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    Craft CMS

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACraft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web. Craft can support design portfolios, multinational marketing sites, and other kinds of sites, and integrates with tools like Salesforce, Mailchimp or Hubspot to offer a full business solution.

    $130

    per month per project

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    Craft CMS
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $130
    per month per project
    Pro
    $240
    per month per project
    Team
    $279
    per year includes one year of updates ($99 for support each subsequent year)
    Pro
    $399
    per year includes one year of updates ($99 for support each subsequent year)
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    Craft CMS
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsHosted Craft CMS option available with a discount for annual pricing.
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    Craft CMS
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    Pixel & Tonic
    Chose Craft CMS
    Craft was originally developed in response to ExpressionEngine's shortcomings. While ExpressionEngine has caught up in some regards, it still looks and feels a bit unpolished by comparison. Additionally, ExpressionEngine's vendor has never gotten UI right - not on their …
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    User Ratings
    Craft CMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    Craft CMS
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    Pixel & Tonic
    Suitable for mid-size to large websites (20 pages+). If you have a massive project with dozens or hundreds of content contributors, complex editorial process/workflow, are tied to a non-Linux platform (Microsoft Server), you may want an enterprise CMS like Episerver. If you need a small, cheap, theme-based, basic website with 5-15 pages, you'll probably go to WordPress.
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    Pros
    Pixel & Tonic
    • Design-agnostic templating system. No themes. This means you can use whatever HTML, CSS, JS you want, and integrate it with Craft.
    • Versatile field types, with 3rd party plugins providing a bunch more. Everything from plain text to address, color picker, date/time, file assets, one-to-many relationships, and more.
    • Control panel with clean, responsive UI makes content updates easy for clients.
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    Cons
    Pixel & Tonic
    • Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
    • Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
    • It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.
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    Pixel & Tonic
    Craft was originally developed in response to ExpressionEngine's shortcomings. While ExpressionEngine has caught up in some regards, it still looks and feels a bit unpolished by comparison. Additionally, ExpressionEngine's vendor has never gotten UI right - not on their website, nor in their CMS. Craft remains easier to use, more polished and provides a wider feature set in its base install (without needing plugins). As for WordPress - while I recognize its massive popularity, I find its reliance on themes, third-party plugins, along with security shortcomings, make it a poor fit for the larger custom projects we build. On the other hand, if you want to throw up a passable website in a day, you can't beat WordPress.
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    Return on Investment
    Pixel & Tonic
    • We don't have hard numbers on Craft's impact on our ROI, but we recognize that its feature set, ease of use, and integrated ECommerce allows offering a superior product to clients.
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