever pick this choice. Moreover, utilizing this device can be a piece debilitating as there come different issues in diverting and getting data from outside sources.
You will track down a mysterious device for upgrading content and ordering it on the main pages. This is one of the most incredible devices for carrying out SEO methodologies. In addition, it is worked for engineers and specialists who know well the utilization of different coding terms. Subsequently, the engineer of this tool determined its utilization and made it more frozen for use. It permits me to construct locales from engineering, which sounds good to me. I don't need to "fit in" to how the CMS works. It simply works how I want it to, and gives me the adaptability through Twig and the back-end supervisor to get it going. Make CMS will computerize the established processes and keep the clients from experiencing any mess. Consequently, the specialists suggest utilizing this device in any event, for novices. You will find its cost commendable as per execution and component.
Creating entries is fairly simple in craft, but I don't really like craft.
I think the user experience for craft needs some serious work. I have a lot of problems being able to adequately do the things I want to with craft.
I don't feel like I've solved any problems. I've only run into greater difficulty using this program.
Craft comes to you like a new born child. Empty and waiting for you to fill it will goodness and knowledge. You build exactly what you want and Craft lets you control exactly what the browser spits out. Craft is like taking all your legos, spilling them in a big pile, and then going to town and building whatever comes into your mind. Craft can managed what metadata you want it to, you are not locked into a preinstalled program. Craft also comes with a built in security that makes another CMS look down right sad. Put simple, craft is Building instead of Manipulating.
There is a bit of a learning curve to Craft and while that is to be expected, I had to pick something to place here. The price can also be an issue, while $299 may seem cheap compared to some. I find with small businesses it becomes a issue. Craft's content table is just a bit of let down as well. There is also the The Ugly Data. After careful curation of Fields, Field Groups, and to which Entry Types they are assigned, each Field becomes a new column in this table and fill them all with NULL data.
Craft CMS has really allowed me to let my design idea take off. I am no longer boxed in by the developers box. I can really build a site instead of manipulating someone else's framework. Many of my clients have heard of wordpress and come in look it. Craft offers a simple and easy to use backend interface, maybe a little more advanced than wordpress but simple enough for my average client to use and manage their own website. With the flexible of twig I have been able to develop power websites with no limitations from the CMS.